Pleasure bumping into you today one last time for that brief 10 seconds.  Hope my run bad the last week didn’t rub off to you in the seniors.
That’s me boarding soon, but I’ve left anything in excess in my WSOP a/c for use next year so, all being well, I’ll see you at a similar point next year, unless I search out some plo in the uk before that.  Fun trip but hindsight extending a week was a mistake but felt right at the time. 2-2.5 weeks is probably my sweet spot.

Highlight
Biggest cash in 17 years covered the trip and a bit
and very confident I’ve lost weight with all the walking

Lowlight
Wanted to go home 2-3 days ago

Observations
Definitely more angrier % of people at the poker table in my sample
Saw an almost fight couple tables down from me as well as a couple of very heated arguments

Also saw a woman going mental and put in cuffs in linq , as well as a Latino at flamingo taunting 5 security guards after being chucked out, kept coming back in and trying to bait them into trying to cuff him
Free vegas shows are wild !

Oh, I got tapped up last night by one of the USA PLO8 crew.

Decent player actually.

"I want to play the $10k Big O tomorrow Tony, but need to sell some action, I can let you have 50% at 10% mark up if you fancy it?"

Very kind of him to bear me in mind.

There was a time when I may have been tempted, but as always, I learn my lessons - eventually.

Name and shame .  Surely someone I know .
I was bubble after you left the other night, though not stone bubble. Had multiple pots deep to go 1.5 average stack but alas not to be .
Hindsight says the extra week wasn’t necessary but no regrets.
PLO double board bomb pot today at MGM for “fun” though I’m not really feeling it an hour in , hopefully you’re having a better time if you’re still awake !
Decision tomorrow whether to enter the $2.5k O8/Stud8, it was my deepest run last year, including being chipleader briefly late on day 2, but I’m racking my brains and I’m pretty confident that I haven’t played a single hand of stud8, live or online, since.
Go home late Tuesday and should get back in time for the England game all being well.

Overall, I'm delighted. The cards were kind (until they were not....) and I played far more aggressively than I usually do.

A tremendous 3 hours of poker, maybe the most enjoyable I can recall.

Wow thanks for the detail Tony , congratulations.
Awesome read and you had a real shot at final tabling or better with just a little more luck but glad you’re happy with the ride
Hopefully our paths will cross again as I’m out an extended extra week, maybe at the mgm but choices of big plo8 are somewhat limited

Good to hear you've extended, Rob, & I hope a few more deep runs come your way.

Did you see the result of our WSOP Big O? The guy that ran 2nd has exactly 4 Hendons over an 11 year period. The biggest of the first 3 was $4,268, then he earned $258,690 for 2nd yesterday. You never know in poker, do you?

I didn’t see no. But it’s more common than you think for a random to have a good run in any tournament.
On the hotel note , they cocked my reservation when they combined them and had me checking out tomorrow instead of next Wednesday
Guy on desk was brash like it was my fault (and this was in diamond check in), no apology - “you’ll have to come back when she’s working tomorrow”
Ok tomorrow morning I ask ?
“No sir shes in from 4pm”
Me - that’s not much use if I’m checking out tomorrow , is there anyone else that can sort this ?
“Yes come back at 11am and someone should be able to help” - 10:20am

So a 4th visit to the desk an hour later and it’s the same guy but he’s sorted it and was all nice and professional that time - got me grumpy for an hour lol , but finally sorted , rant over .

Utterly ridiculous. And perhaps helps explain the drop in visitors to Las Vegas as shown by Harry Reid passenger numbers from January to April this year.

Wow that’s some wild stats there.  I’ve deffo noticed less euros this trip at my tables (though Mad Turk did try to sit on my big O ticket without a seat card yesterday) but the real big one is the lack of Canadians unsurprisingly.
Overall it’s difficult to gage it generally outside of poker as to me it always seems busy in the casinos

Overall, I'm delighted. The cards were kind (until they were not....) and I played far more aggressively than I usually do.

A tremendous 3 hours of poker, maybe the most enjoyable I can recall.

Wow thanks for the detail Tony , congratulations.
Awesome read and you had a real shot at final tabling or better with just a little more luck but glad you’re happy with the ride
Hopefully our paths will cross again as I’m out an extended extra week, maybe at the mgm but choices of big plo8 are somewhat limited

Good to hear you've extended, Rob, & I hope a few more deep runs come your way.

