Good morning. I hope you are having a wonderful day. I am here at the WSOP in the post-wee hours … pretty much just to show up Pauly. And to that extent, I\’m gonna bounce around the room a bit, saving and posting as I go along …
Speaking of … funny coincidence. As I was writing this, I had my iTunes on random, and this dueling-recorders interview between me and Pauly in 2005 just happened to come up.
OK, so anyhow, yes … the early hours at the WSOP … things never stop here in the Amazon room, but they do slow down dramatically — no tourneys going on, just five tables of cash action, ranging from a 2/5 NL game where the tired players are mostly just trading chips for the benefit of the rake … to a $25 7-stud game where stacks are in the thousands.
As much as I generally don\’t like mornings, the pace here during this time is much more my speed.
While just about every change at the WSOP this year has been an \”improvement,\” one terrible thing — no more free coffee for the media 24/7. Making matters more difficult pre-poker times: the kitchen is closed.
The added bathrooms for the WSOP are a reminder of poker\’s trailer-park roots (and its outhouse present).
But poker players expect certain niceties, so where else but the WSOP can you expect to see a port-a-pot with hardwood floors?
UPDATE: The slow period must be over … a sixth table just opened up in the cash area — it\’s either a 2/5 or 5/10 game. That\’s kinda funny, btw, to think how slow five tables is here — and yet how thrilled any poker room I know would be to be spreading 5 tables of NL (ranging from 2/5 to 10/20), some Omaha, and a big game of 7-stud hi/lo?
