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    09.05.06

    They Say The Camera Adds Ten Pounds

    posted by Absinthe | 6:00 PM

    All of it in the chin area, apparently. I was in the sports bar at Commerce grabbing a bite before tonight’s prelim California State Poker Championship tourney, looked up and saw myself busting Chris Ferguson out of the Main Event. A surreal beginning to the evening.
    These tourneys start at 6 and the rules say they play either 12 hours or to the final table. The blind escalations really only allow for maybe an hour or so of play, so it’s pretty much just like an online tourney, except I can’t massacre virtual zombies or catch up with my TiVo while I’m playing. It does let me catch up on my sleep, though.
    Probably won’t do any live-blogging unless I manage to go deep. Guy who registered me said they’d have at least 300 but my guess is closer to 500ish, which would put 750k chips in play. When we get deep par stacks will probably have an M of… 8ish? Figuring on that rate of attrition tonight should go until…
    ….dammit, I need a napkin. To about the 2000/4000/500 level, maybe? Levels are 40 minutes starting at 25/25. So 3AMish, I’m guessing. People with better math-on-the-fly skills than I and more time on their hands are welcome to set a line and find suckers.

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    5 Responses to “They Say The Camera Adds Ten Pounds”

    1. Easycure Says:
      September 5, 2006 at 7:06 PM

      Good luck, King of Kings Killer……

    2. Pokerpeaker Says:
      September 6, 2006 at 2:54 PM

      HI Ryan! I saw you on TV. Your best move was just sitting there instead of OH YEAH BABY I JUST BUSTED JESUS!!! WHO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      Saw far too much of that in this broadcast. Thanks for showing a little class.

    3. iamhoff Says:
      September 6, 2006 at 7:51 PM

      I’m with Peak…nice job not getting all happy on yourself for busting Jesus. It was pretty cool, looking up at the TV and going, “sonofabitch! there’s ryan!” Nice job, amigo.

    4. Absinthe Says:
      September 6, 2006 at 10:34 PM

      My wife said, “You actually looked disappointed when you won the hand.” Which is true. I sympathize with people who lose, because it happens to me a lot. I sympathize even more with people whose losses simply must be documented by three roving cameras.

    5. Up For Poker Blog Says:
      September 25, 2006 at 5:00 AM

      links from TechnoratiBloggers on ESPN by CJ [IMG dmitri.jpg] Okay, so it’s not like I busted Jesus or something… But ESPN found it in their collective hearts to include me in tonight’s WSOP coverage nonetheless. As many of you know, I closely followed Dmitri Nobles during my time with Team PokerStars Blog (picture from

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