Vegas Day 2 - Miscellaneous
A few things to blog which are unrelated to the Caesar’s tournie:
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Shazbo busted out of WSOP ladies’ event after 2 hours. She ran a straight into a higher straight and a straight into a flush. With only 2k in starting chips, that pretty much means you are out of the door.
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While winning back to back SNGs at Caesars, Shazbo also made a great laydown pre-flop. Early raiser, Shazbo re-raises with QQ. Someone else re-raises and the initial raiser calls. Shazbo folds and the other guys have AA and KK. Juiced hand.
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An american guy thought Geoffroy’s name was “Jalfont”, after having problems with the french accent. I hope the “Professor Jalfont” name sticks when we get back.
4)Professor Jalfont was still going at Caesar’s when I busted at about 8pm, although he was short stacked on 22k. I hope he made it to day 2, not least for my 10% share ;)
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I have been asked by three different people now if I play in the Aussie Millions, and one guy asked me if I was from Jo’burg or Cape Town. I think this happens because english people portrayed on TV in the US are either posh (eg The Royals) or cockneys (eg any one of Guy Ritchie’s identical films). As a result, when the americans hear a middle of the road accent they think it’s Aussie.
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I was refused a drink at Treasure Island last night on the basis that I was under 21, and didn’t have any ID. Go the boyband haircut! Takes 15 years off you apparently :)
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After grumbling about my poor hole cards last night, I got the other side of the story at Treasure Island’s $65 tournament. In the first hour I was dealt Aces twice, Kings once, Queens twice and Jacks once. However, I think I set a new world record by being LOWER than starting stack at the break. Figure that one out…
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Shazbo won $1k on Wheel of Fortune. Perhaps poker is the wrong pursuit…