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Poker Trip Report

World Series of Poker T-1A

They are all here, big names are everywhere! Today I spotted TJ, Men, Dan Heimiller (chatted to him for a while even though he is only 240-1, a very nice guy), Mike Sexton and Tom McEvoy, I'd already seen Philip Ivey and John Bonetti. The satellites are going strong, still all downstairs, but they did start a 5-10 pot limit game upstairs.

I played another satellite today. First I sat down at a $225, saw the lineup and got the hell out of there mumbling something about I thought my house might be on fire. Then I was about to sit in a $70 (employee entry for tomorrow) tourney, but with one prize of $550 and start with only 300 in chips with the same 15-30 blinds, this didn't look like a very good deal to me. So I waited and got into the next $225. These are a much better deal with a $2100 prize and 800 chips. I got down to 3, then got involved with my AK vs AT, a river 8 for the straight and ighn. The poker room is extremely busy, as is the satellite area.

Today we got the final table clock running too, so we are all set with clocks now, which is good because tomorrow is the first event, the $500 employee event, and I get to play!!! The TVs for the clocks are both up high at one side of the room, not easily visible to players near the windows, we'll have to see how that works out. While I was messing with the clocks they were having the big dealers' meeting where they introduced all the TDs and other tourney staff and went over the rules. I wasn't paying too much attention but it all seemed very calm, I didn't hear any grumbling about anything. One interesting rule I did hear was that in the no-limit events there's no going back for chips, so you either declare the amount, or you say raise then shove out whatever you're betting in one go. That sounds good to me, stops the angle of gauging the response to the first set of chips, for instance waiting to see if a call is coming, then shoving out some more. Matt Savage has it all under control, he's determined to make this a good tournament and said he'll be very tough on abuse the first week to get the message across. One thing I've noticed from being able to see behind the scenes is that the different departments (MIS, engineering, tournament staff, etc.) all seem to work very well together and are very supportive of getting things done right. The only fly I see in the WSOP ointment, and it's a big fly for us in rgp but maybe only a gnat if you're not, is the tipping issue, we'll just have to see how that one plays out.

Tonight I got the prime rib in the coffee shop, $11, excellent (as is the service, it runs like a nice restaurant). The only downside was that I was reading Card Player and happened to be on the Badger page so had his face staring at me for most of the meal, and he was telling some weird story about a movie with a man stuck in a tree, I don't know which film that was (Tarzan?), I know I don't remember seeing it. I don't think I'm giving anything away when I tell you that he ends up getting out of the tree.

Tomorrow night I will describe my gold bracelet in great detail.



Paul


READ 2002 WSOP TRIP REPORTS

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T+3,4 T+5 T+6,7 T+8,9 T+10,11
T+12,13 T+14 T+15 T+16 T+17,18
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