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World Series Of Poker 2005 Editor's Reports |
LAS VEGAS June 2, 2005 July 15, 2005 |
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T minus 4 - Elvis is in the building 3rd July
2005
Bruce Atkinson of Brighton, England, has
cashed 8 times in the WSOP over the last three years picking up $41,615. His
kind heart and generosity overwhelmed the poker players and onlookers during
todays tournaments when he treated them to his favourite rendition of an Elvis
song, one that must have not been released so far as I know them all backwards
and it wasn't one of them. It was pretty good though. It was four o'clock in
the afternoon and playing for a million dollars was getting boring. They were
relieved and happy for the release of tension and gave him the clap.
This weekend is 4th July weekend. The Stars and Stripes are everywhere
and the town is full of people wanting to party. Most are quite young and the
town is a little under funded when it comes to infrastructure and the ability
to deal with a one hundred thousand people brat party when the temperature
never falls below 90 degrees.
I myself made the mistake of leaving the
Rio Suites Hotel at 1 a.m. last night. Its a 15 minute walk to the taxi rank
which puts blisters on your feet like you've never seen before. I was at first
a little dismayed to see 50 people in the queue, especially as it was still
into the nineties and sweating is not my favourite pastime. I would soon
understand that I was going nowhere as Las Vegas began to resemble a cheap
British seaside resort on a bank holiday weekend. There were two rows of taxis
for departing customers to board on their way back to the Strip. The
left hand row was held up by the taxi driver fighting to pull a disgruntled
passeger the size of whale out from the back seat of his cab. The right hand
line was halted by a policewoman wrestling with a woman who had just pushed her
head through the lowered cab driver's window so that she could projectile vomit
over him and the car. I'm home!
Giving up on that I walked over to the
Gold Coast next door to find no cabs at all. Then back to the Rio. One hundred
people in the queue now so I found the shuttle bus which was amazingly free of
people, ostensibly because the weekend drunks didn't know it existed. That got
me to Harrah's Casino on the strip where I tried the new monorail train.
Another long trip only to find it was shut to stop people shrowing up in that
as well. So I walked home to Ballys, it was hot and ugly with the odd nutter
trying to free me of a few dollars. One and a half hours to get from the Rio to
Ballys which is half a mile. Come back friday afternoons in London, all is
forgiven.
Back in the playing hall there was once again four tournaments
in progress. Today the starting event was Limit Holdem $3000 buy-in with a low
sub-500 turnout. Already at the final table stage was event #33 No Limit Holdem
$3000. Also at the same place were the Senior players apparently let out of
their homes for the second day in a row. The main spectator crowd were gazing
at event #35, the $10,000 PLO (Pot Limit Omaha) with every top player in the
world playing.
AT 21:30 there were still 30 players left, playing down
to a single table for tomorrow. Half the remaining field were European with a
strong British element, showing just how important experience in the pot limit
game really is. Paul Maxfield, John Gale, Trumper, Surindar Suanr, Peter
Coasta, Dave Baxter, Tony Bloom, Barney Boatman and Julian Gardner were all
well placed. Bruno Fitoussi and Pascal Perault from Paris were also in
contention. Amongst the US players you could see Ferguson, Seidel and Eric
Lindgren but most of the very best players from the other side of the Atlantic
had perished.
Results from all of these tomorrow.
Our new co-occupants of
the convention center are the National Championship Finals of the Spotlight
Dance Cup. This is more like it. Beautiful South American ladies in the most
revealing outfits wearing fruit on their head and sporting ridiculous stiletto
heels sauntering into the playing room and completely stopping the action.
Todays poker tip is an absolute gem. When in Vegas head for the new
Wynn Casino. They have a new poker room in ther with the best seats in the
world of poker room history. More imprtantly the players aren't too familiar
with the concept of winning.
Today's bet for the Championship event is
Ben Roberts, at 150 - 1 with Blus Sq. to make the final table or
Chris
Moneymaker150 - 1.
Pictures from today
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Move on to tomorrows report
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