{"id":1545,"date":"2016-06-07T08:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2021-06-02T14:33:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:33:58","slug":"w-day-plus-5-meet-pokers-overlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1545","title":{"rendered":"W-Day Plus 5: Meet Poker’s Overlords"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MSPT Media Director Chad Holloway and Venetian Tournament Director Tommy LaRosa<\/p><\/div>\n

The poker media have been described as the all-powerful masters of the poker world by some in recent months<\/a>. I was disappointed that Chad Holloway, host of the Mid-States Poker Tour’s media invitational tournament, didn’t take the opportunity to play that up with a name like MSPT Poker Overlords Tournament or something of the sort.<\/p>\n

MSPT put up a seat in their $2M guarantee Main Event for first (and only) prize, and TD Tomma LaRosa\u2014apparently knowing just how high-living most of us writers are\u2014threw in $10 food vouchers, which were snapped up by the participants like fish rising to the top of the tank.<\/p>\n

Pretty much everyone there was someone you would know the name of, if not the face. Mo Nuwarrah<\/a> and Marty Derbyshire<\/a> of PokerNews\u00a0<\/em>(Marty, when he got to my table, said I was “too serious,” but I think it was just three three long days of Colossus). Mark Hoke, Bernard Lee, and even a brief Joe Stapleton sighting.<\/p>\n

There were three of us from the WSOP team among the field of 25, including Will Shillibier<\/a> and Molly Mossey. Will\u2014barely old enough to enter a Vegas casino\u2014is already a far more experienced poker reporter than I am. He was out before me, but Molly was still there after \u00a0I left (she didn’t win either). The structure was pretty turbo, with the intent that the game would end in a couple of hours, over before the start of the first flight of the $2M tournament, and I never got above the 2,000 starting stack. Finally got it in under the gun with A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and was broken by Diana Cox, the media overlord for\u00a0the Venetian Poker Room, who had J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> in the big blind. Also an Oregonian, which I only found out after the fact.<\/p>\n

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How adorable is @MollyAnneMossey<\/a>? #mediateam<\/a> #wsop<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/9zFzsE4o0d<\/a><\/p>\n

— spicy (@ElleSriracha) June 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n