Shane...

is out. Whoever had TBR in the last-least-shortest pool wins.

Not good

TBR down to 12,200.

Text from Shane..."Tragedy. 3150. Can't even begin to discuss it and since Todd would mock me about until I die, I won't."

I guess that means he took a bad beat. Hopefully, he can rebound.

Shane

Shane is up to 11,950 at the end of Level 2. Keep it going boys.

TBR Improves

TBR is up to 19,000 after Level 2. The highlights of this level were calling a bet on the river with 4th pair, not realizing he had a straight and rivering a set of 9's to crack Aces again, that were horrifically misplayed. I'm pretty sure he never saw this amount until late in Day 1 last year.

Nice Call, Sean.

From CardPlayer.com

Sean Sheikhan Eliminated
On a flop of 973 and $675 in the pot, the player in seat 2 bets $700. Sean Sheikhan raises to $2,000 and the player re-raises all-in for $10,000 more. Sheikhan makes the call and shows QQ while his opponent shows 99 for a set. The turn and river come 8K, and Sheikhan is eliminated.

Shane playing very Shaney

Shane is at 10,500 at the first break.

TBR off to a nice start!

TBR has run his chip stack to 16,500 after Level 1 thanks to almost doubling up after flopping a set of 10s to crack Aces. On his left is David Matthew, who won a cool 1.9 Million at Bellagio in April at the WPT Championship.
Shane and TBR are on opposite sides of the room, so they are breaking at different times.
Shane is sitting next to this guy and possibly another guy that I'm still researching.

Go Hot Naked Girls!

Here's an interesting story. Well, maybe it's not that interesting and really more of a reason to post non-Hellmuth nudity.

This just in

The boys have only been playing for 20 minutes or so. No update on them.

Tiny, meanwhile, is in Dallas. Had he gone to Vegas, he would totally be available to dish out good-luck hugs to the Batfaces.

At least that's the way I interpreted his text message.

Damn Level 6

Darling was knocked out last night with 30 minutes remaining in Level 6, the final level of the evening and the same level that saw Fawcett go down the previous night. I'll provide more details as I get them. TBR and Shane play today.

Go Batfaces

Just wanted to say good luck to TBR and Shane today. Play like champions, boys.

To Troy and Fawcett: Bummer. But don't sweat it. Remember, you guys are rich.

Level 3

At the dinner break, Darling is down to 8600 in chips.  During that level, he had AA, KK, QQ and AK but didn't win anything significant with any of them. Probably my last report for the night, despite there being 3 more levels tonight. I'll post first thing in the morning.

Darling

Twenty minutes into Level 2, Darling has his chips up to 11,500.

Uh, Can We Recheck Those Odds, Please?

Okay, it's one thing for Phil Helmuth to say he had "horrendous, horrendous" luck when explaining why he busted in only six hours. But does the associated press have to blindly agree? Witness the following quote from this story:

He was victimized as much by bad luck as by the aggressive and unpredictable style of amateur players who fill the field in an event boasting more than 8,600 entrants.

Really? First, he gave away 10 percent of his stack to show up late and make a big entrance. Then his J-J lost to Q-Q, his K-K lost to A-A, and he went out when his A-Q lost to 7-7. He was behind in every instance and never improved. Is his bad luck that he didn't get lucky? Is that part of his winning strategy? Which, when coupled with the photo above, reminds me of something I need to say: Go TBR!

Fawcett Down

Around 1:.30 Vegas-time last night, Scott got his last 7500TC in with AK vs. JJ. The Jacks won. Good work by Scott making it well into Level 6. Darling plays today, TBR and Shane on Monday. Good luck. That is all.

Scott update

With 40 minutes left in level 4, Scott has 9200 in chips and has outlasted Hellmuth and Doyle...and others.

Go Batfawcetts!

Report from the field: Fawcett is holding steady at 10025tc after the second break. Clearly his new strategy of not donking off all his chips with king high is paying dividends.

