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Originally Posted by ChipsAhoya
I will try my best to start the razzament tomorrow.
in after trying my best!
So, the razzament is particularly fun because way more 2p2 people are there for it. SGspecial, camz, hi? (who i guess was there for the $1,500 Eament, but I think that was an accident, actually...), some guy in a Bruins hat who said he wasn't 10_kyle_10. Obv everyone else who was already there anyway was playing.
My first and only table on Day 1 has professorben show up late or perhaps get moved to it early. I barrel the river one hand and he calls and then tweets about how a bracelet winner tried to bluff him, then I own his soul by c/r a 7652A on the river when he had a 7653x. I decline to tweet about it. Since the point of the razz tournament is to just mess around the whole time, I give Ben a ton of ****. My favorite extended scene is where I ask him if he's going to be in any more TV commercials, and he's like 'wtf'?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e04SjNGlfUo
He has spiky hair, so I remind him that he was the guy in the Axe commercial and proceed to pepper him with questions about it for the next five minutes. The whole table was LOLing and it was awesome. Another hand w/ Ben, we each had a 6 or 7 to start, make it 5 bets on 3rd w/ an 8 in the pot, who obviously goes on to win it.
I wondered at this point if it would be more EV in a Razz or E game to have yourself and another competent player at a table with 6 fish b/c you guys can jam all the fish in in multiway pots rather than having one table with 7 fish to yourself. Anyone else have any thoughts about this?
There was one table of death to start, which had micvanbob, jkwizzle, and ceegee all sitting next to each other. I'm glad I wasn't over there!!
Dan and Hi? were also at the table next to me, where there was this drunk guy drinking and wanting to play prop bets. Noone at his table wants to do it, (including Dan who asks me if I'll book his $20 prop bet action
) He's being louder and more fun than I am, so I have to step it up a notch.
Some other people were at my table, including SNACKERS from FTP, but I guess noone was famous enough for me to remember who they were, except for some semi-famous pro I thought I knew who it was, but was not, who was nitting it up and bitching at us during the prop betting. I think he was of some Arabian descent.
Prop betting, you say? It got written up in Poker News, who was 'kind enough' to stop fawning over Tom Dwan to come over and cover the table:
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We were checking out Tom Dwan's table when we heard a commotion going on over at table 135 which was several tables away that even caused Dwan's head to turn so we went to go check it out. When we got there, Chris Amaral filled us in on the details of what was a prop bet which has been a common occurrence that we've seen at several tables today.
If we understood Amaral correctly, the players in the first four seats were betting on their up-card. Whoever has the high card of the four has to pay each of the other three $20. If that high card is a ten or a nine however, the price is $40 and if it is eight or lower, it's $60. Still following?
Every 20 hands though, there is some sort of jackpot hand where the stakes are increased or multiplied. And this was the case when we heard all of the yelling happening. We believe that one of the players lost with a seven which caused him to lose a sizeable amount. It seemed like everyone was enjoying themselves and having a good time though so we'll let them continue at it.
So, the prop bet, as planned by the other table, was that whoever brings it in gets paid by everyone else. But **** that, b/c I never bring it in:
In the 2010 WSOP razzament, I was in the 2 seat, w/ Greg Raymer in the 6 seat, and I was chatting him and the rest of the table up while winning a lot of pots. Every time I'd get paint, I'd shout "KING ME!" like you would in checkers, and, inevitably, there'd be a king or something behind me and I wouldn't have to bring it in. It was awesome. So I had the 2 seat again at my table here, with plenty of time for "KING ME!" to work. So everyone else is on board with the bring-in collecting, but I insist that the bring-in has to pay. Why would I want to root to have the bring in and get paid? I guess it reduces variance, but **** it, I just won a bracelet.
So naturally I end up bringing it in every hand, although it was way cooler to make the bring in pay b/c then everyone was ganging up and rooting for the current high card and/or everyone else involved in the bet to stay the bring in instead of one guy rooting to just stay the bring in against everyone else...
I end up reaching -$1100 in the structure PN accurately described, including a hand where I bring it in, some guy accuses me of being streaky w/ the b/i, so I say **** you, jackpot hand, double it, and then BAM, insta K
. So I want to chase my losses, and rejackpot the next hand. I get a 7, so that's pretty good, AND THEN NOONE ELSE CATCHES HIGHER, so I have to be the first triple up, on a jackpot hand no less, for -$320 on that one hand alone. FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I end up "only" losing $960 or so by the end of the night, but ****, that sucked...
Obv we were having a lot of fun and yelling and stuff, so the TD comes over at some point and asks why we have all this cash on the table. I assume you're probably not supposed to prop bet and/or have cash on the table, so I snap him off immediately with, "for tipping the cocktail servers", and he laughs and lets us be.
Since I was always bringing it in, I ended up w/ like $9k in chips, up from $7500, but the avg. stack was $14k or so going into day 2...