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    Negreanu Open Tonight!

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    just one of those days for me...earlier, I was all in PF with AA versus an AJ... he rivered a straight!in the NO, I had K's all-in, against J's and T's PF... J comes on the flop...wouldn't be so bad if i hadn't DONKED last week....but at least I don't have to be PO'd at myself all week... :club:

    Red River Roundup

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    yeah, they upped it to 560 people, thus 280 Friday and 280 Saturday...you ran better than me... my (long) report is forthcoming...but suffice it to say that the best hand I saw all day was pocket 8's... :(they did make it 2 starting days, but with the way the blinds were going up, I'm not sure why... apparently there's a 7pm curfew in Oklahoma or something, cause they certainly didn't want us to still be there... (unless we were in the cash game, of course!)Showed up 45 min before cards are in the air and get registered. I get my seating assignment and am happy to see that I'm at table 26 (my birthday is today, the 26th) and that I'm at seat 9 (I like sitting in that spot and 9 is one of my lucky numbers).Standing around, checking out the scene when David Williams walks by being led by one of the tournament folks. He's personable and stops to shake hands with anyone that asks. I overhear someone else say that David is starting at table 26. I look over at the table and notice that seats 1-6 are full, so only 7-10 are left open. I'm at 9, so I've either got David on my immediateleft or a couple to my right. Given that he has a $5,000 bounty on his head, I'm doing a little prayer that he's on my right. I wasn't nervous at all before this, but hearing that he's at my table puts a couple of small butterflies in my stomach.I take my seat and #8 shows up, so he's either $10 or $7. He finally comes over and sits in the #7 seat and introduces himself to me and seat #8 (#6 was empty). After everyone is seated they do a little 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" number on the stage. It was OK, but the best thing about it was the talent which looked pretty nice in their tight shorts, chaps, hats, etc... Next is the emcee, and then the tournament director gets up and goes over some rules. He seems a bit nervous as his voice was shaking a bit...guess he's finally made the BIG time in Thackerville, OK. :club: As for the rules, they are pretty standard. There was one that I found interesting. If you exposed your hand before betting was complete (i.e.-showing your opponent what you have to get a read), there is a 15 minute penalty, BUT your hand is not dead. Seemed a little counter-intuitive to me, but perhaps I've not thought it through enough. The structure is pretty horrible : $3,000 in starting chips with starting blinds of $25-$25... 30 minute levels... by level 4 it's up to $100-$200... if you don't catch some cards in the first couple of rounds, you're just going to have to push in and get lucky in round 4 or so... (it was worse than this though at one point)Unfortunately for me, I never had any hand better than a pair of 8's (pocket 8's at that!). I got some low pairs a couple of times in early position, which I ditched, and the board would not have given me a set in any of those instances. I got AK spades one time and busted someone, but he only had about $700. I never had any flush draws, and I only had 2 open-ended straightdraws that both missed (got to see them cheaply). I saw AJ a couple of times, but both times I can think of there was a raise and a re-raise, so I had to muck.Of the starting 10 at table #26, 9 of us seemed to know what we were doing and the 10th was the guy I busted. I was able to run a few bluffs and built my chip stack up to about $3600 in the second level, but I pretty much just bled away after that.Around the start of the second round, there was a small stir in the room and we looked up to notice about 10 young ladies had come into the room in what I would call the sexy-cowgirl-goes-to-school outfit. Red and white plaid short sundress... white knee highs.. boots and cowboy hat... this outfit definitely looked like it came from a mail order stripper clothing catalog... we finally figured out they were the drink runners, and one particular blonde was around our table, so we decided to put her to work... we started ordering drinks, 2 of us at a time, and we worked our way around the whole table, just so we could keep watching her walk away and come back... walk away and come back...Right before the 4th level ended, David was down to $1050 in chips, so we were all waiting for him to shove in. We were also watching the table breaks be done and we were next in line to be broken up, so we were trying to play as fast as possible.Before David could shove in, the tournament person come over to move us. We cajoled her into letting us have one more hanf, but David did not push in. (He went to the next table and doubled up with AQ versus A6 on his very next hand!)Unfortunately for me (again), I got bounced to the next table to be broken up, and 1 away from the BB. As soon as the blinds run through me, I'm moved again, this time I'm sat in the button though, so I finally caught a break. I get about 4 hands in (this dealer is SLOW!!!) and we are sent to break. I'm talking to the guys at this table during the break and they tell me that in level 3, they had played for 20 of the 30 minutes when someone noticed they had a green card in their brown deck (or it might have been vice-versa)! I guess when the dealer switched out the decks between levels, they someone got a card transferred over and it wasn't noticed until 2/3 of the waythrough that round! Unreal....Blinds are now $200-$400 and my stack is down to $2000... I fold my 72 to a massive raise in my BB. Then I get KJ in the small blind. There's one limper when it gets to me, so I decide to make my stand.. this is only the 2nd hand that I've had 2 face cards in all day! I shove in my last $1800, the BB folds, and the limper calls (uh-oh). He turns over 8's though, so I have some outs, but nothing hits for me and that's it. Oh well... I'm out at about 150 of the 280 that started today. I move over to watch David and in a few mintues he's all in with pocket 8's versus K's. The K's makes a set on the flop and full house on theturn and that's it for David at about 140th position.Overall, I had fun. I was on a free roll after winning the satellite, so it's hard to complain. However, the structure was pretty bad, just turned into an all-in luckfest in the 4th level. I even overheard David complaining about it to the tourney folks on his way out. That being said, I did get to spend about 2 hours playing and talking with David, so that was cool. I got some free schwag (hat, shirt, koozie, and key rings). If you are still reading.. thanks...if not, wake up!

    Phil Gordon's Letter...

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    not being a 'pro' myself, I don't think I can comment on the negative issues with the intellectual property rights issue... it's quite likely the WPT might be a bit too strict on this...however, the part that gets me is when they bring up the "WPT and the casinos that host its tournaments have unlawfully conspired to eliminate, and prevent the creation of, competing televised poker tournaments" argument.If the casinos don't like the agreement, then it's their place to complain and not sign or renew their contracts with the WPT. The players should complain (mostly by not signing up for the WPT events), and if the casinos thought the impact was big enough, they would take action.Obviously, the casinos don't feel like this is an issue yet, so I don't see how these players think they can insert themself and speak for the 'good of the game'. When people start refusing to play or watch the WPT events, that will cause change, not this lawsuit.IMHO

    David Williams Being Outed On Porn Sites Today

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    I sat with (one position away from) David about 2 hours yesterday at the Red River Roundup... and I have to say that I had no idea what to expect, but he was genuinely a nice guy. He kept the table atmosphere light, helped the dealers with the dead stack to his immediate right, and never turned anyone away that wanted to shake his hand or say hello.I'm not trying to say I know him well or anything after a couple of hours, but there were enough friends of his that stopped by the table (we were only an hour from Dallas), that I would tend to agree with Jack above.I'm about to post my tournament report in another thread, if you have any interest...

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