Clonie Out

This update from CardPlayer.com about Clonie Gowen, who owes two Batfaces $500 each, even though that's not important right now and even though we all know she will never pay it:

Clonie Gowen Eliminated

On a board of AK9, with $4,000 already in the pot, Clonie Gowen pushes all-in for her remaining $2,400. Her sole opponent calls and shows A3 for a pair of Aces. Gowen flips up pocket Queens and will need to improve. The turn is the 9 and the river is the 2, not helping Gowen and eliminating her from the tournament.

I Didn't Know Ackerman Was in the Main Event

This from CardPlayer.com:

All-In Called with 8-High

On a flop of 1075, Tim Rod bets $300 and his opponent raises to $600. Rod calls and the turn puts the 3 on the board. Rod again bets out with $1,500 and is again raised by his opponent to $4,000. Rod calls and the river puts the 3 on the board. Rod pushes all-in and his opponent immediately calls. Rod flips up KQ for a turned flush. His opponent says, "Do I have a straight flush? Oh, no I don't," as he shows 86 for 8-high.

7400 and Counting....

Just talked with Fawcett, who just registered for the Main Event as number 7436 or somesuch. The person in the cage speculated that 8,000 would be a good over/under number by tomorrow at noon. Fawcett's playing Saturday, Darling's playing Sunday, and Shane and I are playing Monday.

Fawcett is planning on sweating big-name pros all day tomorrow to get a sense of the action. We here at Batfaces will give you updates when we can.

As always, go Batfaces!

A bit curious

Anyone hear about the new Southwest Poker Invitational? After being discouraged by the authorities, the organizers have decided to hold it anyway...Online. Here's part of the email I received:

The tournament that Texas didn't want to happen is back and better than ever! Not only can you take home a piece of poker history by winning the first ever online championship bracelet, but we've added even more prizes! And the best part... The buy-in is only $1.00! Because of this, we are positive that the gorgeous gold and diamond SWPI bracelet will find the wrist of the best poker player in the Southwest!

Prizes: 1st-- The famous gold and diamond 2006 SWPI Bracelet...Plus $250

2nd--The custom crafted Final Table of the SWPI

3rd--Microsoft XBOX 360 Premium Edition

4th-10th--Autographed copy of "How to Win the Championship" by T.J. Cloutier

11th-20th--Southwest Poker Invitiational T-shirt or hat

Couple of things here: 1.) Does anyone know anything about the organizers? $1 buy-in is sort of strange, no? If it was 1K, that would sound more legit. $1 sounds like they got all whacked out on glue before hatching a plan to take the money and run to Wyoming. 2.) How much do you think the bracelet is worth? Because looking at that list, I think I'd rather come in third...

Winner Winner...

Hellmuth pulled it off, winning his 10th bracelet in the $1000 NLHE with rebuys. For the moment Phil sneaks into the lead as WSOP Player of the Year. That lead will be gone tonight since Jeff Madden, a 21-year old from LA, has made his 4th final table having already won two bracelets. This final table is in the Seven Card Stud High Low 8 OB event. Tulsa's buddy Bill Elder is among the chip leaders.

Time for Ten?

For the third time this month, Phil Hellmuth heads to the final table of a WSOP event in search of his 10th bracelet. Hellmuth's tournament play has been ridiculed of late, with his only significant accomplishments occurring in made for TV, invite-only fields and not in the huge full fields that are prevelant throughout poker. Things have changed for Hellmuth this year. With a win in today's final table, Hellmuth would lead the WSOP Player of the Year Standings.
Very impressive Series for Phil, especially having overcome the beatdown delivered to him by Shane at Caesars earlier this month.

3rd in 180 $22 SNG.....Go WSOP!!!!

Knocked out 3rd on this hand...cashed $428. Only $9600 till main event free roll.

