Dinner, Security and Hi-Lo

Being Sunday over here I headed into the Rio at 5pm with Dane as we both had to cover the Limit Omaha 8 (or Hi-Lo) event. It started pretty slow, but eventually things got going with a few Aussies bagging their chips for day 2 including Billy "the Croc" Argyos; who I happened to lose a $20 side bet with. I took the overs on 200 players remaining at the end of the day in the 550 field and he took the unders; the result, a final count of 188.

During the dinner break, I grabbed a cheeseburger and fries and went to sit down in the dinner tent. Not more then two bites into my burger I was joined by PokerStars pro Victor Ramdin who joined me for dinner. We discussed all things poker and gambling, Crown Casino, the Australian economy and of course cricket (since he is of Indian decent). All in all it was interesting having dinner with him as I was unsure of whether or not to talk to him since the dinner break was only short. However with his great personality it was easy chatting with him, and consequently enjoyed an interesting dinner break.

After we met up with Garry to have our daily meeting I sat up my computer in the far corner under the 'Player of the Year' hanging pictures. Only several minutes in to replying to emails etc, a few of the guys set up a sit-n-go on one of the empty tables. I decided to join them to play a HORSE sit-n-go.

After getting stacked in stud hi-lo, we were approaching our second holdem round before security came in to escort us out. We were happy to oblige, but they wouldn't even let us clean the mess up that we left. With arguing not really helping, or going anywhere, we just put up with it and left.

I headed back to the computer and took full advantage of the free internet. Not leaving until 6am, the whole Rio was empty; all 165 tables or so, apart from the few cash games still going, were empty of the cards, the chips and the players that have filled them for the past few weeks. Tomorrow - Event 18 - $5,000 No Limit Deuce-Seven Lowball with rebuys . . . ship ship.

 

An empty Amazon room at the Rio