World
Series of Poker T+12,13
I
have to stop this posting every two days
thing, I can barely remember what I had
for dinner tonight.
Yesterday
I watched some of the final table of the
3K limit holdem. Mike Laing was doing
his Mike Tyson impression; somehow David
Plastik had said something to annoy him
and now Mike was constantly hurling insults
at him between gulps of beer. I've seen
Mike be obnoxious while attempting to
be vaguely amusing, today he skipped the
amusing part. He received a couple of
warnings and was very close to getting
a penalty but somehow avoided that. For
his finale he spilled a full cup of coffee
over the table prompting an early 10 minute
break, then came back and bluffed away
his huge stack of chips. During the match
they announced that the Chan vs. Seidel
match was scheduled for 5pm, then a little
later that it was moved to 8:30pm. I really
wanted to watch that, but I also wanted
to play the Mirage $120+100 limit holdem
tourney at 7pm so decided to do that instead,
for $220 I could win $3500, that's a buy
in to two 1.5K events; I played pretty
well but got no cards and ended up a few
out of the money. The good news was that
when I got back I found out that the Chan
Seidel match never happened and is now
scheduled for Sunday, I suspect they canceled
because they knew I wasn't there.
Yesterday
was the Razz, the numbers were way down
again from last year, this whole week
has been down after staying somewhat steady
last week (compared to last year). One
reason may be that there are some weird
events this week like Razz, stud hi/lo
and lowball (although the Omaha high with
rebuys today had 13 less players, but
enough rebuys to make up the difference)
so people may be staying away and coming
back next week when there are some more
popular events, and also the $1,500 events
that I'm waiting for. The super sats are
also way down this week, only 4 tables
and one seat tonight. I don't know if
the 6% is taking its toll on attendance,
I wouldn't have thought so yet, I more
expect that to be an issue with the more
expensive events coming up soon. As for
the 'boycott', I certainly haven't seen
any evidence of that, every famous name
in the world that I can think of has been
here during this WSOP, but I guess there
are a few players who have decided not
to come for various reasons. I saw in
another thread someone saying that said
the players aren't being treated well,
again, I've seen no evidence of that either,
the events have all been extremely well
run (but I haven't been playing so I don't
know if there are some bad dealers), mostly
right on time, lots of play, correct chip
counts, almost no abuse, they have a nice
free lunch of deli type sandwiches, and
a decent free buffet at the dinner break,
plus it's easy enough to get a $10 comp
for most restaurants, there's still plenty
of side action although I'm sure it's
way down from last year, and there's no
smoke upstairs (except when someone decides
to light up right outside the door, and
sometimes it's pretty bad in the hallway,
but not in the actual tournament area).
Today
I went over to Bellagio, they had a lot
of tables going, then got back in time
tonight to play one of the PokerStars
freerolls, cleverly getting disconnected
with 11 people left, but got back in time
for the final table and came 3rd. (just
three places ahead of our very own Peg
Smith, well done Peg), I blew it on an
open ended draw in the end, but I still
managed to watch all of Survivor while
I was playing, I'm beginning to think
I play much better when I'm totally distracted.
Tomorrow
is the hi-lo Stud and the final table
of the Omaha High, quite a few big names
there with Brent Carter one of the chip
leaders. The next day is the 3K pot limit
holdem so that means I can start playing
some satellites again.
Paul
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