I have no idea why but watching the main event is just different than watching any other tournament you may have played. It is statistically very much against you to win but watching it makes you feel as if you missed an opportunity. Here are a couple of my thoughts:
1. Man did they go easy on Montel Williams. I realize that he is a celebrity and he isn’t supposed to win but he had double the chips of everyone else (something like 190k) at one point.
2. I so enjoy the coverage ESPN puts on, the clips in between really are entertaining.
3. Does Joe Hachem rub anyone else wrong? We get it dude, your a good player, I dislike him more than Phil Hellmuth because at least Hellmuth knows he shouldn’t act that way towards people.
4. Can we retire, “this is sick”, him drawing on out Corey Cheresnik’s Kings was sick, the fact that Corey caught up was just probability.
5. Is there anyone more likable than Scotty Nguyen?
I have been laying off poker for a bit trying to get things in order. After Alaska I came back home to a few trainwrecks. I wasn’t losing but my personal life just wasn’t in order. Tonight was the first time I have played in about a week and it was more or less for fun, I played a couple of heads up sit and go’s and won both.
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:23 am
I agree 100% on the Joe Hachum comment. I started to read his article the other day in Bluff and the 1st sentence was, “can I over run good in these big events” I guess he forgot abt the Main event and the WPT title. Obviously he plays well and normally gets his money in good, but its like he doesnt realize that a 70% should win 70% of the time. If he wins 2 in a row then loses the 3rd he thinks he is running bad. W
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:59 pm
best example of that was when he played Dutch Boyd heads up, it looks like he got unlucky but he nitted up that joint and Dutch was rarely playing for his whole stack. He just so happened to have a hand when Dutch hit the 5 on the river. I was there, he was laying those hands down routinely.
For the most part Joe is a solid player and off the felt people say he is a really nice guy but your true nature comes out while playing and sadly his true nature is not that pleasant.