Posted by Editor | Filed under Bellagio, Me in live tourneys
[This was written from notes of my experience in the $1,000 Bellagio tournament on Friday, April 6.]
The night before the start of the Bellagio Five Star, I decided to see if my luck and good play continued by entering the Friday night $1,000 tournament at the Bellagio. Standing in line only a few minutes before the 7:15 PM start, I believed I was jinxed by a discussion that took place in front of me.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Amarillo Slim, Bellagio, Doug Dalton, Poker Room
[Written Friday afternoon, April 6, picking up where #104 left off, literally bumping into Amarillo Slim at the entrance of Doug Dalton’s office at the back of the poker room at the Bellagio.]
I’ve never met Amarillo Slim, though I’ve seen him a couple times around the World Series (and once playing $20-$40 at Casino Arizona). He’s got to be around 80, if not older, but he was looking pretty good. He was wearing a cowboy hat with “the” band – a rattlesnake that supposedly bit him years ago. He also had on cowboy boots of some exotic animal, and a snazzy blazer with a logo that said “Slim’s Joint.”
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Clonie Gowen, David Grey, David Singer, Eric Froelich, FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, Gavin Smith, Gus Hansen, Huckleberry Seed, Jeff Madsen, Kristy Gazes
I’m interrupting the remainder of my Bellagio Five Star adventure because I noticed yesterday that the new FTOPS are on the Full Tilt tournament schedule. I’ve also noticed that the rajahs running Full Tilt were nice enough to put me in red. Because of my sorry showing in the last FTOPS – I played every event but one and never finished in the money, an escapade that cost me a couple grand – I am bucking conventional wisdom and common sense and calling my shot:
THE NEW, RED MICHAEL CRAIG [note the conceit of referring to myself in third person] WILL MAKE A MARK IN THESE FTOPS!
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Beal, Ted Forrest, The Greatest Poker Game Ever Played
This is the last installment, the end of the greatest poker game I ever saw, maybe the greatest poker game ever played. I’ll try to post the portion of the BLUFF aritcle I wrote about it, so you can compare. Then I’ll get back to Prisoner of the Bellagio, the upcoming FTOPS, and another Adventure in the Law.
Stay tuned!
6:58 PM
HAND 41 – Ted – raise, Andy x3
Td-9d-5h
Andy bet, call
Kd
Andy bet, Ted call
8s
Check, check
Andt Ah-Th
Ted mucks
Andy $600k
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(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Beal, Ted Forrest, The Greatest Poker Game Ever Played
[Just 2 parts to go in the Valentine's Day 2006 struggle between Ted Forrest and Andy Beal, including this one. I'll probably post the portion of the BLUFF article that covered this game, so you can compare, if you want, my notes of the day with the finished product. I have returned from Las Vegas where I have several more installments of Prisoner of the Bellagio, including another Ted Forrest car story and a story about Dan Harrington's socks. Unless my tax issues create some huge, immediate problem - they definitely create a huge problem, though likely not an "immediate" one - I should get those written and posted over the next several days.]
“SOMETHING TO PROVE – TO MYSELF”
PAGE 683
Back at 6:06 PM
Andy -$3.4M, maybe $3.3M
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Badugi, Bellagio, Doug Dalton, Eskimo Clark, Me in live tourneys, Mike Matusow, Mirage, Wynn
[Written Friday morning and afternoon, April 6]
Coming into the Wynn Poker room, I ran into Mike Matusow. He was getting picking up his money for making the final table of the main event of the Wynn Classic last month.
“We’re going to lunch. You want to come along.”
I told him I was going to play the Wynn’s noon tournament.
“Then play the tournament. When you’re done, give me a call. I’ll probably be over at the Bellagio, playing cash.”
Who is WE?
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Bellagio, Doug Dalton, Jack McClelland, Prisoner of the Bellagio
[When I am adventuring, this is usually some kind of lag between when (a) things happen, (b) I write them down, and (c) I type them up for the Blog. Sometimes I'll be giving you my contemporaneous notes of what's happening, and sometimes a summary of what happenED, written later. Without getting too crazy with dates and times, I'll try to make it clear when things happened and when I wrote them down in my notebook. Those dates may differ slightly from the posting date.]
This was written at 10:30 AM Friday, April 6. It’s not being posted until April 7, just before noon.
As a means of clarifying any potential conflict of interest, I must disclose that Doug Dalton, the director of poker operations for MGM Mirage, gave me a deal on the room. The poker rate, which has some pretty modest strings attached, is $146 per night, $219 on Friday and Saturday. (If this makes the rajahs at Full Tilt happy, it will likely not make much difference. They are picking up the tab for this adventure, and my expense reports are so bloated that I almost HOPE they don’t notice an unexpected discount for the accommodations. That would mean they are paying attention to my expenses, which is the worst thing that can happen to someone in my position.)
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Beal, Ted Forrest, The Greatest Poker Game Ever Played
ANDY BEAL’S GOLD RUSH
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Ted +$6.4M
4:02 PM
Deck & dealer change
4:05 PM back from deck & dealer change
Andy -$6.3M
That double dribble of Andy’s must be a tell.
$6.4M at 4:10 PM
It’s about 6.6 or 6.7
And looked at me, shrugged
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Beal, Ted Forrest
WAR OF THE FURIES
We’ve been going on 5 hours and it’s been a pressure cooker.
Andy’s button. Ted x3
2d-7h-Jd
Ted bets, call.
2h
Check, check
!h
Ted bets, Andy folds.
I need to call today “WAR OF THE FURIES”.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Aladdin/Planet Hollywood, Bellagio, Las Vegas, Mike Matusow, Vegas Daily Poker Tournaments, World Poker Tour
I decided I’ve had it too cushy lately. Other than a trip to the Heads-Up Championship a month ago, I’ve been doing my writing from the comfort of my home, or Robert Williamson III’s home, or my home-away-from-home in Maui. It’s time for me to get back on the Circuit. The hard road. Riding the white line. Roughing it.
So here I am at the Bellagio.
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