Toby Maguire signed up and played in his very 1st WSOP event today. His girlfriend who also plays the game and very well I might add was on the sidelines rooting him on today. We’ll see how he spider’s his way through the web of 538 players today. 13K seems to be the magic number for the 1st place prize in the Second Chance Tournaments. Every night we start out slow with registration but by shuffle up and deal time (10:45) we end up averaging 185-200. The tournament goes to about 4:30 AM, but that’s only a problem if you win it.

Amarillo “Slim” Preston was here today making his 1st appearance at the WSOP since his well documented troubles.

Carl “Coach” Nessel a local player from the Socal area is probably one of the nicest guys in the game. I met him about 2 years ago when he started frequenting the tournaments.

Shortly after I started this website he called me and said “Warren my game is suffering and I need some advice. Will you help me?”

The numbers above represent the entries in the WSOP tournaments. It seems that what we thought was a blow up in the WPT events is an explosion in the World Series.

What a great experience I had playing the Bellagio Championship event. This was an event I was going to skip completely, getting ready to work the WSOP and the 25K entry fee of course. I am very glad now to have had the opportunity.

Last night while meeting the guys at the Kimmel show we discussed how Sal was going to play in the Main Event at the WSOP.
This is a great opportunity to add to the coverage that the WSOP will get this year. Jimmy plans on doing remotes from the event during his show while Sal plays. (Jimmy Kimmel Live films live every night on ABC at 9PM PDT)

I know what your thinking, the 5 Diamond Classic is going on, Hollywood Park has a small tournament, but that’s it. How can this be the 2nd biggest day in Poker??

Imagine you are standing next to these two guys as they watch the $400-$800 mix game at The Commerce. Eddie is a modestly successful Joey Kanish type, while George is your basic rocket scientist with about as much chance of making a living in poker as Yassar Arafat has of managing the Jerusalem Hilton.You don’t know’ ‘Who’s’ in the game or ‘What’ players are after each others’ bankrolls, so just sit back, relax and enjoy.’Naturally’.

Hollywood Park, the only one of the top 3 in Socal without a WPT event, has become a satellite venue for WPT events. This means they run tournaments where the end prize is either a seat in the $2500 super satellite or in major events the 1st place is a $25000.00 seat in the WPT Championship, coming up in April.

Last night they had a 100 buy-in multi re-buy event that ended with almost a 60,000-prize pool and a seat at the Largest buy in dance.

In what turns out to be a typo error by the marketing department at the Bicycle Casino, last nights $2600.00 Championship NL Hold em event was advertised as a one-day event. With 5000T and 60 minute rounds there was no getting away from the fact that if you played good and got deep in this event your drink of choice had to be RED BULL.