A Brit in Vegas » Nik Gera http://www.pokergossip.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:46:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 What to do: LV or LA http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/07/what-to-do-lv-or-la/ http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/07/what-to-do-lv-or-la/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:04:46 +0000 Steve http://www.pokergossip.com/?p=1071 If you are in Vegas this weekend you might want to stay indoors due to “extreme heat”. Today would be a great day to watch the WPT Bellagio Cup in the Fontana lounge. With only four tables in play there will be lots of room for railbirds. You may even sip a cocktail while you watch.

Our hope is SoCal playboy Alec Torelli, which probably means he cannot win.
1 Faraz Jaka 3.3m
2 Justin Smith 2.6m
3 Alec Torelli  1.9m
4 Erik Seidel 1.8m
5 Chris Sonesson 1.8m
6 Alex Gomes 1.7m
7 Ray Taylor 1m
8 Mimi Tran 690k
9 Sam Stein 666k
10 Pavel Reshetov 507k

Tomorrow they play from ten to six players leaving you free in the evening. Lots of musical possibilities with the B52’s playing outside on the Pure balcony. Jefferson Starship are the attraction downtown on Fremont St, it’s free. Station casinos have the beautiful Jewel booked at Aliante and Britpop vets Tears for Fears at GVR.

If you are in L.A. the weather is twenty degrees cooler so an evening at Hollywood Park would be enjoyable, just be careful in the area afterwards! The Commerce is opening a sportsbook which could help the Hollywood Park handle. The tournament action is at the Bike. Yesterdays HORSE was won by my reader John Claycomb with another reader Nik Gera in third. I thought Nik would have made a name for himself at the WSOP as he is one of the best tournament players in L.A. John is a Limit/mixed game player but he also has a job, almost a rarity these days even in L.A.

]]> http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/07/what-to-do-lv-or-la/feed/ 1 $1k NLHE and HORSE at the Commerce http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/05/1k-nlhe-and-horse-at-the-commerce/ http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/05/1k-nlhe-and-horse-at-the-commerce/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 00:13:25 +0000 Steve http://www.pokergossip.com/?p=748 Updates on the $1k instead. 18 players returned, already six have departed including Adam Junglen who started in #2 spot with 79k.
18)Raz Mael 17) Kevin McCormack 16) Corwin Cole 15) Salvatore Carlo 14) Manh Tran 13) Adam Junglen 12) Mark Potensky 11)John Virtue 10) Luke Nettles 9) Dan Heimiller 8) Estrella Baltazar 7) Doug Smith

Still waiting on the day2 of the HORSE. Six players remain: 8) Joe Aronesty 7) David Moskowitz 6) Andrew Ling 5) Suk Lee 4) 3)Chris Asatrian 2) Xuan Nguyen 1) James Vallejos $44k + seat in ME
1) Shirley Rosario 63700 1st
2) Chris Tryba 44600 5th
3) Mike Leah 39600 4th
4) Rob Deacon 36600 6th
5) Nik Gera 28800 2nd
1) Mike Lemkin 64600 3rd
Shirley wins,Nik Gera second..

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Number 2 is female jockey Chantel Sutherland. Never been introduced but I always show up well in horse racing search engines as horse race blogging is pretty rare compared to poker.

Number 3 is Alex Krisak who I photographed once at the Commerce but really don’t know too much about him.

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