8/14/2023 0 Comments Pot committed blog![]() ![]() And she had absolutely no idea what she was doing. I now had the world's most downloaded woman on my right. When she looked up, I realized just why the photogs and media had descended like vultures over this particular table. I asked the lady to my right if it belonged to her and if I could tuck it underneath the table. There was a tacky gold purse sitting on my new seat. By the time we hit the first break, I was cruising with over 5000. I doubled my stack early when a guy raised to 500 with KQ, and I came over the top all in with AA. Aside from the guy in the 2 seat (who works for or something of the like) no one really knew what they were doing and I was able to pick up a lot of pots on continuation bets after raising from late position before the flop. The only "celebrity" seated there was this attractive black guy who I think is the host of one of those entertainment tabloid shows ("Extra?"). I didn't recognize a soul at my first table. And there were at least 25 tables in play. The dealers put the over-under at the whole thing finishing at 3.5 hours. It was more for fun than anything, given that the structure of the tournament was akin to a dollar turbo tournament, with each of us starting with $1000 in chips and blinds at 25-50. Otis, CJ, Pauly, Tuscaloosa Johnny, Jen Leo, John Caldwell and myself put up $20 each, the total prize pool going to the last man or woman standing out of the seven of us. We had a multi-way last longer going into Thursday's Media Event. The WSOP Fashion Report: Today's Winners and Losers WSOP Fashion Report: Tragic Shirt Edition Will Murderer's Row rise again?įor more stories, party reports and bad fashion from the WSOP, check out some of my posts on : What a great surprise! Looks like he's not moving to Dublin with the Full Tilt crew after all. I also ran into Bill Rini a couple of days ago while walking the floor. ![]() In other Main Event news, huge congrats to Ryan of Absinthetics and Tuscaloosa Johnny of Poker Nation and Pokerblog for making it to Day 2 of play with over $40K in chips apiece! More bloggers are in the field today including Zeem and Lucko21. I can't imagine how much it sucks to be trying to think your way through a big hand in a $10K event with dozens of idiots with cameras gawking at you and talking amongst themselves. The Amazon Room is barely big enough to hold the 2100 players that have started each day of the Main Event, let alone all of their railbirds. In only two short years, the WSOP has pretty much outgrown its new home at the Rio Convention Center. Though I'm not sure that place exists anywhere in the city of Las Vegas. ![]() After enduring four day ones as a member of the media and watching what the players have to go through just to get to their table and back on breaks, I firmly believe that tourists and spectators should be banned from the Main Event, at least until Harrah's can find a facilty to hold this thing that is big enough for everyone. I have bruises in places I can't remember hitting but I'm sure some tourist put them there after smacking me in the shoulder for the 13,000th time. They want their blurry photo of the back of Phil Hellmuth's head to take home. ![]() They could give a shit if I have a media badge. I dodge them inside the tournament area as I try to squeeze my way up to the rail through guys in bad Hawaiian shirts stacked six or seven deep. I dodge them in the hallways, where most of them just stand there, blocking traffic, ogling the spokesmodels and looking lost. I dodge them outside the hospitality suites as I try to get to the ladies room. I dodge them in the parking lot as I try to find a space that gives me something less than a quarter-mile walk to the media room. Every afternoon at the WSOP is a game of dodge-the-tourist. ![]()
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