Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE

[GreekStein]

As some of you may have seen from 'Vegas and the Aftermath' I popped in to the Empire Casino on Leicester square this lunchtime to see my hero Anthony Kendall, otherwise known as Tikay. Here's a brief report of the goings on.

I walk down the stairs and on the first table I see is the second most famous Greek poker player in the UK, Andy Andreou, or 'GreekFish'. We exchanged a quick nod as us media types do and then I overheard talk of how Phil Hellmuth had justed busted with KK vs 105. I instantly realised why none of the railbirds had asked for my signature yet, or why any of the bloggers hadn't requested a few snaps - they were obviously trying to catch the 11 time bracelet winner before he left the building. Nevermind, I like to keep low profile but I must admit I was a little relieved.

Then I was round to the front and one lad catches my eye. He's telling the management that he doesn't want a 3k stack, but that 2k was plenty for him. When the management insist 'that's not possible sir' he calmly takes his seat, places 2x 500denomination chips in his mouth, crunches down and eats them and washes them down with a bit of stella and then shouted 'geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeza'. Think the TD commented his name was David Shallow.

Next room was the main poker room, where poker operates when these special events aren't taking place. I see Devilfish and after a short 'lol' moment at the small animal he keeps on his head I notice Andy Bloch sitting next to him. Andy was reading a magazine, with his headphones in and playing in the tournament. Normally I wouldn't consider disturbing him but I figured it's ok on this special day. I went up, wished him a 'shana tova', we rubbed our schnozzes quickly and agreed to go on a 'Booze Cruise for Jews Night' in town if he busted.

Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won".

After a few more wonders round the place I saw fish like Roland De Wolfe, Layne Flack, Erik Seidel and Willie Tann (who looked very upset with a sort of 'if I win this tournament I'll still have to travel all the way to the Vic to play Craps as they don't accomodate it here, ffs' look on his face). All those people and not one sighting of my lifelong hero, Anthony Kendall.

Sigh.

[EvilPie]

Great report mate.

[Lucky]

As some of you may have seen from 'Vegas and the Aftermath' I popped in to the Empire Casino on Leicester square this lunchtime to see my hero Anthony Kendall, otherwise known as Tikay. Here's a brief report of the goings on.

I walk down the stairs and on the first table I see is the second most famous Greek poker player in the UK, Andy Andreou, or 'GreekFish'. We exchanged a quick nod as us media types do and then I overheard talk of how Phil Hellmuth had justed busted with KK vs 105. I instantly realised why none of the railbirds had asked for my signature yet, or why any of the bloggers hadn't requested a few snaps - they were obviously trying to catch the 11 time bracelet winner before he left the building. Nevermind, I like to keep low profile but I must admit I was a little relieved.

Then I was round to the front and one lad catches my eye. He's telling the management that he doesn't want a 3k stack, but that 2k was plenty for him. When the management insist 'that's not possible sir' he calmly takes his seat, places 2x 500denomination chips in his mouth, crunches down and eats them and washes them down with a bit of stella and then shouted 'geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeza'. Think the TD commented his name was David Shallow.

Next room was the main poker room, where poker operates when these special events aren't taking place. I see Devilfish and after a short 'lol' moment at the small animal he keeps on his head I notice Andy Bloch sitting next to him. Andy was reading a magazine, with his headphones in and playing in the tournament. Normally I wouldn't consider disturbing him but I figured it's ok on this special day. I went up, wished him a 'shana tova', we rubbed our schnozzes quickly and agreed to go on a 'Booze Cruise for Jews Night' in town if he busted.

Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won".

After a few more wonders round the place I saw fish like Roland De Wolfe, Layne Flack, Erik Seidel and Willie Tann (who looked very upset with a sort of 'if I win this tournament I'll still have to travel all the way to the Vic to play Craps as they don't accomodate it here, ffs' look on his face). All those people and not one sighting of my lifelong hero, Anthony Kendall.

Sigh.

Good to meet you again. And lol at the Alex quote!

We also met Mo Muse who was moving table with a useful stack of chips.

