Subject: Reno Hilton World Poker Challenge - Day 18 From: greatbrit Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker Date: Wed, Jan 23, 2002 1:30 AM Message-ID: <3C4E82D3.20365A1A@pacbell.net> No luck today in the $330 limit holdem (about 90 entries). I found a new nemesis, not sure who he is but he always had a better hand (JJ vs QQ, KK vs AA being the two biggies) and I was gone within 3 hours. I think he won the event and Jack Fox came second (or maybe Jack won?), either way, congrats Jack, I watched you for a while and you played great. Tonight I played in the super-sat again, they had a near record 5 tables, gave away two seats and money for the next 3 places. I played well but when the blinds started getting big (300-600) I made my move UTG with half my chips (1600) with AT, got called by 99 in the SB, and called all-in the 678 flop with my remaining 1500. Was that a wise move? I don't know but with 1500 to get through the 300 and 600 blinds I thought calling was a better choice, and blinds were about to go to 500-1000. An interesting situation arose with three left. They were trying to make a deal, but the rule is that if you already have a seat you get the 5K in cash, otherwise you have to take the seat. So the chip leader 'A' already had a seat, the second chip leader 'B' didn't want one, and the third guy 'C' didn't have one and wanted one. They were all fairly close in chips and the blinds were about to make it a crap shoot - there were 70,000 chips in play, blinds were going to 4000-2000. Places were 1) seat + 300, 2) seat + 300 3) 1700. A was willing to give up some money but C wasn't (because he would have to take the seat, so would need to come up with money out of his own pocket to pay off B). B wanted them to both come up with 1K (so he would get 1700+1K + 1K), not an unreasonable request, but unworkable given C's situation, so the only deal he could get was an extra 1K from A. So they played on, the blinds went out of control and they ended up just shoving in their stacks every hand. C got busted with AJ against B's AQ two hands later so ended up with just the 1700. Tomorrow is the start of the main event, the 5K No Limit. It may have less than 30 players, they are going to start at 2pm, play down to the final table, then come back the next day at 2pm. There were big behind the scenes debates on what they would do if all the players knocked eachother out early and wanted to finish in one day. I suggested the obvious solution of invoking a 'no raising' rule, but noone listens to me. Also tomorrow is a $120 + rebuy (or rebuys?) evening limit holdem event, I'll be playing in that to try to end on an up note. At midnight Linda Johnson and Amarillo Slim were still going at it in there Omaha hi-lo freezeout. I watched for a while, an exciting moment occured when Slim took a deep breath so was unable to talk for a few seconds, Linda took the opportunity to raise his blind. Paul