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Dribble down to 15,000 or so, then it all kicks off.

I'm in the SB, there's an Open to 800, & a shorty playing about 4,000 jams. And I have A-K.

Seems a terrific spot to iso & take a decent pot, so I jam too.

And to my horror, so does the BB!

On their backs, & yes, he has K-K.

Oops.

1st break after 2 levels, 19,000 (20,000 starting). Blinds now go 200-300/300.

Can't recall too much of note in Levels 1 & 2 (there's a break after every 2 x 1 hour levels), but it was a little like the previous day, I picked up a lot of hands early doors when the blinds were just 100-100-100.

Notably, there's a raise to 300, I call with 7-7, Button calls, so do both blinds.

And we saw this flop....


 

Quads! Now it's a Seniors event, so at least one of them must have an Ace? And if a high card comes on turn or river, all the better, as they'l definitely not fold any Ace then.

Checked all round on the flop. I tickle bet the turn, 1 caller. Check the River to give him some rope but he taps the table. So quads & I get about 1,500.

PS - Only a poker player could complain after flopping quads.....

Talking of Mateos, he had his Bracelet Ceremony yesterday, there have been 3 or 4 whilst I've been playing, they usually hold them during the first break. Jack Effel always used to do them but I've neither seen nor heard him this year? Anyone know if he's still the TD Top Cheese?

After the usual waffle & presentation, they play the National Anthem of the winner, & the weird thing is almost everyone stands to attention, removes their hat where applicable, & of course the Yanks put their arm across their chest/heart.

I think that's rather nice. Tradition is being eroded in some many ways, & it's real tough to get 2,000+ poker players all to conform to anything.

Apart from that one time when John Kabbaj won...

Ha, you have a great memory Ralph. He was proper upset, too.

I'm still ridic tired, I don't seem to have the mental stamina I used to have, so just a few high/lowlights from yesterday's Seniors Day 1B.

We had not even started before there was a ruck at my table. Seat 7 wants the table balancing, Dealer say's it's fine, he snap roars FLOOR.

Just imagine living next door to a bloke like that?

He was wearing a mask, and there are a lot of poker players wearing masks, especially the Asians, mostly Japanese & Chinese although our Hero was, I think, French.

I often wonder why so many are masked up. Is it to prevent them spreading disease, or to protect them FROM disease?

That caused much confusion during COVID, where my understanding - perhaps incorrectly - is that we masked up to prevent spreading disease to others.

Here's our argumentative hero.

Talking of Mateos, he had his Bracelet Ceremony yesterday, there have been 3 or 4 whilst I've been playing, they usually hold them during the first break. Jack Effel always used to do them but I've neither seen nor heard him this year? Anyone know if he's still the TD Top Cheese?

After the usual waffle & presentation, they play the National Anthem of the winner, & the weird thing is almost everyone stands to attention, removes their hat where applicable, & of course the Yanks put their arm across their chest/heart.

I think that's rather nice. Tradition is being eroded in some many ways, & it's real tough to get 2,000+ poker players all to conform to anything.

Apart from that one time when John Kabbaj won...

Talking of Mateos, he had his Bracelet Ceremony yesterday, there have been 3 or 4 whilst I've been playing, they usually hold them during the first break. Jack Effel always used to do them but I've neither seen nor heard him this year? Anyone know if he's still the TD Top Cheese?

After the usual waffle & presentation, they play the National Anthem of the winner, & the weird thing is almost everyone stands to attention, removes their hat where applicable, & of course the Yanks put their arm across their chest/heart.

I think that's rather nice. Tradition is being eroded in some many ways, & it's real tough to get 2,000+ poker players all to conform to anything.

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 !

Hi Rob,

Sorry I had to dash when we bumped into each other yesterday, was on a Break & needed to sort a LuxonPay issue.

Did you make all your weird flight connections? (Rob lives in Cornwall & was flying something like Vegas - Amsterdam - Bristol).

Good to see you again this year, we've been bumping into each other in Vegas for so long. First time was in Binions, during either a Euros or a World Cup & you were wearing an England shirt. God only knows how long ago that was.


Hope my run bad the last week didn’t rub off to you in the seniors.


Err, read back a page or two....

I'm a bit like you, maybe 2 weeks may have been more sensible. I was absolutely shattered last night, so tired I thought I was ill. Anyway, fly home on Saturday, & got a full week of golf booked for next week.

See you next year, Health & God willing.

Enjoying reading your Vegas exploits Tikay. Not enjoying reading all this bad run/crap variance you are going through though. Hopefully, it changes for the good soon. I have still got my WSOP ap from last year, so I am following players on there and sometimes staying up late to watch the action on you tube too. Loving it/missing it.

What you need to do to improve your luck is two simple steps....
1) Get Jeeves to assist you
2) Change your name on that ap to Foxen/Mateos/Glazer etc etc.

VBOL for the rest of your 'holiday' , and please keep up the reporting for us back in blighty.

Thanks Alan. Think we all miss Jeeves, incredible times.

Mateos is unbelievable, they had a Bracelet Ceremony for him yesterday, it was his 6th WSOP Bracelet, & he's only 32.

And it's less than a month since he won $6.3 million for 1st place in a Triton thing. Live earnings to date? $67 million.


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