So as Karridy tells us, Tom has had a successful Day 1 so far at the WPT World Poker Challenge in Reno, nearly tripling his stack. Sweet. It\’s still early, so lots of people are still alive. But I couldn\’t help but notice that Clonie is also kicking ass, as is Chantel McNulty* … and her old beau Dustin \”Neverwin\” Woolf. Juicy. And speaking of juicy, Karridy\’s favorite Texas man-with-big-hands, TJ Cloutier, is alive and fine with a slightly below-average chip stack.
I wonder how many days Tom will have to survive before CardPlayer (which so far seems to have the best coverage of this event) will take note. From CP:
Sun Mar 25 12:06:00 PDT 2007
Big Names in the Field
The Big names that have already been spotted are: Barry Greenstein, Joe Sebok, Mike Matusow, Daniel Negreanu, Ted Forrest, Erick Lindgren, Victor Ramdin, Barry Shulman, Chau Giang, Clonie Gowen, David Singer, David Williams, Devin Porter, Gavin Smith, JC Tran, Nam Le, James Van Alstyne, John Juanda, Layne Flack, Michael Mizrachi, Phil Laak, Ralph Perry, Sean McCabe, and Bill Edler.
UPDATE (10 pm pacific): Clonie is out. Chantel still kicking butt. Tom just took a huge hit, but I don\’t know much about it, because CP doesn\’t pay attention to his cards.
UPDATE UPDATE: Text from Tom (at 10:34 pm pacific) says, \”Fuck everyone im out\”. Yikes, dude, sorry. Interestingly, the CardPlayer Live Updates did not take note of Tom\’s exit. I am typing this extra small because I don\’t think this is the sorta thing he would really want to hear right now.
*If Chantel can score big here, I gotta think her standard usage in the Pokerati Stylebook will be elevated to a one-word name.
