Poker Player UK

Hello from Vegas. Hello from the city of lights and dreams. Hello from Adult Summer camp. The last time I was here for the World Series was six years ago when it was still at Binions. It filled their room in the top floor with maybe 30 poker tables with another room downstairs for satellites. There was very little commercial activity - except maybe the odd guy trying to sell a book he wrote. Well; things have changed. This year the World Series has literally blown my face off. (not literally of course or typing this would be hard, I love it when our increasingly infantile media do that; 'this announcement has literally shaken the world') It's hard to communicate the scale of the thing but the convention room is just a sea of poker tables and players; just incredible. There are also a slew of off pitch activities from sponsors and poker companies. This is poker's FA Cup final, Superbowl and Crufts and some massive trade show I don't know the name of all rolled into one. The main event starts today without me. My qualification attempts both online and live have been shot down in glorious failure. Actually not glorious they've drowned in a sea of either bad beats or card dead tedium. It really really sucks to be out here and not playing it; it sucks so much you're getting no further comment on it. The thing is they're still running satellites; actually right up to the evening of the last day; so I may get sucked in to another try or 4. Last night was party night on the eve of the series with several sponsors throwing bashes so I'm typing this a tiny weeny bit worse for wear. The last party was at a gentlemen's club; which is the most inappropriate name for a strip joint you can think of absolutely no evidence I can think of. Due to the influence of alcohol and being literally forced to try and fit in I...reluctantly....commissioned one of the girls for a dance (which for the uninitiated involves very little dancing and a lot of sitting on you in the nude). 5 minutes later she was telling me her life story. On the few occasions I've been to these 'clubs' this always happens to me. Anyway Coco recently lost her mother to cancer and has recovered from a tumour removal herself. Actually she was quite inspiring; perhaps she can inspire me to an 11th hour WSOP qualification.....

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Comment by Graeme Morl at 12:26am, 13 Jul 2007

got that video of you dancing in the "gentlemans club" if you want it haha

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Comment by MATT BROUGHTON at 4:06pm, 13 Jul 2007

"I...reluctantly....commissioned one of the girls for a dance"...

Funny. I thought poker players were meant to be good at maths, and yet you've made a very basic error. I'm pretty sure I counted more than one. Then again, I was busy being assaulted by drunk break-dancing loons.

Happy days.

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