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Poker Trip Report

World Series of Poker T-1

Thanks for all the kind words in T-2, I plan on getting progressively more boring as we head into the T+s so get your compliments in early. Just to give you an idea how boring, read on...

Today was a good day for me, we got the clock up and running on one of the big screen TVs; there are going to be two, sitting very high up and together, angled away from each other, You'll have trouble reading the small print (things like 'next level', when the next break is coming, some of the banner ads, etc.) but the basics (limits, countdown clock, players remaining) will be very clear all over the room. The room itself all came together today, all the tables and rails are in, and it's all NO SMOKING, it's going to be pretty nice playing up there. The bad news is I really wanted to get over to Bellagio to check out their tourney but I've been too busy with clock stuff.

Tonight I went downstairs and a $225 limit satellite was just starting, so I jumped in (it turned out they had been going strong all night so I could have waited for a better table), one prize of $2100 (4 $500 lammers and $100). After winning the first hand with a flopped flush in the big blind and no callers of the four limpers, I literally never saw another hand over a Ten. I finally got ATo which to me looked liked pocket rockets, raised, got reraised, saw the flop and mucked to a bet, and was short stacked and out soon after. I was kicking myself for wasting my money so fast on a satellite (800 chips, start at 15-30 blinds, 15 minute rounds doesn't give you much time to sit waiting for a hand) and vowed not to play any more satellites. Another one was just starting, so I sat down again. John Bonetti on my right, so how bad could it be. This time I did better, we got down to three and I would have won it outright when my AQo raise got called by John in the big blind with 43s, flop Qxx, but the turn gave him his flush and I was almost out. I struggled back to a decent stack and suggested we all take our buy-ins back, John wanted to play on so no deal. If I ever write a tournament strategy book I will have a whole chapter devoted to the folly of turning down a deal, I will cite the Universal Law of Poker which states that he who turns down the deal must be the first to leave. A minute later John was gone and the other guy and I chopped up the $2100, net profit for the day of $580, wooooo.

Daniel mode on:

This means I now have a freeroll to the employee tourney on Friday, which I will be winning. For those interested, I will also be winning the $1,500 Pot Limit Holdem and I may win the first 2K Limit Holdem (I may skip this one in favor of winning the later $1,500 Limit Holdem).

Daniel mode off:

The $1,500's are spread out over the month which I like a lot as it gives me a chance to play where normally I'd be done after the first week when they start to get too expensive.

In the super sat (7:30pm until Friday, then 4pm and 8:45pm every day) Philip Ivey took one of the two seats, the other going to a guy who had never played a tourney before, the ying and yang of poker at work. I think Philip will be a very strong contender this year, I don't know him but I may ask him to stake me in the 10K.

After the satellite I wandered out to the FSE and bumped into Linda Johnson and Jan Fisher, we went across to the Nugget to listen to a pretty good band, and I had a very nice time catching up on stuff with two of the nicest people I am lucky enough to know. Neither of them would stake me in the 10K.

Tonight I ate in the 'new' coffee shop which is the original coffee shop now reopened. The room is very nice and very comfortable, a sort of modern Victorian look, a huge step above most of the coffee shops downtown. Here I had more luck and got the waitress to steak me, I got the T-Bone, it was very good. I've also tried the chicken and ribs and a Denver omelet (not all in the same sitting), all were excellent, and decent prices. There is a late night special NY Steak and eggs for about $4.

The buffet is closed down right now but is supposed to reopen when the WSOP starts. Rumors that it is closed because Mike Paulle is in the building are completely unfounded (it's true, he is, and very good news, he will be writing reports for WSOP).

I leave you with this quote from my daily e-mail from Siliconvalley.com:

"I'm not saying it's safe for humans. I'm not saying its unsafe for humans. All I'm saying is it that it makes hermaphrodites of frogs."
-- Tyrone B. Hayes of UC Berkeley commenting on atrazine, a common weed killer that causes frogs to develop multiple sex organs.



Paul


READ 2002 WSOP TRIP REPORTS

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T+3,4 T+5 T+6,7 T+8,9 T+10,11
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