Leaving Las Vegas

“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” is the tagline for the very successful advertising campaign for Las Vegas.  It should when it comes to play at the WSOP Main Event.

Players have been fleeing at a rapid clip over the last two days, and today shows no signs of abating.  Two players started the day with and M<5, twenty-two with and M<10.  Blinds only went up from 10k/20k to 12k/24k with a 3k ante, so basically you had about the same blinds for four hours.  “I’m not here to move up, I’m here to win.”  “I’m not going to get blinded out.”  Whatever.  I’m not talking about weak/tight play or giving up, but play solid poker at least.  Especially when everyone is still ready to move all-in at any moment.  Small-ball poker is almost non-existant except for the pros still plugging along here.

Lee Watkinson, Scotty Nguyen, Huck Seed, Kenny Tran, Gus Hansen, Kirk Morrison, Lee Edler.  All still here, all lurking with plenty of chips.

This is also the time when logos start magically appearing on players chest and heads, where agents starting pressing flesh promising the world.  On the logo front, what you have to remember is how valuable the ESPN coverage is for PokerStars, FullTilt, and others.  It is placement advertising, un-Ti-Vo-able signage that usurps the PartyPoker.net logo on the felt here.   It’s money well spent, especially if you can sign someone up fairly early in the game.

I probably should have blogged lots, lots more, but I’ve been focused on PokerWorks coverage and now blogging for PokerStars.  I have several interviews to type up that I’ve done, as well as more I can do later.  They aren’t time sensitive, but they do take time here.

More later.

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 14th, 2007 at 6:05 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.