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LAKE TAHOE, NV–A little update from the $500+$50 NLH tournament I mentioned earlier. Heads up with Edmund Liu (right), slot gacor Nutz Rafael Perez went all in with A-9 after the flop came K-10-9. Lui’s A-K gave him top pair. A queen came on the turn giving each a possible straight, but a blank card on the river gave Liu victory.

For a small event there were definitely some characters like deli owner Karen Bochenek who raced from her final table debut to the next tournament a few minutes later. Silently sipping his neat Chivas Regal was Nick Loader. The day before the finals, loader bluffed Bochenek bringing her to the final table with a low stack disadvantage. We also had returning situs online champion Clint Baskin who early on looked as though he might regain the title, but fell when his K-J lost to Liu’s pocket 9s. Finally, our second place winner, boistrous, colorful Rafael Perez who knocked Bockenek and her pocket 3s out of the tournament with his third round of pocket aces. Perez held top pocket pairs seven times that day; five of them were aces. Talk about lucky.

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RE: Yo Scope This!

LAKE TAHOE, CA–Jen is correct in extolling the virtue of The Block — “the world’s first snowboarder’s hotel.” Considering that we had a hard time locating a hotel in Tahoe, we scored big with this locale. But a few pieces of greatness that she didn’t point out are how on most nights the sweet smell of kind bud wafts up from various balconies; how the “maids” don’t show up to clean your room until early in the afternoon — no need to wake a partier too early; and how the people who do said cleaning have long hair, ponytails, and tattoos. Oh, and the DVD’s you are welcome to borrow … they’ve got everything from Monty Python to porn.