Did you see the result of our WSOP Big O? The guy that ran 2nd has exactly 4 Hendons over an 11 year period. The biggest of the first 3 was $4,268, then he earned $258,690 for 2nd yesterday. You never know in poker, do you?

I didn’t see no. But it’s more common than you think for a random to have a good run in any tournament.
On the hotel note , they cocked my reservation when they combined them and had me checking out tomorrow instead of next Wednesday
Guy on desk was brash like it was my fault (and this was in diamond check in), no apology - “you’ll have to come back when she’s working tomorrow”
Ok tomorrow morning I ask ?
“No sir shes in from 4pm”
Me - that’s not much use if I’m checking out tomorrow , is there anyone else that can sort this ?
“Yes come back at 11am and someone should be able to help” - 10:20am

So a 4th visit to the desk an hour later and it’s the same guy but he’s sorted it and was all nice and professional that time - got me grumpy for an hour lol , but finally sorted , rant over .

Overall, I'm delighted. The cards were kind (until they were not....) and I played far more aggressively than I usually do.

A tremendous 3 hours of poker, maybe the most enjoyable I can recall.

Wow thanks for the detail Tony , congratulations.
Awesome read and you had a real shot at final tabling or better with just a little more luck but glad you’re happy with the ride
Hopefully our paths will cross again as I’m out an extended extra week, maybe at the mgm but choices of big plo8 are somewhat limited

Nice one Tony, I hope to join you tomorrow.  2 bullets no joy yesterday.
Down to 7k (from 25k) after 5 hands today but somehow on 1st bullet with 55k first break.  Crazy game .
Good luck tomorrow if I don’t see you - which hotel did you move to ?

Morning Rob.

I had a peruse of the WSOP App but never saw your name there, no good? What's today's plan?

Hotel palaver - I never changed Hotels, I changed Rooms. There's some obscure Nevada State Law that says you are not allowed to book more than 10 or 12 days at a time & Boyd Gaming, who own The Orleans, enforce it. So I had 2 bookings, back to back. Checked out at 11am, went & did some shopping, came back an hour later & checked back in.

Yeh no joy in big O, lasted to level 10.  Then had many many corona .
Early bath today in plo at V too.
Just went through extending my stay until next Tuesday which despite being diamond plus was still a hassle.
In my app it says all comped but host in diamond room insists I pay a paltry $30 a night for 3 nights - so little I’m not sure why they don’t just comp it all lol .  She also tells me I have to go the old fashioned go to front desk tomorrow evening to see if they can keep me in the same room the next day and avoid “moving rooms” like yourself.  Sometimes I do wonder if it’s 2026, some things are still way behind the ball for modern times.

Nice one Tony, I hope to join you tomorrow.  2 bullets no joy yesterday.
Down to 7k (from 25k) after 5 hands today but somehow on 1st bullet with 55k first break.  Crazy game .
Good luck tomorrow if I don’t see you - which hotel did you move to ?

Morning all.

First up, I think/hope there's some good news about animalpoker. I'm not 100% certain but his name is Rob Price so I think he ran 4th for decent money...

Thank you
$30k including bounties for 4 way equity chop approaching 4am - it was the least pressured I ever felt to do a chop, which was lovely as normally 1 or 2 go nuts if people don’t want one, but it was late , I was running on fumes , and I’d laddered up well at the final table as one of the short stacks.
Was chipleader with 17 left and for hour or more before that but couldn’t push on, but totally happy with my game.  Applied pressure when we were short handed before the final table which could have resulted a huge stack if not for one single pot where the chap murdered his aces but scooped me . My biggest cash in 17 years so buzzing this morning and thoroughly enjoying a celebratory Eggslut before the 2pm WSOP $1,500 PLO8 .

