Reno
Hilton World Poker Challenge - Day 14
Yesterday
was the $1000 Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys,
I didn't play and Pot Limit Omaha isn't
my best game, but I am confident I would
have made the final table. Well actually
everybody made the final table, they didn't
have enough people for a second table.
One
of the reasons for the, umm, short field,
was because today was the start of the
$225 events, today was no limit holdem,
it had a respectable 95 players. I had
a player on my left who from any position
shoved all his chips in 5 times in the
first hour, we all sat waiting for a hand
to play back at him. Then unfortunately
I found one, and it was ironically 99,
the hand I had agonized over so much on
day two's pot limit. I raised double the
big blind, shovey guy pushed in his whole
stack, folded around to me and I had a
fairly easy call for all my chips. Nothing
on the flop, the turn a 3 which was quite
helpful to shovey guy who had 33, and
IGHN.
So
then I thought I'd test the misalignment
of the planets by playing a $115 limit
holdem satellite. Heads up I had a monster
chip lead over Bill Eikel, but I still
gave him a $100 save because I know that
you don't need much to beat me. We got
into a big pot, him with AJ, me with TT.
Flop was AAT, we got all of our money
in and turned our cards over. Turn was
a K and Bill begged the dealer for a K
or a J, he got neither. He got an Ace.
A couple of hands later we both flopped
a pair, Bill's was bigger, and IGHN.
Andy Gamboa won the $225 event, he's been
at a LOT of final tables this past week,
with 3 players left he had half the chips
but offered an amazing deal to the other
two (who were equal), he took 5K, they
took about 4K each! I think Andy was just
tired and wanted to get some sleep.
My
clock can do chip count calculations,
while I was doing that I saw that the
chips, which should have been 95 X 1000
= 95,000 were actually 96,400, and this
without any color ups (very unusual) which
can sometimes mess up the count. I talked
to the TD, he already knew about the 1,400
chips and was pretty angry about it, he
said the chip count has been totally accurate
the whole tournament, so nobody had been
taking chips out of play in previous events
(although I don't see why they couldn't
have taken them out last year at some
other tournament, but there again, this
was a small $225 event which seemed like
an odd time to cheat when there had been
much bigger prize pools). He thought it
was more likely that a dealer or two had
accidentally put out wrong sized stacks
at the beginning (and that all 10 innocent
players at the table had failed to notice
or of course they would have said something,
uh huh). It appears they do not have a
proper accounting of the chips when they
are distributed to the dealers at the
start of the day, I think heads will be
rolling today and a new accounting procedure
will be imminent. Watch for a partially
factual account of what happened from
GCA in about 10 years.
Today
is the $1,000 limit holdem, I'd really
like to play this but I'm going to wait
to see the numbers, anything less than
50 and I won't consider it. At 2pm is
the $225 Omaha hi/lo, I'll probably play
that instead, they give you four cards
every hand.
Paul
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