LAS VEGAS–It wouldn\’t be a large venue if everything ran smoothly. You know, more cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth. Did I just make another kitchen comment? I gotta get out there.
The line to register for today\’s event ($1500 NL Holdem) snaked through the ropes, left the Amazon Room, turned the hallway and ended past the bathrooms way down the way for the twelve hours I was there. In other words…the line was much, much longer than the previous two years. So long in fact, that I and several other pros are not playing simply because we didn\’t want to wait to register. The satellite lines were shorter but still quite a wait.
Yesterday\’s hot topic was the new Bicycle playing cards. The nines and sixes looked the same. Not only did you need a monocle to read the tiny number on the top corner but you had to read the large numbers in the middle section of the card on the board simply because that\’s what was visible. So it was like playing with two different decks of cards. Oh, and Jeffrey Pollack\’s name on the back side of the card…was mispelled. Did that confuse you? That was the point because now you know how it truly felt to play with those cards.
I also had the chance to spend some time with the WCP boys. They are totally the guys you would want to bring home to mom a bunch of wild, rude, crude womanizers.
David Levi has made the final TV table for the Mandalay WPT main event.
Finally, I got a chance along with Tiffany Michelle to interview some players for PokerNews.com