World
Series of Poker T+33 10K Day 3
At
10pm it's all over for day 3, 45 left,
all in the money for $20,000+ .
Many of the monster chip leaders earlier
in the day are out, including Chip Reese,
Phil Hellmuth and Meng La.
My
buddies Jack Fox and Randy Holland made
it to the money, as did Greg Alston who
was at Randy's table and started the day
with the least chips (3200); he's a Northern
California guy from Walnut Creek, I play
with him at local tourneys. Coincidentally,
sitting next to him was Will Wilkinson,
the owner of the California Grand casino,
near Walnut Creek, my local casino. Will
also made it to the money.
The
bubble boy went all in with JJ against
QQ, he wasn't a big stack but he had time
to wait, personally I think I would have
hung on to get into the money, 20K is
20K.
For
today they had emptied half of the room
upstairs, put in bleachers along the whole
length, and set up the tables mostly against
the rail in the other half so people had
a decent view of the action.
I
had heard rumors yesterday about the dealer
situation but I officially found out about
it when I just happened to be watching
the news on TV in the afternoon while
I was at the Nissan dealer spending $550
to get my headlamp replaced after the
ironic boulder on Boulder Highway incident
a few days ago (thankfully it will only
be a $50 insurance deductible for me).
I wasn't paying much attention but then
suddenly on the big screen were some of
my favorite dealers being interviewed
outside Binion's. I don't really understand
why the situation came to a head this
late in the game, as the final event winds
down they need less and less dealers so
I would imagine their leverage would be
minimal, I would have thought the time
to get agreements in place would have
been before the first event, but what
do I know. Still it was very sad for me
to see premium dealers and friends like
Jim, John and Gina involved in the dispute.
In the evening Diego dragged me from the
buffet and took me over to the brew pub
at Main Street Station, it's a great place
with excellent beer and an excellent steak
sandwich, thanks Diego.
So,
it's down to the final 45, the excitement
is high and with so many big names out
it's looking more and more that there
might be some unknowns at the final table,
tomorrow they play down to the final 9.
Paul
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