Subject: WSOP 2003, Days 30 &31: Having a super time, wish you were here From: greatbrit Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 00:45:33 -0700 Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker Yesterday I got a free seat in the $225 super, it only cost me $250. I had to play five, you heard me, of those $50 sat-sats to finally win one. The last two days it's been all about the super satellites, the place is absolutely packed with main events running, supers all day, a final table going, plus the cameras crews have just shown up to kick the plugs out from my clocks again and set up their equipment. They are now expecting over 700 for the main event, three supers running a day (an 11 p.m. now), they gave out about 12 seats in the 4pm today and probably at least that tonight in the 8:45, from which I just busted out. There were over 300 players, I got down to about 50 (with no rebuys) then made a terrible mistake. I won't bore you with the details, but the gist of it was I knew I was up against AA or KK, and I called anyway. Ugh. I have two more chances tomorrow to get a seat, otherwise I'll become just another railbird, from what I've seen that's not one of the top ten professions to be in. Even my spell checker wanted to change it to 'jailbird'. Today was Matt Savage's inauguration into the Tournament Directors Hall of Fame. Several people gave speeches saying what a phenomenal job Matt has done this year and last, which he has, I don't think anyone could have done better, making it very bizarre that the latest plan (it's been a badly kept secret up until now, but was disclosed during the speeches) is apparently to have a different TD every year. I have no idea why, all the people giving speeches hoped for him to be back next year and for Binion's to reconsider their policy, I hope they do. I have two friends back in town so I think there will be some more partying going on, plus the supers, plus I have some work to do, so it's going to be a very busy couple of days leading up to the final event. The excitement buzz is everywhere, it's been the greatest WSOP ever and it's about to get even better. Time to go get a hangover. Paul