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Marc's Magic
July 08, 2009So it’s the weekend in Vegas . . . but when you’re working with PokerNews . . . a weekend doesn’t exist!
Off to the Rio at noon to take the reigns for the Event 28 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em; however after the late night / early morning and stomach full of GreyGoose . . . I was a little worse for wear!
There is no real point boring you with the details of the day, but once we were finished Donnie, Mat and me headed to SouthPoint to play some $2-4 Limit Holdem.
We grinded away for a while before a very drunk Marc Hodge joined us and . . . how do you say it . . . spiced up the action!
It was pretty much a game between us four with it being capped nearly every street on every hand. I ran the worst, but enjoyed the comic genius that is titled Marc’s Magic . . .
I have two quad draws
I’m getting crushed
F**king nits!
Drunk guy seat four
I might be from Georgia, but we have calculators
Duckworth, you know I run good and I’m an awesome poker player!
Mat Pater and (a very drunk) Marc Hodge tearing up the $2-4 Limit Holdem table at SouthPoint* * * * * * * *
Sunday saw me continue with the Event 28 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em coverage, and just like the previous day there was nothing interesting about the tournament.
No Phil Hellmuth-esque players ran deep, and the tourney wrapped up at 3am with three tables left.
The next day flew pretty quick as we played down to the final table and then to see Mike Eise take down the $639,331 first prize along with the coveted gold bracelet. Here is one of the interesting and colourful hands that took place.
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Jason Potter Eliminated in 4th Place ($185,444)
Jason Potter shipped it all in from the button for just on a million and Jeff Chang made the call from the big blind.Potter:
Chang:
With Potter needing to catch a Queen to stay alive or a combination of a flush or straight, the crowd and Potter would erupt seeing the
as the window.Like an online glitch, the dealer spread the flop but one card remained hidden. With it reading
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the dealer would finally un-stick the two cards and out popped the 
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Jason Potter eliminated in 4th placeSimilar to the magnitude of a fireworks display on New Years Eve; the crowd erupted with an ear-splitting and deafening display of claps and stomps that the secondary feature table surely couldn't handle!
With thunderous noise echoing throughout the stage the
on the turn made it more interesting as it gave Potter additional flush outs to go with the two remaining Queens that could save his tournament life.The dealer burned and turned a black . . .
and Potter would be forced to leave the rowdy stage on his way to collecting $185,444 for his 4th place finish.84 views, 0 comments
Read more: Donnie Peters, Jason Potter, Limit Holdem, Marc Hodge, Mat Pater, SouthPoint
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Late Start Equals Late Night Profits
July 08, 2009Ding Dong . . . Ding Dong . . . f**king hell Mat, just go answer the damn door so you can get a lift to work . . . it’s been like three hours and I’m already up
Well that’s what I was thinking before I rolled over in my uber-comfy bed to see the alarm clock on the bedside table . . . 7:38pm . . . WTF!
I had slept in way past what I’d expected, and now my day off had been turned into a night off. I knocked on Donnie and Eric’s door (which is just outside ours), “you just get up . . . you gotta be kidding me” quipped Donnie as he headed back up the stairs shaking his head and laughing. Still adjusting to the brightness of light I slowly stumbled up the stairs behind him to see him cooking dinner as I sat down on his couch to discuss our plans.
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We had decided on heading to Caesars Palace to play some $1-3 No Limit Holdem as we have been told that it’s a fairly soft game. We grabbed a taxi and forty bucks later, following a traffic standstill on Flamingo Road, we were there.
They opened a new table in under three minutes time as we seemed to attract a bevy of people – obviously I had my I AM A FISH neon sign flashing on my back!
I took down my first pot when I check-called each street against an Asian LAG and old-man NIT with
on an Ace-high straight and flushing board to see my stack climb over the $250 mark. An orbit or so later I called $15 out of the small blind with 
against the LAG who had already started making moves, bluffing and raising with garbage.The flop fell down
and I check-called $35 to see the fall on the turn and another check from me. Facing a bet of $55, I moved all in for $165 more, and following about ninty-seconds of deliberation the LAG folded.The hand became an avenue of discussion between me and Donnie, with his argument being a call on the turn and either a donk lead on the river or gamble with a check. Personally I wished I tanked on the turn and did the old ‘I guess I’m all in’ show like I have a draw. Either way it was a good session for the both of us, as I cashed out $403 and, courtesy of a quad bonus, Donnie cashed out up $250 – not a bad two-hours I say!
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After exchanging some texts with my two Melbournian’s in James and Rob that had just arrived in town, we both decided to head over to Imperial Palace to catch up.
