My 2nd Day at WSOP
I went back to the WSOP tonight and wanted to post some interesting things. A woman at work is bringing me her (much better) digital camera tomorrow, so I'll be able to post pictures very soon.
Now that the real events have started, there is an even bigger buzz than the casino employee event day that I went. All of the online poker companies are fully represented. Last year, Full Tilt was the lone representation of online poker hosting a hospitality suite. Large hospitality suites this year include: Full Tilt (still the best), Ultimate Bet (2nd best), and Doyle's Room. Unfortunately, UB and Doyle's closed up right as I got there at 8 PM. Full tilt was still in full swing, so I went in and got a lot of free shit. *** Thanks for the 3 free Amstel's Full Tilt, and thank you Barry Greenstein for coming up to me and asking me if I was having fun in the Full Tilt suite. They will take your picture and superimpose it onto the team full tilt photo (attached to this message). I got a full tilt ipod case, and a full tilt WSOP 2006 t-shirt. All free.
I can't wait to see what Doyle and UB have to offer (open bar and free food is cool, but I'm a whore for free shit). The Vegas strip clubs even have hospitality booths. Crazy!
As far as the poker goes, I saw a ton of poker pros today. Most impressive was Carlos Mortensen and his chip stack that went above his head when he was sitting down (not kidding). Wish I had a camera, I'm sure you'll see it on cardplayer.com. That was yesterday's event that was down to 3 tables. The pot limit tourney was still going, and they had about 25 tables remaining. I saw Tomko, Ferguson, Greenstein (who was apparently on break when he greeted me in the FT lounge), Corkins, Cunningham, that red-head dude that cried last year when he lost, Deeb, and Juanda. I'm sure there were many others, but you have to battle through a lot of traffic.
The most annoying thing about the WSOP is the other fans. Fuck! Why does everyone in that place think they're your best friend and they can just come up to you and start talking? "Are there any celebrities in here?" - Dude, if you have to ask, you probably wouldn't recognize them. "What did he have?" - Dude, I'm just as far away from the table as you. "What event is this?" - I like saying, the "World Series of Poker." "Mom, I've seen that guy on TV, I think he's famous." - It's Phil-fucking-Ivey, dumbass! I could do without the hundreds of morons walking around. And why do they feel that they can yell at the players. Someone actually said, "Hey Carlos (no response).... Hey Carlos, (no response), Hey Carlos (Carlos finally looks)... What are you going to do when you have to add another level to your chip stack?" Carlos gave him a nice eye roll. Some of the worlds most annoying people are gathered in that room. Enough of that, I'll have pictures soon... |