PokerStars Game #5674222136: Tournament #28695886, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVI (3000/6000) - 2006/07/25 - 02:15:04 (ET)
Table '28695886 10' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: AliStatus33 (164751 in chips)
Seat 2: swf6768 (36780 in chips)
Seat 8: Mssr_X (68469 in chips)
AliStatus33: posts the ante 300
swf6768: posts the ante 300
Mssr_X: posts the ante 300
Mssr_X: posts small blind 3000
AliStatus33: posts big blind 6000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to swf6768 [9c 9h]
swf6768: raises 9000 to 15000
Mssr_X: folds
AliStatus33: raises 149451 to 164451 and is all-in
swf6768: calls 21480 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Td Kd As]
*** TURN *** [Td Kd As] [4s]
swf6768 said, "nice flop"
*** RIVER *** [Td Kd As 4s] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
AliStatus33: shows [Ad 7d] (three of a kind, Aces)
swf6768: shows [9c 9h] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
swf6768 said, "gg"
AliStatus33 said, "gg"
AliStatus33 collected 76860 from pot
AliStatus33 said, "very well played"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 76860 Rake 0
Board [Td Kd As 4s Ac]
Seat 1: AliStatus33 (big blind) showed [Ad 7d] and won (76860) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 2: swf6768 (button) showed [9c 9h] and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 8: Mssr_X (small blind) folded before Flop

WPT has Drawn Suited Connectors

I am so used to counting on our buddy Dan's website for information on the poker world, but he seems too busy discussing credit card roulette at P.F. Changs, that he missed the big lawsuit against the WPT. Some of the biggest names in poker including Raymer, Lederer, and Ferguson filed an antitrust lawsuit agains the WPT. They claim that requiring them to sign away their rights before entering any of their tournaments violates antitrust law. They are also claiming that WPT does not allow any of the big name casinos that host a WPT tournament to hold any other tournaments for broadcast. Here is the WPT's response. I figure that one of the batface lawyers can explain it better.

I will just go back to reporting about the huge credit card roulette game that broke out at the end of a batface lunch last week. Sorry TBR.

Evolution?

I've been trying to think of some way to describe the play at last Thursday's home game, but to this point words have failed me. Fortunately, Dan posted something that illustrates it perfectly. Just for fun, see if you can pick which player at this table most likely shares a common ancestor with Freeze and Randy.

This is a poker blog right?

Honestly, read the following 2 heads up hands from a $33 sng...I am swf6768
PokerStars Game #5632794961: Tournament #28493529, $30+$3 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) - 2006/07/21 - 16:03:12 (ET)
Table '28493529 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 4: swf6768 (9426 in chips)
Seat 7: fathernuts (4074 in chips)
swf6768: posts the ante 25
fathernuts: posts the ante 25
fathernuts: posts small blind 100
swf6768: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to swf6768 [3s 4s]
fathernuts said, "nasty"
fathernuts: raises 200 to 400
swf6768: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [7c 7d 3c]
swf6768: bets 500
fathernuts: raises 3149 to 3649 and is all-in
swf6768: calls 3149
*** TURN *** [7c 7d 3c] [8h]
*** RIVER *** [7c 7d 3c 8h] [6c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
swf6768: shows [3s 4s] (two pair, Sevens and Threes)
fathernuts: shows [5c 4c] (a straight flush, Three to Seven)
swf6768 said, "wow!"
fathernuts collected 8148 from pot
fathernuts said, "wow"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 8148 Rake 0
Board [7c 7d 3c 8h 6c]
Seat 4: swf6768 (big blind) showed [3s 4s] and lost with two pair, Sevens and Threes
Seat 7: fathernuts (button) (small blind) showed [5c 4c] and won (8148) with a straight flush, Three to Seven



PokerStars Game #5632807136: Tournament #28493529, $30+$3 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) - 2006/07/21 - 16:04:38 (ET)
Table '28493529 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 4: swf6768 (5002 in chips)
Seat 7: fathernuts (8498 in chips)
swf6768: posts the ante 25
fathernuts: posts the ante 25
swf6768: posts small blind 100
fathernuts: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to swf6768 [9s Qd]
swf6768: calls 100
fathernuts: checks
*** FLOP *** [8d 9c 2s]
fathernuts: bets 400
swf6768: raises 1600 to 2000
fathernuts: raises 6273 to 8273 and is all-in
swf6768: calls 2777 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [8d 9c 2s] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [8d 9c 2s 3c] [7h]
fathernuts said, "wow"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
fathernuts: shows [9d 3h] (two pair, Nines and Threes)
swf6768: shows [9s Qd] (a pair of Nines)
swf6768 said, "what"
fathernuts collected 10004 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 10004 Rake 0
Board [8d 9c 2s 3c 7h]
Seat 4: swf6768 (button) (small blind) showed [9s Qd] and lost with a pair of Nines
Seat 7: fathernuts (big blind) showed [9d 3h] and won (10004) with two pair, Nines and Threes

