evwhore writes that playing in the WSOP will count against your comp rating at Harrah's. Gory details over there.

The absolutely insane part: "if you cash in a WSOP event, they consider that a win just like if you'd won it elsewhere in the casino. Your tournament losses don't ount as losses though."

So, Harrah's will have me down as a $293,979 winner ( Read more... )

It's almost 3:00 AM, but I feel the need to blog about how lame this tournament was. Not the fact that I'm busted, which is disappointing because I was looking forward to the event, but how totally unpleasant it was to play ( Read more... )

A little of this; a little of that:

The Invisible Clock and the Invisible PlayerI've been greatly annoyed by the fact that it's been often extremely difficult to view the clock in some tournaments. In the $2k limit, everyone at the table looked around completely unable to find a clock for our tournament. I looked around our 40-table quadrant and ( Read more... )

Just when you thought Harrah's couldn't make any more terrible goodwill-destroying decisions, they find new ways to screw up royally. In a move that is sure to further enhance their already sparkling public relations record, they have 86'd Richard Brodie from all Harrah's properties -- which includes play in the WSOP -- basically for being a ( Read more... )

I decided not to play today's $1500 NL (even though it's probably the highest-ROI tournament during the whole series). I wasn't sure yesterday whether I wanted to play it, so I didn't register, and there's no way I'm going through yet another lineup to play a $1500 NLHE event. So I'm just hanging out at home for now ( Read more... )

andybloch posted a comment in my post of a few days ago, where I complained about the colour-up/chip race procedure during the Johnny Chan tournament at the River Rock casino here in Vancouver. Readers will recall I was annoyed that they waited until everyone came back from break before running the chip race, resulting in a long 20-minute delay. Andy ( Read more... )

Bill, Jerrod, Michelle and I have dinner at the Showboat, which for people who don't know, is next door to the Taj (but still a long walk from most of it). Jerrod and Michelle are leaving and Michelle still has $90 in chips. She asks if I'll buy them off her since I'm going back to the Taj and she's not, I say fine and after playing Liar's Poker ( Read more... )

One of the things I can do with the internet suckage is blog, so you're stuck with more of my ramblings today. I decided that if I can't play online I would head out to the Vic. At the very least I could sign up as a member, since I have to do that to play the tournament anyway. The lady who signs me up informs me of the dress code: jeans are ( Read more... )

Amy Calistri & Tim Lavalli of PokerNews have written a three-part article about the chip overages reported during the WSOP. You can find it here:

Two Million Questions. Will Poker Answer?

Those of you who play a ton of tournaments and have been through numerous colour-ups and chip races in your time may wish to skip to Part Three. Calistri and ( Read more... )