-----Original Message----- Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 5:30 PM Thank you for subscribing to Greg's WSOP Update Newsletter. If you do not wish to receive future installments, let me know. Status: Not yet started I'm flying out tomorrow, and the tournament starts Tuesday. I expect to be sending a mail similar to this: 5:00pm Tournament starts 5:01pm I'm out -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 8:40 PM Thank you for subscribing to Greg's WSOP Update Newsletter. If you do not wish to receive future installments, let me know. Structural info: 3000 starting chips; 1 hour blind levels starting 25/50, 50/75, 50/100, 75/150. 690 entrants, 63 paid, 1st prize somewhere around $220k Big names spotted in the game: Doyle Brunson (see below), Phil Ivey (who is simultaneously in this mornings pot limit texas event), Scotty Nguyen Hand of the night: Of course it's in level 1, but I have a237, flop is 247, turn 9, river 2. Scooper! Status: Level 4 Wind Delay Early Dinner Break, 3200 chips Level 1: Peak early, up to 3900 Level 2: Hold steady, end at 3650 Level 3: Suck town, nothing but folds and unfulfilled draws, down to 2000 Level 4: Small recovery, back up to 3200 (high stack at my table is two guys with ~8000) Details: So apparently Omaha players are third class citizens. We don't set up in the main room (230 tables), but are rather sent to the "pavilion". This fine structure is effectively an overgrown tent, with some (not a lot) AC pumped in and about 90 more tables. This overgrown tent has steel bars suspended from the tentpoles holding lights etc. Anyway, we start out complaining about the lame tent, and all is well. We go about 3 blind cycles per hour long level, and I'm doing fine in round 1. Round 2 the wind starts. And our overgrown tent feels it. The lights and everything blow around pretty much nonstop starting at 6:00. Doyle, playing at the table next to mine, does not much care for this state of affairs and walks out, leaving his chips behind, around 6:30. He doesn't need no stinking 1.5k event. (First players start to bust at 6:20). His chips sit alone and neglected for the rest of the evening. (He's to about 1400 at the break.) Anyway, the wind, a constant annoyance really starts to pick up around 8:30. It's getting pretty violent in the tent, and the steel light structures are really active. So much so they start to clang very loudly against the tentpoles. A general murmur of disbelief and anger arises amongst the players, and at 9:00 the tournament director finally comes over from the (A/C, well lit) real building. So we're in suspended animation right now in the middle of round 4, with an early dinner break. (Dinner is supposed to start at 10 after round 5.) At 10:30 we'll discover what's next, whether they move us all in, suspend until tomorrow, or ?. (Original schedule has us playing until 3am tonight.) Two busts at my table, so I'd estimate we're down to about 550 players. Next update: 2 min after the wind delay ends when I bust out -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:25 AM To: gweiss@eskimo.com Short version: I am in a zombified state, neither living nor dead, always hanging around hovering between 1000-4000 chips. Right now my chips are in a bag waiting to be unsealed tomorrow at the continuation of Round 8 at 3pm. I have a whopping 3700 left, having doubled up in the last hand before break (yet again). (Average 12k, high around 36k) (180 players left) Blinds at 300-600 means this is not much. More tomorrow at approximately 3:05pm when somebody sprays me with holy water and ends my undead chip nursing. -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:36 PM Play resumes late, at 3:30. First hand, I double up to 7100, killing off the other short stack at the table when I river a straight. I spend an hour playing pretty poorly but hovering between 9000 and 1200. Final hand: 4100 chips at the start, AhAdKh6d, round 9 (400/800 blinds). Flop: 2h 3d 10h Turn (all in): 9d A black king allows the trip 10s to kill me at around 130th place. -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 3:54 AM A couple more random notes after this interlude from our sponsors. So having lost, I decided I could (a) cry in my hotel room (b) lose some more money at blackjack or something or (c) go across the street to the Palms to watch a movie. I chose (c) with a little of (a) and (b) on the side. Arriving at the Palms I encountered a serendipitous random activity: The Ocean's Thirteen Vegas Premiere Party, complete with red carpet. So I stood around like a fool and watched crazy celebrities like Carrot Top and Wayne Newton get the red carpet treatment until the big guns came down. I did not quite violate my restraining order, but did get to see Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and George Clooney live and in person. The premiere of course was long sold out but I did get the privilege of sitting in the adjoining theatre watching Pirates 3 while they watched their movie. I do have to say that whenever big celebrities are around, you should go, because that's where the hot women go. Couple more poker notes: The only big name player left in my tournament when I busted was Todd Brunson. The loud clanging sounds we heard in the "pavilion" were not, as I thought, the light structure banging against the tentpoles, but actually cables snapping; a wall did collapse when we were out on the unexpected dinner break. Folding is addictive and fun for all ages! I did only suck out once, against the other short stack today, the rest of the time my hands were solid. A2 gave me half the pot exactly once, and I never got quartered. Plenty of counterfeit though. (My poor play today consisted of trying to steal and getting caught, and then stubbornly bluffing at it again every time. Pissed off 6000 chips doing that. Yesterday's steals were all successful.) I was probably too tight yesterday but never made any bad plays either. I think that a good river today would have given me a realistic shot (about 18k in the pot); I think I'm definitely going to try again. I'll go hit the tables some more tomorrow, but this is the last report. Whatever happens tomorrow will stay in Vegas. Back in Seattle on Friday, so who wants a game?