Congratulations, Monty. Please provide more updates. Very entertaining!

You might get a competitive advantage from a hydration pack and Depends? Go for it. Unleash the kracken!

Have friends that have been coming and going as the series has played out. No huge scores for them yet. The things I’ve heard have been the new venue is significantly better than the Rio. Also Covid has been sweeping through the rooms, but there are a lot of people suspected of playing while sick.

I’ll check the updates before I leave for work here on the East Coast. Crazy that some of the tournaments are still playing down when I’m leaving for work. Can’t imagine grinding the entire series at my age let alone 20 years from how.

Although the big money has always been at the top, I’m sure you remember just a few years ago when generally only the top 10% paid so the min-cashes were a little bigger.

Did you play in the Seniors event? Saw old school Kathy Liebert was doing very well. Good luck in the Super!

I'm not sure if he's in this round but if you see Steve Albini, please say "Hi" for me

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Good luck in the WSOP. I mainly play online on America’s Cardroom.

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That's pretty awesome!

How does the tourney work? I'm assuming you spent a certain amount of cash to buy in. I didn't realize you could just cash out at some point.

So you buy in for like $X, and they give you $10,000 in chips, or something, right? Seat you with 9 other players. Play down until you've got 5, and then join you with another table of 5? Or am I way off?


There was a time I was really into TH no limit tourney poker. I played weekly with a group, and some free online stuff. The online stuff sucked because there was no money involved, people made stupid bets, which more or less randomizes the results. I got pretty good at calculating odds and making smart plays. I never improved at reading bluffs or utilizing it myself.

I tried setting up a regular game with the neighbors several years ago, but I hated the way they played.

Anyway, congrats on making it so far through such a big tourney!

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How does the tourney work? I'm assuming you spent a certain amount of cash to buy in. I didn't realize you could just cash out at some point. //

You pay a certain amount for a set amount of chips, and when you run out of chips, you get paid if you are in the top 10 to 15%. You dont just quit, you get fired!

Have friends that have been coming and going as the series has played out. No huge scores for them yet. The things I’ve heard have been the new venue is significantly better than the Rio. Also Covid has been sweeping through the rooms, but there are a lot of people suspected of playing while sick. //

I have no doubt that covid is spreading like a wildfire, I counted maybe 3% of us actually wearing masks, and maybe 20% of the dealers. And think about it, you are going deep into a tourney, you get sick, but you basically have to keep going if you want to win your money. That is a huge incentive to keep going in sick, not to mention that it is a total cattle call in there, with 10's of thousands crushing each other. And then you sit at a table for hours and hours, right nest to the same folks(until I bust them out) so it is a Petri dish for spreading the virus. I hope my N95 is doing its job for me, along with my quadruple vax.


For now I like the Rio better, this is just too spread out between the Paris and Ballys, and they are gouging the shit out of the players at just about every establishment. I went for a small cup of black coffee, and at the register she says that will be 14 bucks!!! Then I had a shitty 18 dollar burrito(similar to Taco Bell) for dinner, cannot even imagine what a real decent meal costs in there. So now I wait for the game to start, and get the same exact cup of coffee from the drink service for a rich tip..


I did play in the seniors event, made it 8 hours before busting out. The over 50 group is not quite as predictable as the over 60, so looking forward to that game tomorrow. Did finally have time and energy to swim today, but that is for another thread on that other forum..


Thanks for the well wishes everyone, I will post updates and answer any questions on this new venue in the era of covid..

Keep grinding Monty!!!!!!!!

So day 1 of the seniors in the books, and I had the hardest day I have ever spent playing poker. Got KK and QQ in the first 3 hands played, and had both of them cracked to relegate me to a very short stack. I played that stack for the next NINE hours, inching up, only to get another great hand cracked. It was my best short stack effort, ever..

But made it to the midnight cutoff, and going back today to battle the last 700 or so that are left from the original 2700 starts. I dont have a ton of chips, but just checked, and there are hoards of short stacks, and the money bubble is at 400, and I'm sitting about 200th at this point. So probably be patient, try and make the money, then get aggressive and try and get some chips to continue to day 3. But most likely this will be my last day, unless I can change the dynamic of my great hands getting cracked every time I get my head above water...

Fun tourney, old people are more friendly and predictable. Only reason I'm still around...

Not many chips and 200/700? Yup, sounds like a old person tournament! Everyone waiting for premiums while getting blinded out. Ha! I can imagine that bubble is going to be excruciating. Good luck!

No kidding, tighter is righter!! Just finished first level of the day and chipped up to double the average stack. Saw James Woods name high up on the board, hope I get to eventually play with him, he’s a hoot. His 180 IQ is a little daunting though

What’s the scene like there? You’re inside a big cavernous casino with tons of people and tables? Mostly men or are there women, too? Lots of background noise? Everybody wearing sweaters because of a/c?

Let’s get a report, man. How’s morale?

So age for the senior is what? 29 And super seniors 35?

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

I really miss poker sometimes hearing stuff like this.

Like, if you understand the concepts of payouts and “blinded out” you don’t even need to know the rules of the game.

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Not many women but 2 at my table with big stacks. We’re down in the low 300’s now that the money bubble has burst, and a new aggressive guy just showed up with a half million in chips. Playing almost every hand too will look for a spot to double on him. Still sitting at just over 200k

Got in a monster pot with loose aggressive guy and he spiked his king against my pocket nines, 600k pot, ouch!! Made it to dinner break with a much smaller stack, 2 more hour’s tonight and I make day3 again. Down to low 100’s left, so time to get lucky 🍀

Good luck, Monty!

Got it! Thanks!

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Same. It's been a while but the game still pulls at me.

Kinda like how I fell back into golf, come to think of it.