On the “quiet” front I like to think I’m not as splashy as I used to be but still capable of any move at any time - prime example when we were 5 or 6 to a flop of 10,10,x and I bet mid position for 1/4 of the pot and everyone folded - the other Brit and yourself convinced I had a 10.  Nah just a standard stab then give up move .  That said if I don’t get a tough table today I’ll be trying to push the action a lot more in 4 card than big O where 8 handed your moves are very limited .  My skills are postflop so I try to apply that rather than pot raising preflop these days .

great score rob  , corona count for the tourney pls

Zero surprisingly, I’d had 7 or 8 on the Monday then a few Tuesday along with copious amounts of vodka cranberry so it was a behave myself day yesterday .
That was the first time I’d drunk 2 days running, I’ve been sober every other day this trip apart so far that 2 days .

I’m gonna struggle to resist some beer today but not tempted yet - got a really good table in $1,500 plo8 so far . 
Tikay spotted bit too far away for me to bother him until the break

Ha as I wrote this seat 5 has got a beer and it looks good

Morning all.

First up, I think/hope there's some good news about animalpoker. I'm not 100% certain but his name is Rob Price so I think he ran 4th for decent money...

Thank you
$30k including bounties for 4 way equity chop approaching 4am - it was the least pressured I ever felt to do a chop, which was lovely as normally 1 or 2 go nuts if people don’t want one, but it was late , I was running on fumes , and I’d laddered up well at the final table as one of the short stacks.
Was chipleader with 17 left and for hour or more before that but couldn’t push on, but totally happy with my game.  Applied pressure when we were short handed before the final table which could have resulted a huge stack if not for one single pot where the chap murdered his aces but scooped me . My biggest cash in 17 years so buzzing this morning and thoroughly enjoying a celebratory Eggslut before the 2pm WSOP $1,500 PLO8 .

On the “quiet” front I like to think I’m not as splashy as I used to be but still capable of any move at any time - prime example when we were 5 or 6 to a flop of 10,10,x and I bet mid position for 1/4 of the pot and everyone folded - the other Brit and yourself convinced I had a 10.  Nah just a standard stab then give up move .  That said if I don’t get a tough table today I’ll be trying to push the action a lot more in 4 card than big O where 8 handed your moves are very limited .  My skills are postflop so I try to apply that rather than pot raising preflop these days .

So, half the field gone after 9 levels, but I need to find something fast or I'll be joining the walk of shame.

And suddenly I find a dream spot....

We are on a PLO8 rotation, there's an open, & Mr Splashy, who can barely see over his chip stack, 3 bets.  It gets to me & I look down at....


 


Yes please. My first 4 bet all night, might even be all trip.

Opener folds, Mr Splashy has a good dwell up (there's no shot clocks or time banks). Then asks to see my stack, & after a further dwell, calls.

Whatever the flop brings, I'm jamming.

It comes....


 


It's hard to imagine a better flop for my hand!


Yo my surprise, Splashy sets me in. Fine.

He tables K-10-3-2. (?!), but it's Omaha, ranges are wide, & he's flopped 2 pair.

Hard for me to miss though, it feels impossible to not get at least half.

But it came   & that was that.

We've all been there, such is poker.

0/4 now, eek.




 

Unlucky mate
Paltry 12k for me when I return tomorrow , should have known it was bad news for me when I got moved to your vacated seat !
See you Weds no doubt

Good luck Tony.  I am missing this year, but will be at Goliath.  

Say hello to Rob, hope one of you brings home the bracelet and I can carry it on next year.  Would love to be at the mixed O8 tomorrow., one of my favourites.

Thanks David, will pass on your comments to Rob though I imagine he'll see it. Me winning a bracelet would be like Snow Knight winning the Derby, but as you know, Rob has a real chance.

Not sure about next year, will need the Gods to smile on me. Fingers crossed see you at Goliath though. Really enjoyed that last year.

Tomorrow - Omaha Mix (O8, PLO8 & Big O) is a fabulous affair, as is the Big O. Hopefully things don't go wrong, but would deffo consider a  2nd bullet. The Big O has TWO opening flights, so no 2nd Bullet needed there but would consider playing both flights if push came to shove.

You still running 1k per day, plus Park Runs? Winning the battle of the scales?

PS - Oh, when we were in Portugal golfing earlier this month, with, amongst others "typhoon13" (Trevor Pearson) & the twat James Moult, we heard a Cuckoo. Also heard a nightingale, but failed to see either.  

