Posted by Editor | Filed under WSOP 2008
[written June 6, p.m.]
Last night (Thursday), during the $2,500 Mixed EOB, I got into a rules dispute with another player. It was a minor point, and I was right, but the guy didn’t want to let it go. Because he had a reputation for busting the balls of other players and dealers, I wouldn’t let him off the hook. Whenever he would try to get in the last word, even by mumbling, I would ask him to repeat what he said, and then I would repeat the rule, as it had been announced earlier.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Howard Lederer, Me in live tourneys, WSOP 2008
[written June 6, a.m.]
Yesterday afternoon I played the 5 PM $2,500 Mixed EOB event.
I saw a lot of people older than me in this field, or maybe they just looked older than me. This seems like one of those events where you see a lot of the same people who’ve been playing at the World Series for 25 years. In my seven hours, I played at four tables, each a distinct, singular experience.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Me in live tourneys, My family, WSOP 2008
I am operating under the power of an ancient Italian curse. The curse was placed on me by a lovely young woman named Donna in Seat 3 during the $1,500 LHE event on Friday night.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Erik Seidel, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, WSOP 2008
The World Series of Poker has suddenly become very weight conscious. I was at a table with Howard Lederer in the $2,500 Mixed EOB event (more about that later) and he told me he got a call the night before at 3 AM from Erik Seidel.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Mike Matusow, Ted Forrest, WSOP 2008
Mike Matusow looks terrific, and he has Ted Forrest to thank. Rather than send a nice card or gift, Matusow instead relieved Forrest of $100,000.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Phil Ivey, WSOP 2008
My policy is generally not to report what goes on inside the Aces Club, the VIP Lounge across from the Amazon Room. It’s not that there are such remarkable goings-on inside, but the players go there to get away and have a reasonable expectation that no one is writing down what they say and do. But if I hear things that are being reported by other people, I’m not going to let my vantage point handcuff me from filling you in.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under WSOP 2008
You will all be relieved to know that VIP Suite has upgraded its food service and is mailing charitable-contribution receipts to members. I can’t take any credit for the changes – I think they were already planning to mail the proper receipts and no one involved in the issue, to my knowledge, read my blog. But people voiced their opinion and Jeffrey Pollack and his staff responded.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Me in live tourneys, WSOP 2008
[written June 4 p.m.]
I just busted out of the $2,000 NLHE and I’m feeling like the whole world is ganging up on me. I know objectively that the foul conspiracies I’m about to describe are imaginary but I want those of you to know – anyone considering playing big tournaments regularly of trying to understand how the experience feels – how it felt to me.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Full Tilt Pros in the news, Me in live tourneys, My Life, WSOP 2008
[written June 4 a.m.]
I’ve been at the World Series just five days and I already think I need to leave town for the good of my health. Not that it’s been a bad 70-percent-of-a-week: I earned over $12,000 in my second event, finishing 26th in the $5,000 Mixed Hold ‘Em yesterday; Jo Anne and I spent two days alone together, which I’m referring to as our fourth honeymoon (before I sent here home, as Las Vegas is no kind of place for someone you care about); my friends Andy Bloch and Chris Ferguson finished second and third in the first two events; and Howard Lederer has made the final table in the Mixed Hold ‘Em.
That’s how it looks on the outside. Pull back the bedclothes, though, and it’s another sight entirely.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under WSOP 2008
[written June 2, 2008 a.m.]
I don’t expect that anyone will cry over the degraded food service in the VIP Suite (the Aces Club). There won’t be much pitty thrown toward me or Clonie Gowen or Chris Ferguson or Barry Greenstein or Joe Sebok or Marco Traniello.
But it’s a screwy situation that, justifiably, has some people bothered.
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