Riooooooooo

Posted by Nat
July 31, 2006

In typical fashion, I rolled out of bed around 2 PM today. It’s a little weird to wake up after the Sunday tournaments start, but I guess that’s how it is here on the west coast. Ozzy and Justin were going to some pool party at the Hard Rock Casino, so I just stayed at the Bellagio for the afternoon. I played a little poker then went for a swim/nap at the Bellagio pool area. It’s a pretty sick place… they have cabanas everywhere, tons of hot girls, a bunch of different pool/sitting areas, massages, etc. And everything is really nice and well done. I think I’m going to go out there every day this week or at least a bunch of times. I didnt want to get a sunburn, so I headed back up to the room for a few, then decided to go over to the Rio.

After taking a cab to the Rio, I found the P5s guys standing out in the hallway outside the tournament room. It was the players’ dinner break and I got a picture of a few of the P5s guys with LXIXME17, a sick player from Oklahoma. He recently won $215K when he chopped a million guaranteed $1K tournament on some small site (well, normally a small site… I can’t even remember which site it was on):

Adam, LXIXME17 (Brian), Cal and Dan

The P5s guys were headed to the Gold Coast to get a drink and play some table games, so I walked for a bit with them. But I was a little hungry and when we saw colson10 on his way to get a bite to eat, I decided to walk with him to this tent outside with random crappy fast food. It wasn’t very good, but at least I wasn’t hungry anymore. We went back in, talked for a bit with Johnster, then I found Lenny and gboro780 standing near the media room.

Lenny interviewing Bernard Lee. Bernard wrote a long series of pieces for the PokerStars Blog last year after he got to the final two tables of the main event.
Lenny and gboro780

gboro and I went into the tournament room for a bit. We said hi to GB2005 before he busted and I also took a few pictures.

faithless/lucky seven in the rasta hat in the foreground and another P5er at the next table. I’m not sure what his name is, but I’m sure I’d recognize it if someone told me.
The online poker legend and “Grand Master of PLO” Carl “colson10″ Olson. He had around 7 or 8K when I talked to him during the break.

I took a cab back over to the strip with gboro780 because he was headed to Monte Carlo and I was going to the Bellagio. I’m now sitting in the room debating whether I want to go somewhere else tonight or just hang out then go to sleep. It’s around 11 PM, so it’s a close decision. I think I’ll head back out though.

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