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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