This past weekend I had the opportunity to play in my first-ever PPC Poker Tour Main Event. In all my years of playing poker, I’ve never experienced a more taxing tournament. Every hour seemed like three, and each hand brought with it an overwhelming sense of dread. That’s because I was short-stacked and card dead the majority of Day 2. Even so, I managed to finish in 11th place.
They say patience is a virtue, but what they don’t say is it can also be torturous. The 2015 Midwest Poker Classic Ho-Chunk Gaming $350 Main Event — which crushed its $50,000 guarantee by attracting 333 entrants to create a total prize pool of $85,248 plus $21,312 in PPC Aruba packages — proved that to me.