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#249I – London Journal #15I – Million Dollar Cash Game #9 – I Blame Dinner

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I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion there’s something foul in the London food, and now I’m nearly sure. Everybody came back from dinner a little edgy, a little out of sorts. Erik Seidel came back simply to announce he was done. Because he was being interviewed by a commentator who clearly had no idea of this, I think Erik decided this while he was talking to the guy.

Cards in the air about 7:30 PM. Patrik Antonius pretty blatantly pushed Andy Bloch out of a pot right away. It could be that he pushed him out with a big hand but Andy raised Patrik’s big blind in late position and Patrick reraised. His body language fairy screamed, “I’m Patrik Antonius and if you think you’re taking my blinds, you’re going down.” After a Q-3-2 flop, Patrik fired out $13,000, almost the size of the pot. Andy folded and again, from the expressions and body language, Patrik had this look of contempt like he was just powering over Andy.

FUCK THE PROPS – The prop bets, which probably aren’t very complicated compared to what they someplace play in Bobby’s Room, are attracting significant attention between hands. Ivey’s got a scoresheet and I see Antonius looking at it between hands, questioning the amounts. Phil’s talking about “doubles” and “triples.” Considering how the props were responsible for stopping production and some kind of misunderstanding between Phil, Erick, and the production company – not to mention now making it impossible to count wins and losses from my vantage (since even Patrik Antonius can’t figure it all out and he’s IN IT) – I think it’s reasonable to say that prop betting is fucking up poker. I hear discussions about whether Full Tilt should ever incorporate prop betting in some games and it’ll be the death of the site if they ever do. And it’s all over betting on colors.

Andy Bloch doubles up to $67,000 off Phil Ivey with a pair of eights to go with the one on the board. And he leaned back to Uncle Tilty and said something about how it would have been more if he only hadn’t played the props.

HOW BIG, HOW FAST – At this point, Patrik Antonius complained, “This is the slowest cash game I’ve ever played.” Now correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the bulk of Patrik’s cash games played online? With multitabling, this game should be about 1/8th the speed (not the size but the speed) of what Antonius is playing online. Next thing you know, Patrik will find out if any other networks are filming cash games in the neighborhood so he can see if he can multitable.

What follows is an inconclusive discussion over how big this game actually is, connected with whether this game is “real” or whether online is what’s really “real.” Speaking up for the online players, Brian “sbrugby” Townsend, who has also won a bundle in some notable cash games at the Bellagio during the World Series, said, “If you’re playing four six-handed $200-$400 PLO games, that’s pretty big.”

And I don’t think anyone will disagree with that.

At 8 PM, Patrick Antonius buys in for another $35,000. He’ll probably follow that up with another, because he lost about $75,000 to Tony G. Tony and Patrik put in $9,600 in a raising war that took Allen Cunningham out of the hand. They both checked the flop of 7-Q-Q. After a 4 on the turn, Patrik bet $16,000 and Tony called. After another 4 on the river, Patrik bet $50,000 and Tony called in a flash.

Patrik said, “You win.” Tony showed a full house.

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