Subject: Reno Hilton World Poker Challenge - Day 11
From: greatbrit <pwestley@pacbell.net>
Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker
Date: Wed, Jan 16, 2002 1:02 AM
Message-ID: <3C45419B.C633211E@pacbell.net>

The British are coming, the British are coming.  Today at the final
table of the $540 no-limit were two (or maybe three) English blokes.
This was the longest ever final table, started at 4pm, was scheduled for
about 4-5 hours, and was only down to 5 players at midnight!  Then three
went out fast (Tom McEvoy was one of them) and I headed off to bed with
two still left, 32K and 16K left to play for, I don't think they had
made a deal.  They have finally put up the bleachers they had last year,
makes it much more exciting to watch when a crowd has gathered.

I played in two $115 satellites today and redeemed myself from
yesterday's 3 losses by chopping first place in both for a nice profit
for the day.  They didn't change the format so we still start with 1000
chips and one 25 dollar blind, this gives a huge amount of play, one of
my satellites lasted 100 minutes!  With me new found wealth I'm even
thinking of playing the pot limit holdem tomorrow (that's my game... :)
) but it's $540 + multiple rebuys, a bit out of my league and I don't
want to play if they don't have a decent sized field as I seem to do
much better when the field is large.  The problem will be if I go in
deciding not to rebuy, that will put me at a disadvantage.

Rick Da Voice will be broadcasting live from Reno Hilton at the final
table of the final event, the broadcast is being presented by
cardplayer.com, they sent me their animated banner ad today so I'll be
displaying it on the clock when I can, now I'm hoping they will offer
some prizes.  Talking of advertizing, a few people asked me to display
their ads where they were offering discounts to the poker players on
goods or services, but were not offering prizes up front.  Although this
is something I will try to cover in the future (by having rotating ads
that just appear for a few seconds at a time), I wasn't able to
re-negotiate a deal with Hilton for this tournament as I had already
made a promise that I would only have real sponsors offering actual
prizes (with about  $500 minimum).  Sorry guys, especially you Frank,
hopefully next time...

Paul