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14.7.2006 - WSOP $50K HORSE Day 1 Update, Mexican Wedding Crashers, and How I Won Grubby's Car It had been a good few days for me on...

WSOP $50K HORSE Day 1 Update, Mexican Wedding Crashers, and How I Won Grubby's Car It had been a good few days for me on the gambling front. And I'm not talking about donking off a buy-in at the PLO tables on Party poker  when my baby boat ran into a bigger boat. With all the bloggers in town this past weekend, I expected to piss away chips at the tables with Hammer and SMTL bluffs. Instead I saved a few bucks and drank heavily instead. I found myself giving my money away at the blackjack and Pai Gow tables. The only place I won was at the craps tables, where I doubled up in ten minutes and left. partypoker ad.gif I had been betting France heavily in the World Cup coming into the final match against Italy. I saw how awful the Italians played against the Americans, yet they shutdown every other team they played. The logical choice was to bet the Italians. And on the same day as Max Pescatori won his first WSOP bracelet in $2,500 NL, the Italians came through in the clutch for me in the form of penalty kicks. I overheard that members of the French poker  media moaning about the loss in the media room. The Brits like Jen from Blonde poker  were loving every second of their misery. All of England rooted for the Italians I was told. Makes sense to me. Two days after Italy won, I caught a break when I hit a parlay in the All Star Game. I took the American League and the UNDER which was set at 10.5. Thanks to Joaquin's buddy Michael Young's two-out triple in the top of the ninth, the American League jumped ahead 3-2. Yankees closer Mo Rivera took the mound in the bottom of the ninth to seal the victory. Turning two bills into two dimes in two weeks make me feel like Balco Barry.... I can hit anything thrown at me for a homerun. Of course, I got slaughtered in the earlier rounds of the World Cup and my ass was brutally kicked during March Madness. I'm still stuck for the year sports betting. On Wednesday I discovered that I won the mother of all prop bets with Grubby. I bet him that Pirates of the Caribbean II would gross more in its opening weekend than Spiderman. The results were in. Pirates 132m, Spiderman 114m. The prize? Grubby's car. I'm now the owner of a 1991 baby blue Geo Metro. It's got 120K miles and the AC is shotty. It has a tape deck and come with jumper cables, a free gift courtesy of one of the Station Casinos. I'll be picking up "mad skirts" with Grubby's pimpmobile after I turn in my convertible for the Geo Metro. On Wednesday, I ate dinner with Otis, Wil, and Michalski at the Tilted Kilt, a Scottish Pub at the Rio. We drank pints and gambled on commercials that were on the numerous plasma TVs. We'd bet on what commercial would appear after the break. I picked food. Otis had soft drinks and Wil had cars. I had no idea what Michalski was picking. I left dinner up from wagering on whether or not the first thing you see in a commercial is a human, animal, machine, or an establishing shot. Normally I like the waitresses at the Tilted Kilt since they were very short kilts and tight white shirts. They almost look like Catholic high school girls which is a devastating turn on. Our waitress had a pot belly the size of mine and was a let down. Her boobs were the size of globes but that couldn't make up for the exposed stretch marks on the sides of her waist. Those pre-teen dance girls have ended their annual dance competition. It was always surreal to see eight and ten year olds dressed up like 17 year olds in very skimpy outfits and make up caked on their faces like a paint on a Van Gogh canvas. I said it last year... "with all these degenerate gamblers lurking in the hallways with the dance competition going on simultaneously, its and Amber Alert waiting to happen." The dancers have been replaced by conventioneers. The RV convention is on town and I thought about taking a nap in one of the floor samples. I also spotted a Mariachi band standing around in the hallway. Whenever I see Mariachi band I think one thing.... "Mexican wedding." I crashed the Ochoa/Galvez wedding on Tuesday when I snuck in a side door. I ate some dessert and posed for pictures with several inebriated members of the grooms family. Michalski and I will be starring in a new indie film called, "Las Vegas Wedding and Bar Mitzvah Crashers." Speaking of pree-teens.... have you seen the girls that are working the Ultimate Bet hospitality suite? Where did they get these high school girls? At the mall? They barely look 16. When I brought this up to a fellow member of the media, he/she said with a wry grin, "Scotty Nguyen likes them young." * * * * * The tournament of tournaments began