Final Heat and closing thoughts to the Premier League

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I went out first…. I netted 44k for my efforts.... (96k for prize money in the previous heats won, and 50k for my 6th place finish.)
100k was the entry.

: (          6th place.

: )          netting 44k!

It is all in the way you look at it....

The entire event was incredible… I was super duper pleased with everything in spite
of me not getting a good result in the last and most impt heat.

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Random story – Something that I think the poker world will think is incredibly funny.

A bit of gossip surrounded Luke “Bubblegum” Schwartz’s arrival to the States:
that it came at some cost.  I was curious.  What was this all about?
Was it something innocent or did it maybe involve missing sandwiches?

It turns out that Luke was the central character in a little story I have decided to title…

            “Luke arrives Late to the Airport.”

Before I share the email, two quick things.

1) I promised not to reveal my source.
2) I promised not to reveal the name of the airline.

In all its glory… the following email was sent FROM the airline to the booking agent in charge
of Luke’s travel.

This is it…. VERBATUM….

“I though you night like to know about these 2 paxs we had to deal with today.

They turned up at 1035am 15mins past closure for the flight and he had not
completed there ESTA for entry into the US.
He said he had but he was on the phone to his mother (swearing at her )
because she was trying to do there ESTA and he she was not doing it quick
enough for him.
The checkin supervisor then said the flight was closed and we could not
take him and he went beserk, swearing and kicking the desks.
I called sales and was advised that the ticket was not changeable or
refundable and as he had turned up late with no esta they was nothing they
could do. I told the passenger and was greeted with another barrage of F
words and we told him to leave the desk and we would not serve him anymore."


I wish I had a video of that blow up!

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The Premier League was a great time..  I heard that they are thinking of raising the
entry fee next year and expand it from 12 to 16.  I think that is a great idea.

Off to LA today for the WPT Celebrity Invitational.

(PS.  If you are in the first 100 people to sign up for the 10k event in LA for the 26th you
get an automatic entry into this event!  Very cool... it used to be that you had to pre-register
for the 25k event at Bellagio to get into this fun freeroll."

Later

Phil

Last Heat

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O points.  At least it is a number/result that appeals to my synesthetic aestheicism.  Zero, a perfect number.

I don't think I really have synesthesia.... but it is possible... I know that I can be quite enamored by the odd number purity things here and there but true synesthesia is actually a bit different.  Though there are more or less 60 variants.. the most generic definition / the giant brush picture would be this..

Synesthesia is a sensation felt in one part of the body when stimulus is applied to another part.  (i.e. visualization of a color on hearing a sound.) 

It wouldn't surprise me if I had some sort of low level variant of it though...... I wouldn't mind it if I did... things have been working out after all,,, right?

Anyway... O points. 

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There are 6 of us at the final table manana...

Me
Benyamine
Giovanni
Bubblegum

Picture of him in action... (Courtesy of Mickey May of Matchroom Sport!)

The last two will be the respective winners of the following two heats..

Negreanu vs Tran
and
Frazer vs De Wolfe

The prize money will be

1st 400k
2nd 200k
3rd 100k
4th 80k
5th 70k
6th 50K

(and all 12 contestants have already logged money in the bank from the already in place 2000 dollars per point system that was in place....

Me             96k
Benyamine 76k
Giovanni     58k
Bubblegum 58k
Negreanu    52k
Frazer         52k
De Wolfe     44k
Tran           40k
Hellmuth     38k    
Yevgeniy     32k
Rousso       32k
Tony G       22k

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I like that it will be 6 handed... I like 6 handed... all the games online now are essentially 6 max... or at least where all the action has been in the ring games.

I like that Bubblegum is in for sure... He is always fun at a poker table....

I like that we don't have to start til 4 p.m.

(This means that I get to sleep unitl I am done being tired.  Which is what I am used to.)

I like that JC Tran has started using the 40% line.  (When playing two suited cards threee gapper or lower).  I started up with this about 6 months ago and it did seem to be getting traction.  But now with JC helping carry the torch... who knows... it may someday become standard poker venacular.   (i.e. "How could I fold? I started with 40% of a straight flush!")

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Movies...

Saw Daybreakers... Amazing stuff... Best vampire movie I may have ever seen... Will have to double check that, but for now I am going with it.  VERY COOL VAMP FLICK>>> VERY COOL.  I knew I was gonna love that flick.

Next on the map... Wolfman!  The trailers are nutso cool.

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Later...

Phil

 

 

 

Elvis

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Forgot to tell you guys... Saw the new Elvis Show at Area (Cirque du Solei) on Valentines day with Jennifer.

It rocked... Elvis is the King... Such the man... wow.

Two random comments on that show.

1) Happy they didn't have some guy running around trying to be Elvis... They left that up to old footage used as background visuals for the Elvis 'presense'.

2) The bit with all the comic guys being super heros and flying all over the place... That was the best bit of entertainment I have seen in a long while!

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Later

Phil

 

Premier League - 3 and 0

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8 * 8 is 64
and 64 *8 is 512

One time in 512 times.. that is about what it takes to win three in a row...

I was just trying to crawl forward into more points .... but I ended up finding a win as I tried...

The first bit of the day was actually very active with lots of pots building... (which I was happy enough with... because whenever anyone goes out... you get
a few more points...) However... the banter didn't get going til mid-day for some reason..

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Here is a pic of the starting line up...

 

 

This is a pic of me short against Benyamine with my KQ os vs his A9 os (I guess it was taken before the flop but after the bad news... I was behind... again....)

 

And this was us a bit later... waiting for flop... sometimes they take a bit of time as it is a TV thing....

 

Obv I got there... after that the stacks were about the same for a LONG while... many hands... It was a bit before the final one.....

 

And this was after yet another suck out... my K10 os vs his AK os..  How I won three of these things in a row is anyones guess....

 

All Pics by Mickey May of Matchroom Sport... Thanks Mickey!  U rule!

Random observation.

On all three heats I played the final two players always had chip stacks of 1,880,000 vs 520,000 .... IDENTICAL in all three matches..
How nutso is that...

 

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Manana... (8 hrs from now) Jesse May and I will be commentating on Heat 5.  This will be a blast for sure...

 

Cheers all...

Phil