Amazing as it may seem, there is yet another WPT Tournament taking place at Bellagio on the 19th. It is the Battle of Champions and all the WPT winners will have a go at each other for a championship title. No news on the what the prize pool is/will be. It begins in Bellagio’s Ballrooms – One and Two. Seating at 2:45 p.m. for the Audience on a first come first serve basis. The event begins at 3:00 p.m. It is a special event for the WPT and will initially air on NBC, February 1st, 2004, right before the Super Bowl. Woo Hoo!!!

The stats for the Jim Albrecht Memorial are up here.

Unfortunately the Crown Australasian Event didn’t draw enough interest and the Satellite Tournament was a ‘no go’.

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Dr. Pete, a subject of other posts, is never happy with my dealing. If I dealt him every hand for three weeks, when he finally lost one, he’d have a fit and make the statement that I never deal him a hand. His eyes would roll around in his head, as if he’s going into a fit and we need to throw him down and wrap a blanket around him so he won’t hurt himself.

I walked up behind a dealer, ready to push, just as Pete was raking in a pot and tipping the dealer. Pete saw me. His eyes started to roll. He said, “I can never tip this dealer,” with his gaze cemented on me.

Pete was in the 9s. Perfect! I leaned over the 10s and said, “Good! I don’t want you to ever tip me because if you did, I’d have to say thank you and I don’t ever want to have to tell you thank you for anything.”

He cashed out. Thank you, God.

A few nights later, a friend of Pete, named Jean, was in a game I dealt. Even she commented on how he was so paranoid and weird that he felt that it was always Sylvia and I that were to blame for his not winning. Jean said she thought that I took Pete’s idiocy better than Sylvia did. It may be true. I can’t help but laugh at the moronic thoughts of some of these people.

Go figure. If you won with every dealer in the room, except two of them, why would you sit through a session with those two? So you could whine and complain because they didn’t deal you a hand? Yeah…right!

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I dealt a $4-$8 Holdem game that should have been in the movies. One woman at the table, she was pretty relaxed with the whole thing and about my age…granny age, dummy! And a few young bucks that were ripping and snorting – dying to beat everyone – and two of them were wearing sunglasses, the 2s and the 8s.

The 10s was about my age and he was/had been having a little fun commenting on the game, the hands, and the players. Most of his comments were only heard by me – and appreciated. He had a delightful sense of humor.

The 2s and the 8s were splashing chips pre-flop…both serious as hell. The 10s whispered to me, “I think Ray-Ban has a better hand than Oakley.”

Oakley was in the 2s and Ray-Ban in the 8s.

The Flop was A-A-little. As it turned out Ray-Ban only produced a pair of 8’s and Oakley showed down K-K.