Watched a couple of interesting hands involving Mark Goodwin. In the first one as SB v BB he bluffs 3 streets and is disappointed to be called by opponent with 3rd pair on the river.

The same two players were all in pre flop a few hands later. Not sure who bet first, but Mark only had A9 (tilting !) and opponent had QQ.  Two aces arrive on the board and Mark doubles up, to cries of "blessed!"

Willie Tann had bust out just as I was leaving. He wasn't too impressed when I said "see you in Luton this evening!"  He was indeed off to The Vic for another tourney.

[kinboshi]

I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won".

Utter genius!

[GreekStein]

As some of you may have seen from 'Vegas and the Aftermath' I popped in to the Empire Casino on Leicester square this lunchtime to see my hero Anthony Kendall, otherwise known as Tikay. Here's a brief report of the goings on.

I walk down the stairs and on the first table I see is the second most famous Greek poker player in the UK, Andy Andreou, or 'GreekFish'. We exchanged a quick nod as us media types do and then I overheard talk of how Phil Hellmuth had justed busted with KK vs 105. I instantly realised why none of the railbirds had asked for my signature yet, or why any of the bloggers hadn't requested a few snaps - they were obviously trying to catch the 11 time bracelet winner before he left the building. Nevermind, I like to keep low profile but I must admit I was a little relieved.

Then I was round to the front and one lad catches my eye. He's telling the management that he doesn't want a 3k stack, but that 2k was plenty for him. When the management insist 'that's not possible sir' he calmly takes his seat, places 2x 500denomination chips in his mouth, crunches down and eats them and washes them down with a bit of stella and then shouted 'geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeza'. Think the TD commented his name was David Shallow.

Next room was the main poker room, where poker operates when these special events aren't taking place. I see Devilfish and after a short 'lol' moment at the small animal he keeps on his head I notice Andy Bloch sitting next to him. Andy was reading a magazine, with his headphones in and playing in the tournament. Normally I wouldn't consider disturbing him but I figured it's ok on this special day. I went up, wished him a 'shana tova', we rubbed our schnozzes quickly and agreed to go on a 'Booze Cruise for Jews Night' in town if he busted.

Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won".

After a few more wonders round the place I saw fish like Roland De Wolfe, Layne Flack, Erik Seidel and Willie Tann (who looked very upset with a sort of 'if I win this tournament I'll still have to travel all the way to the Vic to play Craps as they don't accomodate it here, ffs' look on his face). All those people and not one sighting of my lifelong hero, Anthony Kendall.

Sigh.

Good to meet you again. And lol at the Alex quote!

We also met Mo Muse who was moving table with a useful stack of chips.

Watched a couple of interesting hands involving Mark Goodwin. In the first one as SB v BB he bluffs 3 streets and is disappointed to be called by opponent with 3rd pair on the river.

The same two players were all in pre flop a few hands later. Not sure who bet first, but Mark only had A9 (tilting !) and opponent had QQ.  Two aces arrive on the board and Mark doubles up, to cries of "blessed!"

Willie Tann had bust out just as I was leaving. He wasn't too impressed when I said "see you in Luton this evening!"  He was indeed off to The Vic for another tourney.

Me and Greekfish did exchange a funny glance at that hand!

[Royal Flush]

How was Dave Shallow's hair?

[GreekStein]

How was Dave Shallow's hair?

Can't remember if he had a cap on or not. Didn't strike me as anything unusual if he wasn't wearing a cap though.

[tikay]

How was Dave Shallow's hair?

He was wearing a cap, but looked very sheepish. Photo to follow.

Paul Zimbler offered him some poker mentoring. Despite the depths of depravity to which this Forum has plunged of late, I dare not Post his reply.......

[tikay]

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[Karabiner]

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Are you sure that isn't the notorious Dick Waver ?

[MC]

I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won".

Utter genius!

lol

[Claw75]

Excellent work. more please.

[GreekStein]

In the absense of the Dean & Peter Costa etc I will do my best to fill the gap from time to time.

The diary of Ireland next month will be good.

[Longy]

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[tikay]

This thread could become a monsta..........

Beautiful writeage by PaperTits.