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World Series Of Poker 2005 Editor's Reports |
LAS VEGAS June 2, 2005 July 15, 2005 |
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T plus 3 - Two days too many 9th July
2005
Noel Coward -" I'm over-educated in
the things I should never have known at all."
The third of
the three first days played Saturday. Combined results of all three can be
found at the day ones page.
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Donnacha O'Dea |
If I had known what a circus this was to be then I would have entered myself
rather than watch it. Its far more preferable to be inside the ring wearing the
silly hats, sunglasses and shirts than to look at them. I want to jump out of
my seat and scream "yeah baby" and dance around the table like a drunken rap
artist.
In complete contrast to the lunacy and shear juvenile bad
manners you can see the odd player like Donnacha O'Dea (London and Ireland) who
took eventual elimination from the Championship with grace and good pragmatism.
The seasoned campaigner, 23 years at the WSOP and Poker Million Masters II
champion, signaled his fate by the simple move of passing his fingers across
his neck., the international poker players guillotine sign.
Day 1C
finished and left 1886 players grateful to playing on the real day
two.
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Tonights trip was designed to check-out
the poker spots of Las Vegas. A quick walk over the road and I found myself at
the Palms. This is a young persons casino, especially Saturday night, but
they've been running good value poker competitions during the World Series.
Their poker hall was very well run but their normal poker room is small, siome
10 tables only with the most bizarre Palms symbol on the cloth that sent
players into a trance.
Joining the sizeable taxi queue outside I watched
a short lived bottle fight (without death or casualty) between the first
fifteen people in the line and I quickly jumped into a suddenly available
cab.
"Thanks for shortening the queue", I said in passing to the Taxi
Rank attendant. He actually smiled. The Las Vegans are really trying to make me
feel at home.
Over to the Luxor I spent some time walking around in
circles, pointlessly believing the directions on the signs above my head. When
I found it was too open and noisey for me to play. Eleven tables. You can walk
from the Luxor straight into the Excalibur where they have 19 tables in a
sprawling and completely open poker area. Keep on walking out of the
casino.
Outside you can join the walkway over Las Vegas Bvd to the New
York New York, a colloage pastiche of the great city. New York itself is an
exciting place to be, this casino had gone too far in recreating the sleazy
sidewalk feel and aromatic humidity of NYPD Blue. And there is no poker room.
Onwards
MGM Grand. This is more like it. Its enormous so don't ask where
the poker room is but it is wrapped around a groovey looking bar that sports
go-go dancers. Twenty-two tables fully in play with a modern (digital display)
waiting list system told me that people wanted to play here. There's even a
balcony overhead so that your loved ones can watch you play. But then what are
you doing taking your loved ones to a poker room. By far the best room of the
night.
I was tired though and headed for my favourite Wynn's poker room.
Too full of people full of themselves so after I picked a couple of hundred in
the 6-12 Omaha Hi-Lo it was time for bed. Pictures from today
T plus .
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