by Dan Michalski, Jul 12, 2006 | 7:08 pm

LAS VEGAS–Sharron and the Heiszes may have returned to Dallas, but the Lodge/Rounder contingent at the WSOP won’t go away. Right now, Doctor Steve and Bob Haney are playing in the seniors tourney. Bob is a slightly below average stack, while Doc just pulled down a big pot to put him comfortably above. By the way, yet another tourney that started out with more than the buy-in in tourney chips — 1,500 TC. Wonder if that means they’ll take out the $1k events next year. If not, they might as well do a $200 buy-in bracelet tourney … and start us off with like 3,600 or something.

Other Rounderish results:

Freddie didn’t do so well in the $1,000 … damn other guy made such a bad call … and then the ace came on the turn

Steve Sparks appears to be out of the seniors tourney.

Meanwhile, a group of Dallas players hit the Sahara for some non-WSOP action yesterday. Gina Torres won the tournament — about 100 players I believe — and Mary got 4th, thanks in part to a four-card flush against Gina’s aces. Don Jones took 8th in a different but similar tourney. Meanwhile, I wait for them all to take me out to a fancy dinner.

UPDATE: Bob Haney is out. “I made it two-thirds of the way through. Got my pocket aces cracked by pocket fives, when he flops quads … and then I went out with Ace-King suited and ran into aces.”

Doctor Steve is still alive and prospering. “He’s still at the same table,” Bob says. “I got moved three times.”

UPDATE: Doctor Steve ran out of chips as he neared the bubble.