WSOP 2006 Las Vegas, NV

Jack is still in. He has been playing on the same table as Humberto Brenes. Jack has about 41,000 chips at this point. My laptop thinks it is on Houston time, but it is actually 9:00 pm here in Las Vegas.

Jack's wife, Pat, and I just ate dinner with Jack and he is now back at his table looking at 500/1000 blinds with 200 antes. This level will last two hours and will be followed by two more 2 hour levels before they adjourn for the night. It will be about 4:o0 in the morning before Jack can get to bed.

There was an announcement that more players have been eliminated in this tournament than the total number that played last year. 8700 plus players in this year's event. The top prize this year has been announced to be more than $12,000,000.00 (yes, twelve million dollars).

I am finding it very difficult to find time to blog. We are having a great time.

I am going to enter 4 more bracelet events beginning on Thursday (events 40, 41, 43 and 45).
All are NL hold'em events with one a $1,000 buy-in and the other 3 will be $1,500 buy-ins.

Chris Ferguson and Phil Ivy are playing tonight also. We talked to Robert Varkoni a while ago and he plays in the group tomorrow. He and his wife just had a baby 11 weeks ago and named her Valerie Lucky Varkoni.

Jack's wife, Pat, is collecting autographs (I am too, but not so many as she has). I got Doyle Brunson to sign a picture of himself and a cap for me. He is a super guy. We have gotton autographs of Humberto, Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Devilfish Ulliott, Robert Varkoni, Mike Caro, and several others. We missed Phil Helmuth (he got knocked out early and left), Annie Duke, Jennifer Harmon. I am still watching for Daniel Negranu (spelling?) I am not sure what his status is now.

I finished 27th of 108 players in a second chance tournament the other night. I just won $466 in a 2/5 NL cash game in the room during the last main event level while waiting to go to dinner with Jack and Pat. (Makes up for part of the $600 I lost from 11:30 pm last night until 4:30 this morning.)

Send your best vibes this way for Jack to get some cards. He only got to play a few hands last level. He had to fold a pocket pair of 5's to a raise and re-raise and would have made quad 5's. He wasn't too happy about that.

One guy has flopped a royal flush. No hand is safe. Pocket rockets are routinely cracked. You can sit for hours and get nothing but trash hands. You just have to sit and watch the other stacks grow. If Jack can just get some cards, there is no doubt he knows what to do with them and can make a stand. We have our best man on the job.

BEST OF LUCK JACK!!