We tucked into some Subway before heading to the Rio around 1am to check out what was going on.
The Ladies World Championship (in which I’m doing the final table tomorrow) was down to the last two tables while the Omaha Hi-Lo World Championships was on the money bubble. We showed the WSOP noobs round before Donnie settled into a $10-20 Limit Holdem game as James and Rob headed to the other side of the Rio to play some $1-3 No Limit Holdem.
I sweated them for a while, before returning to sweat Donnie and his continuance in running bad at the Rio. 3am came round which meant our ride was ready, and after a quick visit to the petrol station for some snacks and of course petrol, I was at home and on the computer writing this blog!
Bring on the Ladies tomorrow!
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Read more: Caesars Palace, Donnie Peters, Imperial Palace, James Bernard, Mat Pater, No Limit Holdem, Rio, Rob Remeeus
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King Phil In The 2k
July 08, 2009The first day of the WSOP for me starts with Gloria picking me up from our apartment for an early noon start for Event 11 - $2,000 No Limit Hold'em.
It would be just me and Dana ‘danafish’ Immanuel on the event, and with 1,646 players to cover over three separate rooms it was always going to be a tough ask! However with incredible reporting skills we cruised through the first few levels picking up notable after notable, hand after hand and elimination after elimination.
If you weren’t in this field today you must have had the Stratosphere impale you through your neck because anyone that was anyone took to the felt, along with every donkey, fish, bunny and amateur that could muster up twenty bills.
Not sure if he even fits into a category on the poker-noob scaleJust as we verged on a break I was dragged over to the Event 7 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em final four tables to help Heath and a new blogger Jon Katkin out as they were experiencing internet problems and struggling to cope with a whopping four tables!
I made sure they got down to a final table so that everything was under control and I headed back to join the 2k holdem to find Phil Hellmuth moved into the main tournament section. I sweated him pretty hard as he is my favourite player of all time, and the one thing I picked up off him is the way he plays big hands under-the-gun.
Many times I saw him limp hands like tens-plus and often take the pot down on the flop or turn, but at one point I saw him limp, be faced with a 3-4x raise from the small blind and muck his hand. Of course the small blind always shows the nizzles of Kings-plus and Hellmuth will go on his usual “I am the greatest of all time” rant . . . which is so enjoyable!
That was probably the only part of his game that I witnessed which I didn’t like . . . but who am I to say anything when he is by far the greatest ever big-field no limit holdem player to ever play the game.
The greatest ever . . . GG WP Stu, Doyle, Slim, Chip, Negreanu, Ivey . . . but there is only one dodger-of-bullets* * * * * * * *
232 runners returned for day two action with 171 of them guaranteed some <i>moolah</i> and straight off the bat Hellmuth and my horse (in the last longer vs Donnie) Peter Rho started accumulating chips. Full Tilt’s Amanda Baker became our bubble girl as Jason Mercier continued his rampaging start to the summer as he soared to a huge cheap lead after winning the 400,000-chip flip at the 1,200-2,400 level!
Hellmuth continued to grind away even arking up at times, "I'm here to win world championships, not play games," he announced, "That's why I came . . . I came to win." Someone else at the table piped up, but Hellmuth quickly told him, "If you want to learn, read one of my books, son!"
The PokerBrat exits in 29thEventually however Hellmuth would fall to a runner-runner Broadway straight against his pocket sixes to see him exit in 29t place for his record-breaking 70th WSOP cash!
The day ended with just twenty-five remaining, with the bracelet, prize money and title of champion to be awarded tomorrow.
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Arriving home at the great hour of 4am I jumped in the shower before me and Mat headed to Southpoint to hit the felt.
Once there we took a seat on the only $2-4 Limit Holdem table, both buying in deeper then everyone with Mat’s $100 stack being the second biggest to my $200 stack. My aces got cracked first hand, but from there on I started to chip up nicely floating on $250 for several hours.
God then phoned Mat and asked,
Hi Mat, it’s God here. I was just wondering how you would feel about running like me for an hour or so? You don’t have to do anything but just say yes.
Mat obviously obliged to God’s new found poker love and proceeded to run hotter than the sun and luck-boxed pot after pot after pot! However it all came to an end seeing a once $250 strong stack whittled down to nothing by the time 8am ticked round. Mat headed to the Sportsbook to place a bet on the Belmont Stakes while I cashed out down $100 – only to win it back on a nice bet of black on the Roulette tables.
In bed by 10am, and a 5pm start tomorrow with the Event 16 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud . . . yeah me!!!
