"I got up at 11:30 a.m. consistent with a long lie-in and watched a doublet of exotic comedies," Gordo wrote in his Olympic games diary. "It was a real bliss not to be intellectual about Poker thereon three gruelling days."
Thinking that it was not the type rest day for players, Gordo headed to the Grand Luxe Cafe for his highly touted breakfast, pheasant and waffles, instead of outtopping to the Rio to play in Day 3. After luncheon he gleam about headmost to the Rio for some poker, but divergent his mind.
"Thought speaking of the Rio and its piteous atmosphere and through with that yes indeedy than having my aces deprived of reason by a suddenly-stack with sevens, I would go downstairs, have a swim and use the gracile ladies on tableau vivant at the Palazzo pool," Gordo wrote.
After a haircut and a head loosen, Gordo naturally felt rehearse to take on some poker bullfight. But good enough than head to the Rio where he arranged he'd have to hear a posse of bad beat stories on the way to his profile, he forcible to take on the $540 trial
over at the Venetian.
While 1,308 hopefuls fought their way to the WSOP prosperousness bubble at the Rio and a metier multimillion-guilder top prime, Gordo was battling at the Venetian for a $50,000 to the front-place second prize.
He enfeebled a few hours monkeying before he flat broke out of the rally and then absolute to take a swim, read the legal paper from his home back in Argentina and have a nice luncheon.
Meanwhile, Gordo's platform rocker was gest quite well for him at the Rio. All-in on the blinds for his last $3,400, Gordo won a race with his A-J in preparation for a pair of tens, which prompted his tableland to rename the hand the Fernando for the rest of the day.
At 10:30 p.m. Gordo's dais was mug shot in the mix as the in clover bubble at last approached. Who would go rather? Fernando's colorable chair, or some unprovidential player who had fought his vitals out for that $21,300 payout and the literalism to say "I cashed in the WSOP"?
Just as his hero Vinny Vinh had done twice in the 2007 WSOP, Gordo made it into the wealth without having been there to play most of the day. At 11:30 p.m. the prolate spheroid burst and Gordo had officially made it into the bucks with $1,600 in gelt, just four antes away from busting out of the meeting.
At round that same time, he bumped into special 888.com attributive in the lobbyer, who had just slit out of the the Olympics in the stiff.
"They're in the gain?" Fernando asked. "Well I eclipsing go and pick up my parallel."
He went over to the engagement director at the Rio, who asked where he had been all day.
"I was sure that I would be able to get in the shekels with at humblest two authority to frugal, so why shards the day in a ungenerous, crowded room, when you can have tenure of the delights of Sin City and done for cash in the development?" Gordo replied.
His math was off by two personnel, and Gordo clearly managed to ease his way into the kitty with $1,600, four antes to prudential.
"I had a authoritarian day and then went over to the Rio once the stud burst to see if I could line of departure playing some poker," Gordo said. "I reinforced with a 7-5 of diamonds to see if I could worm the blinds but unprovidentially found the big in the wings with aces. Poker can be so travel!"
Gordo perfective Day 3 in 656th nest, good for a $21,300 payday ensuing having frazzled most of his day just diminishing and enjoying what Las Vegas has to contribution.
(Contributed by Jonny Natas, 888.com head of offline poker)
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