Posted by Editor | Filed under Ted Forrest, WSOP 2008
[written June 2, 2008 a.m.]
As Jo Anne and I leave the Amazon Room on Saturday afternoon, I see Ted Forrest walking away in the distance.
“I’ll stop him so I can introduce you,” and I run after him.
Ted and I shake hands and I comment, as Jo Anne arrives, how good he looks, fit and healthy. He had that early-Series stubble (also known as the Ted-Forrest-who-knows-how-long-he’s-been-in-the-poker-room stubble) but looked green. He has reformed his eating habits and lost 20 pounds.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under My family, My Life, WSOP 2008
Five minutes into my first event at the World Series, I overheard this exchange:
Woman in Seat 1: Do you know Chad?
Guy in Seat 6: Chad? Chad’s practically my best friend.
Woman in Seat 1: Really? I’m Chad’s fiance.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under You\'re Uncle Tilty
[After this portion of the report, I will take a break to play in and cover the 2008 World Series of Poker. When the action slows down sufficiently, I will continue writing and posting this Report. When that will happen is anyone's guess]
Sammy, who won one of the prizes in my previous contest, suggested that tournaments become ten-handed when there are ten players left. “At all the big tournaments, when every you are playing down to the final table and there are ten left, they alwys bring them together to play on one table.”
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There was another class of tournament suggestions, which involved not inventing new tournaments but modifying the rules of current tournaments. Major General, who won one of the top prizes, made the brilliant but simple suggestion that tournament tables break in numerical order. That both mirrors live poker tournaments and introduces another feature that lets players exercise their relative skill.
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TOURNAMENT IDEAS
Several entries concerned tournament innovations. In fact, one of the winners, SchaefPerro, suggested a regularly-scheduled series of tournaments of unusual formats. I instinctively like these ideas, or at least I like considering them. Most of them aren’t realistic or would have very limited appeal. On the other hand, it’s possible out of everyone playing on Full Tilt, there might be eight people who want to play pot-limit Razz. The Bellagio can’t spare a table to try to hustle up a pot-limit Razz game, but they are constrained by limits that don’t apply to Full Tilt.
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I am fighting a war I am destined to lose.
I brought Jo Anne to Las Vegas so we could spend two days together – I swear, practically our first time alone in almost a year – before the craziness of seven weeks of the World Series of Poker. My backlog, among other items, is my report on the suggestions made by the entrants of my previous contest, “You’re Uncle Tilty.”
I’m going to get you as much of the report as quickly as I can. When I complete it is an open question. But Andy Bloch is in the chip lead of Event #1, and I’ve outlasted Ted Forrest and Greg Raymer in Event #2 and I don’t even play for 12 1/2 hours – so I better get moving.
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