The Return of Gonzilla

Having me back is like a dream, isn't it? I'm sure you all missed me as much as I missed you bitches. But I feel like I don't know you guys anymore. It makes me sad. So, fill me in: Is Shane still ugly? Is Tulsa still bald? Does Rogers still say inappropriate things? Am I still the best player in the home game? And when will I stop asking questions?

Now, about me: I'm still very good at poker, for those who haven't yet heard. Entered Party Poker's Super Wednesday Tournament, which I thought was No Limit, but which actually turned out to be LIMIT. Oops. Worked out in my favor, though. I finished third out of 553 players, good for nearly $7500. As Dan has noted recently in an email conversation, all tournaments (WSOP included) should have an asterisk if I'm not part of the field. I'm just sayin'.


Sending out a virtual hug--to you especially, Tiny, because I know you like it like that.

World Series of Batfaces

It looks like we will have 4 Batfaces playing in this years Main Event. TBR, Shane, Darling and Fawcett will be traveling to Vegas next week with visions of $10 Million and/or Misty (not Mitsy). I think it's necessary to set some odds for their trip.

One of them wins the Main Event: 10000-1
One of them makes the final table: 1000-1
One of them makes the money: 15-1
Two make the money: 100-1
Shane suffers a horrendous bad beat that no one else witnesses: 1-6
Randy makes it past Day 1: 2-1
Shane makes it past Day 1: 4-1
Fawcett makes it past Day 1: 6-1
Darling makes it past Day 1: 6-1
Fawcett gets penalized for cussing: Even
Randy sees a flop on consecutive hands: 150-1
Fawcett offends many in drunken state: 2-5

More odds will come as we get closer to the event.

Go Batfaces!

Traveler(s)
SCOTT FAWCETT
LeaveThursday, July 27, 2006
America West 135
Class: First Class
Depart:
7:30ammorning
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW)
Arrive:
8:14ammorning
Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas Mccarran Intl (LAS)

There's Still Hope for my Kids

Since their father sucks at cards, maybe my boys can pick it up and make their father proud.

Tried the $370 WSOP today...

Was doing very well till this disaster. Is there anyway you fold this?

PokerStars Game #5580471800: Tournament #21021395, $350+$20 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2006/07/16 - 17:26:07 (ET)
Table '21021395 574' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: TheKnack7 (1985 in chips)
Seat 2: 3boris (4405 in chips)
Seat 4: auntem (3680 in chips)
Seat 5: mrflyt (2490 in chips)
Seat 6: swf6768 (4560 in chips)
Seat 7: GETNCAUGHT (2615 in chips)
Seat 8: Mark Sucks (1570 in chips)
Seat 9: sbl21 (1195 in chips)
swf6768: posts small blind 25
GETNCAUGHT: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to swf6768 [Jd Jh]
NeoNcoNdoM69 is connected
Mark Sucks: folds
sbl21: folds
TheKnack7: folds
3boris: raises 50 to 100
auntem: folds
mrflyt: folds
swf6768: calls 75
GETNCAUGHT: calls 50
*** FLOP *** [Js Ks Ac]
swf6768: checks
GETNCAUGHT: checks
3boris: bets 200
swf6768: raises 600 to 800
GETNCAUGHT: folds
3boris: raises 3505 to 4305 and is all-in
swf6768: calls 3505
*** TURN *** [Js Ks Ac] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [Js Ks Ac 4h] [3h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
swf6768: shows [Jd Jh] (three of a kind, Jacks)
3boris: shows [Qc Tc] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
TheKnack7 said, "ouch"
3boris collected 8910 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 8910 Rake 0
Board [Js Ks Ac 4h 3h]
Seat 1: TheKnack7 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: 3boris showed [Qc Tc] and won (8910) with a straight, Ten to Ace
Seat 4: auntem folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: mrflyt (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: swf6768 (small blind) showed [Jd Jh] and lost with three of a kind, Jacks
Seat 7: GETNCAUGHT (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 8: Mark Sucks folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: sbl21 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Which left me with the following stats….

