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TOC is not for me!

The Tournament of Champions is turning out to be a bust!  3 tables full of poker pros who have all had their share of TV face time and it couldn’t be more boring!  The table of Jen Harmen, Erik Seidel, Johnny Chan, Joe Cada,  random online guy, and Chris Ferguson was set up in front of the media row and and it was just dead silence.  Poker is not the most entertaining sport and you need the characters like Matusow or Negreanu to pick it up when its getting dull.  The tournament is airing on ESPN3 and I couldn’t imagine watching it from home.  We will update you so you dont have to torture yourself watching the footage. If you choose to you can watch the WSOP live coverage at espn.go.com.

Antonio Switches Seats

Antonio Esfandiari is playing in the TOC and is deep in day 2 of the $1k NLH.  He came running over to the media tower and was demanding a seat change to a table on the rail so he could play in both tournaments easier.  As requested his seat was switched and he was able to multi-table with ease.  He did ask if he shoved all in and left the table would his hand be dead.  It is a rule that if there is action behind you and you leave the table then your hand would be killed.  With that knowledge Antonio shoved, raced back to the TOC, and came back to find he doubled in chips!  The players in the $1k are in the money and Antonio has chips.

I wonder if I got called??? Eh who cares, still rich!

Will the Thrill Sucks Out

Will ‘the thrill’ Failla could be heard shouting across the room to floor reporter Greg ‘yo hey Phil yo’ Lewis to discuss a hand.  Will got it in with QQ vs AA and sucked out hitting quad queens. Will was pretty excited claiming he never sucks out and wanted the hand in the blog.

Name Game

As I was looking through the chip counts I noticed some crazy awesome names in the field:

Can Kim.....Win?