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Day 2 was PACKED - of the
5619 players entering, only 1867 were still in play. MZ was in
position 1046 with a stack around the average.
A member of the entourage braved the
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Bonus! An edge table
again! The tables had all the players stacks in plastic bags waiting for
them at their seats.
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The players set up their own stacks
- you better believe they count every last chip!
Turns out, that 7 bags were placed
at the wrong seats and one was lost all together.... sorting all that out
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There were some names
around today, still:
Sami Farha/John Tesh
Greg Raymar/Dan Harrington
Raymar is last years winner. Dan
Harrington won years ago, and Sami has all kinds of poker credits to his
name.
John Tesh, is, well, John Tesh
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From the get go, cards
were slow coming, but some big pots were won. On this one, we had Aces
against Jacks - MZ made the bet the looked to the entourage and said
"I can't look"... a better part of his stack was on the line..
this was the call to an all in bet by the other guy!
The entourage saw the Ace fall in
the flop before MZ - we told him it's ok to look now...joy
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Just after the
start of Level 9 (play started at Level 8, picking up in time where it
left off after the Day 1 flights) his table (#95) broke and he moved to
Table 65.
Once again on the outside! Good for
us!
Only this table had a problem....his
name is Amir. He's the guy with the black hat in the lower right. He's a
wild man, and gathered up a lot of chips. He was on the final table two
years ago when Chris Moneymaker won.
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Fortunately, we caught a
break. (have you noticed how everything is now 'we' - the entourage is
totally committed at this point)
This Table (#65) was breaking
soon...and the entourage was able to find this out and tell "our
man" (as this weird lady with a very inappropriate big rimmed
hat called him) so he played tight, knowing this, keeping composure to not
get into a gambling match with Amir...
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lt was a tough wait, but
the table break came. When a table breaks, the floor people come over with
plastic racks to carry the chips in... MZ looks at the guys and says
"I don't need a rack". There was concern in air....
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The next table, Table
#128, saw the end of the entourage's viewing luck. It was inside, making
watching hands impossible. See him smack in the center there... next to
the guy in the yellow t-shirt?
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The break after Level 9
came about 10 minutes after he arrived at the table... he came out to the
entourage pit stop, where he was refueled and filled us in on the new
table... .he had few chips, but great hope... if only the cards would
come....
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Unfortunately, they never
did...
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With 23 minutes and 42
seconds left in Level 10, we were out. Checking back later, there were
about 860 players left at this time (they do not update the stats on these
boards in real time.) Recall, that's 840 out of 5619! (They started paying
at 560.)
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Our Man was in a stupor,
replaying, as he will for the next LONG time, the last hand and his
decisions with it.
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Don't believe it if he
says he'll be rethinking it for the next week... try for the next year!
Right up until we re-enter the Rio
in July of 2006.....or will we?
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