Bored this morning, I mean really bored so I decided to wander through the zoo (3100 strong) of the Amazon Room to check on my peeps in the $1500 No Limit event. I was able to locate Stapleton and Sebok quickly as both were seated on the rail by the main entrance. Stapleton was doing very well, up to about 7k pretty early on. He was chatting it up with his neighbor about the radio show. He might have been trying to sell advertising space on the show, I'm not too sure.
I strolled over to Sebok's table. Boy, what timing I possess. After a river bet from his opponent, Sebok mucked his cards only to have the clown in the 5-seat flip over and show one of Seeb's cards. I'm pretty sure my mouth dropped wide open. It was truly bizzare. Sebok, who was already short stacked handled it very well and simply said "Don't ever do that again." Personally, I would have flung a couple quarter chips at the morons forehead. Sebok ended up busting shortly there after as he pushed in with J10 and failed to improve against his opponent's KK.
Now, I was determined to find NDJ and the blonde midget. After speaking with 2343453 different people, I was able to locate both of them. They couldn't have possibly been farther apart. NDJ was located in the "overfill" area right outside of the Buzio's seafood restaurant. (I typically refer to this area as the riff-raff area. Today though, I saw Nam Le, Thomas Wahlroos and NDJ slumming with the donks.) NDJ was doing very well. In fact, he was the chip leader very early when he built his stack to nearly 20k. As he said in his blog, he was basically a cardrack OBV.
Meanwhile, the midget was in the very back row of the poker pavillion tent thingy. Personally, I'm not sure how the hell anyone could play poker in there. LA Mike would have busted on about the 5th hand, it was simply too fucking hot in there. I started sweating upon my entry and after about 15 minutes needed some Gold Bond powder.
Here's a few tales from the blonde midget's day so far. She raised from early position with 99 and one donk made the call. The flop came QQ2, she tossed in a bet and he just called. The turn was an 8, she checked and he made a healthy bet. She mucked like a little girl. Then she lost more chips when she raised with AK and one fish made the call. The flop came "shit", she bet and he moved in. She obviously mucked and was quickly down to about 1.3k. She then picked up JJ in the big blind. One bozo raised it up and she just called. The flop came 882, she led out and took down the pot. Afterward, she said, "I definitely should have check-raised that nutball. He continuation bet everytime."
At this point, the guy to her immediate right raised to 700, she looked down at AK and moved in for 1.7k. The guy to her left was an extremely short stack and called all in for 600. The original raiser called with QQ and the short stack showed A5. The flop came Q giving the guy to her right a set. However, the turn and river came J 10 giving midget the nuts. After this hand, she was up to about 4.4k. She then picked up QQ, raised it up two players called. The flop came JJ9, she lead out, one guy pushed in and the other player mucked. She called and he turned up 77. The board bricked out and she was sitting with nearly 9.5k.
As I type this up, here's a bit of current information.
NDJ has almost 30k.
Blonde Midget is sitting with 8k. EDIT: Random Bozo raised to 900, Midget reraised an additional 2k and Bozo called. The flop was AA9, she moved in for 2.4k and he called with AQ. She showed QQ and was dead from the event.
Stapleton just busted when the big stack kept raising and Joe pushed in for about 5k with A8 and Donkey Boy called with K7. WTF? He spiked a 7, ending Stapleton's day.
Until next time...
