LAS VEGAS–It\’s gettin\’ kinda funky in here. As the intensity of the on-the-table action ramps up, everything else is dying down. They\’re tearing down the tables in the tent and throughout the Amazon rooms, the cash games hearken back to a low-rent poker room (with just a few smallish stakes games going), the Lewis family is headed back to Houston … just a couple hours ago a guy from Pokerwire was being staked 60-40 for some online play by some online pro — I have no idea who, but he reportedly has had as much as 141k in his Full Tilt account.
\”Don\’t worry if you lose the first thousand,\” he said. \”I can keep giving it to you $1,000 at a time.\”
Meanwhile, at \”the crossroads\” right outside the Amazon Room, Max Pescatori was talking to Jason from Full Tilt about a potential endorsement deal for an online phenom named Dario. (He\’s the kid who bought a Porsche with his PokerStars points.) And we have new security guards on duty. One of them was advising (in a whisper) some Germans to go to \”The Green Door\” — a Las Vegas swingers club — and his replacement is talking WWII history to anyone who will listen.
Should be even more different as Day 5 moves on. Speaking of … with 112 players remaining, Josh Evans enters Day 5 with exactly 1,792,000 chips — enough to put him in the top 20. Everyone redrew for tables, and an exact map of who\’s sitting where is forthcoming. But I looked at the bagged chips on his table, and while he\’s not the chip leader, he should be relatively comfortable, with only three others in his chip vicinity.