{"id":4443,"date":"2010-05-24T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:12:16","slug":"mike-sexton-my-wsop-heart-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mike-sexton-my-wsop-heart-break.html","title":{"rendered":"Mike Sexton: My WSOP heart-break"},"content":{"rendered":"

PartyPoker\u2019s WSOP for Life<\/a> and WSOP for Life VIP Race<\/a><\/em> promotions <\/em>kick off this week. You can win entry to the WSOP Main Event every year for \u2018life\u2019! Here, PartyPoker ambassador Mike Sexton recalls his first ever WSOP.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019d been a professional poker player for\u00a0eight years before I made my first trip to the WSOP in 1984. That trip changed my life forever.<\/p>\n

Back then, they had\u00a0tournaments every other day, so if you went to the WSOP for a week (which I did), you could only play in three events.\u00a0I did play in three events, made two final tables, and knew right then that as long as I lived, I would never miss another WSOP.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0decided to move from North Carolina to Vegas<\/h3>\n

In fact, because of\u00a0that success at\u00a0my first WSOP, I\u00a0decided to move from North Carolina to Vegas – and ended up staying for 25 years. (I just moved to California this past\u00a0December, because we have a 20 month old son that we didn’t want to raise in Vegas.)<\/p>\n

Incredibly, 26 years later, I will never forget the hand I went busted on in the 1984 Pot Limit Omaha tournament – the first-ever PLO tourney in WSOP history.\u00a0We were down to five players and we were all pretty close in chip count.<\/p>\n

If you raise it, I’m going to set you all-in<\/h3>\n

David Sklansky was there as was Tom McEvoy, the reigning world champion at the time. McEvoy was by far the most aggressive, raising nearly every pot.\u00a0As he raised again I looked down at A-K-Q-8 double suited in clubs and diamonds.\u00a0I probably should have raised, but I called.\u00a0The flop came Q-8-3 with two hearts.\u00a0He bet the pot.<\/p>\n

As I was thinking, he could see I was going to play the pot and said, “If you raise it, I’m going to set you all-in.”\u00a0I responded, “Well, I guess you’re setting me all-in, then, because I’m raising.”<\/p>\n

I raised and true to his word, he set me all-in. He turned up 3-4-5-8 with no hearts!\u00a0He flopped bottom two pair while I had top two pair.\u00a0YIPPEE!<\/p>\n

The turn card was a seven, and the river card was a six.\u00a0He\u00a0back-doored a straight to win the pot!\u00a0I was heart-broken.\u00a0I\u00a0really felt like I should have won\u00a0a bracelet in my first-ever WSOP appearance,\u00a0but unfortunately, that didn’t happen and it took me five more years before I got one.<\/p>\n

Keep watching <\/em>PartyPoker blog<\/em><\/a> in the upcoming weeks for more of Mike Sexton’s WSOP memories. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PartyPoker\u2019s WSOP for Life and WSOP for Life VIP Race promotions kick off this week. You can win entry to the WSOP Main Event every year for \u2018life\u2019! Here, PartyPoker ambassador Mike Sexton recalls his first ever WSOP. I\u2019d been a professional poker player for\u00a0eight years before I made my first trip to the WSOP<\/p>\n

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