theme park, but aimed primarily at the pudgy 40 year old american
white male, there will be queues.
First queue for the day, "the bank". Not really that exciting but
when u have to take out 20k to pay for upcoming tournaments,
some strange feeling always hits you. 20k is a lot of money!
So its important not to flick through the bills and get too attached
with it and re-enact the scene from indecent proposal lying on the
bed rolling around in money, coz the money comes in and goes
straight out. At least the taxi driver waited for me at the bank,
and didtn even keep the meter running, i gave him a good tip at least.
I am actually in favour of the tipping system , customer service seems
pretty good in Vegas, and may be they are friendly people, but people
try.
2nd queue "WSOP registration" - Unfortunately incompetence is
never that far away when Harrahs are in charge. The room for the
tournament is not ready despite being 1 day to go, which also means
that the usual registration desk is not ready. To their credit the room
actually looks pretty good this year. However the line up to register
although not that long, took some 2 hours. The guy ahead of me lined
up for 2.5 hours only to find that they wouldnt give him the seat unless
he was paying for it, he actually had already paid but that was bad luck.
Some guy discovered a new "bubble" the printer bubble. That is
when its you turn to pick up the ticket, the printer conveniently dies.
Unfortunately it is the only printer that can print these special tickets,
and it requires 2 tech guys. The good news is that we are told that
it is a "priority 1" problem. Tho no one can be too sure if priority one
is the highest or lowest rating. Finally get my ticket, table 72 seat 6 !
I saw Allen Cunningham join the queue as i was at the front, for someone
who had about 4-5 million in winnings last year, you thing Full Tilt the
sponsors would sort out this sh*t for him, but hey he seems like a nice
guy, not wanting superstar attention.
Queue 3 - Hotel accomodation - I was suppose to get the players rates
for the hotel anyway after an hour of being sent from one desk to another
I finally managed to get this one sorted out.
Queue 4 - Yep there was a line up for "noodles" - my regular eating
spot at the Bellagio, but the upside of eating for one is you jump the
queue pretty quickly !
Queue 5 - Luckily this was a quick one, took me a few minutes to
get onto an online game, where i could lose my money on limit holdem.
Tho i feel i have a strategy for the limit section of tomorrows tourney,
dont play it. I did play some no limit, which at least i won a nice pot
b4 bed.
NL hand - question is did i bet too small on the end ? prolly coulda
pushed all in. In my favour there was a hand before where i bet
the flop and turn against this guy , and I had nothing
rkruok [$2,825]
VodooWizar [$10,105]
Dealt to rkruok [9d Td]
bluepitcole: folds
rkruok: raises $100 to $150
VoodooWizard: calls $150
Grimstarr: folds
IfIHadItAll: folds
*** FLOP *** [7c Tc Th]
rkruok: bets $250
VoodooWizard: calls $250
*** TURN *** [7c Tc Th] [Qs]
rkruok: bets $500
VoodooWizard: calls $500
*** RIVER *** [7c Tc Th Qs] [4d]
rkruok: bets $1100
VoodooWizard: calls $1100
*** SHOW DOWN ***
rkruok: shows [9d Td] (three of a kind)
VoodooWizard: folds [KcQd]
good end to a rather strange day !
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