Main Event and Misc.

I will try to keep it brief, but there is a lot of stuff I have seen or heard the last couple of days that I want to blog...

First of all, dealing Day 1d was as boring as boring can be. Everyone plays wicked tight during the Main Event first day it is scary... I don't blame them but it is just boring. Check-call on all streets with a set, non-bets with flushes on a paired board, things like that. Pre-flop is a different story, there was a lot of 3 bets and so forth, but everyone played post-flop like a knit. I did not knock out one single person. I did have some all-in calls but never busted anyone. Sick, right?

I did deal 14 straight downs as there was a sellout crowd of over 2800 players for that day alone... which I was stoked about, since I had a bet for over 6200 and we ended up having just about 6500. We would have had over 7k, but over 500 people got turned down because it soldout. How much would that suck, to be turned down to the one tournament you always dreamt about playing or have been waiting all year for? But to defend my employer, registration has been opened online since March and at the Rio since late May. Still... not fun! WSOP Staff will surely have to come up with some sort of system to balance the play for each day, since this kind of thing does not happen again.

The best thing that happened to me was on the last hand of the day...

I am pitching all of my cards and it gets to the very last card on the button and it flips over, a queen of clubs. I give the guy his new card and nothing is said. 2 people limp and then the button makes a raise to 2100 and the first limper calls.

Flop 7d-4s-2c

Check, bet 3300, calls

Turn 10c

Check, bet 5600, calls ( caller says " I guarantee I have you crushed" )

River 9h

Check, bet 12k-ish, calls

Button flips over hand and says "I have nothing, ace high". Limper flips over a set of fours.

At this point we start our bagging button players proceeds to say "Dealer to you realize how much money you have lost me? I would have had A-Q!". I was in utter shock, the guy still would have had no pair... but regardless he 3-barreled bluff on the last hand of the day against a guy that is clearly playing a defensive game to get to day 2,and he is calling your bets and tells you he has you crushed. I am sorry but don't blame me for playing your hand like complete garbage, especially since it would not have made a lick of difference. Crazy Stuff! I wish I could have just laughed at his face.

I had the day off during Day 2a, but just dealt Day 2b tonight. A little bit more exciting play and a lot more emotion being shown.

I dealt a sick big hand, real early...

Average stack at this point was less than 60k and blinds were 400-800 with a 100 ante.

MP player with a stack at around 150k raises to 2200 everyone folds to the SB, who is this loud British guy who has to be in his late 50's or 60's. He 3-bets to 6k, and MP player calls.

Flop Ad-7d-3d

British guy goes all in for 67k. MP player goes in the tank for like 2 minutes and makes the call with Ah-Qs. British guy shows Kd-Ks

Turn 9d

All of the sudden the guy jumps out of his seat and lets out a scream and then he says " London, can you hear me!", as loud as he can. Of course, I am laughing at how silly this guy looks and so is everyone at the table but the guy who just lost the pot to him.

After I push him the pot one of the floormen comes over and issues him a warning for excessive celebration.

I dealt to Shane Schleger two days straight, and he has to be open-raising more pots than anyone else in history. I mean honestly at least 3 hands an orbit.

Toto Leonidas, who I also dealt to, was also open-raising a ton and also doing a lot of 3-betting.

Dealt to Nick Schulman and he seemed genuinely upset at how card-dead he was. Also, at one point I heard one of the ESPN producers ask one of the print media employees who he was, since this employee kept eyeballing his stack. I thought at this point I may have have got some TV time, but nothing doing... I will tell you what though the girl who is one of the ESPN producers is seriously distracting me, she is so damn cute it is ridiculous. I keep honestly starring at her, and I know she has caught me more than one time.

As it gets time to go home I am starting to get multiple possible options to keep dealing. I have an interview today for a job here in a Vegas casino, the other is something I recently heard about dealers being needed in NH and me having a connection to possibly getting into there, and the last is possibly opening up my own business back at home ( involving poker ). My first option would be to stay here, but I would take any of the 3 at this point. As soon or if one becomes a reality and not just a possibility I will take it.

I am staying until Day 4, and I am sure by that time things will be a lot more exciting since we will be in the money at some point during that day.