on Wednesday at the WSOP. The $50K HORSE event was considered by some poker  purists to be the unofficial world championship where for two days the world's best players would engage in rotating levels of different games while finishing off the final table on Day 3 in a NL Hold'em format. Without a doubt, the winner of the $50 HORSE event will be known as poker 's best all around player. With 50K in chips in play per person, this was the "big stack" tournament at this year's WSOP. 143 players entered. Word on the street was about 150-160 players would show up. I have no idea how many players won satellites to get in. When play was completed on Day 1, only 14 players were eliminated, which means it's going to be an extremely long Day 2. Action will not end until we have 9 players left standing. Blogger Dave Wong (aka Donkey Hunter) is still in the hunt. Check out his mini-update of the Horse event. When action began on Wednesday, there were some tough tables where each table had multiple bracelet winners. Would you like to be seated at any of these tables? Here's an example:Table 133: Phil Hellmuth, Jen Harman, Kristy Gazes, Steve Z, Victor Ramdin Table 137: Greg Raymer, John Juanda, Phil Ivey, Cyndy Violette Table 138: Layne Flack, Gabe Kaplan, Johnny Chan, Dewey Tomko, Robert Williamson, Mike Caro, Chad Brown Table 139: Daniel Negreanu, Allen Kessler, Carlos Mortensen, TJ Cloutier, David Benyamine Table 140: Todd Brunson, Erick Lindgren, Rodeen Talebi Table 141: David Sklansky, Mickey Appleman, Brian Haveson, Bill Edler Table 142: David Oppenheim, John D'Agostino, Howard Lederer, David Levi Table 143: Jim Bechtel, Brett Jungblut, Nick Schulman, The Grinder, Ram Vaswani, Bob Feduniak Table 144: James Van Alstyne, Chip Jett, Minh Ly, David Williams, Josh Arieh Table 145: Jeff Lisandro. David Chiu, Huck Seed, Tuan Le, My Main Man Freddy Deeb Table 148: Tony G, Patrik Antonius, Maureen Feduniak, Sam Farha Table 149: Annie Duke, Erik Seidel,Thor Hansen, Devil Fish Ulliott, Gavin Smith Table 150: Doyle Brunson, Scott Fischman, John Hennigan, Joe Awada, Paul Phillips Table 151: Max Pescatori, Bill Chen, David Grey, Andy Bloch, Barry Greenstein, Chris Ferguson Table 152: Mike Matusow, Mike Sextonm Jan Sorensen, Frank Kassela, Ralph Perry, Marcel Luske Table 153: Ted Forrest, David Singer, Blair Rodman, Mike Wattel, Miami John Cernuto, Tim Phan, Joe Cassidy Table 154: Rob Hollink, Dutch "Tool" Boyd, Toto Leonidas, Tony Bloom Table 155: Shawn Sheikhan, Capt. Tom Franklin, Farzad Bonyadi, Allen Cunningham, Gus Hansen, Scotty Nguyen Table 156: Dave Wong, Mark Gregorich, Ted Lawson, Chau Giang, Greg Mascio, Aaron Katz, Chip Reese Elimianted on Day 1 were: Tim Phan, Farzad Bonyadi, Tad Jurgens, Bill Chen, Bob Feduniak, Tony G, Evan Sofer, Steve Diano, Hassan Habib, Scott Fischman, Tim Jackson, Layne Flack, and Arturo Diaz. The first player busted was Arturo Diaz. Here are the Top 10 End of Day 1 chipcounts. Young guns Joe Cassiday and Patrik Antonius are at the topof the heap. Since I do not trust the stuck-up $10/hour interns doing the "official" live updates, these are unconfirmed and are probably be wrong. Alas, this is what I have: Top 10 in Chips: 1 Joe Cassidy 168,700 2 Patrik Antonius136,200 3 Capt. Tom Franklin 125,000 4 Allen Cunningham 122,400 5 Matthew Glantz 119,300 6 Andy Bloch 113,200 7 Minh Ly 110,900 8 My Main Man Freddy Deeb 110,600 9 Chad Brown 110,100 10 Ram Vaswani 107,400 Notable Chipcounts: 11 Victor Ramdin 106,900 22 Ted Forrest 86,600 23 Mike Matusow 86,200 25 Chip Reese 84,100 27 Annie Duke 81,800 30 Jennifer Harman 79,800 34 GANK 72,900 37 John Juanda 70,500 38 Todd Brunson 70,000 42 David Williams 65,800 43 Phil Ivey 65,000 44 Max Pescatori 64,800 45 Jesus 64,100 48 Gavin Smith 62,100 49 Erick Lindgren 62,00 50 Erik Seidel 61,500 52 T.J. Cloutier 60,200 55 Gabe Kaplan 58,700 56 Mike Sexton 57,500 57 Phil Hellmuth 57,100 60 Doyle Brunson 54,000 61 Greg Raymer 53,300 66 Carlos Mortensen 51,000 78 Johnny Chan 42,900 87 Howard Lederer 37,500 94 Aaron Katz 34,000 95 Gus Hansen 32,500 96 Mike Caro 30,700 98 David Sklansky 30,200 101 Chau Giang 29,400 103 Sam Farha 27,700 110 Daniel Negreanu 25,100 112 Barry Greenstein 23,600 113 Paul Phillips 23,200 123 David Wong 13,200Action resumes at Noon today at the Rio. Since I cannot do "live updates" I will post hourly updates on Day 2 of this event. I'm rooting for Carlos Mortensen. I picked him to win this before the 2006 WSOP began. He's already made two final tables. Let's hope he can make me look smart. Stay tuned. * * * * * You should be reading poker  Stars Blog featuring Otis and Wil Wheaton. Yes, Wil has been posting some of his best poker  related material on the poker  Stars Blog since he penned Lying in Odessa. Take a peek.

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