Subject: World Poker Open - Day 3 From: lvdlrs Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker Date: Mon, Jan 7, 2002 11:33 PM Message-ID: <3C3ABF51.9B68C228@midsouth.rr.com> Upon walking into the upstairs poker area, which is comprised of three convention rooms with the walls pulled out, and seeing the massive throng of staff, players and onlookers all scurring about laughing, talking, meeting up with old friends, an overwhelming warm fuzzy feeling surrounded me. Is this the best it's ever been? I pondered that question some. After all I have dealt or been a part of numerous major poker tournaments, dealt the final hand that determined a world champion and worked last year's WPO as the swing shift supervisor. Then the answer came. Yes this is the best. Wish you were here to share it. The tournament today was the $540 Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys. Tho we didn't break last years mark coming up a few entries short, we still had 141 entries with 172 rebuys. But check this out, at the same time in the live action area there were 5 Pot Limit Omaha games going that were so good the players didn't want to leave it to play the tournament. We could have easily broken the record if our side games just weren't that good. Wow. I had a player, who was gorging himself at our poker players buffet, tell me today that he'd been to poker tournaments around the world, and bar none this was the best. The treatment, the action, the food, all made the World Poker Open the best. What are you waiting for? There's still plenty of time left. Come on down and be a part of the best poker tournament the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be the highest number of entries we will see during our tournament. It is the $540 Limit Holdem. I drool at the thought of playing this one. I almost wish I wasn't working it, almost. Gary (...) Philips