Sometimes, we overestimate the importance of making it into our tournaments of choice. Barry Greenstein is as respected a member of the poker community as you’re going to find, but even he is capable of making a mistake in this regard. Case in point: His 2007 Foxwoods Poker Classic experience.
What follows is a blow-by-blow chronicling of the sequence of events Barry’s demise as originally documented in my coverage of the event on worldpokertour.com. Have a look and understand that even the best may overdo it sometimes;
- Barry loses the majority of his EPT Grand Finale –Monte Carlo chips when his flopped third-nut flush runs into a turned gutshot straight flush - Barry gets knocked out of the EPT when his AK suited runs into pocket aces. - Barry books a ticket to Heathrow Airport - Barry flies to Heathrow - Barry spends the night at Heathrow - Barry gets a ticket to Providence, Rhode Island. - Barry flies to Providence - Barry gets a limo from Providence, Rhode Island to Foxwoods, Connecticut. - Barry leaves the limo, checks his luggage and makes his way to the Sunset Ballroom - 3:58 PM - Barry gets 6d-2s on his first hand and mucks - Barry has T16,225 chips. He’d expected to have around T14,000, an indication that play has been very slow today - 4:15 Barry mucks eight of his next nine hands - Barry comments “I haven’t changed my play much from when I wasn’t here.” - 4:23 Barry call’s Mark Newhouse’s cutoff raise, then calls a re-raise. The flop and turn both check through thanks to the flopped As. The river is Qs, giving his Qh-Th the hand. The pot recoups four hours of lost blinds. - 4:30 Barry gets all-in preflop with KK vs. AK. The ace hits and Barry is eliminated.
