Just some thoughts

Went out 21st in the latest Mookie. Best finish so far in the BBT5 but it wasn’t nothing to crow about as I never went above 7100 chips. Sat around and watched it for awhile. Interesting final table in the fact that except for RGC, who led the tourney most of the way the other 8 runners were all within a couple thousand chips of each other and even he was only about 15K or so ahead. About as balanced a final table as I’ve seen. Lots of chip movement for awhile before Mondogarage made the first mistake and depleted his stack and eventually left the table first. As it went along it seemed that a different person built his stack as someone went out so that the table stayed very balanced until it came down to RG and Tripjax. Sorry to say I missed the finish. Got up to take a whiz and swallow a couple pills and by the time I got back it was over. GG to the table and nice win Tripjax.

Looking over the schedule for this year’s WSOP. I see they’ve replaced the 50K HORSE with a 50K 8 game mixed and calling it The Player’s Championship and awarding the Chip Reese trophy to the winner. Sounds nice but unless you’re in Vegas you ain’t seeing nothing but NLHE. Seems ESPN coverage is driving things again and ESPN likes nothing but NLHE. Seems ESPN wouldn’t cover the final table unless it was only NLHE and a lot of the players are going along feeling that the TV coverage will up the participation. I don’t mind watching the NLHE but I really enjoy the other games. While I enjoy playing them I like to see how the pros do it. LCD screws me up again. Bad enough half of TV is made up of reality shows these days even poker is caving in to the wish of the masses. Is nothing sacred? Besides the game gives advantage to the NLHE specialist at the final table instead of favoring the all around player as a Player’s Championship and a trophy named after Reese should. Seems the WSOP forgot its roots, when it was something for the players not a TV event that caters to the masses. Big money wins out again. Kind of reminds me of coverage of the Olympics used to be like. All you saw were the events that the US did well in or had major followings. Well that’s what the people want to watch and what gets the ratings. True, but the people aren’t ever going to change their tastes if they aren’t exposed to different things. It’s funny, they won’t try different things elsewhere but they keep trying to cram soccer down our throats after years of failure. There goes that different drummer again. Since it seems my plans for Vegas aren’t going to work out I’m stuck with ESPN which means NLHE.

Enough for now. Thanks for the listen.