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Patrik Antonius was part of our group and he probably wouldn’t have minded if the bouncer refused him entry. For this place, his shoulders were too broad, his jaw was too chiseled, and it was far too likely that he had his original vision and teeth.
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After the end of the Million Dollar Cash Game, we wandered around Soho looking for a restaurant, settling at a strange restaurant at midnight named Little Italy. We had a dozen in our party and the long meal gave me an opportunity to think about how the day went for several of the players.
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While Patrik Antonius – who, by the way, wears a giant Breitling studded with diamonds – and Roland de Wolfe played Chinese Poker in the suite, the rest of us moved out on the balcony to smoke cigars. When we came in, they were still at it and someone also put on the TV, which was showing a documentary about baseball.
Watching a baseball documentary and Chinese Poker in the middle of the night was dreadful business. I love baseball but hate hearing Ken Burns wax ignorant about its charms. And is there anything worse than watching Chinese Poker? And I still have to pack, and I have to catch a ride to the airport in 6 hours.
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[My last night in London was Wednesday, September 19. I posted 14 items that day about the Million Dollar Cash Game (MDCG). The internet connection went out after post #13/M. I was cursing the loss of connection but even my misfortune had a lucky aspect: the outage occurred right AFTER I posted about the biggest moment of the game, the $807,400 pot won by Phil Ivey over Patrik Antonius. Many interesting things happened after that, and some were summarized in the post I made from Uncle Tilty’s suite at 2 AM and the rest will appear in this series of posts about my last night in London.]
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Sorry about the delay in posting. The internet access in that studio was completely screwed up, as was everything else about the set-up, except for the people being nice. But it’s now 3:10 AM, I’m in Uncle Tilty’s room, and I leave for Gatwick Airport in 6 hours.
Here is a quick summary. I will write the fun stories and more full details after I get back to Scottsdale, which is Thursday night.
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I have such a lousy vantage point here that I can’t get the action on any hand until it becomes so important that I hover over the table. So I get the end part. But on this hand, DOUBLE the biggest in the Million Dollar Cash Game, it wasn’t about strategy. It was about balls.
Here is how it went down just before 9 PM:
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At about 8:20 PM, after the action restarted, it took a few hands but the huge hand seemed to loosen everybody up. Lindgren asked Ivey, “How much would it take for you to get a desk job for a year?”
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It’s near 8 PM and they are coming out of the break. Howard was musing to Phil Ivey, who is laying on a couch, sick, “I flop a straight and Allen flops a set. We check the turn and there’s $10,000 bet and called on the river. Patrik flops a set and he gets $150,000 called by second pair.” Brian Townsend apparently said during the break he had Q-J. He has bought in for another $200,000.
Here are the chip counts from the break:
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Patrik Antonius and Brian Townsend just played a huge hand and Brian, as has often been the case in this Game, ended up on the losing end.
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At 6:45 PM, Erick Lindgren gets in the game and even if he isn’t in a hand (though he frequently is), the Fun Quotient goes up substantially. He could pick on anyone – and does – but he’s one of the few people on Earth who will give it to Phil Ivey relentlessly and without reserve.
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