Subject: Reno Hilton World Poker Challenge - Days 7 & 8 From: greatbrit Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker Date: Sun, Jan 13, 2002 2:06 AM Message-ID: <3C415C38.99BF7D7A@pacbell.net> The report for Day 7 is lost in the email. My dog (if I had one) ate day 7. Day 7 is my day of rest. I got to bed at 5am so didn't have time for day 7... Day 7 actually isn't that interesting, I had two friends who had came up for the Omaha the day before, then we'd ended up playing heads up no limit poker in my room until 5am; I kept winning, a very rare occurence against these two, so we had to keep playing until the sub-space temporal rift repaired itself. Day 7 was the pot limit omaha, I think they only had about 4 tables because this was also the day of the seniors event, I watched Kathy Liebert suffer a horrendous beat when she re-raised a huge amount with AKsAQs and got called (an extremely bad call) by 4668, the 37x,5 turn did her in and she was never able to recover from her short stack. The seniors had 167 players, I know this because I had a 5 cent bet with JohnnyD that it wouldn't go over 120. I tried to avoid him for the rest of the day but he finally pinned me down and I paid him off. I actually took the day off, had a nice time in town with a friend, walked along the river, went to Harrah's buffet for lunch ($10, a great deal for this place), then went to see Vanilla Sky because nobody had warned us not to. I played two satellites that night, lost them both. Day 8 was the $540 limit holdem, (180ish entries, 32K first place) that used to be my game. I literally went down to a chip (100) and a chair after a bad beat, then recovered and built it up to 1500 (started with 1000). Then I had my beat of the week: 3 limpers, I called with 88, another limper, then a raise and everyone called. Flop was 82K rainbow, I checked to the raiser, 3 callers, I called. Turn was a Q, I checked to the raiser, then check raised and we had one caller. River was another Q, I bet, the raiser raised, I just called, he had KQ, DOH! The pot was huge, if I had won that I would have had 4000 chips, been chip leader and had a good shot at the tournament, as it was I was now down to 400. Blinds went up to 50-100 and I made a move with J9s, would have worked too if the SB had just mucked his pocket Aces. IGHN. Last I saw, Miami John was huge chip leader going into the final table tomorrow. Tonight I took my first shot at the super-satellite for a seat in the 5K event, they've changed the chips, you now get 300 for $120, then multi $100 rebuys for 300 chips whenever you fall to 300 or less, then an add-on of 500 chips for $100. This gives a good amount of play. I came 4th. for $400 (cost me $220), I considered waiting for third for $800 but with the $5,400 value (seat + $300) of first place it seemed worth going for it, I'll probably try again. I then played video poker for only the second time this week, and hit four deuces for $210 profit, WOOO! One thing I keep forgetting to mention is the huge amount of play we are being given in the main events. Most days are 40+ minutes for the first 3 rounds, then an hour or more for subsequent levels, 1000 chips to start. The blinds start small, either 10-15 or a single 25 blind. Each tournament is designed (using the calculation ability of TEARS) to last 12 hours the first day, and 5 hours for the final table, so far they have been right on the money most days. I have heard that Tunica is only giving 500 chips and much faster rounds, anyone know if that's true? If you don't play blackjack you probably won't understand the punchline to this story...There is just one table in the whole tournament area that has a large notice on it saying 'no eating at this table'. Every day, out of all the empty tables, this is the only one where two or three people can be found eating. My friend asked someone we know at the table why he was eating there, he said he had been grandfathered in. Tomorrow is the $540 7 stud hi/lo, this is the same as the earlier $330 watching paint dry contest, only they are using the upgraded paint. I'll be sleeping. Paul