Posted by Editor | Filed under Amazon Room, Annie Duke, Ante Up for Africa, Nollan Dalla, Phil Gordon, WSOP 2007
It’s 10 AM and I’m not in the Amazon Room yet. Finally, at 10:20 AM, after 80 minutes, my shoes touch the carpet of the Amazon Room. So what’s it look like, compared with last year?
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Last night at 10 PM, I got to my hotel, the place I call the Smoke & Disinfectant Inn (“SDI,” or “SAD” as my daughter Ellie suggested). It was quite the tableau. Thinking about the money and equipment I was leaving in my car during registration, I was initially relieved to see the looming presence of a security guard inside the registration office.
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[Notwithstanding I owe you several entries about adventures from before the Series and some WSOP "previews," I'm here, dammit! And the sensations are overwhelming, so let me launch into The Coverage and I'll try to catch up with that other stuff ASAP.]
Friday, June 1, 9 AM – I’ve been here 10 minutes and I already feel disoriented and jerked around. First, it appears a significant portion of the parking behind the convention center has been fenced off for valet parking. If that’s the case, Harrah’s has managed to screw up one of the things they undeniably got right last year.
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If the 2006 World Series of Poker was like Woodstock, the 2007 Series threatens to be Altamont. Harrah’s barely had control of last year’s Series; add in lame-duck management and the company not just biting the hand that feeds (online poker) but vomiting on it as well. Throw in thirty to forty thousand desperate gamblers, most of whom are fighting to become or escape stereotypes or archtypes; pros; celebrities; good dealers and floor personnel; incompetent dealers and floor personnel; bureaucrats; promoters; doomsdayers; naysayers; and gawkers. All this adds up to an ugly panorama, and one I don’t dare miss.
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The Thirty-Eighth World Series of Poker starts in just 121 hours. Because I have so much to do between now and the beginning of the Series – and, of course, so much to do during the Series – this isn’t the calm before the storm so much as The Calm Before the Storm Before the REAL Storm. But I want to use this relatively quiet time to tell you what’s coming over the next few days, and then during the next seven weeks.
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As you know, I was in New York to celebrate with Tony Holden the publication of his new book, BIGGER DEAL. If you don’t know anything about poker, BIGGER is the sequel to BIG DEAL, the 1991 classic in which Tony spent a year (between Johnny Chan’s second championship and Phil Hellmuth’s) as a professional poker player.
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I found myself at the front door, tagging along with Tony Holden and Steve Martin, trying not to do anything or say anything stupid. This was also my first opportunity to speak to our hostess, Tina Brown.
The first paragraph of a lengthy Tina Brown entry on Wikipedia:
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During the last FTOPS Main Event, I had Clonie Gowen at my house, taking sex surveys from PSYCHOLOGY TODAY between hands. I’m all alone in my house for this one, so there won’t be any excitement this time, huh?
Howard Lederer gave me a call.
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I just busted out in 210th place, about 90 short of the money. There might have been one mistake in there, but it was just a marginal one. Otherwise, it was mostly opponents who wanted to get their chips in with the worst of it or, at best, a coin flip. Pretty much like I said in the previous entry.
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We’re at the third break, three hours and fifteen minutes in. The chip leader, Bejaysus, has 68,000 chips. I’m 12th with 42,000. There are 277 left, with an average of nearly 20,000. It’s going to take a little more than double that to have average chips when we get into the money. So if I stay where I am, I’ll make the money with about average chips.
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