Matt Stout’s WPT Five Diamond Day 3

I entered Day 3 of the $15k Bellagio Five Diamond WPT event with over 300k at 1200/2400 – good enough to put me in about 12th place out of the remaining 131 players.
I had a pretty wild start to the day, in both good and bad ways.
First, I ran the nut flush into flopped quads [...]

Matt Stout’s WPT Five Diamond Day 4

As you can probably tell by the fact that I didn’t post for about three weeks, day four of the WPT Five Diamond main event didn’t go as planned.
I started the day 9/36 in chips with 700k at 5/10k, but spent the first few hours of the day slowly slipping down to just over 500k.
I [...]

Bahamas: Trouble in Paradise

After having a great week in the Bahamas and a deep run in the European Poker Tour PCA event last year, I was truly looking forward to making the trip again this year. I expected it to be one of the best and most relaxing weeks of the year for me once again.
Boy, was I [...]

Bahamas Part Two: PCA Cooler

In my last blog, “Bahamas: Trouble in Paradise,” I outlined how a beautiful vacation in the Bahamas can start to go to crap (Cliffs Notes: girlfriend cancels last minute, suitcase lost for two days, local weed is beyond bad).
Fortunately, I managed to get my suitcase back just in time to play Day 1B of the [...]

Stout’s Bahamas Trip Report – The Final Chapter

In the first two parts of this blog, I ranted about everything on my vacation to the Bahamas going wrong (and I do mean just about EVERYTHING) and my sick cooler hand to bust out of the main event.
Oh well, I could be left with a ton of down time in a million worse locations [...]