Posts - Juni, 5, 2008
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Observations From The Amazon Room
Juni 05, 2008The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades (when playing Six Handed)
I am aging myself with the title, but I promise it relates to the topic.
I had an observation last year, which I chose to follow up on this year with actual data collection.
I think the six handed event has the most sunglass wearing players of any event on the Schedule. I know, I know…earth shattering stuff here.
So, I had someone get me a small sample. Of the 50 tables in the Blue section of the Amazon Room, 104 players were wearing sunglasses. Considering many of the tables were down a player, that would relate to just under 40% of the players wearing sunglasses.
What does that say about the players in this field?
Commerce Has Gas
Sometimes in this business, you get some funny press releases. Either ‘News’ that isn’t worth the cyber paper its not printed on, or releases written by folks who you get the idea may not have English as a first (or second) language.
So, it was with a little mirth that I opened my e-mail today and found this from the Commerce Casino in LA.
“Commerce Casino Relieves Gas Pressure In July”
At least they’re owning up to it now
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The ‘Middle Guard’
Juni 05, 2008There are many people out there who are convinced that it’s only a matter of time until the ‘new guard’ of young internet players completely dominate the game (I don’t know that I agree, but many feel this way). It seems every year, more and more of these ‘youngins’ emerge and challenge the throne of the ‘old guard’.
So, that got us to talking about Lindgren. Is he part of the ‘new guard’….not really. Erick is 31, certainly young, but he’s not what we now think of as a young gun – these days it seems like if you are over 26 or 27, you can’t be a young gun. Ok, so Lindgren is ‘old guard’, right? Definitely not. That perch is reserved for guys like Doyle, TJ, Dewey, and some of the greats of the game.
It wasn’t three or four years ago that Erick and his contemporaries (Daniel, Ivey, Allen Cunningham, etc) were referred to as the ‘new guard’. That doesn’t seem right these days, with the youngest US bracelet winner being just a week or two legal at the time of his win (Steve Billirakis), and the youngest WSOP bracelet winner on any continent still too young to play in the USA (Annette Obrestad).
So, Daniel, Erick, Phil, Allen…..Welcome to the Middle Guard.
