WSOP $1,500 NLH F/O, DAY 1: Live Update - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Hello cardplayerbj, good to meet you today. 

[totalise]

lol that was a tricky pic, never even entered my mind that it might be him

Great updates as usual team

[Djinn]

A walk out into the Tournament Hall and within a minute, I saw Bhups going all-in!  The pot preflop already had around 4,000 in it, and Mr. Kholi had moved in for about that again... eventually Matey calls his with .  He must have been relatively happy about that - and with the board coming all low he's regained the ground he apparently lost in the last level...

[snoopy1239]

players are now having a Kit-Kat

[snoopy1239]

Players are now throwing their Kit Kat wrappers in the bin.

[snoopy1239]

Just 209 remaining.

Londoner Bhupinder Kohli still flying the flag for Britain with 19k.

[CardPlayerBJ]

Hiya, Snoop ... I wasn't sure if that was you in the media room, because you look nothing like the cartoon beagle ... But, when I looked over your shoulder, the forum you were typing on looked VERY familiar. That's when it clicked. At some point, I hope to find the time to introduce myself to Jen and Tikay. It kills me to not be down on the floor with all of my friends in the media.

Unfortunately, I'm locked away in a hotel room here at the Rio, providing updates for Pokerwire.com. It's a very weird situation, based on all of the weird "exclusive" deals that Harrah's signed this year.

Anyway, at least I get to read your updates, which give a much better "feeling" of the action than the official stuff at CP.com.

Yes, I REALLY need to change my screen name. I haven't worked for Card Player since January.

(Sorry it's taken so long to respond to your hello here in the forums, but I'm busy updating 98% of the time.)

[Djinn]

208 and falling...they're doing some sort of hand-for-hand (where the dealer on each table stands up to signify that their hand is over) so that must mean.....





STOP!













Bubble Time!

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[Colchester Kev]

snoppy and Jen, its been a superb night of updates ... not enough norkage, but you know that.

Seriously having been there last year, I know how bloody difficult it is to get among the tables for chip counts without the officious suits hassling you every time you try and get over a rope.... Keep up the good work and remember to always play harder than you work

Now i have to Iron a school shirt and trousers, get my son out of bed and into the shower, make him breakfast , give him money and shove him out of the door for school ... then i can get to bed      look forward to catching up later ...see ya.

[Djinn]

Just 209 remaining.

Londoner Bhupinder Kohli still flying the flag for Britain with 19k.

Caught up with him outside the food tent in the last break, and he says he got off to his great start (10k when the average was2k) thanks to a lot of serial callers of a guy with Kings who'd raised to 150 (the blinds being 25/50).  This made him fancy his , and when the flop came all diamonds, his accelerated start began.  Then, more recently, it has been his opponents' paying no attention to his rock-like behaviour and calling away when he moved in with his AK (KQ) and KK (10 10) - it does look like it's taken a phenomenal amount of time for them to register that he's not played a hand for 2 hours...

[Djinn]

snoppy and Jen, its been a superb night of updates ... not enough norkage, but you know that.

Seriously having been there last year, I know how bloody difficult it is to get among the tables for chip counts without the officious suits hassling you every time you try and get over a rope.... Keep up the good work and remember to always play harder than you work

Now i have to Iron a school shirt and trousers, get my son out of bed and into the shower, make him breakfast , give him money and shove him out of the door for school ... then i can get to bed      look forward to catching up later ...see ya.

Nighty night Kev - thanks for the encouragement - so glad that some of you UK based insomniacs keep us company.

[snoopy1239]

Seated opposite one another are Huck Seed and Padraig Parkinson. Whilst the former World Champion is on a comfortable 18k, the Irishman has dropped to 8k.

[Djinn]

I think we should pick a couple more players to follow - here we have a Mr. Peperone, pointed out to me by his wife on the rail, who was busy taking (probably much better) pictures of him, and seemed pretty excited by the whole prospect.  to the Peperones if you come across blonde!  Also adopted for Loudness of Shirt.

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[Djinn]

I heard clapping, which means one of two things - someone has gone out of the Feature Table, or the $1,500-ers have made the money...

In any case, play is due to stop after the end of the next level (10), and continue 2pm Vegas Time tomorrow (I know Vegas Time isn't a real Time Zone, by the way).  So that's 10pm for you night owls back in the UK, and pretty much any other time, dependent on geography.

[snoopy1239]

Whilst Mateyboy blew down Paul Woolfe's stack creating an empty seat, neighbour Rob Hollink is sitting pretty with 34,800, which is rather good going considering the average is still only 15k. As one of few Europeans, I'm flly backing Mr Hollink in this comp.