WSOPoker Day 7, Event 9 $1500 Omaha 8 Final... and a Wynn Floorperson sucks
I promise this is complete truth OK... so long story short, I took second in the omaha 8 event final table, and there wasn't a damn thing I could've done to improve that result. Sucks for me. Even if you factor in all the bad play from previous days and give me all the chips I should've had, I still take second. I ran really bad in the final four, and especially bad heads up. I won't bore you with details, but that is how it was.Unfortunately, the point of this blog has nothing to do with my result or the good times had afterwards. The point is how poorly Katherine Martin, a "poker room shift manager" of the Wynn treated us after our celebration spilled outside of Tryst. I cashed for a little over $140k and we went to celebrate at Tryst. After much partying, several of us ended up playing 1-3 NL in the Wynn poker room.
Yes, we were drunk.
Yes, we were loud.
Yes, we were having a good time.
Yes, she asked us to "tone it down."
Yes, she said to us after we asked who was complaining, "There are many people playing for much higher stakes than you guys, and you all need to settle down."
No having fun at the Wynn poker room.
I had over $10k on the table. Apparently not high enough stakes for her.
Honestly... I pulled her aside and calmly asked her to speak with me for a moment. She said no. WTF?!? I finally got my way and had her in private conversation. I expalined to her that I am in fact a high roller. I explained that we were all at the table having a great time. We were playing Indian (put your cards on your forehead) NL Hold'em. The two tables that were near us had no complaints and actually thought we were all hilarious. After about four minutes of reasonable conversation with her not listening to a word I said, I finally lost it and yelled to the room, "Does anybody have a problem with how loud or how much fun we are having?" Several people laughed and nobody objected. There weren't even annoyed looks given in my direction. Anyways, that apparently was enough for her, and she called security and had them escort me out. I gave the ol' "I am a blogger and plenty of people will read about what happened tonight speech" and all that lead her to do was ask me for a card. I'm a professional gambler for Pete's sake... we don't have cards. I think I should look into that. She threatened me with "reporting to pokerpages how I behaved tonight" and I laughed in her face when I countered with the thousands of y'all who will read about how she treated us tonight.
The worst part about all this is that I conisder the Wynn my home turf. I play the cash games there more than any other joint in Vegas. The floorpeople and dealers know me very well and they know my reputation. Yes, I can be loud. Duh. Yes, I can be a drunken idiot. But tonight for one time I actually acted in a reasonable manner when told not to be a drunken idiot and she did not listen to any reason whatsoever.
Instead, when I got booted, the game broke immediately and ten people left the joint very frustrated.
Yes, I was the fish in the game.
So, up until this point I have supported the Wynn poker room at 100%, but now I doubt that I will ever play there again. It is complete bunk to threaten a 1-3 NL game with being kicked out because they are being loud and they are not the highest rollers in the joint, even though a few of the highest rollers in the joint are sitting at the table.
Food for thought. Go Venetian.
So, perhaps someday y'all will get a full report of what the hell happened in the past three days, but I am way too exhausted to write about it now. I took second, good for a little over $140k, haha to everybody that didn't back me, and especially to the guys that were going to but bailed at the last moment. I mean that in complete needling context, cause I understand the risk involved with backing people and how hard it is to make a cash ot that size. But I handed my sole backer $97k tonight. :-).
There wasn't a single thing I could've done to place higher than second. I feel very fortunate to have placed where I did considering that I came into days 2 and 3 shorter than I would have liked to be but was blessed with the run of cards that I needed to end up where I ended up. Plus, the bracelets are super ugly this year. They look like a cheesy bracelet/watch made by Corum POS with a World Series of Poker face instead of a time telling face.
Yeah, I still would've worn it proudly.
But I think the 1987 Binions gold stamped gaudy bracelets look way better and capture the WSOP vibe way better than this year's bracelets. Yes, the 2006 bracelets are way better too.
Speaking of things that Harrah's has screwed up, check this out. In day two as we were on the bubble, the TD made an announcement that we were in the money, everybody cheered, and hand for hand was over. There were two very short stacks at my table that were thrilled to make the money and one in particular started going nuts trying to get a bunch of chips. He did, quadrupling his stack from 2500 to 10k in four hands, when the TD made an announcement that said, 'Just kidding... we're still one out from the money.' Could you imagine if the guy busted when he thought he was in the money?!? Obv he would've played way differently. Thank God he didn't bust, otherwise that would've been another huge PR mess for Harrah's.
Anyways, I'm taking tomorrow off, and I'm back to the tournament scene Saturday for the $1500 NLHE event that should be a ginormous field.
Peace and good luck,
Devo
posted by Devo @ 8:12 AM
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