A Brit in Vegas » Vanna Tea 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 End of Day 3: No ladies: no seats http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/08/end-of-day-3-no-ladies-no-euros/ http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/08/end-of-day-3-no-ladies-no-euros/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:02:51 +0000 Steve http://www.pokergossip.com/?p=1231 Today was a sad day.Any hope of Vanna Tea turning her satellite entry into a mini cash were dashed as she was the first player of the day eliminated. Pretty Thoyan Doan started the day in third place but had a few bad levels at a tough table and left without visiting the payout cage.Scotty Nguyen was eliminated by two players with pocket aces. His Viet cousin Men saw his wife eliminated early but he failed to bring home the money as he bubbled leaving perennial bubble boy Stan Jablonski once again leaving with money.I left with Bryan Devonshire taking care of a monster stack and believing he had a date with a WPT make up artist on Wednesday. I was shocked to see that, in the added level(originally play would finish at 27),Devo had cashed out for a mere $18k, mainly, after flopping a lower flush than Todd Terry.

So what do we have to look forward to? Prahlad Friedman can be entertaining and the WPT will be pleased to have the possibility of the new world champion, captured on tape, in the form of Kevin Schaffel or Steven Bedwetter.

]]> http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/08/end-of-day-3-no-ladies-no-euros/feed/ 7 Another week another lost over/under prediction. http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/08/another-week-another-lost-overunder-prediction/ http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/08/another-week-another-lost-overunder-prediction/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:02:08 +0000 Steve http://www.pokergossip.com/?p=1189 I will never take actual bets on the over/under,except with John at the Bellagio who is forever the optimist. I was thinking six tables for todays $1k NLHE at the Bike. After all Eric “Basebaldy” Baldwin is the only name in town and L.A. players don’t show for anything above $300 usually. Even Men and his entourage missed this one. With only 38 signed up 20 minutes prior to the tournament my prediction looked home and hosed. Somehow, the number ended at somewhere near 160. A few mutterings about the structures which today started at 100-200 for forty minutes then 200- 400 followed by 300-600 with a 100 ante. Yikes.

Todays final table saw a four way deal. The official result is below although Raul was eliminated before the tournament concluded making a winners photo difficult!

Tomorrow is $1k HORSE day. If the number tops 100 I will ride a quarterhorse to victory at Los Al in the near future!

1) Raul Rosales $35k
2) A Zeidenfeld
3) Dung Le
4) Calvin Ma
5) Gerald Limber
6) Mike Heshmati
7) Ken Smith (LV)
8) Agustin Loya
9) Adam Weinberg

]]> http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/08/another-week-another-lost-overunder-prediction/feed/ 3 Vanna Tea and TNT on Thursday http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/08/no-vanna-t-just-tnt/ http://www.pokergossip.com/2009/08/no-vanna-t-just-tnt/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:02:38 +0000 Steve http://www.pokergossip.com/?p=1112 My new friend Vanna Tea started the day with over 100k but just crept into the money in the $500 NLHE. TNT , who is an uglier older friend, made the final four which should make up for him being shunned by the Pan grannies. As soon as the final table was established it seemed compulsary for a player to push all in. TNT pushed and won twice before asking for a four way deal.
Daniel Amouyal started the FT with over $1m in chips but after calling Tony’s all ins he had surrendered the chip lead to Kenton Keilholtz who had just been sitting there patiently watching the madness.

Vanna took her $875 straight over to the 3pm PLHE tournament which had only 58 entries with 26 rebuys, 25 by Robert “Chipburner” Turner. Joking. After a 12 hour day Vanna won the tournament worth just over $9k.

.Todays tournament is half Omaha8 half stud8 which would be a great tournament for me to play but I expect a small quality field as the HORSE was. Everyone else will wait for the 6pm at the Commerce with the $50k guarantee.

Saturday should see a return of the crowds with a $300 with rebuys $200k guarantee NLHE.

$500 NLHE
1) Kenton Keiholtz
2)Tho Nguyen
3) Dan Amouyal
4) Tony Nasr TNT

$300 PLHE with rebuy
1) Vanna Tea
2)Estrella Baltazar
3) Roy Tran
4) Andrew Malott
5) Kevin Song
6) Robert Turner

BIOGRAPHY

Vanna Tea has been playing home games for the last three years, but it was not until the first part of this year that she began playing in casinos.  She is off to a great start however coming in second to Paul Darden during the Winnin ‘O’ the Green tournament this year.  Vanna wants to improve at all disciplines of poker and really has no favorite game.  She prefers tournaments over cash games.  Her strategy at the final table was to wait for the others to knock each other out.  She has experience in single table satellite games and she used much of that experience at this final table.  When asked what she liked most about the Legends of Poker she said she loved the new Event Center at the Bicycle Casino.

– Matt Snodgrass

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