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The Bad Beat on Cancer tournament is today, October 16 at 22:00 EDT.
Remember, I put a bounty on myself of two Lou Malnati pizza’s, delivered to you promptly by UPS. And if you don’t like pizza – what are you, a communist? who doesn’t like pizza? – Rafe Furst has also put a $50 bounty on me and on himself.
He’s that confident that we’ll run 1 and 2. I’m touched.
If you’re the one who busts me, e-mail me at mrchaotic@aol.com and we’ll work out the pizza details. If you’re some kind of health freak, we can do Italian beef or cheese cake or Carson’s ribs.
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I arrive at the Hampshire, a Radisson hotel across Leicester Square from the Empire, at 9:55 AM, five minutes early. The Square, which always seems to be teeming with activity no matter the hour, is quiet and empty on Sunday morning. All of London is seemingly sleeping it off; the London Underground was deserted and I counted 20 WSOP-Europe posters (“The King of Europe will be crowned in Leicester Square”) on my solitary trip up the long escalator to the street. I notice this morning, for the first time, that the Square itself has statues of both William Shakespeare and Charlie Chaplain.
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I conceived of the idea of following Jeffrey Pollack or Ty Stewart for a day during the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas last July. This is a classic reporting technique but it has one obvious flaw: any institution REALLY worth examining that close would generally resist granting that kind of access.
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I once had the ambition to be the last person to play a round of golf on the island of Montserrat. This probably strikes you as a bizarre ambition, but it significantly affected my writing career and explains, in part, why I spent Sunday, September 16 in London with Ty Stewart, Director of Sponsorship and Marketing for the World Series of Poker.
Sunday was Final Table Day at the Main Event of the first World Series of Poker-Europe. I was with Ty almost every minute of that day and night, from when he came downstairs for breakfast in the lobby of the Hampshire on Leicester Square, to when we ate cold McDonalds hamburgers in the basement of the Hampshire sixteen hours later and he excused himself to go to bed. Stewart rarely stood still for more than a minute and the experience took me to every part of the Empire Casino, including the counting room and a place Stewart called “the hole.” We also found ourselves in a basement poker game, on the London Underground running into Robert and Cate Williamson, at Harrods at closing time with an armful of silver platters, and in a predictably awful London McDonalds at 2:30 in the morning.
But the story starts more than a decade ago, on a tiny island a half a world away.
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Sorry for the delay in posts. Full Tilt is working on some exciting new stuff and they asked me to help them in the planning. No details for now but it’s really neat stuff and I devoted a lot of time to the project. I’m also working on a long multi-part post about Final Table Day at World Series of Poker-Europe, tentatively titled “Last Hand at the Empire.” I will start posting portions as soon as the early parts are done and I’m sure it’s looking right. (I also have many other posts about London to complete, and maybe something about the experience of my high school graduating class’s 30-year reunion. At the very least, I need something to answer the IRS agent when he asks, “You deducted the expenses from your high school reunion WHY?”)
But now I want to mention the upcoming Bad Beat on Cancer tournament.
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Full Tilt announced today that it was running the sixth installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series on November 7 to 18. I have carefully calculated that if you take my worst stretch of online poker play but OMITTED my FTOPS results from that period, I would still be a profitable player. Actually, I didn’t calculate that, but it sure FEELS that way.
So why am I excited about the next edition?
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I’m trying to work my way though a backlog of material from London. The main piece is about final-table day at WSOP-Europe. Ty Stewart, who with Jeffrey Pollack runs the WSOP for Harrah’s, let me trail him for the day to write about the final table from his perspective. It’s going to be a great piece but it’s taking some time. I also have an entry in progress about visitng the Tower of London with Chris Ferguson then eating two dinners, one with my writing heroes and friends Tony Holden, Al Alvarez, and Des Wilson (along with Al’s wife Anne and Tony’s wife Cindy), and the second dinner for Annie Duke’s birthday at what was supposed to be the hottest restaurant in London.
Be patient, please. In the meantime …
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As a demonstration of how much I like Roland de Wolfe, I’m going to forgive him any complicity in the criminal schemes I am about to describe. And I expect he likes me enough to forego a lawsuit if I have misread the circumstantial evidence.
I have probable cause to believe that Roland de Wolfe has stolen Ted Forrest’s cell phone.
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The sound system at Little Italy pounded out a playlist of the same 9 songs from the Eighties at over 100 decibels, but about 10% faster than they were meant to be played. I predicted within one minute that we would hear “Hungry Like the Wolf” and I was proven correct within 20 minutes. (I’d have been right with my next picks as well, “Rock Me Amadeus” and “She Blinded Me with Science,” but there was no one to bet against.)
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[I'm interrupting the report of my last night in London, as well as the numerous items still unwritten from my London adventures, to update everyone about my wife Jo Anne. But rest assured, (1) she's fine, and (2) the London posts will keep rolling out at a rate of approximately one per day for the next several days, and then as quickly as I can write them.]
I’ve gotten many e-mails and had countless players ask me on Full Tilt about my wife Jo Anne’s condition. Things are great and if she doesn’t kill me, we’re going to make it through cancer just fine. Her chemotherapy starts about one hour after the time I’m writing this, on Friday, September 28. She will have one session every three weeks, eight sessions in all.
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