Not-So-Historic Poker

There was a big tournament that didn\’t finish up until 11 am Dallas time yesterday. Chip Reese whittled away Andy Bloch to take the super-prestigious HORSE event bracelet. But that wasn\’t the only tourney going on at the WSOP. While the HORSE final table was coming to a conclusion, so was the $225 second-chance tourney. By the time I had to take off for the airport, Josh from Jackie\’s (in Dallas) was kicking ass.

It was a true \”second chance\” event for him. Josh had busted out of the $2k NLHE event relatively early. So he bought in to the second-chance with a drink-lots-of-tequila strategy in place. But with that, he accumulated a lot of chips. And eventually he decided, holy shit, I better shift gears. At that point it was all about Red Bull and massages. At the final table, he was a decidedly big stack after having knocked out more than a dozen people …

In the second chance tourney, Josh had the biggest gallery of fans.

He also was getting more media attention than any of the other players. And, of course, more chips.

In the end, he and the last two standing sitting would chop three ways — about $6k apiece. Not a bad return on $2,225 invested.