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EdmondDantes says
Nice post, but "A middle aged white guy who basically screams 'tourist' "...that hits a little close to home!06/20/07
Anonymous says
Adar, we are still awaiting your arrival in #badbeats on IRC ok :) BTW I too had the same experience playing at the WSOP this past weekend--- you can almost feel poker seeping into your pores nonstop and you absorb so much new information that it can be a bit overwhelming (it was for me). But it's a blast and I hope to hit town again next month towards the end of the Series....06/20/07
Adanthar says
I'll be there eventually, just have absolutely no time right now. But I'll find some after I move.06/20/07
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Another day off
by Adanthar on 06/20/07
Well, mostly. I had time to chop another satellite in between sweating Nath and a couple of other people. The 525's are getting a bit harder as the WSOP gets going, but they're still incredible by online standards.Today's feature hand: With one limper at 25/25 (2K starting stacks), a pretty aggro Indian guy who already busted someone with KK > QQ on the first hand overlimps and 4 people see an A95 flop. It gets checked through. The turn is a 7 (2 hearts), the BB - a middle aged white guy who basically screams 'tourist' and is not in the last longer (meaning that he's probably terrible) - leads 100 [pot] into the field. The first limper folds, but the Asian guy quickly makes it 300. In a sequence of events that probably doesn't even make any sense to himself, the BB now makes it 800 while yelling "Come on, hearts!" Asian guy, of course, instashoves with the obvious nuts, the BB laughs and says "I lied about the hearts", instacalls the rest of his stack with A5o and the entire table silently cracks up when his eyes practically bug out of his head upon seeing the straight. Have I mentioned that I love live poker?
Moving on...whenever I'm not playing, I've been talking poker with any number of people. Because practically everyone I know from the Internet is here and walking around the Rio like it's some sort of giant anime convention, I can't really walk more than 50 feet without someone saying 'hi' and telling me about a hand or six they've played. This place has turned into a poker bootcamp and I love every minute of it/I can practically feel my game improving leaps and bounds overnight. The funny thing is that the live game is so different that a lot of the lines I'm thinking about at any given point would simply never occur to me online and I even know ahead of time that nobody who isn't here will get them. I'm really beginning to understand why the live pros and the online guys don't mix.
I might not be playing tomorrow (too much stuff to do and no NL event) so I leave you with yet another fantastic developing Brandi Hawbaker thread.
edit: Almost forgot - in a highly surreal moment, the first thing I saw today when I walked in the tournament room was, of course, the razz final table with Eskimo Clark's giant stack in prominent view. Eskimo proceeded to blow a huge 5 handed chiplead and finished fourth, but managed to walk off to the dinner break and back under his own power. I guess he can claim the almost as impressive title of "first person to go from heart attack to winning donkamenteur in 48 hours"?