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Gotta win those flips! Happy to hear you had him covered. Hope you were able to run it back up.

I want to play online but I’m afraid of bots and scams.

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I've still got like $5K in winnings in a Full Tilt Poker account that I can't access. Fuck that noise.

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Why haven’t you gotten paid? The gov’t allowed Pokerstars to repay the player pool when they took it over. The EFT’s literally said “DOJ payment” or something like that. Not a single person I know didn’t eventually get their money. I’m not sure what the statute of limitations was on claiming that money, but you may want to reach out to Pokerstars.

I stopped trying to figure it out a long time ago...I'll re-check it, thanks!

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So they broke my table with an hour to go last nite, and I ended up on a table full of sharks with huge stacks. I had 230k and each round cost 50k, so I was pretty much in a shove or fold mode. I let A8 and A9 go into the much in early positions, both would have won. Ended up in a blind battle with no raises, my K5 flopped a pair of K's and of course I'm all in. Dude limped with KJ suited in the big blind and snapped, and I got exactly 100th place, for a 2800 cash.

All in all really fun to be live again, the game is so much different that online. In fact, many of the online players I encountered were really bad, they could not adjust too well to the much slower live play dynamic. I did 3 WSOp tourneys, and went fairly deep in 2 of them for $4,100 cashes, so at least paid for my trip with the family, and now can enjoy what time is left with bowling, arcades, movie, and the pool!!!

In another life I feel I could have been one of those poker pros that make a living, but the grind is not condusive to an athletes lifestyle. Besides getting offered swimming scholarships coming out of high school, I actually had a math one too. So this game came really easy to me, and my lifeguarding skills of reading people rounded out the quiver of things you need to be a winning player. I do hope to soon be able to spend a month here instead of just a week, and grind like a real poker pro and see what I could come up with.

The 50k players championship was running right next to us most the time, so pretty fun to go ride the rail and watch the folks that paid $50,000 just to enter!!! I would love to do that, and you only have to compete against 112 players. But sort of like saying you get to be one on one in a basketball game, only your opponents are LeBron and Curry...

Thanks everyone for being my railbirds, wish I could have gotten closer to that final table, but I will take this as a win...

Thanks for posting, sounds like you had fun. Maybe you could invent something like speed golf, except for swim poker, Phil Hellmuth in speedo? Yikes

Nice trip report. Are you playing online out of California? What site or sites?

I want to play online but I’m afraid of bots and scams.//

Back when it was legal here in CA, I made an extra few 1000's every few months just playing those little dollar tourneys with 15 to 20k+ people in them. I dont think you had to worry there about any nonsense, but the high level heads up games could be scary. If it comes back here, I will probably play small satellites with decent buy ins, just so you dont have to be online for 8 hours to see if you are doing ok. From all the commercials I have been seeing from the Indian casinos here, seems like it is on the ballot and they are full force trying to stop it.


Really funny to see these commercials about gambling addictions, and all the other ailments that come from it, all bought and paid for by the biggest gambling group in the state.. "Dont waste your money online, when you can waste it in our Casinos!!"


I have to now go play some cash games, have to get all the bad taste of tournament poker out of my mouth. Folding suited 10J, or KQ or A10 off every single time out of position, well it just isn't as much fun as letting it fly, and able to just buy back in if you get cold decked or sucked out on....

That sounds really interesting and great, and I wish I understood the gambling lingo. Congratulations! Have fun during the rest of your vacation. I’m psyched it was so fun already!

You need to take those winnings and put it on black. One spin for it all. You had panned to lose it anyway so might as well try to win big. Ha!

Turns out I might be heading there in a couple of weeks. Wife got invited to a meeting. If I join, I’d have to go a day or two early to play event 85 “The Closer” and I’d be there for event 88 “Super Turbo NL”. If I do, I’ll post back here, but don’t plan on me running as deep as you did!

Congrats. Really enjoyed reading your updates.

I also use my math aptitude for evil by playing poker, mostly $1-$2NL or $2-$5NL where you can pretty much guarantee a positive session if you pick on the right players. I've never done the WSOP but it's definitely on the bucket list.

And your lifeguarding skill of being able to park your ass in a chair for several hours ;) //

Ha ha, hadn't thought about that, but you are right. Many hours of quiet boredom, punctuated by small moments of intense concentration. I figured I did about 40 hours of that chair sitting in less than 4 days, and my back is killing me. Even doing stretching and exercises on breaks, I still am not ready for some much butt time...

my nephew is playing right now, just made it to the finals.

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He made it to the final four tables, left with a little over 200K.

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He made it to the final four tables, left with a little over 200K. //

HE is living the poker players dream, going really deep into the main event. But that comes with some good and bad feelings too. You got so close to that final table you could almost taste it, so you will agonize over some of the last couple hour decisions, but you also got to rarified air and put up a really good cash for playing well for over a week straight..I hope that I can one day pony up the 10k and give it a shot, but in the meantime I will play the lower buy ins and continue to improve why tournament game and strategies...

A woman with big stacks at poker table is a trap.

I was the same. And I think I wouldn't try it if my friend didn't persuade me. Though it has to be noted, there is a difference between online poker and live poker. Online poker plays considerably faster than live poker (online you'll see 60 hands per hour (or more) at a given table and even more in short-handed games), and some who prefer playing online find the live game too tedious to tolerate. As I'm not planning to visit a real casino in the nearest future, I play poker online on 클레오카지노 now and then. It is fun and helps me not to lose skills.

sounds really cool. I'm new to poker but I like the game and all casino games. I'm into slot games right now, I play booming games online the most. It's easy way to win some extra cash while playing. Plus it's entertaining. My fav games are Winner Cup and Chicago Night. Hope one day the lady luck will be on my side and I'll win a jackpot.

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