Bob's WSOP Recap
The early part of my WSOP was spent mostly with the Nola crew. Plenty of Gulf-Coasters were in the mix this year in the Main; a few went deep, but no one went super-deep. The highlight of the summer was
Anderson Ireland, a Nola-based tour manager for The Soul Rebels. He’s a gambly, fun-loving guy who always makes the games better at Harradise, so I was thrilled to see him ship a PLO bracelet after having only played the game for a mere nine months!
On Day 5 of the Main I began editorial duties at PokerNews, which more or less entailed writing profiles and trawling poker Twitter for newsworthy topics. It's very different work than live reporting, which I'd done two summer ago, and overall I enjoyed it.
The story of the the summer has to be Joe Cada, whose deep run in the Main was soon followed by
a fourth bracelet! Cada's presence aside, the most compelling member of the final table, for me, was
Michael Dyer. He wanted nothing to do with the media (folks were calling him the Bill Belichick of poker after interviews) and he godmoded for a good while until the wheels finally came off. Someone created an amusing Twitter account given Dyer's propensity to always (and I mean
always) cbet:
DidDyerCbet?” currently has 592 followers.
As most of you probably saw, an incredible moment came on the stone bubble of the Main, when
AA got in versus KK and KK. I'm still shaking my head over that one. In a freak coincidence, the very same AA vs KK vs KK happened in a cash games at the Nugget!
There were a bunch of impressive performances this summer, including Shaun Deeb, Ben Yu, and Phil Foolmuth—er, i mean Hellmuth—
winning bracelet #15.
Finally, I wrote a piece on
James Obst, who's leaving poker in order to pursue his dream of playing professional tennis. Who woulda guessed?
An irony of logging dozens of hours inside the Rio is that I barely watched any of the action. PokerGo coverage was blacked out in Vegas, so I couldn't follow online, and I was mainly tucked away in a remote corner of the Amazon Room, writing. I’m looking forward to skimming most of the coverage, including the epic HU match between Miles and Cynn (the latter deserving the win imo). Also looking forward to catching up on the One Drop.
After an eventful three weeks, I’m eager to return to Nola. Am vagabonding quite hard as I drive cross country. Obvious first stop is obvious!
Last edited by bob_124; 07-21-2018 at 09:40 PM.