Dan and I are finally here. We are both registered and ready to go in tomorrow's $1500 No-Limit Hold 'em event. We had some initial problems when trying to register as no where does the Rio inform you that you need to obtain their "club" card to register. Dan and I found this out when we got to the front of the line to register for the tournament. Of course you have to go someplace else to get the "club" card. We had already waited about 20 minutes in line! We went and get our club cards and then got back in line to register for the tourney. They gave us our table and seat assignments right away. Here is what we drew:
Jason – Table 181 Seat 6
Dan – Table 175 Seat 4
After we were registered we decided to play in a satellite. The way the Rio is running their satellites is that you play a specific buy-in and receive 'x' number of $500 chips and some cash. For example, in the $65 satellite the winner receives 1 $500-value satellite chip and $60 cash. In the $175 satellite the winner receives 3 $500-value satellite chip and $120 cash. If you have already registered for an event you can try and sell your $500-value satellite chips. If you haven't registered you can then use the $500-value chips as your entry.
Dan and I played in a $175 satellite, but neither of us was able to take home the prize. Dan was busted in 6th position, and I was busted in 4th position. In the space of about 30 minutes I saw AA at our table 3 times. Unfortunately none of those made it to my hand.
After busting out of the satellites we decided to watch a portion of the final table from this year's Tournament of Champions. They decided to run the Tournament of Champions prior to this year's WSOP Main Event. They were supposed to start at 1:00, but Daniel Negraneau and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson were both very late and the tourney didn't start until almost 2:00. Dan and I had been waiting since about noon so we didn't stay very long after they got started. The final table had some big names, with Gus Hansen, Mike Sexton, Andrew Black (final table Main Event last year), Daniel Negraneau, Chris Ferguson, and Mike Matusow all competing for the title. It was cool to be that close. Dan and I also saw (or bumped into) Harry Demitriou and Dutch Boyd.
Ironically enough, there was another face I recognized when we got into the main room at the Rio. A couple posts ago I mentioned I was working in Lexington and I delivered a bad beat to a player when he had flopped a full house of 3's full of 10's when I had made trip 10's with my small blind hand of 9-T offsuit. I went on to catch a 9 on the turn and win the hand. The face I saw was none other than that player from the Caesar's in Indiana! Kinda cool.
Dan and I are checked in and getting ready to head out to play some poker and/or other casino games, but I thought I'd check in with you first. I'll try to put up one more post later with some blind structure details. I am SO pumped for tomorrow!
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