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 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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