Stack: largest 17770, smallest 115, average 3087
Your current position is 5972 out of 5974
Time bank balance is 180 seconds

For more information see Tournament Lobby


Then get knocked out by pocket aces in SB

PokerStars Game #5580653085: Tournament #21021395, $350+$20 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2006/07/16 - 17:43:01 (ET)
Table '21021395 574' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: TheKnack7 (635 in chips)
Seat 2: 3boris (5455 in chips)
Seat 3: NeoNcoNdoM69 (2015 in chips)
Seat 4: auntem (6170 in chips)
Seat 5: mrflyt (2390 in chips)
Seat 6: swf6768 (155 in chips)
Seat 7: GETNCAUGHT (2315 in chips)
Seat 8: Mark Sucks (4510 in chips)
Seat 9: sbl21 (1020 in chips)
mrflyt: posts small blind 50
swf6768: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to swf6768 [As 7d]
GETNCAUGHT: folds
Mark Sucks: folds
sbl21: folds
TheKnack7: folds
3boris: folds
NeoNcoNdoM69: folds
auntem: folds
mrflyt: raises 300 to 400
swf6768: calls 55 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [7c 8d 3s]
swf6768 said, "f uch"
swf6768 said, "no way"
*** TURN *** [7c 8d 3s] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [7c 8d 3s Jd] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
mrflyt: shows [Ac Ad] (a pair of Aces)
swf6768: shows [As 7d] (a pair of Sevens)
mrflyt collected 310 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 310 Rake 0
Board [7c 8d 3s Jd 5s]
Seat 1: TheKnack7 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: 3boris folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: NeoNcoNdoM69 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: auntem (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: mrflyt (small blind) showed [Ac Ad] and won (310) with a pair of Aces
Seat 6: swf6768 (big blind) showed [As 7d] and lost with a pair of Sevens
Seat 7: GETNCAUGHT folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Mark Sucks folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: sbl21 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Oh. My.

Which of these graphs buried deep in Dan's post is more awesome:

• I haven’t watched TV — save for a little poker on in various bars — for two weeks. From what I understand, the world may or may not be blowing up. It kinda doesn’t make sense to me, because here at the WSOP, there are tons of Arabs, Jews, Degos, Polacks, Blackies, and Bumpkins — and everyone seems to get along. Where else can you find such a diversity of people sitting around playing a game?

• Or this one...
  

  
  To the driver of the elegantly pimped ROLLS ROYCE parked in PHIL IVEY’S spot … your alarm is going off. It may or may not have something to do with a certain BLOGGER trying to look inside.

Seriously, Dan is my favorite 'tard blogger. Even more than this guy.

P.S.: typed 5K words on Vegas. Will post it in pieces once I get others to fill in some blanks.

Dead Darling Money

It's official. Darling will be playing in the Main Event. God help us all. Go Batfaces!

Fuck this blog

I just wrote for two hours and somehow deleted it. Here's the jist of it.

Scott Fischman is cool. Adam Friedman is a beating.

Here you go Scott

From Pauly's blog...

Vegas, in a nut shell, baby

One day I will grow up and not love this...today is not that day

I will admit that I was shocked that TBR might have the stamina to make it one more night as this pic was taken shortly after we left the Venetian poker room (it is 10 am'ish) after a 24 hour Zach sweating, dice, pizza, blackjack, pizza, dice, 7 pm poker tourney, pizza, dice, blackjack, dice, Venetian poker room session. Hey Troy, he was says he was on a conference call and billing and was just so focused he did not notice Tiny B and I polluting him further than he had already polluted himself.

