A Time to Work, A Time to Play
Monday, June 29, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
It’s a full house today at the Rio–actually it’s a too-full house. Because of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold-Em event that drew over 2,800 players there weren’t enough empty tables to re-start the $3,000 Triple Chance or $1,500 Stud/8 events on time. And those delays snowballed to the point where the Deuce-to-Seven event starting at 5pm was delayed about twenty minutes.
But better too many players than too few, yes? Among those at play today are Annie Duke, who’s had a slow start on Day 2 of the $1,500 Stud/8, and Phil Hellmuth and Liv Boeree, who are playing in the $1,500 NLHE tournament. Liv seems to be off to a blistering start–PokerNews has her sitting with 17,100, while Phil arrived late, chipped up to 7,000, and apparently left again. I saw him walking through the Amazon Room after break and it looked like he was returning to his seat, but now PokerNews is reporting that they lost him again, though whether he was just swallowed up by the crowd (hard to believe, knowing Phil) or eliminated from the event is still a mystery.
If Phil WAS eliminated, there’s at least one small consolation waiting at the end of the day–the UltimateBet party at Studio 54 at the MGM Grand. It starts at 9pm, ends around ???, and chances are the whole UB team (and lots of the folks who play at UB) will be there to enjoy the start of the WSOP party season. I wasn’t able to go to last year’s UltimateBet party as I had an (expletive deleted) final table to cover that lasted well past midnight, but I visited the UB suite the next day and, uh, it seemed like everyone there was feeling a little rough. Hopefully Annie and Liv will be very late arrivals to the party (because that means they played deep into the night), but I plan on arriving at a fashionable hour and enjoying a cocktail or two. Or three. Wonder if the bartenders will be briefed on the procedure for making a Debo…that’s my drink of choice when I’m in Aruba (those of you who’ve attended the Aruba Poker Classic know what I’m talking about) and it seems like it was translate well to Vegas. And of course with Phil there chances are there will be quite a bit of Dom Perignon on ice. But I think I’ll stick with a couple of Debos and some witty conversation. Maybe three Debos.
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