The beginning of the day very much like a hangover, although I do not feel the physical effects: the end of the evening was rather quiet last night. But today I return to Rio with an effect of abrupt return to reality after the fever that consumed us yesterday, when William was close feat. It's very frustrating to see everyone continue to live normally after that, as if nothing had happened, then he has at the same time, achieved a magnificent performance and missed the pinnacle of a player Poker ... I must admit, the effect is also rather perverse, but I hated him a little last night. Not much, certainly not as much as he wanted it to himself, but there is nothing to do, when your player takes you with him in his race for the title, you can not prevent him angry when he stops a few meters from the finish line.
This sentiment quickly been forgotten, of course, given the performance accomplished, especially since William and Caroline invited us home, took out the bottles, and we spent a very pleasant time on the terrace near the pool, again the final tournament, the world ... This type of debriefing can often pass the disappointment a plan, and forced him to refocus on what is to come: namely, the $ 2,500 No Limit Hold'em today to get started. Less than 24 hours after his third place in a WSOP tournament, William rattaque the Bousin, restarts with a cellar of 7,500 chips. And return in good conditions, he need to take stock of what he could do yesterday, surrounded by family and friends.
I myself have chosen to assume a role that I do not. Last night, I felt obliged to explain why his task to Guillaume final table would have been difficult, no matter what, even if he did not make any mistakes: his two opponents were simply stronger him. He had already understood and accepted, and instead of pointing as I would have certainly done had I been in his place, he found an opportunity to work on his poker, to question and revise Loved that followed his return to the table after the dinner-break.
" I probably would never sharpened a technician like you " he said last night Stephan Gerin, " because I am one of the players who also work on instinct. I can certainly improve my technical background, but I find it hard to silence my instinctive side. "It's probably for this reason that William is so maligned in the community of French players: the blows of alien that sometimes Assen his opponents are not part of the existing schools of poker are sometimes difficult to explain, and mathematically unprofitable in the long term. But is his style of play, he explodes into the practitioner, and there are nights when I want so much for posting this.
I am simply incapable.
The evening ended quietly in Darcourt, with a shift potentially comic: Katherina, the adorable Chris Benzimra joint, has made up his mind to teach me how to drink vodka without feeling the effects alcohol. Finally, I should say: to delay the effects of alcohol. It was pretty fun. No, I do not indulge his method, z'aviez to be there.
Christophe Benzimra me then deposited at Bally's around 3am, and a few minutes later, I was snoring. Towards
16h, I returned to Rio to cover the penultimate tournament of the WSOP: a test of No Limit Hold'em $ 2,500 buy-in, which brought together players 1.088 last year. This year, this tournament attracts almost double.
We feel that the Rio is filled day after day. With the impending main event will bring together over 6,500 participants, players arrive in Las Vegas in batches whole, and electrified the atmosphere a little. The World Series of Poker a few days to begin their final straight, until they begin to decline in the second half of July, ending quite on July 18, the day when we reach the final table of the main event. the corridors of Rio have already begun to gradually empty, then be completely deserted. The last nine players - and all the poker fans - must then wait three more months to know the end of the story as every year for two years, ESPN imposes a final table in November delayed, for reasons of suspense television . This gives them time to assemble and disseminate all programs they have completed the shooting at the WSOP, then broadcast the final table. This kills the momentum of the tournament, although course, but what it's worth, cope with the demands of ESPN?
Moreover, speaking of sponsors, here's one I do not understand: the biggest sponsor of the WSOP - at least one that is more visually present - called Jack Link's, and distributes. .. of beef jerky.
I think I can say without taking too much risk that the product is not found in any kitchen, even in the United States. Yet, Jack had to pay a handsome sum to afford such an omnipresence of the WSOP. Its slogan "Feed Yout Wild Side" (Feed Your Wild Side) corresponds fairly well to most players Poker I know, to be perfectly honest, but I tasted the product, and I can tell you that I was not particularly excited - and my wild side either, for that matter. In 2009, the year Jack Link's has signed its first sponsorship contract with Harrah's for the WSOP, a promotion called " Stacked Jacks Go Wild " was launched during the main event: if a player touched a square of Jacks ( Plugs into English) he received a batch of beef jerky Jack Link's, valued at $ 100. What Daniel Negreanu reportedly replied that as long as Jack Link's Beef not propose dried vegetarian they could pass on his lot to someone else.
I can not wait to attack the main event coverage. I can not help but consider all the tournaments that precede as preliminary. Expertly distilled, with their potential emotional and sometimes-often-explosive, but just the preliminaries. It suffices to observe the atmosphere that reigns in Rio: the tension is increasing day after day, the conversations are centered around the main event, there are more and more people who loiter in the corridors located between Amazon and Pavilion Room, online poker-room opened their lounges .... all is ready to receive mega-Donk of the year, the tournament every poker player dreams of, even more since Antony Saout perf last year.
Thomas Fougeron told me that to hear Jack say the Eiffel "Shuffle Up And Deal" ritual of the early tournament alone was worth the $ 10,000 buy-in ... Thomas has always loved sounding phrases, but I think I can almost understand what he meant: When Jack Eiffel says these four words, and that dealers distribute first-hand, a sudden silence fell on the poker-room, leaving the place only a single noise, deafening one: the sound of clinking chips, handled by the players. Invariably, a shiver runs down my neck at that moment, while I've always attended as a spectator. This means that players must feel when they participate for the first time.
While I check my mail, I read that Seth Palansky just sent to all accredited bloggers: it seems that the 2010 WSOP have a record of participation. The main event has not occurred, yet the Rio has already received more players than last year: 63.706 gambleurs have already gone through the registration desk of the Rio, generating a prize pool total that exceeds 100 million. These numbers are so huge that I can not understand them, actually. End of digression statistics. Towards
23:30 William Darcourt is removed from the event # 56. He then proceeds to fund the Rio to withdraw its gains yesterday, and there I had the opportunity (for the first time in my life) to hold $ 200,000 in cash in my hands. And you know what? When William told me almost casually "Manu, I like it a second if you like" (well, okay, it did not quite said like that), my first reflex has been to refuse. I can not explain why. It's just money, it will not hurt me - at least not right away, especially if it is not for me - and I do not risk losing it, a priori. Yet, I kept the four huge wads of Franklin less than five seconds in the hands, which did well laugh Guillaume, also ...
William Darcourt just after passing the credit The two weeks ahead may be challenging: William prepares us for an evening of his store to celebrate its performance, and Following in the main event begin. The evenings will succeed on the strip on the evening of July 4, for the American national holiday, and the last qualified Poker770 will arrive at Las Vegas on July 6. William and Caro (them again) were married on 7, my qualifications are the main event on 8 ... It is a day off on 11, which will be busy playing the tournament of the media, and then we will not stop until 18, when the return home, in my case. I think tomorrow morning will be devoted to the pool, a good book in one hand and a glass in the other.
Quiz of the Day: Behind one of these hoodies are Michaël Sebban cache, which one? 
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