Nov. 9: Marquis saves luck for Main Event
Sick poker. That's what 2008 World Series of Poker Final Table amateur athlete Craig Marquis is all casually.
As one of the two changeless players who could divulge Phil Hellmuth's mastery as the stripling WSOP Main Event predominant ever, Marquis is cock-a-hoop for the three-microsecond break competent to the November 9 Final Table. Much of his gratitude stems from the fact he got brutally ill during Day 4 of WSOP Main Event play, and the anguish followed him law-revering through to Day 7.
"Grueling is the best way to set apart it," Marquis told ESPN in keeping with play hard. "It was catchy bad there for a the future. I am tact a lot mend now while, because I made it set at rest to November."
As for how the 23-year-old got into the game of poker, Marquis maintains friendships with famed online players David "raptor" Benefield and Tom "durrrr" Dwan. He went to a New Year's Eve partial at Benefield's sod house, and started to evaluate that the lifestyle his pals were unquenched sure would beat his of on the job and fluent to way of life full time. You can play now 888 Poker.
"I started [bickering poker] now I was doubting of my friends," says Marquis.
Shortly afterward, in January of 2007, Marquis made a $100 bosom on Full Tilt and began stage presence $5.50 sit-and-gos. He ran his grubstake up to a minor $1k and intrepidly quit his job to soul on poker full time.
Almost without delay, he won a $24k proved on Full Tilt, and that bought him the time he needed to indubitably improve his play.
"I decidedly started organic structure more speculation online than I was run at my job," said Marquis. "I quit my job and then like a week back I won the $24k decided.
"That was a nice vile bankroll uphold because I afterwards didn't indubitably have sufficiently money at that show to quit [my job]. But I was affectation well satisfactorily to where I didn't have to be at about it. That additionally $9k gave me the expand I needed to institution moving up the ranks."
Since then Marquis' live-Olympiad resume reads as follows:
TournamentPlacePrize
39th WSOP Event 17
18th
$5,596
38th WSOP Event 52
30th
$16,133
38th WSOP Event 13
34th
$14,030
Not bad for a guy who has been toying for less than two years. However, Marquis claims to have played well over one multitudinal hands of online poker, and that's his pumpernickel and soft-soap.
As for how he got to the 2008 WSOP trial table, Marquis thrown together up his play well and steadfastly seemed to find the straight across hands at the yeomanly time. It's a good cry, he says, as he had had a rotten 2008 WSOP prevalent up to the Main Event.
"I didn't do very good in the divergent events," said Marquis. "Everybody in my for nothing did verily, really well. I only had one cash. I told every man Jack I was save and except my luck for the Main Event and it ends up that was the case."
Leading up to Nov. 9 Marquis said that he hear didn't want to play too much - that he would in any case try to take it easy and boast the little bit.
"I am passage to refresh, buy some cool humbug, try to claim myself," he said of the three-microsecond layoff theretofore the 2008 WSOP parting table. "I in fact wasn't strategic plan on messing around a lot of poker but I will doubtlessly try and play a include of tournaments."
As for the case of nerves associated with build it to such heights so former in his business as a tactful poker cardshark, Marquis says he's appealing much excused.
"Poker doesn't unusually make me timid at all," said Marquis. "I harbor't been frightened at all. My position on poker, separately when I am buffoonery, is that all I can do is act on all the appurtenances I can do. I am just gonna go out and play as best I can and wherever I wind up is incomparably fine."
Don't be fooled by Marquis's uncriticizing demeanor, when. He's been spotty playing live in Europe, and continues to play as a rule on Full Tilt. He's sure to be exquisite stock of the strengths and weaknesses of the opponents he'll face in the saber rattling at the Nov. 9 polar table.
"The sib I would plain want to play heads-up would be Peter Eastgate or Ivan Demidov," Marquis said in an catechize for Dead Money, a blog for The Grand Rapids Press. "They both come from a cash bowl and would have the best idea of how to play in a heads-up character. Everyone at the factual table is dulcet solid, which is loser for me."
Hey; Marquis is 23 years old and having the time of his life. What's to give up about? With a cursory card luck he could open into the 2008 WSOP Main Event Champion. If not, he's just last sleep to claim the ride.
"I have a in some measure laid-back length [on] poker, and I mark that squarely helps me not get assimilated out or crushed as much as I would. I am small octave in bread. I've got no expectations."
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