The following is a long-delayed entry from my experiences at this year’s World Series of Poker.

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Kyle had been telling me for the past year that the live players at the WSOP tended towards a very low average skill level. For example, I played(and hosed) the $1500 no-limit holdem event today. I had initially expected the skill level to be somewhere around the level of online $530s. Or at least, $215s.

Today was about the level of online $55s or $33s.

To say the least, I was not impressed with the general level of play. Sure, I could identify a fair number of good players at each table, but rather than having 1 or 2 donks at each table on average, there had to be more like 4-5 donks a table. At least, I was seeing some plays which were completely beyond my comprehension, implying that they were either strokes of genius or complete idiocy. My money’s on the latter.

Multiple people were getting on me for shaking, thinking that it was a tell. However, as former roommates can attest, my leg tends to twitch/shake constantly anyways, so this probably doesn’t indicate anything aside from me being the spastic type.
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