Side by Side
Friday, May 29, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
Well, almost. I was sifting through photos I shot earlier in the day when Annie Duke tweeted that Phil Hellmuth had just been moved to her $1,500 Omaha/8 table. “Yum yum” was what Annie had to say about that, and I couldn’t disagree. Two UB pros sitting at the same table? Seemed like a slam-dunk pic and post to me. So I grabbed the camera, squeezed past the railbirds leaning against the ropes and fired off a few shots. Of which this is one:
The tournament staff might’ve done Phil and Annie a favor by sitting them together, as the two were chatting back and forth when they were sitting several tables apart. Phil’s new book being one of the subjects, and he duly brought over a copy for Annie to peruse between hands:
There are other UB pros in the field today. Michael Binger picked himself up after getting knocked out of the $40,000 Anniversary Hold-Em event yesterday and picked up some early pots in today’s Omaha/8 tournament:
And Hollywood Dave Stann is also playing in the Omaha/8 event, going with an unusual choice in eyewear. “Who’s the only other player who would wear goggles at the poker table?” he asked. “Michael Phelps?” Let’s see if the gogs start a trend.
And the newest member of the the UltimateBet team, Brandon Cantu, picked up where he left off last year–driving Phil Hellmuth crazy. You may remember a testy Cantu-Hellmuth confrontation during last year’s Main Event coverage and Brandon just tweeted that he’d just shown nut-nut to Phil (yes, in the time I wrote my post Phil was moved from Annie’s table, great for the ‘ol continuity) and that Phil started the talking of the trash. I raced over there to see another hand where Brandon chopped the low and Phil got left out in the cold. These intramural squabbles are gonna tear us apart…
About an hour ’till the dinner break in the $1,500 Omaha/8 event, and the $40,000 Hold-Em event is down to 52 (they’ll either play 8 levels or stop if they get down to 18 players). I’ll tell you one big story so far at the World Series–the cash game action in the Amazon Room is HUGE this year. The entire front-right quadrant of the room (as you enter the main entrance) is 100% cash games, maybe 45 tables in total. I saw lots and lots of red- and green-chip NL games going on, far more than there were last year. Something to keep an eye on, something to avoid in the name of bankroll maintenance.
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Tags: 2009 world series of poker, 2009 wsop, Annie Duke, Hollywood Dave, hollywood dave stann, Michael Binger, Phil Hellmuth, ultimatebet world series of poker, ultimatebet wsop, WSOP
