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    01.25.07

    Curtain

    posted by Absinthe | 4:30 PM

    They’ve announced 94 tables, and we start 10-handed; last year there were 1148 runners so a quarter of the field could be alternates. Six tables pay, and those are 9-handed tables, so 54 places pay. Less than 5% of the field, in other words. Looking that far forward is obviously fruitless.
    There’s a new cell phone rule this year - if you’re on one after the first card is dealt off the deck your hand is dead. Updates will probably thus be limited to breaks or bustouts. The daemon that updates the blog for me only triggers every half hour anyway, so you’ll never be that far afield of the action.
    People are starting to take their seats. Guy three to my left is apparently something of a comedian, playing dumb and asking if he could sit at this table, pretending he didn’t know you needed to register. Here’s hoping he’s an equally good player!

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    1. Pokerface - Main page - Poker Professionals... - poker, gambling, texas holdem, full house Says:
      January 26, 2007 at 3:31 PM

      links from Technorati[IMG Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting] Since I can not find any live reporting on these interwebs this morning we’ll go straight to the source with defending champ of the first event Ryan Kallberg at Absinthetics. Here’s his first post while getting ready to do battle with California’s not-so-finest card runner’s: People are starting to take their seats. Guy three to my left is apparently something of a comedian, playing dumb and asking if he could sit at this table, pretending he

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