More TBR WSOPing I guess

I recieved a text from Randy at 10:54 last night that reads "Can I get the room for monday night, too? Staying until Tuesday" I can only assume that means: Go $1000 WSOP NL Monday!

Just thought I would let all the big fans out there know to watch along more today. I think Somer mentioned that traffic soared to 12 over the weekend to track the action.

Other non-pokery action: I googled "hot girl in Caesars Palace poker room" to try to show Kelsey a picture of her...no luck. I honestly thought that might work.

Go Tulsa!

Just cashed (helped broker a chop for the last six spots) for $3700 at Caesars NL tourney. Finished tied for second (five of us even stacked, one chip leader, blinds and antes insane) out of 140, their largest ever at 7 p.m. Go Batfaces!

After taxes and dealer tip ($3K), Gonz gets his grand back. Go ripping up the check!

Have to catch a flight in three hours. Go no sleep!

Many more updates after sleep and cuddling in Dallas in approx 12 hours. Go wife!

Zach

Out in 50th.

Down to 56

With 56 left, Zach sits in 20th place with 58,000TC. Leader has about 150,000TC, only 8 players over 100k. Go Poker! Go quality wines at reasonable prices!

After Day One

Zach sits in the money, 31st place, with 42,700TC. From CardPlayer's update log:

"Biggest Pot of the Night"


A player in mid-position opened the bet and Zach Ballenger reraised. The mid-posiiton player called and the flop came down Jack-high. Ballenger's opponent moved all-in and Ballenger called, having him covered. Ballenger flipped up pocket Kings, but his opponent turned over pocket Jacks for top set. With over $30,000 in the pot, the turn put an Ace on the board and was no help to either. However, a King on the river gave Ballenger a higher set and he raked in the $30,000 pot to put him up to $48,000.

Go Poker! Go militant enforcement of ridiculous update/coverage policies!

Zach

Zach has won two big pots and is the top 10 in chips according to card player.com.  Eric seidel is now on his left. Down 134 players. Top 99 get paid. Read about him at card player. Go batfaces!

At dinner break

Zach and tbr are around 8000 chips, around par at dinner break.

More outs

Darling is out.
Fawcett is out by bluffing all his chips to Men the Master.

Update

Tulsa out.
Tiny B out.

Break 1

Tiny B 2375
Shane 4500
Fawcett 5500
Zach B 3500
Darling 2000

Didn't are any of the others

Live blog 10

The $2500 NL event starts at noon Vegas time. Darling, tbr, Fawcett, Shane,  Hong Kong and son of, tulsa, straight e and I will be playing. Should be fun. Go batfaces!

Live post 9

Sitting by the pool at caesars (quite a visual, I know), relaxing after a night of relatively tame fun. Dinner at Fix, night clubbing at Light, craps at the Barbary Coast, etc. Darling somehow found two 22 year old girls from lubbock who joined us for dinner. After they claimed they could drunk us under the table because the three things you do in lubbock are  drinking, fucking and drugging. It soon became clear that these girls, like most, were worthless. It became more clear when one girl threw a little tantrum when Freeze wouldn't share a Xanax with her. After a jaeger shot the girls were in bad shape and thankfully disappered for the night. I think the only one of our group who was upset that they left was Hong Kong sue.

Live blog 8

I'm drinking a sour apple daquiri and Tulsa us drinking a banana daquiri.

Having Fun at Home

Just hanging out with the wife and kids tonight. They have been gone for a month. This is so much more fun than being with 11 drunk batfaces gambling in Las Vegas. A lot more fun. No, really, a great time. Really.....

Why has it been over 3 hours since the last post. What the fuck? No, really. Awesome time.

Live blog 7

Shane has called someone a fucking donkey. The under wins. Adam chopped a 225 sat. Go batfaces!

Live blog 6

Darling chops his 525 sat and takes home 4k to 1k.  Despite betting out of turn 69% of the time, he played very well.

Live blog 5

Everyone is out but darling. My 66 lost to Q10. Came in 4th. 3 players left at darlings table.

