Trip Report
by TIGER123
hiya, folks!!
tiger123, your atlantic city beat reporter here, with the
latest headline news about "atlarge iv" - rgp's annual march
gathering in the town that made diving horses famous! complete
details will follow later this week!
atlarge iv was a resounding smash success!! rgp'ers kicked
butt all over the poker room and beyond! many thanks to
the inimitable jazbo burns, who created and organized our
atlarge events, and to will espin (tropicana vice president
of poker, keno and simulcast) and his hard-working and
charming staff: poker room manager kate dumas, poker host
patrice munafo and marie mchugh, poker facility administrator.
the weekend started with rgp'ers grabbing the top two spots
in the trop's regular 10 + 10 limit thursday hold 'em tourney.
scott byron (my choice for rgp'er most likely to win the
wsop $10,000 championship) was one, and i've got the other
somewhere in my notes! congrats to both!
thursday night, an amazing game of 1-5 high-low stud (eight-
or-better) was spread. eight rgp'ers bought in for at least
$500 each....all in white chips!! "reds don't play!" was the
password! there had to be at least six or seven thou in
whites on the table, and cries of "outgoing!" and "incoming!"
punctuated each and every change of dealers! :) and every time
floorperson anita ordered a fill, the gang would dig deeper
into their pockets...so that none of the chips ever got into
the rack! :) your intrepid reporter had to wait for more
than three hours before he could get a seat in this game!
on friday, all-around good guy tom goodwin (who hasn't been
seen in atlantic city since a certain halloween evening when
a certain feline got a big surprise birthday party) had the
goods on everyone! he won the trop's regular $100 + 15 no-limit
hold 'em tourney and an entry to mike sexton's tournament of
champions! wtg tom!
the friday night smoker at the old waterway inn was one very
fine dinner! nolan dalla and peter secor put the over/under
line at approximately **twice** the actual total bill....
and they *still* got people to bet the "over"!! ;)
llew213, one very tough poker player, was the big winner
of rgp's saturday no-limit hold 'em tourney! even though
llew says that taking her husband to see "rounders" was a
big mistake, she again proved that she is quite capable of
beating the pants off every male poker player who thinks
that girls can't play poker! wtg llew! a fellow named
tom goodwin took the second place money. after the tourney,
llew got to play in a "beat the boss" $500 freeroll against
kate dumas. katie couldn't beat llew's quads, and our musical
lady from pennsylvania added five more franklins to her
bankroll!
kate, patrice and marie hosted the banquet dinner on saturday.
your dauntless reporter was lucky enough to be the first one
to ask kate to sit down next to him. what a delightful
lady she is! a random drawing was held to give away a number
of tropicana poker club jackets and t-shirts! and everyone
got a trop poker club wallet! :)
saturday night, a "mats" tourney (a mini-satellite for the
rgp "target" satellite) was held....in an undisclosed location.
ming lee and rob jarman chopped this one up, and ming promised
that he'll be in vegas come wsop time! :) g'luck ming!
late saturday night, some of the crew got the tropicana staff
to spread a 5/10 hosel game (hold 'em, omaha, seven stud,
seven stud/eight-or-better, and loball draw). but the
real action was two tables away, where there was a 1-and-2
"rock 'n' beers" hosel game!! yes...there was thousands
of white chips. yes.....reds didn't play. yes...."outgoing!"
"incoming!" and "cocktails!!" were the words du jour! :)
on sunday, dave fruchter knocked out your much-humbled reporter in
the second round, and then beat up on everybody else and took
first place in the rgp seven-card stud tourney. all-around
good guy tom goodwin took fifth, and won the all-around best
player award! but in the "beat the boss" freeroll, kate showed
dave that poker executives know how to play poker, too, and
kate was the boss of this freeroll! :)
mitch firestone and i caught a 6 pm bus back to the big
apple sunday evening! but before we left, we spotted
llew213 as the big stack in the five remaining players of
the tropicana regular $40 +10 seven-stud/eight-or-better
tourney.... whatta player!
that's all for now! stay tuned for the videotape at 11!
:)
tiger