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• 2008 WSOP Main Event

  July 27, 2008

  Today was the start of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, and with a starting field of 1297 it worked its way down to the 600 mark to end the first of the four day 1's.

  

   

  One of the starting tables

  With everyone due to work, I was assigned with Heath as my blogger and Zeeks as my fellow reporter. With half the team leaving at dinner, everyone's workload was doubled and as we approached the 5th and final level of the night everyone was ready and done for the night. Finally with an early night (that being an exit from the Rio before 2am) I was on my way home for an early night.

  As the major American public holiday being tomorrow, and an early exit due for me and Heath, plans are for fireworks, poker, some grub and who knows what else.

  Details to follow . . .

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  Read more: Heath Chick, Zeeks Guza, Greg Lewis

• Players Lounge, Taser and HORSE

  July 27, 2008

  Following the cash in the Caesars Palace mega-stack series I headed into work for the last 6 hours or so of my intended shift. Following that I was booked in for the PokerNews freeroll where the (as voted) top 6 reporters played off for a seat into the following day's WSOP $1,500 event. With me and Slippers quickly donking off our chips the remaining reporters got into a tasing war with Melissa's taser in the back alleys of the Amazon room.

  Soon after we headed to the newly found players lounge. This lounge was awesome, it contained a virtual golf game where you get to smack the ball into a screen, a heads-up machine, Nintendo wii, putting green, pool and some arcade games. Garry, Mel, Slippers, Zeeks and I stayed there until the wee hours playing props and drinking until everyone decided that at 6am it was probably time to leave. Being the sick degen that I am, and having to work at 12 I decided I would sleep on the couch and not waste time or money in getting home.

  

   

  Zeeks and Slippers playing heads-up

  With a full day of work under my belt after the night on the couch at the Rio I decided that on my day off I would venture out to the Premium Factory Outlets for a day of shopping. Seeing Slippers on the way to the taxi stand I somehow convinced to come along. With my purchase of a nice Polo sweat for my dad and my BOSE headphones me and Slippers were on our to the Venetian to play some poker.

  Sitting down on the $4-8 Omaha hi-lo game our stack fluctuated up and down several times before we colluded like Jozef Berec never could!! With Slippers in the small blind and myself in the big blind, we both checked preflop before slippers led for $4 on a flop of with -x-x, I decided to try and sneak some extra value in there so i raised the action up to $8 with and we got two callers. When the hit the turn Slippers led for $8 and i called followed by the two other players. When Slippers checked the on the river, I bet, and it was called round to slippers who 2-bet, followed by my 3-bet and we got both of the remaining players to call and we scooped the pot. SHIP IT CRUCIAL!!! Collusion at its FINEST!!!

  Following a good old Aussie BBQ at Slippers house followed by some jacuzzi and poker action I was rostered on to cover the 50k HORSE. With a long day us reporters scored some free WSOP mugs, as well as me personally scoring Phil Ivey's main event ticket stub with negative 200k in prop bets written on the back as well as Durrr's HORSE ticket stub. Maybe they can take the event out and it will be worth HEAPS on ebay!!!

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  Read more: Melissa Castello, Anthony Molinaro, Garry Gates, Zeeks Guza, Players Lounge, Premium Factory Outlets, Venetian, BOSE

• That Winning Feeling . . . Eventually

  July 27, 2008

  Today I was covering the $5,000 NLH Shootout Event with Zeeks and Slippers. Covering 2 tables each, Slippers was done in an hour while it took me and Zeeks 3 and 5 hours respectively to finish off. Once done, and being early, me and Slippers decided it was a night to go and do something.

  

   

  Slippers a little tipsy

  Once back at the hotel we got changed and headed firstly downstairs to the Excalibur poker room with Dane to play some $2-4 limit holdem. With Christian staying in the room to listen to the Dogs vs. Saints match (go dogs ship ship) we all downed our fair share of Corona's before netting a small loss. We decided it would be fun to walk from the Excalibur all the way to the Venetian to meet up with Jimmy and Celina - about an hour later, semi-drunk and with 5 more kilometres under our belt we arrived at the Venetian. Feeling like playing Slippers and Dane hit some $4-8 limit while I decided to avenge my feelings of being a donkey and have another crack at $1-2 NLH.

  Buying in for $200 I had a hell of a fun time chatting with the yanks on the table, running over to Dane and Slippers to see their monster stack of $1 chips and eventually cashing out for $347. However I did have some interesting hands that I'm going to share with you. Firstly, I live straddle to $4, re-straddle by the guy I've been having fun with all night to $6. It gets called round where I bump it to $8 and its called round again. I bet $5 dark on a flop of , it goes call, call, call, raise to $15. Being forced to look I'm about to sweat my cards before I'm convinced to call dark - so being the gullable Aussie I am I do as I'm told. Going heads up to the turn I again bet $5 dark and am raised to $20 when the lands. I decide to sweat one card, and once I peel the I call while announcing, "I have a potential flush and straight draw". As I check the turn, my opponent leads for $30 this time. I decide to table my and sweat my other whole card with the rest of the table.

  Aarrgh the gets sweated. Sick!! Now I know I'm beat, but I have to call him. So I reluctantly throw the $30 in and he rolls for a book. Darn it!!!!

  So I slowly start to rebuild before this hand comes up. Facing a raise in middle position of $6 and 4 callers in front of me I call with out of the big blind. The flop comes down ; preflop aggressor checks, bet of $10, call, I call, and preflop agressor calls. Everyone checks the on the turn. However when the lands on the river I check for pot control, however this time the preflop aggressor leads for a heavy bet of $30. With everyone folding to me I go into the tank. Now if we break the hand down there are only a few hands that beat me that are in her range. We have A5 or a suited connector 5 like or a set of kings or sevens. Now I can't put her on an ace, because she would c-bet the flop and definately not float. So really, I'm only beat by a set or A5, so I've got the 3rd nuts in the hand and reluctantly call and table my hand. She rolls for a turned book.

  So sick! God damn 1-outer!! Ah, it only cost me $36 so it ain't that bad. I try and explain the hand to everyone, and after reacting like total donkeys they finally understand what I'm on about and understand that I'm not just some drunk tourist that has pet kangaroos and carry's big knives round the bush.

  After that hand I slowly start rebuilding again and then get a hand where I'm still so confused about. Calling a straddle with and with 4 callers after me. I bet $11 into the flop of and get 2 callers. The turn is the and I check raise a bet and call of $15 to $40. The girl (which had the set of 7's) tanks forever; first she gives me respect, and then she doesn't, and the she does again. After about 4 minutes, she folds, along with the other player, and announces that she folded a straight. I quickly mucked and thought how do I not gain a call there with my click back? It's still puzzling me!

  Anyway one of my final hands for the night was when I limp called a $15 raise from the tightest player on the table. The flop came down , and I check the action over to her where she quickly leads for $35. Thinking for a while I come to the conclusion she has AK, 30% of me however says she has Jacks or something so therefore I have a 6-outer. I reason that I'm ahead and slide a stack of reds in to put her all-in, and with that she insta-calls.

  "You got me, you got me" I announce sheepishly rolling my . When the and came on the turn and river I thought "man I just blew my profit with that hand!", but when she didn't roll her cards I again announced, "yeah you got me" and she responded with "nah, you got me" in her quiet east-coast accent. SHIP SHIP!! Up $347 and on my way home with Dane for the night. Its now only another $20 or so before I'm completely unstuck for my week here!!

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  Read more: Anthony Molinaro, Zeeks Guza, Christian Vaughn, Dane Jensen, Excalibur, Venetian