Giddy-Up
Friday, June 26, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
After working every day of the World Series so far I decided to take a day off yesterday. Been feeling under the weather, wanted a day to rest, recouperate, refocus. Yesterday seemed a good time to give the Rio a miss because the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event would start the next day and I wanted to be ready to go when the most prestigious poker tournament in the world kicks off.
The buzz on media row is whether this year’s field will be bigger than it was last year (or in 2007), when exactly 148 players participated. We were supposed to begin at high noon, but there was just an annoucement that the start has been pushed back to 1pm. That may be due to the fact that, like, NO ONE seems to be here yet. Also there are only 33 players registered at the moment, and while there’s been an epidemic of professional players signing up at the very last second this year the floor staff might not want to start the event with a handful of players battling three-handed in an empty room. So we’ll wait till one and see how many players pony up fifty dimes to play for the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy.
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