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Poker Trip Report

WSOP 2003 Day 2
You Think That's a Bad Beat? Nah, THIS is a Bad Beat

Today was the 2K Limit Holdem, 422 players, a great field but way down from the 600+ last year, I think due to several factors. One is that Bellagio is still going on so there were a lot of players who couldn't be in two places at once, two is that Bellagio may well have sucked up a lot of the cash from players who would normally have come to WSOP, and three is that it was mid-week, I think it would have been a lot better to have the opening event on the weekend.

I played, and with the lack of cream of the crop pros still at Bellagio made this a fantastic overlay, I was rarely at a table with a 'known' player, and for the most part I was amazed by the incredibly bad play, it was like being in a 3-6 game. I came 47th., 27 got paid, nothing I really did wrong, just ran out of luck at the wrong time. My last few hands were:

AA, I raised, no callers.

TT vs. QJo - Here's an example of where my raise with TT (and I had a super tight image at the table, I had never shown down a bad hand) didn't even make them flinch with QJo, a hand I wouldn't even limp with normally, he flopped a Q.

99 (I raised) vs. 77 (he reraised) and flopped a 7.

AK (he raised, I called in the big blind) vs. AQ, he flopped a Q.

This run came exactly at the wrong time, I was in great shape with a just above average stack, and had I won any of those hands I would have at least made it into the money, but overall I was very pleased with my play and will now definitely consider the events I was debating playing, the $1,500 Pot Limit Holdem, $1,500 Limit, and the ugh, 1K Seniors. Feel free to send me money.

The tournament area is fantastic, it's away from all other noise (well now that Devilfish is knocked out of Bellagio we may be getting some singing soon), it's bright and kept extremely clean, even has windows looking out on the mountains. The three tournaments have all started exactly on time, no missing chips, and as much as it pains me to say it Matt is doing his usual fantastic job. His support staff are the nuts, all extremely capable, and Steve McDonald (tournament coordinator) and George Fisher working 27 hour days keeping it all smooth in the back office. But so much for the abuse record of just one penalty last year (or was it three?), there were three just in the first event today, you can read about one of them below. The one big complaint is that a few of the dealers, maybe 5 or so, are brand new and don't have a clue, there were lots of complaints in the super sats last night.

The following paragraph is not for the squeamish, it's a bad beat story, maybe the mother of bad beat stories, and it's not even my bad beat. I was in the small blind, seat 9, with 84o. Seat 1 raised, and the dealer apparently called 'raise'. I didn't hear him, and as the dealer had his left arm laying down on the table I also couldn't see any chips or cards in the 1 seat. It was folded around to me. The blinds were 200-300, so I threw in 100 hoping to see a cheap flop. Then the dealer told me (again) that it was raised. I could have just taken the chip back, in fact the dealer and everyone at the table was fine with that, but I've been in tourneys where you can't remove chips that are in the pot, so I said they'd better check the rule. The ruling was that not only did the 100 stay, but I also had to complete to 600 as I had completed half the bet. Now I think that is a terrible rule, I understand it and I understand their argument of not wanting any 'gray areas', I even understand that I should be responsible for being aware of what's happening at the table, but it was blatantly obvious I didn't mean to call a raise, and the big blind never acted so there no action behind that I had affected. But anyway, there we were, the big blind folded and it was heads up. Flop was A8x, I checked, he bet, I saw he was short stacked and called. We both checked down the turn and river, he lost with QJo. I know this because he proceeded to turn blue, and then scrunched his cards into a very unusual shape. For that he was given a 10 minute penalty during which he missed two blinds and was down to one big blind when the 10 minutes were up. But he never came back. Lucky it was 'only' a $2,000 event he threw away and not one of those expensive ones.

I haven't caught up with rgp the last couple of days but I saw a thread about the late night steak dinner special in the Coffee Shop. They still have one, it's $5, comes with a salad, rolls, a very nice about 1/2 lb. steak (not like a flimsy breakfast steak) and potato. Getting seated last night took a while, no line but I guess they were short staffed at 11pm and had closed a couple of sections, but service was very good. The dinner buffet was also pretty good, it's easy to get a comp for it, last night had good shrimp and crawfish, plus great ribs, and chicken cordon bleau amongst other things.

Today is the 7 Stud, I think they have about 175. I might play the 11PM tonight, I think they had something like 160 last night. I think I might also check out the pawn shops today (and maybe the porn shops :) ) just in case I end up needing to buy a gold bracelet.


Paul Westley


2003 WSOP TRIP REPORTS

Day 0 Day 1a Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 & 8 Day 9 & 10
Day 11 Day 12 Day 13 Day 14 Day 15
Day 16 & 17 Day 18 & 19 Day 20 & 21 Day 22, 23 & 24 Day 25 & 26
Day 27 & 28 Day 29 Day 30 & 31 Day 32, 33 & 34 Day 35, 36 & 37

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