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FIRST DISPATCH ON FINAL TABLE DAY
JERRY YANG ROARS OUT OF THE GATE
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Today is final table day at the World Series of Poker. My plan is to scam myself premium access I otherwise don’t deserve, free food, maybe take a couple things “to go”, and overhear a bunch of things I’m probably not supposed to be hearing.
I already know what’s going to win: some dude.
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I was dealt a piece of devastating news the other day. My friend Byron told me his 17 year-old son Michael had cancer. Michael and my son Barry have been friends since they were infants. My friendship with Byron followed and even though we moved from Chicago 7 years ago, we have remained close friends.
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I can’t believe everything that’s going on. We’re down to 36 in the Main Event. Full Tilt has its $1 Million Guarantee at 3 PM PDT. I just learned – it’s in the “private” tournament section – Bad Beat on Cancer has a $5 + $5 tournament at 3 PM. (The password to play is “badbeat.”)
And then there’s Matusow ….
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I saw that Robert Varkonyi busted out on Friday in 177th place. I stood behind him for a little while on Thursday night. (See Entry #207.) we talked briefly and the crux of the discussion – and, for that matter, nearly all discussions concerning Robert and several involving him – was about the lack of respect accorded the 2002 World Champion.
If he has a chip on his shoulder about it, I get it. He won the World Championship, for gosh sakes. He was an amateur from out of nowhere, like Chris Moneymaker, who came after him in 2003. And he’s a very smart man, a professional, highly educated – just like Greg Raymer, who followed Moneymaker in 2004. But he never really shared in the fame and (probably more important to Varkonyi) fortune they received.
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Of the 12 contributors to THE FULL TILT POKER STRATEGY GUIDE – TOURNAMENT EDITION, Huckleberry Seed is the one with whom I’ve had the least contact – the least contact before the book, during the book, and since the book came out. He is the last of the 13 of us in the Main Event.
So what can I do for ya, Huck? Buddy?
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I returned to Las Vegas at 3 AM on Thursday. Professionally, I understand why I am here. It’s the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. I’m writing The Full Tilt Poker blog. This is a big thing and I should be writing about it. But mentally, even though I THOUGHT I was past the hurt of busitng out, something is still gnawing at me.
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I went out at 11:31 PM. I had a lot of chips (over 60,000 at one point) but lost more than 25,000 at 10:20 PM, with J-J against 8-8 where my opponent hit an eight on the flop. I tried to play the hand so not to go broke on an eight-high flop, but it didn’t work. After that, every raise was met by a re-raise, either preflop, on the flop, or on the turn. When I was finally short-stacked, I moved in with J-J in late position and the big blind woke up with A-A.
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I made a vow to myself on this day, Sunday, July 8, that I would catch up as much as possible on blog entries from the last week (as well as earlier in the Series) until Midnight. At the stroke of twelve, I would cease writing and focus on activities designed to help me when I play Day 1-D of the Main Event in a dozen hours. There is still a lot I haven’t gotten to; it will have to wait until I’m done playing.
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On Saturday, Day 1-B, I spent several hours in the Amazon Room. I walked the room and looked in on several players I knew, but I mostly watched my friend Victoria Coren. Victoria is a newspaper columnist (with the TELEGRAPH and OBSERVER), author (including a book about a porno movie she and a friend wrote, directed, and produced), television personality (playing and commentating on poker shows and BALDERDASH AND PIFFLE, a show about the origins of words and phrases). She is also a superb poker player, having won the EPT London Open and a half-million pounds within the last year.
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