Running 2006 World Series Of Poker Thread

So you're the guy I play hi/lo stud with. ... there's not many.

 

I remember reading a piece about the World Series in either 04 or 05 where the guy emceeing the thing announced a bunch of former world champions in the room and neglected to mention Varkonyi. The reporter wrote that Varkonyi looked around and said "Hey, what about me?"

A valid point, but nobody gives two shits about him. He came before Moneymaker but isn't one of the "name" poker players. He may as well me "ButtFuzz" or "SoxFan444" on the Internet.

 

I believe the hand you're talking about came when Hachem flopped the nut flush, got Black to put in all of his money with a top set of queens and blurted out "Pass the sugar!" before realizing Black had 7 outs on the turn and 10 on the river to win, making Black only a 4-1 underdog. It's about a "slim" of a favorite one can be when he flops the nuts -- most of the time, you're much more dominant than that.

 

yes, because math helps you get pocket aces about a billion times. Varkonyi has certainly improved from those days, but c'mon. the deck hit him upside the head so hard it about knocked his retinas across Fremont Street.

on a side note, anybody heard anything about negreanu's new book coming out in september? I'm actually going to be out in vegas the day it's released. I'm hoping there's a party to crash.

daniel cracks me up. his video blogs over on FCP are pretty good, too.

 

There was a point at the final table (I believe when there were 8 or 9 players left) when he was the short stack.
Hachem was the short stack when there were 5 or 6 left last year, but that's more doable.

 

Anyone know if Mikey the Chimp is still alive in the tournament?

 

Is he related to Murphy the dog?

 

Moneymaker was very fortunate.

Bobby V was friggin' unconcious.

Kudos to Varkonyi for working his way deep into the tournament, but a monkey could have played those final-table hands and won.

 

Pros Phil Ivey, Juan Carlos Mortensen, Layne Flack, Freddy Deeb and Josh Arieh were knocked out.

All remaining players are in the money.

 

DAMMIT! PHIL IVEY!!!!

 

I don't know how my life is going to move on. That fucking guy. :

 

I saw on pokerwire.com that Negreanu is down to 55k. He started the day with 300k or so and was in the top 10. Now he's around 125th place and treading water. Does anyone know if that's a misprint? If not that's a massive collapse. Whatever I guess you have to try to make a move at some point in the tourney.