A day off, and what to do? I didn’t much feel like playing poker (especially after I lost $80 playing O/8 online this morning) so I decided to gallivant a bit. I drove down to the outlet mall to see if I could find another dark dress shirt. After walking around for an hour and…
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Best dressed guy I’ve seen so far at the World Series: Bicentennial patch and everything. If Roger Staubach had wandered through the Amazon Room last night he would’ve run out screaming.

I’m covering a $1,500 No-Limit event today. We started with 2,447 players, and at the end of Level Four we’re down to 940. That’s two-thirds of the field gone in four hours. Yeah, I’m really regretting my decision not to play in one of these donkfests. An exhibition of pure poker skill. Speaking of which,…
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Yeah, I jinxed myself. Yesterday was bad. It took Rob Hollink 242 hands to win the $10K Limit Hold-Em bracelet yesterday and I recorded every single one of them (with a couple of exceptions where I was backed up and Matt took over). The good part about Limit is that there’s no confusion about bet…
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Yesterday? Not so bad. We finished up around 3:30AM, thanks in large part to a couple of brutal coolers (Michael Mizrachi did something to anger the Poker Gods, the way they smote him) and the short stacks failing to double. We showed up thinking the final table was at two but, no, it’s at three….
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Today is gonna suck. We have to play down to a final table in the $10K Limit Hold-Em event. There are 98 players left, and we have to lose 89 of them before we get to go home. There’s a good chance we’ll be working till dawn today. For the players, the change in blind…
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It’s like death and taxes–when you talk about a winning streak, it’s certain that streak will come to a sudden end. Which is exactly what happened to my hot run Friday night. Our final table ended around 8:30 and we went for a bite to eat before hitting the casino. Played some video poker–lost. Played…
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I had a day off on Tuesday and was determined to make the most of it. I slept in, ate some Mini-Wheats for breakfast, did some work…by then it was 2:30 and I still hadn’t taken a shower. Matt wanted to head out to South Pointe and I told him to go, I’d walk over…
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Yesterday I wrote a post (never published) about how bad it was gonna be covering Day 2 of the $2,500 NLHE Event. Turns out I was optimistic–it was probably the worst day I’ve ever had at the World Series. We’re trying a new player ID system and when it works, it’s great. When it doesn’t…
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Today’s gonna be a tough day, no getting around it. Day 2 of the $1K rebuy event starts at 2pm, and with 106 players left and lots of chips in play I’m thinking we’re gonna be playing into the wee hours. Yesterday was a 14-hour day, today will probably be longer, and God knows what’ll…
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