Another Legend announced upon arrival was rattlesnake hat man himself (I just don't get tired of this photo) Amarillo Slim. Just now the TV cameras found him too, so I watched a hand just to help form a crowd. There must have been a misdeal or some kind of hold up, and when the hand started it didn't get too far - the button called the 200 (blinds 100/200) and small blind Slim raised it to 700. The big blind folded and the button limper gave it up too...
"Lucky misdeal," said Slim, "You just turned that Ace-King into two red Aces." As he accepts the pot he deliberately flashes the
at the table and the cameras...
Devilfish is down to just 7,700 - he just lost a couple of thousand re-raising preflop to 2,200 after there'd been a raise to 700 and a caller. The button now thinks and calls the 2,200, the initial raiser passes but a caller in the middle comes along for the ride. On a
flop, it checks round, but on the
turn the first player to act bets out 3k which is enough to see off the Devilfish who accidentally flips his
as he throws it away. He doesn't look delighted.
Also Spotted:
Liz Lieu
Barry Greenstein
Mark Vos (reading a magazine) 22k
Des Wilson 22,750
Both Mickey Wernick and Rudders' tables have been broken - the players are reconfiguring at an alarming rate. I wonder who has all the chips? Here are ten selected near the top by worldseriesofpoker.com:
Nestor Martinez -- 93,500
Julian Gardner -- 52,000
Dustin 'Neverwin' Woolf -- 50,000
Barry Greenstein -- 48,000
Morgan Machina -- 41,000
Tom Schneider -- 35,000
Joe Tehan -- 34,000
Michael Mizrachi -- 32,000
Mike Sexton -- 31,500
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospelier -- 31,000
Pictured along with Amarillo: Thomas Wahlroos (15,800), Jac Arama
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Hi, folks, the Beagle here. Before I begin my unquestionably amusing (cough) anecdotathon of World Series’ progress, I feel urged to vomit out the following chip counts before they become horridly out of date. So here they are:
Dave Mobbs – 29.5k
Mickey Wernick – 25.5k
Richard Ashby – 26.5k
Katherine Hartree – 23.5k
Tony Cascarino – 20.5k
Mark Teltscher – 16.5k
Kristian Kjondal – 17.5k
John Magill – 28.5k
Johnny Lodden – 37.5k
Thang Nguyen – 22.5k
Des Wilson – 22k
Ben Callinan – 26.5k
Ian McDonald – 21k
Jeff Buffenbarger – 23k
Thomas Wahlroos – 16k
Mel Judah – 19.5k
Ian Woodley – 18k
Peter Gould – 23k
Willie Tann – 21k
Andreas Hagen – 25k
Richard Rudling-Smith – 18.5k
Thomas Dunwoodie – 19k
Of course, there’s always one that ruins my chippy count, and as I headed backed to the press room, I noticed a dead-pan Richard Rudling-Smith throwing 4k into the middle, his eyes firmly fixed upon his opponent in Seat 1, who was receiving the full Rudders staredown.
After a long pause, Mateyboy made the call on a
board and, as expected, checked the River, which induced, as expected, an all-in from Rudders (about 12k) which, in turn, and, guess what, as expected, led to a fold from Seat 1.
After some extreme searching, I think I’ve found Simon Stocken and have hopefully pictured the correct chap in the photo below. If this, and I do pray, is him, then he’s running well with 26k, although he seemed more interested in the fellow in Seat 9 who was receiving a double massage, one from the official pretty masseuse, the other from the big greasy poker player who was sat next door. Tough choice.
Meanwhile, I felt a gentle tap on my shoulder. “Hi there,” said a young man with a clipboard. “Would you do me a favour and take a photo of Mickey Appleman while we film you?” Knowing it was an odd request but being someone who always finds it difficult to refuse, I stood just in front of their TV camera and, like the lemon that I am, hovered my camera in the face of a player who I believe represents the dark, reckless, alcoholic side of Bjorn Borg.
I waited for what felt like an eternity, but heard nothing, thinking that I’d better not turn around in case they’re still filming me – then I’d look like a right plum in this (ahem) spontaneous unstaged moment. Anyhow, there comes a point when you have to concede, so I turned around to see that they’d already finished filming and had moved on. Hmm, so I ended up looking like a ‘right plum’ anyhow… as always.
Camera waving aside, I did manage to prise some useful information from the jam-packed Rio cardroom, noticing that Dave Colclough’s neighbour, Abe Mosseri has a massive 75k in chips and was perhaps the new chip leader, although I wouldn’t bet on it as there’s always someone with something even more ridiculous (can I say ridiculouse?).
“Is he the chip leader,” asks Eli Elezra. “I have no idea,” I answered, “I’d have to check a fair few tables.” “Is that the most you’ve seen though?” asks Dave. “Yep, so far, and (pointing to Dave’s stack), that’s the smallest.” Dave wasn’t amused.
Irishman John Magill is still flying high with 28.5k, but, as agreed by the man himself, still has a fair way to go to echo last year’s performance. “I’ve earned the 8.5k in bits. One hand (which I reported on a previous post), I called a raise with K-6,” said Magill. “But, when in Rome…” Lol, couldn’t have said it better.
Apart from that, I haven’t spotted too much in the way of vast excitement, the only thing really getting my blood circulating being the scattering of norkage blessing the arena, in particular Liz Lieu who just made a big fold to an all-in on a
board after smooth calling a 6.5k Turn bet. Naturally, she took an absolute age on her decisions so as to attract the attention of the bloggers and cameramen, although she already had that sewn up with that cheeky low cut cleavage displaying dress. Yum!
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