Quest of a Closet Poker Player

For most of the spectators in the Amazon Room at the Rio, the WSOP is less about poker and more about seeing poker players they recognize.

Five to six tournaments are now played each day, and this was a five-event day.  The big Day 1 was the $2k PLH, with Day 2 for the $5k Omaha Hi/Lo and the $1.5k NLH.  Final tables were held for the $3k LH and the $1.5k PLO w/Re-buys.  It is a dizzying spectacle for most of us.

Butt #13.  Rav grabbed Negreanu’s butt to get on the board, so here is a quickie.

There is an art to watching the WSOP just as there is for watching a golf tourney.  If you come into town, try and pick a day with a higher buy-in if you want to see the top players.  The $1.5k events are a zoo, with pros scattered lightly through the tables.

Patrik Antonius in the $5k Omaha Hi/Lo.

This is what you look like after your table has broken after you won the last hand at the other table after the board was 8c-10c-Jc-Js-Qc and the guy shoved into you with JJ when you had 5c-9c.

Shannon Elizabeth lives at the Rio nowadays.  It would be nice to play every event; I’m quite sure all of us would improve each event, or at least I hope we would.

I wrote about this yesterday, but it was fascinating to read about Dan “rekrul” Schreiber and how he got started in poker, following ElkY there after becoming a top StarCraft player.  Here’s a bigtime question:  Is poker simply a video game?  Maybe that is a better way to look at poker rather than thinking of it as a card game with incomplete information and all that stuff.

See you in the AM.  Updates to follow.

This entry was posted on Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 11:29 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.