Apologies, I have been the nut worst at updating this blog. Occasionally the day job does take over and I have put this on the back burner. But here we go once more.
So when we left last time I had returned to the Palazzo with Timmyrara who had bagged 67k from day 1A and I had left the day 1B players slogging it out until 4am. The first thing that I did when I awoke the next morning was check the forum and WSOP website to see how many of our guys had made day 2 from the late flight. It turned out that 7 had survived and would be joining Tim, David and Lee that day. Somehow David Watkin had made day 2, literally every time I saw him on day 1 he was grinding a 10 big blind stack, I was impressed he had made level 5 never mind the end of the day! I was also somewhat surprised to see Arpad and James Jeffery. Arpad had an unfortunate issue with the chip colours in the first hand of the day which cost him 75% of his stack and James like David has pedalled a shortstack most of the day. I was even more surprised to see that Paul Jackson had made day 2!
At first glance that morning it looked like we had 11 qualifiers. Phil Green, Gerard Gardner, Steven Lundie and Alex Graham had joined the others in day 2 and so it seemed had Simon Cameron. Simon obviously checked the forum as I did that morning and promptly messaged me on Facebook somewhat confused.
“I thought I bust last night, I think they have made a mistake”
“How can you think you have bust? There is a big difference between busting and having 45k”
“Lol I’m not sure mate, I had QQ all in v AA but left pretty quickly at the end of the hand, maybe I hit a sneaky flush?”
“Right, did you not think to stay and watch the run out of the board?”
“Well I thought I did”
We left it at that with me somewhat confused as to how he wasn’t sure if he had busted from a WSOP event or not. The plan was to meet at 1.15 in the lobby and head over for day 2 as a 12 piece (me and the other 10 potentially 11 qualifiers). Arrived at the Rio and were greeted by Tikay, I can’t remember exactly what he had come dressed as today but take it from me, it was probably shambolic. The first thing to do was to solve Simon’s situation. I used my Media credentials to scope out the table that Simon had been allocated for day 2 and went to hover over it. I attracted a couple of funny looks from the dealer as I strained my eyes to see the names of the players that were to be on that table that day. It turned out that Simon’s seat was to be filled by a young lady from France who had the same surname. An administrative error on the part of the WSOP but at least it meant that Liamboi and Ben Nuttall had some company on the rail.
Day 2 was just as busy for me and Dan the cameraman as Day 1 had been. Tikay was flat out as well….. in bed. Unfortunately 10 qualifiers became 8 rather quickly as Dave Maudlin and Phil Green busted. Phil was actually knocked out by Michael Mizrachi in what was no doubt a bad beat. Steven Lundie, Alex Graham and James Jeffery all hit the rail as we approached the money and we were down to 5. Tikay returned to the media centre from his room, fired up his laptop and then went to Starbucks.
It was so near yet so far for Gerard Gardner who bust around 25 from the money and left 4 of them at it. By now Arpad had built himself a very impressive stack, David Watkin had over 20 big blinds (his tournament high), Timmy was comfortable and Paul Jackson was on life support at the same table as Carlos Mortenson. We reached hand for hand with Paul Jackson down to a very impressive 3 Big Blinds. Tikay had returned from Starbucks so idled over to rail Paul with me as he miraculously crept over the line. As the bubble burst there was a collective sigh of relief all around the Pavillion room and no sooner had it burst than Paul got his remaining 2 big blinds in with 6-7 and exited at the hands of a former world champion.
Play now continued at a faster pace and we were down to 200 as David Watkin bust out leaving Arpad and Tim to fly the flag. It was at this stage that Tim chose to go on an absolute heater and 10 x his stack in around 3 orbits. The most impressive hand no doubt was when he used his run good button to great effect to overcome a flopped full house with running aces.
