A Brit in Vegas » Shannon Elizabeth

Freeroll time at the Bike

Steve — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:15:30 +0000

The last tournament ME finished on Monday (no results available,I believe because Greg is probably taking a couple of well earned days off).The Star + Stripes begins tomorrow (no tournie on the 4th). Inbetween the Bicycle Club held a $50k freeroll for cash players yesterday and a $10k freeroll for giving your email to thebike.com today. I was one of over 300 playing tonight. Some estimates thought 1000 was possible. I was surprised by the structure. Players started with between 3k-6k,depending on if you had played on their free poker site. I have not as it isn’t mac friendly. Blinds started at 25-25 with thirty minute rounds.A good way to attract new players.

Robert Turner missed out . He must have better opportunities to shoeshine in Vegas.Still waiting on a, non rubber. check.

The Bike is making a big effort to make the Legends of Poker a major success. PartyPoker are sending online qualifiers.The search for a big name,well connected, TD is underway. In any event the atmosphere there is much improved from a year ago.If Matt Savage accepts the job he will have to move to the Caymen Islands.

Friday and Saturday the Bike has a re entry $50k guarantee tournie at 6pm. The final is on Monday evening at 7pm. L.D. Gray won nearly $10k in event#1 of the Star + Stripes.442 paid the $80 entry fee.

Friday also sees the return of World Cup action. The finalists will not be asked to return in November. The winners will be from South America or Europe unless Ghana shocks the world.

My poker hero Julian Gardner, who unlike me has a real Manchester accent, added $91k to his lifetime winnings with sixth place in the $5k PLO. Two HendonMob players Joe Beevers and Ross Boatman also cashed.

Not much love for Shannon Elizabeth when it was announced she has signed with CarbonPoker. Everyone in my house has heard of Shannon. None of us has heard of Carbon b4 so good publicity. She loves poker and is pretty approachable. Certainly pretty!

Ben Nguyen all Smiles at the Bike

Steve — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:27:41 +0000

The Jerry Buss charity event relegated the final of the DeepStack at the Bike to the main room next to a Pan game that must have left Palms Springs senior centre empty. Not a problem for the promising Ben Nguyen who made short work of the 27 who returned from the day1 of the 647 entries. Ben returned with 522k whereas Robert Schneider who also made the FT only returned with 21k. Beautiful Qing Yasui was second.

$100 Deepstack NLHE 647 entries

1) Benjamin Nguyen 19k
2) Qing Yasui 9.5k
3) George Wilson 5k.
4) Yi Cheng 3k
5) Edward Liu 2.5k

Speaking of beautiful, Shannon Elizabeth, who hasn’t aged one day in the four years I first saw her in the flesh (yes the day I saw “American Pie” on TV) played the charity tournament.This good be a good spot for her. Jose Canseco was the other star in attendance. I didn’t see either partaking of the buffet that was included with the buy in. This was no stale donuts buffet. Salmon, chile rellenos, pasta and the ever present chocolate dipped strawberries. Three Laker girls attended, and watched both of their bosses Frank + Jerry play for Laker tickets and memoribilia. John Hennigan and David Daneshgar were probably trying a little harder for the prizes. The tournament was the Smile Train benefit .

Midweek funblock

Steve — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:06:43 +0000

1) Call me Nadia again and I will give you a “nut flush” Shannon Elizabeth Fadal.

2) spend ,spend,spend. Soon to be divorced Dan Shak.

3) What is that smell?

4) A yellow match. Shirley Rosario + Ken Geary.

5) Todd’s drinking red bull and eating peanuts.Steve Wong holds his breath.

6) What is that smell? Red bull and peanuts.Steven Devlin.

7) I keep refilling my Pepsi from the giant can behind.Roland de Wolfe.

Players at the Invitational

Steve — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:41:19 +0000

Celebs at the Commerce gallery

Steve — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:26:07 +0000