Thx doobs
Crazy start here on what I thought would be a tough table with blom .  15 hands in and I’m 88k from a 25k start stack after 3 big spots including busting blom in big O

He's a horribly abrasive & small-minded man who dislikes me, & the feeling is distinctly mutual. And I know it will soon kick off between us, despite my best intentions not to get involved in any bad blood at the table. He's the sort who can start an argument in an empty room & we have a lot of history.

Early doors & we play a small pot which is checked down, it's a chop & the Dealer splits the pot.

3 hands later he suddenly complains that the Dealer short-changed him by 100 chips. Imagine starting an argument over 100 chips....

I have no idea if he's right or wrong, nor does anyone else, but he's getting very agitated now. I cba with all this & toss him a 100 chip across the table with a bit of a cutting comment, "there you go sunshine, happy now?" sort of thing. He gives me the mother of all dead eyes & I know trouble is brewing...

But not a problem, as he tilts off his entire stack the very next hand with an inexplicably poor play & he's history. I just about resist the temptation to give him a send-off.

Love this
I hate having nonsense at the table in cash games, but in tournaments I find it entertaining especially when they tilt it off afterwards.
You’re still better than me in mtts , I’m 0/3 and -3100 so far. 
Was great to see you though, and you can’t escape me at WSOP as I’ll look up your table number to say hi .
Hopefully get time for proper catch up rather than 30 seconds at breaks !
Catch you Monday if not before I think - WSOP O8 mix deffo my favourite one of the trip

Good luck and keep the update coming !
I miss it a bit already and keep giving in to the jet lag.
Hardly played triple draw all year but would have played that if I’d still been out.

Oh FFS.  This is really grim.  Unlucky Rob. 

https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2025-wsop/event-47-2500-mixed-omaha-hi-lo-seven-card-stud/chips.747116.htm

Thanks mate
The most brutal 25 minutes of my 20 years in poker
Was in shock in the room for an hour afterwards
Currently on 1/2/5 big O awaiting beer
That’s poker !
Sometimes it’s made to test us

[8 Robert Price United Kingdom 930,000 11]

A quick "good luck" message to animalpoker (aka Rob Price) who, minutes ago, had a Top 10 stack in the WSOP O8/Stud thing.

The thing with Rob is that he has a super aggro style, so he's never far from doubling or busting.

This screenshot from the WSOP+ jobbie was a bit ago, but he WhatsApp'd me minutes ago & was on 660k. He had a bruising loss with Queens full to Kings full but since then has got right back into it.

Thx mate
Managed to bag 930k which was the highest I’d been all day taking a nice pot of Gus Hansen at the end in O8.  Hellmuth joined our table for the last hour too
Was fun , time to rest up and hopefully go deep at the business end tomorrow 1pm restart (8pm uk time)

Well done Rob.


I can't load it on WSOP+ at present, but here's the Top 10 of the memaining 27 according to Poker News;



1   Tobias Hausen   Germany   2,005,000   25

2   Shirley Rosario   United States   1,745,000   21

3   Jason Daly   United States   1,660,000   20

4   Christopher Claassen   United States   1,420,000   17

5   William Flachsbart   United States   1,240,000   15

6   Benny Glaser   United Kingdom   1,115,000   13

7   Ryan Hughes   United States   940,000   11

8   Robert Price   United Kingdom   930,000   11

9   Brian Rast   United States   760,000   9

10   Gary Benson   Australia   730,000   9




And your Table Draw...




626   2   Jon Kyte   Norway   305,000   3

626   3   Lynda Tran   United States   240,000   3

626   4   Ryan Hughes   United States   940,000   11

626   6   Alexander Orlov   Russia   435,000   5

626   7   Patrick Stacey   United States   185,000   2

626   8   Robert Price   United Kingdom   930,000   11

Thanks
Played with 3 of them quite a bit yesterday
The short stacks will make for a fast dynamic with more luck as well as the huge blinds
10/10/40/80 stud
And 20/40 40/80 O8
Redraw at 24 left anyways I think , also no phones after that point I believe  , I’ve used music a fair bit in this tournament so might miss it a bit , determined to not replace that with alcohol though .  I’m actually dry for 3 of the last 4 days .  Slept well considering how excited I am .  Restart in 3 hours , off out to get food shortly and probably stock the fridge with something for dinner too .