I came to the end of my excruciating 14 hour working day and left Tikay in charge of Tim and Arpad. Of course it was no surprise that I had barely left the Rio before Tikay had seen to Arpad’s exit leaving one Sky Poker qualifier remaining. Tim managed to avoid the Kendall curse and made day 3 with 283k and sat 70/128 going into day 3.
As I had worked so hard that day I decided to treat myself to some Chinese food before I hit the hay. I strolled into the Venetian to a takeaway that a friend of mine had recommended. The takeaway was located in a food court overlooking the Gondola rides that sweep through the Venetian shopping mall. Rather than eat the food back in my room I thought I would sit in the food court and watch what happens in Vegas at 1am. No sooner had I sat down than I was approached by 4 young ladies who were in Vegas on “Vacation” from California. Much to my disappointment they had not come to talk to me because they thought I was an interesting and handsome young man, they wanted to use the seats around the rest of my vacant table. However we got talking and I agreed to a quick Gondola ride with them as long as I took pictures. I spent 20 minutes floating around the Venetian taking pictures and talking about what I did for a living. Apparently working for a UK Poker site qualified me as a gambling advisor so would I teach them how to play 3 card poker? Of course I put up a real fight and insisted I returned to bed but they were having none of it and within 10 minutes we were sat at a 3 card poker table in the Venetian. I did advise on more than one occasion that 3 card poker was not really what I meant when I said I work for a poker site but they were drinking and not really listening. The game wasn’t as soft as some of the 3 card poker tables that I found later in the week and I think the girls collectively managed to drop $500. The girls soon decided it was time for them to hit the TAO nightclub but of course I was not drinking as I was in Las Vegas to work so I declined the invite and I was absolutely in bed before 6am.
We will leave it there for now and I PROMISE not to leave it so long before the next update where we will talk day 3 of the Little one for one drop and the finest dining that Las Vegas has to offer.
In Response to Re: A Viva Las Vegas blog : I thought that we were going to keep quiet about Sams 24 hour drinking over there? Bit unfair on the chap to bring it up on here. We've all made mistakes Posted by Jac35
No no, it was the strip clubs we agreed to keep quiet about.
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Apologies, I have been the nut worst at updating this blog. Occasionally the day job does take over and I have put this on the back burner. But here we go once more.
So when we left last time I had returned to the Palazzo with Timmyrara who had bagged 67k from day 1A and I had left the day 1B players slogging it out until 4am. The first thing that I did when I awoke the next morning was check the forum and WSOP website to see how many of our guys had made day 2 from the late flight. It turned out that 7 had survived and would be joining Tim, David and Lee that day. Somehow David Watkin had made day 2, literally every time I saw him on day 1 he was grinding a 10 big blind stack, I was impressed he had made level 5 never mind the end of the day! I was also somewhat surprised to see Arpad and James Jeffery. Arpad had an unfortunate issue with the chip colours in the first hand of the day which cost him 75% of his stack and James like David has pedalled a shortstack most of the day. I was even more surprised to see that Paul Jackson had made day 2!
At first glance that morning it looked like we had 11 qualifiers. Phil Green, Gerard Gardner, Steven Lundie and Alex Graham had joined the others in day 2 and so it seemed had Simon Cameron. Simon obviously checked the forum as I did that morning and promptly messaged me on Facebook somewhat confused.
“I thought I bust last night, I think they have made a mistake”
“How can you think you have bust? There is a big difference between busting and having 45k”
“Lol I’m not sure mate, I had QQ all in v AA but left pretty quickly at the end of the hand, maybe I hit a sneaky flush?”
“Right, did you not think to stay and watch the run out of the board?”
“Well I thought I did”
We left it at that with me somewhat confused as to how he wasn’t sure if he had busted from a WSOP event or not. The plan was to meet at 1.15 in the lobby and head over for day 2 as a 12 piece (me and the other 10 potentially 11 qualifiers). Arrived at the Rio and were greeted by Tikay, I can’t remember exactly what he had come dressed as today but take it from me, it was probably shambolic. The first thing to do was to solve Simon’s situation. I used my Media credentials to scope out the table that Simon had been allocated for day 2 and went to hover over it. I attracted a couple of funny looks from the dealer as I strained my eyes to see the names of the players that were to be on that table that day. It turned out that Simon’s seat was to be filled by a young lady from France who had the same surname. An administrative error on the part of the WSOP but at least it meant that Liamboi and Ben Nuttall had some company on the rail.