Live blog 4

I just got it all-in with 10s vs AK. Flop is AJ2. Turn is Q. River is K. Go big Todd! Go batfaces!

Tulsa and Adam are out of their sats.

Live blog 3

The guy at my table in the "I heart hot moms" T-shirt and the huge bags under his eyes is a Tum-like donkey.

Live blog 2

Playing in a $175 sat. Playing next to freeze and tbr where freeze just called an all-in bet with ak against k5 suited. The donkey flopped a 5 and turned a flush. Freeze is short stacked. Adam, Sommer, darling, Tulsa and Shane are also sateliting.

noon, day 1

down to only 10 batfaces that have not dumped a screwdriver all over the blackjack table. Go big shane!

Positive Schloggering

Somer just texted that he is up $6.25 on airport slots...this is a good start. Go Airport slots!

The Calm Before the Storm

Arrived last night in Vegas. I don't want to bog this site down in minutae, but I just ordered coffee, espresso, granola/yogurt/berries, and a Chinese escort. Room Service replied, "I'm sorry, sir, we're out of berries." Recap to-date follows:

• Waited at DFW for a few hours for my delayed flight to finally take off. Realized half the Mavs' summer league roster and a few coaches, including Ro Blackman, were on the flight with me. While waiting in line, tried to quietly post up Pavel Podkolzin (who was not sporting his gangsta look, unfortunately). Others on the flight included the pasty greatness of UT's Brad Buckman, Josh Powell, and Rawle Marshall. Sitting near them in first class -- that's how I roll -- I wondered as I watched Marshall jam out to his personal music player if he, too, was listening to the soundtrack from "Moulin Rouge," as I was. Come what may, bitches.
  
• Upon arrival, Tiny B texted me that the Mavs had traded Marquis Daniels for Austin Croshere, who apparently has no nose. I immediately tattle to the players. They are, eh, "confused" is the right word. "Hope he likes playing behind Mr. 44 Minutes A Night" says one. I giggle. I think we bonded. I think about holding out my hand for some dap, but think better of it.
• On the way to Caesars, a ridiculously literate and insightful French cabbie asks me questions about poker. "Eh, vut is the seengle most eemportant condition, or should I say, characteristic, of a good poker player?" Uh, balls?
• Room = sweet. See Tiny B's pic below.
• Even though I've been up since 5 a.m. CST, I decide to meet Dantana at the Rio and play one satellite. The line for a cab is long, so I glance down the road toward the Rio and say, screw it, I'll walk.
• This just in: Walking a mile in a suit at midnight in Vegas across urine-soaked sidewalks, away from the bustle of downtown, toward railroad tracks and highway overpasses, with about $950 in your pants, is not the decision an intelligent human being makes. Where's the Frog when I need him?
• I walk into the cardroom and immediately am seated at a $175 satellite. To my right is a grizzled pro who reminds me of Pauley Walnuts without the charm but with all the cigarette odor. To my left is a quiet, sunglassed guy who gives off a slightly douchy air. The rest of the table is affable and not as hot as me. Literally. Still sweating.
• Table is pretty soft ... limp, limp, limp, raise, everyone folds. In the cutoff I get A-Q hearts, I raise to $200 with four limpers (25-25 to start, you get $1K in chips). I get one reluctant call from the SB, then back around to Walnuts, who calls. Flop comes K-5-6 rainbow, one heart. Walnuts goes all in. I tank a bit. I'm pretty sure I have Walnuts beat -- he'd already bullied the table a bit -- but the SB is really fiddling with his chips. I fold, SB calls, turns over A-K. Walnuts turns over 9-7 hearts and yells "I thought I hadda king!" River come an 8, of course.
  
• Goes around until I'm in the SB. Two players are gone. UTG raises to $100, and three people call. With great odds, I look down and see J-Ts. I call. BB does, too. Flop comes J-T-8 with 2 spades. At this table, no need to slow play. I bet $300, about half the pot. ALL IN! CALL! CALL! Well. That's not so awesome. Claearly needing help but getting 4.5-1 on my call (they all had me covered), I turn over J-10, as does UTG. Behind him turns over Q-J. BB turns over 9-7. No flush draws. Turn comes 7, river comes 9, Q-high straight takes it, much bitching ensues. The other three of us chop $125. I actually double that, get down to five people, but need to make a move and do so with 6s, called by slow-playing Kings.
  
