Chances of playing with known WPT player at Bilageo

[pokerfloor]

I've seen Steve Danamon play $6-$12 limit and Moneymaker play $5-$10 no limit at Caesars

[SirRaleigh]

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[DayTripping]

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Well, it looks like you have certain English words down pretty well, doesn't it?

[AngusThermopyle]

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Bellagio is Italian. Beautiful Lake.

[sternroolz]

It depends on the player. Some television guys are just amatuers who got lucky once or twice. Daniel Rezner from I think the first season Commerce episode (he finished 2nd or 3rd) was playing $9-18 last weekend at Commerce. But bigger name guys...maybe you will see someone playing $5-10 blind nl or $30-60 limit. Usually higher.

[bav]

I've played with Moneymaker at Alladin, Varkonyi at Wynn, and saw Hachem at Venetian, all at NL2/5. I've seen Moneymaker playing NL5/10 at MGM and Caesars. Ron Rose sat in my NL2/5 game at Mirage once, and I've seen him playing 2/5 at Wynn recently. Antonio was doing NL2/5 at a neighboring table from me a couple months back at Venetian.

We tried to get Sam Farha to sit in our NL1/2 game at Caesars as he was coming out victorious from a heads-up championship game, and he actually told the kid who was using his charming personality to get him to join us that he would. But 30 seconds later some chick walked up to Sammy and giggled sweet nothings into his ear, and she lead him out the door... Guess he was more attracted to her than to the guy, despite his charming personality.

Phil Gordon apparently spent an entire evening playing NL1/2 at MGM a few months back. He was there for some other purpose and was just killing time, and supposedly was having so much fun at NL1/2 that he just decided to stay.

So you don't have to play high limits to run into name-brand players, but you have to get the timing right. And it's not really the thrill it's cracked up to be. (Like, I cannot recommend sitting with Sam Grizzle, unless you want stories about what a miserable coot he is.)

But yeah, in the high-limit area at Bellagio there are almost always recognizable faces playing. But you won't want to sit in any of those games without probably $10,000.

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[McMelchior]

Check out the morning satellites for the daily $1,000 (weekend) tournament at the Bellagio (buy-in $240, 2 seats awarded).

Last time I played it I first bumped into Minh Ly and then played with An Tran ...

[budman]

I played at a 30-60 game at the Belagio with Barry Tanenbaum and Karina Jett.

Karina absolutely demolished the table in about 40 minutes and then left. She was very cute and had a tremendous personality.

Oral Hersheiser sat down with us but left without posting a blind.

Puggy Pearson signed up for every game on the list, and as far as I know never sat in a game; he must have liked to hear his name on the intercom.

I saw Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harmon and four players that I did not recognize play for huge stakes (this was before they finished their renovations. Now I think the real high stakes games are put into a glassed in room to keep us riff-raff away.

I also played in a game with Mason at the 30-60 at the Belagio. I played really badly and got lucky. He only played in a couple of hands in like three hours and I played 3-6 off from under the gun and flopped two pair. He left after that hand. David Sklansky was playing in a bigger game at the table behind us.

You will probably also see the Shulman guy that owns Card Player. For a rich guy he was the worst dressed person in the room; crumpled Card Player t-shirt, etc.

The room is run very well but is crowded. Be prepared to wait and be sure to tip the floorperson who seats you at the table. It might help you if you later ask for a table change.

[CoryTV]

I was gonna laugh this off until I realized I played 2/5 with James Woods for 3 hours last time I was in vegas.. I thought he was slumming-- turns out he was teaching his (insanely hot, 20 year old, illegal to be gambling) girlfriend to play with real people. They started a table for him, and it turns out that I was on the list at the right time.

It was actually pretty fun, because he was so "James Woods" It was like he was being a caricature of himself or something.

He actually did this whole monologue thing when we were heads up in a hand where he was trying to "call my tell" where I had been previously hunched forward slumped on my hand when I had a big hand, and this hand I had slumped backwards... So therefore I was bluffing on my pot-sized bet, apparently, and reraised me. (Of course, I was only slumping so badly because I was exhausted, and wouldn't have been playing at all if it wasn't for the fun of playing w/ him....)

The irony was that I only saw him monologue like that when he had a monster, and was trying to goad you into calling. -- his "calling out my tell" was actually a pretty huge tell for him. I laid down my TPTK anyway...

I took about $80 off his girlfriend, and he got most of it back that hand, but it was worth the dollars for the story, anyway.