Poker-Mac

As recently as 1995, only two or three major events - among them the Diamond Jim Brady at the Bicycle Club outside Los Angeles and Amarillo Slim’s Super Bowl of Poker at Caesars Palace - competed with the World Series on the tournament calendar. Fields of 100 or 200 were typical, with first prize seldom exceeding the middle six figures. When you busted out of one of these events, you had to wait a few months for the next one.

The full story can be read at James McManus’ Saturday NY Times Sports Column.

The Poker-Mac iCal Poker Calendar has been updated. I’ve been playing the new microlimit 7STUD games at Pacific Poker - trying to broaden my skills - but took time out to make this update as soon as I saw that Harrah’s had released the new dates.

It’ll be back at the Rio. Most Events start at noon, several at 11AM and 2PM if there are more than one events per day. The MAIN event looks like it’ll last almost 2 weeks!!

See you at the Final Table on 8/10 lol.

This is all I saw:

We got there later than expected on Saturday. Went down and had a bite to eat, then at 4:30 put our names down on the list. We were going to see Hank at 8PM, so we figure we would just play a bit and then head over. 3 hours of waiting later we were numbers 3 and 4 on the list. Torture. Saw Henry: and after two and a half hours of laughter, screaming, republican teen heckling, spitting, shouting and insight — we were too tired to head back downstairs to take our place at the bottom of the list again.

Maybe next time…