GOGOGOGO.
Founding PROP team member, Will Lin, has made it through the field down to the final 18 players of the Venetian Main Event, $5k buyin. This tournament series, the Deep Stack Extravaganza II, has been great with excellent field sizes, lots of chips, and good structures.
More details on Will’s run will be presented as they come in. For now, GL Will!
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Jeremy Joseph, who goes by “Buttercup” around the Niagara Falls Fallsview Casino in the Western New York area, is currently the chip leader of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event with 2.8M in chips and second place is at 1.8M…GL!! GOGOGOGO.
Still 215 people left, and a long way to go before the final table, he needs to get to 13-15M chips to have final table stack, and fight for the $9,000,000 first prize. GL kid, b-lo needs a new hero.
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The 2008 World Series of Poker can be summed up with one word:
Downtick.
It was an expensive few weeks, with very few highs for the PROP team. I’ve seen a bunch of blogs already go into detail about their bad beats and monkey punches. So, blah blah blah, ditto. On a positive note: one team member had a decent cash game series winning 5 figures.
We played a bunch of Venetian Deep Stack events with 3/8 shallow cashes for minimum wage paydays. These tournies are the greatest thing ever invented and I am going to try and play every event next year. Start with 12k chips @ 25/50 w/40min levels, and monkeys abound with buyins ranging from $330 to $5k and first places upwards from $40k. Screw the $1500 bracelet events…3k chips…bah humbug.
The team spent most of our time @ the Wynn. Highly recommend Okada for tepanyaki (sp?). It’s like Benihana only better (bout $120/ea). Also ate at Wing Lei, really good chinese food, but pricey (paying for convenience and great service). SW – good times for steak, but service can be streaky. One time we were there they got the filet temperatures all mixed up at the table…still a cool restaurant. Tryst – cool, as long as you don’t have to wait in line. So either know someone, pay a ‘host’ some cash, get there early, or eat at Okada b4 hand. Table service is recommended but if you’re a dance dance revolutionary, probably not necessary. European Pool is chill, gets a little crowded and greasy watered on weekends. Terrace Point Cafe – good for breakfast/lunch b4 poolside or late night after clubs/poker.
Rio: Gaming Expo – dumb. If you weren’t there, you didn’t miss anything imho. Same stuff as previous years, except a few less booths, and a little less money being spent on the show. Poker recession in full effect there. Harrah’s did do an excellent re-design on the floorplan. The satellite room being separate was great. The color coded stuff made things easier to find. Better, albeit not great, food. Overall improvement. Looking forward to seeing how the final table delay works out…
Bracelet Highlights: Can’t wait to watch the 50k horse on TV. Scotty Nguyen, Lindgren, and DeMichelle will be really fun to see the cards in play and hear the table chatter. Phil Ivey lost all his bracelet bets, bought out of most early it appears. He’s still the man – and if rumors are true – the Full Tilt Gravy train is producing enough monthly scrilla that even a degen like him can’t gamble it all away. Negreanu got a bracelet in a 2k limit holdem event – another good tv event, as he has one of the best on camera personalities in the biz. Lindgren also got his monkey off the back and had a monster series, bringing his wsop cashes to almost $7M lifetime.
Notable Prop bet recap: Biggest bets obviously belong to Mr. Ivey giving 1.8 to 2.2 to 1 to many said to have exceeded 2.2M and 200k on individual bracelet bets with a few. Matusow wins 100k from Forrest for losing 50lbs, then goes on to win a bracelet and have a few other nice cashes. Fitness apparently pays. Bball…Anyone else lose money on the Lakers? Still nothing tops Lindgren’s 200k bet from last year – walk 4 rounds of golf in Summerlin, and break 100 in all four rounds…in 110′ heat. Brutal.
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Introducing the amazing….shit box?!? Sounds a lot like a pet rock, but much sweeter, courtesy of The Brown Corporation:
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So PROP went out to do a little promo at the SF Giants game on Saturday. It was cool because they were playing the A’s so there was some extra added drunken tension in the stadium, and there were organized pre and post parties to help the good times roll. I think we saw about 1 inning of the game, but somehow I managed to get beraided by a security guard, two SFPD enforcers, a rowdy bunch of giants fans who mistook me for an A’s fan, and a drunken A’s fan who was a large scary meat head. Luckily escaped without incident. Lesson learned: don’t lose the group during drunken trek toward the seats.
The girls did a good job promoting the brand through a highly competitive whiffle ball game in the parking lot pre party – sponsored by rockstar energy, and dj’d by sam isaac.
Here’s some photos:
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A stacked final table in event 18 is going on today. Erick Lindgren, making his second final table appearance (as well as a few other deep runs) is having an impressive WSOP 08, and enters as the chip leader. Barry Greenstein is not far behind in second place. Matusow, Lisandro, Benyamine, Tony G, and Tom Schneider round out the table.
