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I’ve never understood the psychology behind players who get excited and celebrate after winning a hand. I’m not even talking about the sportsmanship aspect (though I would try to control myself for that reason if I wanted to celebrated). But I’ve never wanted to.
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12:10 PM – Amazon Blue, 47-2. It was a mob scene getting in the room. The riser from which the opening festivities will start is right in front of me. There are a lot of TV/video cameras and microphones around.
12:17 PM – Jack Effel starts the opening announcements. 5 levels, 20-minute breaks, 90-minute dinner break after level 3, 2-hour levels. We’ll play until about 1 AM and the survivors will return on Tuesday for 2-A. Then Wayne Newton walks up the center aisle trailed by the ladies of Jubilee. Wayne gives a brief, enthusiastic speech about having fun and winning money in “my city … Las Vegas!” On cue, members of the UNLV Marching Band rush out, playing “Viva Las Vegas.” At 12:24, he says the magic words: “Shuffle up and deal.”
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My “First” World Series of Poker
As I walked into the Rio at about 11 o’clock, I thought about my first in-person memory of The World Series of Poker. I had read Al Alvarez’s book, The Biggest Game in Town, and was intrigued by poker and the World Series, but very much from afar. I had still never played the game, but very much wanted to learn.
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With 666 of my close personal friends, I made it through Day 1 of the World Series of Poker. We started today with about 1,300, so the chip average for the day’s finishers was just under 40,000. I have 49,025 and I’m thrilled to have it. I was once down to 5,000 in chips and needed to hit an ace on the river after I was all-in to stay alive. And the two best hands I got during the last two hours both cost me a bunch of chips.
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You know how they say, “It doesn’t matter when you play Day 1 of the Main Event because you end up with a tableful of people you never heard of anyway?”
They don’t know shit. Amazon Blue Forty-Seven/Two, my table, had David “Devilfish” Ulliot and Maureen Feduniak. And to make things more interesting, Devilfish declared war on me personally about a half-hour in.
I’m dictating a detailed account from the Compound at the dinner break and will post it by Friday morning. But the short version is this: From a low of 5,000 chips (we started with 20,000), I now have 38,000 and Devilfish busted so long ago he probably has his money down for the 2009 Main Event.
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I’m sitting on the balcony of the compound, smoking a Havana Bolivar Belicoso and making these entries by stepping inside when the mood strikes. This will be my last entry before playing in the Main Event tomorrow, Thursday, July 3, Day 1-A.
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[from the notebooks of June 3]
I made it to Day 2 of the Mixed Hold ‘Em but missed the first several hands. I arrived early and was told the time had been pushed back from 3 PM to 3:30. Then I was told the tables had changed. It turned out the tables had changed but not the time. So I started, like Day 1, late and disoriented.
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[Written June 25, from the notebooks of June 2]
At 1AM my table breaks and I move to Table 4, Seat 4. Erick Lindgren is in Seat 2. Patrik Antonius is in Seat 6. Chau Giang is in Seat 7. Did I mention there was a pretty tough field in this one?
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[written June 25 from the notebooks of June 2]
7:10 PM – The player in Seat 1 was born in the U.S. but lives in Australia and he’s talking about how it is impossible make a living of playing poker in Australia. “They have a big rake and a time charge.”
Everyone groans. Another player mentions that he seems to run into Australians wherever he goes, especially when he’s traveling in Central and South America.
Seat One: “Yeah, Australians go all over. I don’t know why they like to travel so much but they do.”
The dealer doesn’t miss a beat. “It’s probably to get away from the rake.”
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[written June 25th from the events of June 2nd]
The $5,000 Mixed Hold ‘Em was my shining moment of the World Series so far, which is odd because nothing good ever happened in that tournament.
I start by arriving late at 5:15 PM and have to ask which game we’re playing (limit hold ‘em) and the structure (100-200 with 50-100 blinds). I just feel like a rube having to ask after everyone else has played several hands. Barry Shulman is in Seat 2 and J.J. Liu is in Seat 3.
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