Checking Out the Casino
I'm going downstairs after my Paradise final table and am going to check out the casino. It's not open until 2:00pm, but I figure I'll poke around and see what I need to do to get a media pass. Brought the Intervault biz cards. If all goes well I might be able to take some pretty decent pics of some of the players and give a good report.
Gianna's taking a little nap, trying to get ready for the long day ahead. It's her first major tournament, and it looks like a few big names are coming out after all. Greg Raymer, Marcel Luske, Justin Bonomo (ZeeJustin on stars), John Gale (the guy who took down the WPT @ Atlantis), and maybe the best of them all... Noah Boeken.
And then there's Gianna... the sexiest poker player in the tournament. We woke up today and she was pretty on edge. Got really upset when the hair dryer in the room wouldn't work and she thought she'd have to go win the tournament and be on tv with frizzy hair. I actually didn't think it looked bad at all, but then she kindly reminded me that I didn't know a thing about hair and have no fashion sense at all. Since it's pretty unusual for me to do anything to my own hair except maybe run my fingers through it when I roll out of bed, I had to concede the point.
I've been hiding it because I don't want her to go into that tourney stressed out, but I'm really nervous for Gianna. The girl can play, no doubt. But it doesn't matter how good you are... the chances of cashing in an event are never that great. Even Daniel N doesn't cash in the majority of the tourneys he plays... though he definitely seems to win more than his fair share.
Here we are in the middle of freezing cold Copenhagen... just travelled halfway across the world for this thing. If Gianna gets knocked out before making the money, I know she's going to take it pretty hard. Especially if she feels like she was muscled out. I'm really praying that she'll be so on top of her game and beat down all the guys who try to make plays at her because they don't think a tiny sex-vixen can play cards.
I remember how intimidated I was the first time I sat down at a major. It was the first Grand Slam of Poker at the Hustler tournament. It was a crazy series, because the winner could choose between super bowl tickets or actually having a spread in the magazine. The fine print read that the magazine could choose not to put you in a spread if you were fat and butt ugly. Didn't matter anyway, since the winner chose the super bowl over being naked in a magazine. I'm not sure what I would have chosen if I had won, but I will say that I'm not really a big football fan.
I had Mike Caro, Yosh and Adam Schoenfeld at my table... and Men Nguyen with his lucky molehair directly on my right. Men ended up busting me with quad sixes against my ATo when the flop came 66T. I was crushed... hung my head down low and returned to San Jose with about 10% of the confidence I had when I went down to LA.
So if you're reading this... say a silent prayer for my girl G. She deserves to win every tournament she plays.
Gianna's taking a little nap, trying to get ready for the long day ahead. It's her first major tournament, and it looks like a few big names are coming out after all. Greg Raymer, Marcel Luske, Justin Bonomo (ZeeJustin on stars), John Gale (the guy who took down the WPT @ Atlantis), and maybe the best of them all... Noah Boeken.
And then there's Gianna... the sexiest poker player in the tournament. We woke up today and she was pretty on edge. Got really upset when the hair dryer in the room wouldn't work and she thought she'd have to go win the tournament and be on tv with frizzy hair. I actually didn't think it looked bad at all, but then she kindly reminded me that I didn't know a thing about hair and have no fashion sense at all. Since it's pretty unusual for me to do anything to my own hair except maybe run my fingers through it when I roll out of bed, I had to concede the point.
I've been hiding it because I don't want her to go into that tourney stressed out, but I'm really nervous for Gianna. The girl can play, no doubt. But it doesn't matter how good you are... the chances of cashing in an event are never that great. Even Daniel N doesn't cash in the majority of the tourneys he plays... though he definitely seems to win more than his fair share.
Here we are in the middle of freezing cold Copenhagen... just travelled halfway across the world for this thing. If Gianna gets knocked out before making the money, I know she's going to take it pretty hard. Especially if she feels like she was muscled out. I'm really praying that she'll be so on top of her game and beat down all the guys who try to make plays at her because they don't think a tiny sex-vixen can play cards.
I remember how intimidated I was the first time I sat down at a major. It was the first Grand Slam of Poker at the Hustler tournament. It was a crazy series, because the winner could choose between super bowl tickets or actually having a spread in the magazine. The fine print read that the magazine could choose not to put you in a spread if you were fat and butt ugly. Didn't matter anyway, since the winner chose the super bowl over being naked in a magazine. I'm not sure what I would have chosen if I had won, but I will say that I'm not really a big football fan.
I had Mike Caro, Yosh and Adam Schoenfeld at my table... and Men Nguyen with his lucky molehair directly on my right. Men ended up busting me with quad sixes against my ATo when the flop came 66T. I was crushed... hung my head down low and returned to San Jose with about 10% of the confidence I had when I went down to LA.
So if you're reading this... say a silent prayer for my girl G. She deserves to win every tournament she plays.
posted by Dutch Boyd at
03:32
1 Comments:
Dutch,
Tell her good luck and to just play her game..Think of it this way..usually about 10% of the players cash..that's easy- it's just like winning a 10man sit n go on paradise :)
Mike Smith
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