{"id":1524,"date":"2016-06-05T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T18:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2016-06-05T11:29:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T18:29:14","slug":"w-day-plus-3-do-not-sit-on-the-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"W-Day Plus 3: Do Not Sit On the Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tongue\"Parking at the Rio is always tight during big events, and I think the Colossus II counts as a big event. But I have my tricks. No, the KISSed-out VW Bug isn’t one of them, but it is one of the first things you’ll see if you park in the Masquerade garage at the Rio. Instead of a long trudge in 115\u00b0 F. heat across a hot parking lot, it’s a quick pop up to the 4th floor pedestrian bridge, then a long trudge through the air-conditioned halls of the Rio. Things have changed here since the last time I came in this way, with the addition of the KISS Monster Mini Golf<\/a> feature. I’d hoped there was a way I could win the car for my wife, which is the only reason I got this close, but no luck.<\/p>\n

Lots of big names in the Colossus Day 1F. Like with the $150K at the Venetian the other night<\/a>, it’s sort of odd to spot big poker names playing in a tournament where the buyin is more or less affordable to the average Joe (neglected to mention that I saw Max Pescatori watching soccer with a couple of buddies at the Venetian the other night).<\/p>\n

Up at the top of the food chain was 2013 Main Event champ Ryan Riess. I felt a bit proud of myself for being the first person to spot him in the field (at least I think I was), considering how many more faces the more experienced (and let’s face it,\u00a0everyone’s<\/em> more experienced than I am at the moment) live reporters are. Our flight (the last of six) had Mike Matusow, Jack Salter,\u00a0PokerNews Podcast<\/em>‘s Rich T. Ryan, Loni Harwood, David Pham, and a slew of others.<\/p>\n

The day started out slow for me, though. I walked through my assignment area looking for faces I recognized and bricked out, though I felt a bit better when a veteran went though the same group of forty or so tables with me and found only one person he felt was worth mentioning at that stage.<\/p>\n

Later in the night\/morning, I got to write up a post about Rich Ryan,<\/a>\u00a0co-host of the\u00a0PokerNews Podcast<\/em>.\u00a0I picked up a great hand without any “name” players in it<\/a> just after the money bubble, though my original wordplay title ended up changed to something that just sounds funny.\u00a0I spent half an hour or more\u2014spread out over a longer period\u2014railing Athanasios Polychronopoulous, who was nursing an ever-dwindling handful\u2014nay, fingerful\u2014of chips<\/a> through the bubble, watching for a bustout, only to have someone else catch it.<\/p>\n

I got the assignment of writing the intro for Day 2, and started working off a previous event’s report, got told that wasn’t a good place to start from, then redid it and eventually brought it into some semblance of acceptability<\/a>. Got a few hours of sleep, though it doesn’t feel like nearly enough, and it’s already getting to be time to think about heading back over to the Rio, after a short turnaround here at the house.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow’s a day off, but I’ve snagged a seat in the Mid-States Poker Tour Media Event from Chad Holloway. The prize is a seat in\u00a0the MSPT\/Venetian $2M event this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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