Yesterday was rather eventful: I had an appointment with qualified Poker770 at Starbuck's Rio-yes, I am Starbuck's Addict-to welcome them and give them the goodies 770: polo cap, logos ...
In the process, I returned to Las Vegas Outlet Center shopping: I found a series of t-shirts Converse, a hoodie (one more, yes, but not quite the same as other , anyway), clothes for my children ...
At 19h, we found William and Caro the Little White Chapel: they remarried before an approximate Elvis (but who sang well), in a vintage Cadillac Orlando. After a quiet night we avoided the battles of cakes and eggs, this time I went to Bally's two o'clock in the morning.
This morning, waking with a start: I have an appointment with Antonio Guerrerro at Starbuck's Rio (how it: yet?) To take breakfast, before attacking the big day that is the day of the 1D WSOP Main Event: 3,000 players are expected, which will transform the Rio Zoo.
Just before starting the main event, Jack Eiffel announces the participation of a former star of the NFL: Emmitt Smith, who has spent his entire career running-back in the team the Dallas Cowboys. So, pal Jools is crazy, it looks like he just learned that Santa Claus does exist, finally, and he came just for him. I barely have time to ask who it is that I'm bombarded with Jools Smith charts: running-back who has accumulated the most yards in NFL, with three Super Bowl titles ... I still shudder.
Emmitt Smith ( photo: Jools - poker-magazine.fr) Jack Eiffel also presents the Dean of the day: a man named Jack Ury 97 which combines spring. It is my own hallucinations, Jack Ury this: at the age where all the old sweeten strawberries long, he simply moved into a $ 10,000 tournament, attended by a sitter Grandpa, though: he sees well anymore, can not hear anything, but it goes tokens. At dinner-wagon, it has nearly 45,000 chips, well above the average.
Jack Ury And that's the huge advantage of poker: even at 97 years, Grandpa Ury can hope to win against young people while wriggling, into the money, or better ... try to do the same thing when you're that age in another activity, such as tennis. That is my point of view, one factor that makes poker a game so widely appreciated and popular. I have read or heard some time ago already that a pro player in an interview: "There many athletes who stop playing sports altogether, while there are very few poker players who stop playing completely . "
lambda A tennis player can (and must inevitably) stop playing one day when a poker player is never forced to stop completely, and still does it whether he likes it: the sense of invincibility, adrenaline, big frights, all allied to the fact that age is no barrier to the practice ... Nothing pushes a player to stop.
This fact holds true especially when a player has touched the stars: I just read in the various newletters I get that Peter Eastgate, who won the WSOP main event in 2008 (and has accumulated a total of eleven million worth of gain tournament in two years), decided to withdraw from the poker world, due to a lack of motivation. I think it depended on a sponsor to live, the young man would have been much more motivated, but that is not the issue.
I am sure we will hear talk to him shortly. They know, players who announced early retirement, and making their comeback a few months later.
And who could blame them? Certainly not me. When we saw the fire of TV tables, palpitations that may cause a slow-river rollée by a dishonest dealer or by the requirements of the media, relief-intensive and not always successful, when it was suck-ny his opponent, exclamations of joy surges by 700 survivors of the main event when Jack Eiffel pronounce the magic phrase: " Congratulations, Guys, You're In The Money " ...
For most fans, would decide to stop everything no longer as easy as using their left hand. After a moment, it's a safe bet that Peter Eastgate will reappear in one way or another. I also think that the more a player is mounted high in the poker world, with everything that entails glory, glitz and glitter, etc.-plus a player will struggle to win. Even players completely broke, and this is a dark side of poker, are struggling to win: they do everything to rebuild, borrowing money from other players when their own bankroll is depleted.
I heard the word "addiction"? Yes, of course ... and no. The word "addiction" implies a physical dependence, more suited to a drug addiction, in my opinion. But I play on words: it would demonstrate a boundless hypocrisy to say that there is no phenomenon of addiction to poker. Addiction as conceived in the middle of the game is directly linked to the phenomena arising from gambling, not the game itself. If people always come back, it's because of the sensations it causes. The same addiction to extreme sports, some risk occupations ...
In fact, as so aptly said recently Claire, poker players are people normal with normal needs and normal sensations. They just want it to go faster, farther, harder, more expensive. More.
That's extraordinary force which pushes a grandpa 97 years to play what may be his last tournament. I heard people say about him: " you imagine if he takes a bad-beat, it could give us a heart attack at the table ." And then? Caner to leave, as it happens to us when we practice our passion, right? On the whole, I prefer that rather than dying in bed, so that indigent or compel someone to clean up after me.
is that point which is the most motivating, Papy this: it rarely feels as alive as a poker table, all feeling are multiplied.
What else?
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