• I get back to the room and asleep by 2:30 a.m. local. Thinking about playing the Wynn $330 NL today at noon. Tally for the evening: -$186.99 ($175 satellite, $11.99 charge for Jenna Depraved ... who, btw, has a potty mouth).
• Just got texts. Guns, Any Ace Adam, and TBR are on terra firma. Giddyup.
  

Live Blog 1

I'm Awaiting take off from my first class seat on AA # 855. The Rio should be happenin this afternoon with two tournaments kicking off, the 5k NL event final table with Marcel, V Vinh, the hottish isabelle mercier and Phil Hellmuth still battling and the arrival of 12 or so idiots from dallas.  Good  news for all...Darling packed extra clothes in case he "needs" to stay longer than planned. Go Batfaces!

Tulsa in Vegas

Tulsa is the first Batface to reach Vegas. He sent this picture of his room at Caesars as proof. And judging by the photo, Tulsa isn't waiting on the rest of us before he starts drinking.

WSOP Countdown: Tomorrow

In the spirit of the Batfaces on our first group venture to Vegas (hard to believe), I thought I'd include this little gem archive e-mail of the week from Tulsa, originally sent over four years ago:

"[ Randy, if you would, please forward this to the group... ]
Several sources indicate I got really drunk last night. It seems that, within the last hour or so of the evening, I:

1. Basically gave away the $110 or so I'd worked hard to obtain, ignoring advice to not, say, raise bets with a 3-9 in the hole 2. Became more interested in punching or slapping Tim than playing cards 3. Annoyed the table with my selection of salsa music 4. Broke a glass 5. Began eating humus with my fingers 6. Wrestled Tim in the kitchen, which is what caused me to shatter my coffee pot and really, really hurt my shoulder blade 7. Told everyone to get the hell out of my house 8. Said goodbye to Tim from my front porch while trying to induce vomiting

My wife reports more embarrassing behavior afterward, which no one really needs to know about but which did result in her statement this morning: "I'm not very proud of you."
I blame the stein. You pour one beer in there, and the amount looks insufficient. I now know better. From this point forward, I shall break out the stein only for St. Patrick's Day.
In summation, to those who were offended, I apologize. To those who chuckled while pilfering my pile, I hope you're proud of yourselves, taking advantage of a drunken buffoon like that. To those who were entertained, god bless you.

Poker tonight?

Eric"

WSOP Countdown: 3 Days away...

Our good friend Dantana over at pokerati is keeping himself pretty busy since he showed up in Vegas, logging hours at the table and blogging like mad. One of his posts includes a rather uncomforty description of the scantily clad "marketing" gals schlepping all things poker in the convention center. I wonder of it gave the pronunciationally challenged, slap-unhappy DEE-ko Sheik some pause? Probably not, given what she's likely had to encounter to get to this point.

Frequent commenter "Stan" has suggested that Dan provide "total Buy-in, Cash Outs and Net won listing somewhere" in addition to some pictures. Stan, we know you read here, too, so please be advised that the batfaces will be provided a running "schlogger" of our own so that you can follow our on and off-table progress. Also, we're hoping to provide plenty of pics and video, too, assuming Todd's antics haven't permanently destroyed my phone.

For now, some early Vegas odds:

Odds of a batface cashing in a WSOP event -- 2 to 1
Odds of a batface making a final table at a WSOP event -- 15 to 1
Odds that Freeze will be propositioned by a hooker -- 3 to 2
Odds that he will realize it is a hooker -- 5 to 1
Odds that he will accept after realization -- 3 to 2
Over/Under on time Todd will break down and play poker -- 6 p.m. Friday
O/U on drinks Shane consumes from wheels up to wheels down -- 52
O/U on uncomfortable statements made by Hong K. Sue -- 32
O/U on uncomfortable statements Hong K. Sue directs at Clonie -- 29