Day 2 was just as busy for me and Dan the cameraman as Day 1 had been. Tikay was flat out as well….. in bed. Unfortunately 10 qualifiers became 8 rather quickly as Dave Maudlin and Phil Green busted. Phil was actually knocked out by Michael Mizrachi in what was no doubt a bad beat. Steven Lundie, Alex Graham and James Jeffery all hit the rail as we approached the money and we were down to 5. Tikay returned to the media centre from his room, fired up his laptop and then went to Starbucks.
It was so near yet so far for Gerard Gardner who bust around 25 from the money and left 4 of them at it. By now Arpad had built himself a very impressive stack, David Watkin had over 20 big blinds (his tournament high), Timmy was comfortable and Paul Jackson was on life support at the same table as Carlos Mortenson. We reached hand for hand with Paul Jackson down to a very impressive 3 Big Blinds. Tikay had returned from Starbucks so idled over to rail Paul with me as he miraculously crept over the line. As the bubble burst there was a collective sigh of relief all around the Pavillion room and no sooner had it burst than Paul got his remaining 2 big blinds in with 6-7 and exited at the hands of a former world champion.
Play now continued at a faster pace and we were down to 200 as David Watkin bust out leaving Arpad and Tim to fly the flag. It was at this stage that Tim chose to go on an absolute heater and 10 x his stack in around 3 orbits. The most impressive hand no doubt was when he used his run good button to great effect to overcome a flopped full house with running aces.
I came to the end of my excruciating 14 hour working day and left Tikay in charge of Tim and Arpad. Of course it was no surprise that I had barely left the Rio before Tikay had seen to Arpad’s exit leaving one Sky Poker qualifier remaining. Tim managed to avoid the Kendall curse and made day 3 with 283k and sat 70/128 going into day 3.
As I had worked so hard that day I decided to treat myself to some Chinese food before I hit the hay. I strolled into the Venetian to a takeaway that a friend of mine had recommended. The takeaway was located in a food court overlooking the Gondola rides that sweep through the Venetian shopping mall. Rather than eat the food back in my room I thought I would sit in the food court and watch what happens in Vegas at 1am. No sooner had I sat down than I was approached by 4 young ladies who were in Vegas on “Vacation” from California. Much to my disappointment they had not come to talk to me because they thought I was an interesting and handsome young man, they wanted to use the seats around the rest of my vacant table. However we got talking and I agreed to a quick Gondola ride with them as long as I took pictures. I spent 20 minutes floating around the Venetian taking pictures and talking about what I did for a living. Apparently working for a UK Poker site qualified me as a gambling advisor so would I teach them how to play 3 card poker? Of course I put up a real fight and insisted I returned to bed but they were having none of it and within 10 minutes we were sat at a 3 card poker table in the Venetian. I did advise on more than one occasion that 3 card poker was not really what I meant when I said I work for a poker site but they were drinking and not really listening. The game wasn’t as soft as some of the 3 card poker tables that I found later in the week and I think the girls collectively managed to drop $500. The girls soon decided it was time for them to hit the TAO nightclub but of course I was not drinking as I was in Las Vegas to work so I declined the invite and I was absolutely in bed before 6am.
We will leave it there for now and I PROMISE not to leave it so long before the next update where we will talk day 3 of the Little one for one drop and the finest dining that Las Vegas has to offer.
Anyone know a good lawyer or solicitor who specialises in libel cases?
If damages are large, could be the "TK Max"....
I'm outraged. You hear me? Outraged.
but of course I was not drinking as I was in Las Vegas to work