Monday's Aruba Update
Ken there are some notable Blackjack Players that you must have missed in your roll call so I will help with that.
WSOB 2006 Champ Jeff is here
also WSOB player Nghi Tran
There is also Darryl P a well know live blackjack player who has had many articles written about him and his success at beating the casinos
He arrived in Aruba just today and walk away with 2 seats in the main event in just 2 tries. The second one he received 2700 in cold cash. A very impressive start for Darryl P
The day started with a blackjack tournament for 300 UB poker players. 100 seats into the Main Event were awarded to the poker players and Blair Rodman won his seat in this UB Freeroll.
Because of the 300 player tournament the normal Sit & Go's didn't kick off until 6 PM tonight.
There were 15 held tonight bringing the total tournaments to 29 played in 3 days with some of the toughest tables you could feast your eyes on.
At last count before some of us headed for a late night dinner on the beach
There were 11---120 Dollar events
also 3----530 Dollar events
and 1 800 Dollar event that the players organized that gave away 2 seats into the Main Event
Total event played today 15
That 800 event table had
Robert Blechman
Vera
Russ Hamilton
Peter Nathan
Kris Judkins
David a BJ player turned poker player who only will play Big BJ events. He told me he played the Hilton Million all 3 years
That table also had a 900 last longer bet among the players....Like they werent playing for enough money already
The one poker player was eliminated on Hand 8 and it came down to Robert Vera & David for the 2 seats.
All still had there secret bet on hand 25 and they all used it
Vera bet first
David second
Robert B last
Vera had 28,500
David had 26,250
Robert had 29,000
A very close match and I have all the details about it and time permitting I will share it with you
Kenny Einiger continues to be almost unbeatable here in Aruba with one more win and a second place finish.
Kenny Smith after some needed sleep has also appeared in the winners column
I played another one today with just one other BJ Player who plays on Global (AK Musher) is his Global sign on
Him and I had a great match as the lead between us changed a few times he had the early lead I survived the first 2 elimination hand having to bet early on hand 8 and first on hand 16.
After betting to protect my lead and not wanting to use my secret bet unless I felt it was the only way out I built a nice lead until AK Musher used his position on me and hit a 25,000 blackjack with only 3 hands to go
Now it was survival time trying to run him down and still stay in the money with a 2nd place finish .On the last hand I again had to bet first and now used my secret bet. I bet 25K and I received a Blackjack.The only problem was AK betting after me bet 20K a real slick bet in the open and he received a blackjack also.
I then tried to confuse AK with a secret action and DD on my BJ for the full amount . I knew that if i could get him to DD on his BJ I had a chance to swing him.
He stood pat on his hand and I lost by 3,000
But another UBT payday
I need to consider sleeping sometime soon as I play at 12 noon in the Main event
There was 1 table of note that had the following players on
James Grosjean
Anthony Curtis
Kenny Einiger
David Page
AK Musher from Global
1 out of place poker player (If he only knew)
and Previn M
This is the kind of table you would normally run away from but here in Aruba this is just a normal table with some of the best players in the world
Previn M. won this table with Kenny Einiger coming in second
Peter Nathan also hit the money with a second place finish and saved 500 on the main event as a Poker Player not thinking he was going to win his seat booked a non refundable deep sea fishing trip.Way to go Peter
Hey guys I'm off to sleep wish me Luck ............Did I say LUCK :laugh:
Joep
