2008 World Series of Poker

Event 3 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q4
Prize
$214,131
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
713
Level Info
Level
23
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0

Braced & Raring to Go

Poker Room
Poker Room
Howdy ho pot limit fans and welcome to Event 3's $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em Freezeout, a tournament which is destined to surpass last year's field of 781 and continue what has been a record-breaking start to this year's World Series.

For this event, we have a genuine treat in store for you, as your scintillating, and often educational live updates will come courtesy of PokerNews' first all British contingent in myself and the current apple of my eye, the voluptuous and grumpy-in-the-mornings-if-she-hasn't-had-her-coffee Dana. However, don't fear, we won't be bombarding you with references to the Queen, hooliganism and drinking tea, as scavenging the plethora of tables with the enthusiasm of a child on Christmas Eve will be our American field reporters, observing all the action with the keenest of eyes.

Play is scheduled to commence at 12pm (Las Vegas time), so until then, sleep tight and dream of aces. I dreamt of aces once, but they still got busted. I run so bad.

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No Sign of Kick-Off, But I Felt I Should Post

Good morning all, and welcome back to the cavernous Amazon Room. Amazon Room makes it sound considerably more exotic than it is - Gigantic Poker Factory would have rung better, but might have somewhat compromised the Rio theming.

Anyway, the Amazon Factory currently feels incredibly huge what with only a mere smattering of the field that we are expecting now lurking in the room, but come noon it should be seething with both players and our worryingly keen field reporters alike...

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 0

Getting It Started

As seems to be the norm here at the Amazon Room, today's players are greeted with the dulcet tones of those cool dudes from the Black Eyed Peas. I haven't spotted the likes of poker veterans Doyle Brunson yet but I'm sure he leapt off his Brunsonmobile to bust a move as soon as the hip hop beat kicked in. And what about the likes of Cloutier, Stupak or maybe even Sklansky, I wonder if they swung those John Travolta hips when the Black Eyed Peas encouraged us to "get it started"?

If anyone is heeding that advice, then it's the tournament director, as he has just announced that we're off and underway.

Seething

As expected, the room has been hit by a massive influx of your everyday baseball caps, cowboy hats, sunglasses, massive headphones - in short, poker players. Current field stands at 657 on 70 tables - not quite record-breaking yet, but there's still time.

Oops

An unusual incident - apparently Kristy Gazes and an unknown player both showed up at the same table, holding the same ticket for the same event. Yikes. The floor guy is currently checking it out, but for the moment Kristy is sitting down playing and the unknown unfortunate is standing and staring worriedly into space...

More Coffee Please

oopsy daisy
oopsy daisy
Yes indeed , Dana's reports of an early mishap are true...

The World Series is becoming renowned for what, to your average poker player, is an early 12pm start, and it would appear as though poker hottie (OK, I confess, I have a soft spot) is an early sufferer.

Happily seated at Orange Table 7, Seat 2, Kristy was swiftly informed that she had got her colours mixed up and ought to be across the other side of the room at, yes, you guessed it... 'Blue' Table 7, Seat 2. Fortunately for her disgruntled substitute, she had only lost the small and big blind, but the tournament director made what I believe to be the fairest decision and replenished his stack as Kristy trundled over to her correct seat.

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Some Famous Faces

Michael Mizrachi
Michael Mizrachi
The big-name pros haven't turned their noses up at this relatively low buy-in event - among those so far spotted are Erik Seidel, JC Tran, Justin Bonomo, and Scott Clements sharing a table with David Sklansky.

More notables, most helpfully delivered to me on a bit of paper:

Mickey Appleman
William Baxter
John Cernuto
Scott Epstein
Zachary Hyman
David Singer
Victor Ramdin
Ron "Grumpy" Ware
Serial shirt and visor co-ordinator Dan Alspach
Mary Jones
Tad Jurgens
Allen Kessler
Alex "Teddy KGB" Kravchenko
Jason Mercier
Michael Mizrachi
Christopher Moore
Men "The Master" Nguyen
Patrick Poels
Greg Raymer
Dewey Tomko
An Van Tran
EPT Copenhagen champion Tim Vance
Lee Watkinson
Roy Winston

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