At least two of these players have PROP bets with Ivey, Lindgren and Greenstein. Ivey has taken a bunch of bets with people ranging from 1.8 to 1 to 2.2 to 1 that he will get a bracelet this year, and he has also taken several bracelet bets around 200k each with people on whomever wins the most bracelets. So this final table could be an expensive one for him. Although, after watching him roll dice and go on a couple million swing, he should be able to stomach it.
I’m rooting for E-dog, as he’s already got one bracelet, but it’d be cool to see him have a monster year.
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Don’t know how to use photoshop? Want to impress your sweet online friends with how cool you are? Check out Befunky for an easy way to get some Scanner Darkly like coolness added to your repetoire.
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So I found this on Youtube today:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tbEei0I3kMQ
It’s interactive so unfortunately I can’t embed it here….however, it’s pretty entertaining. Card players (and anyone slightly above average in observation) have a slight advantage into figuring out how this trick works, but whatever, still interesting.
Cheers.
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It’s faaaaaaaaaaaat Albert
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The kid in red kills it! (thanks dave)
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Virgin might be the coolest airline ever. Here’s an email I just got regarding a flight to Vegas I have coming up:
Dear Matt
Exciting news! Virgin America is kicking off SuperFly Wednesdays, a happy hour in the sky that will get you over the mid-week hump. Network and socialize over complimentary cocktails or strike up a chat room conversation.
If you’ve got all the friends you need and just want to kick back and relax, no problem. The happy hour will be in the back of the plane and the rest of the flight will be business as usual.
We’re sending this to you because you’re on a flight that’s designated for this fun program. If you’d rather make alternative plans, you can always change your flight with no additional charge. For assistance with your reservation just call 1-877-FLY-VIRGIN.
We hope you’ll join us and stir things up on Wednesdays.
See you onboard.
The Guest Services Team
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While I spent most of the day getting the typical tournament teases – going deep to make minimal cashes and nothing going right during the late levels – I also caught up on some tv via Hulu.
For those who have not tried this site out yet I would highly recommend it. The site is designed well, the actual media player is easy to use, the content is high quality and loads/streams fast. So I was checking out some of the newer shows on the Mojo network, home to Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak’s “I bet you” among other things. Shows I was watching:
Bobby G: The Adventure Capitalist – cool show about an ultra-rich, highly animated, venture capitalist. He owns some moturary type business, the beverage company Clearly Canadian, along with some other investments. I like his style, he’s calm, cool and collected and reminds me of a boss I once had.
Start-up Junkies – About a new seattle based startup called Earth Class Mail. This company takes your regular snail mail and digitizes it for you. Big potential globally. Interesting to watch the fund raising stress as well as the growing pains of a small organization.
Wall Street Warriors – follows a bunch of different people around Wall St. Watch some boy genius operate a hedge fund out of his apartment, follow some rookies as they learn what day trading is all about, tag along on the high brow exploits of some 28 y/o private equity fund manager as he helicopters between Manhattan and the Hamptons. It’s interesting stuff. But it brings me to the point of this whole blog.
Why is Wall St. more legitimate than Poker? It seems strange to me that if I had a job where I analyzed numbers/charts/financial data/industry news and made ‘educated guesses’ as to the next move that would be held in higher regard than a virtually identical situation using cards and chips. In the stock market, when one guy wins, another guy is losing. Going against the common grain of knowledge/behavior is highly risky but potentially incredibly lucrative. There is greed. People go on ’tilt’ and start gambling as they chase losses. The symmetry between the two industries is remarkable. Morgan Stanley and all the other big firms are essentially the online poker rooms, collecting the rake.
I guess sometimes things in life can seem a little hypocritical.
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As if anyone needed any more evidence as to the international growth of poker, take a look at the Top 10 regions in the world that are searching for Poker in the past 30 days, according to Google Trends:
Notice anything missing? USA no where to be found.
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Congrats to David Singer – a gentleman and a scholar of the poker community. He’s having a nice run, winning a cool $1M in the Caesars last October, finished 2nd in the 2007 Vegas Open for $200k, and now $560k from the Heads Up $25k event that went down over the weekend on Tilt.
Some other notables from that event: Patrik Antonius (finddagrind) finished 5th, Cardrunners notable Brian Hastings finished 3rd, Gus Hansen finished second to last in 65th, Steve Sung and Taylor Caby finished in the middle of the pack.
It was a cool event, lets hope the Tilt decides to do more of them…
GG all.
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Cole South, instructor over at Cardrunners – currently has over $500k in play on FullTilt across a few tables’.
Now can someone say Bankroll Management? Generally, playing high variance games like HU and PLO you’d want 30buyin ish range, so he’s looking at needing in the neighborhood of $16mil liquid….I know this kid is a baller and has done quite well…but lets say he’s made – oh I dunno $4mil online to date (which has to be on the high side in my rather uneducated opinion). He’s still using a stupid high % of his bankroll.
Gambooooool it up Cole. We love you just like TC.
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