I've been sorting out university and doing lots of work so I just haven't had time for the amount of poker I wanted.

With that said, I haven't done terribly - I'm down $0.40c in my SNG stash, and broke even (exactly!) on the cash stash. It was a bit up and down (as you can see from the graph below), but I ended up all square so I'm not too bothered.

It's disappointing to get up to almost $15 and then end up back where I started though. I only played 2 SNGs, so I won't even bother posting the spreadsheet for that - just know that I finished 14/45 and 7/45 (and ITM of 50%!) and only lost $0.40c.

2006 WSOP Controversy

Anyway.. in other news, there's plenty of controversy raging over this year's WSOP ME.

Firstly, there was the 2 million extra chips that were accidentally introduced during the chip demonination change up in the late stages. WSOP Directory of Communications Gary Thompson issued this statement:

"We are taking this matter very seriously and are conducting an internal investigation. As soon as that investigation is complete, we'll have more information to share [...]"

It has taken them over a month so far, and various news sites are starting to subtly imply that something fishy is going on - mentioning reviewing security tapes and interviewing floor staff. Was it a big conspiracy to help out a player or two?

The same problem also occurred in at least one of the other tournaments - $2000 NLHE. Daniel Negreanu mentioned the skills of the floor staff on his blog:

"Some of the floor staff did a wonderful job with this year's WSOP, while others were not qualified to run a lemonade stand [...]"

Jamie Gold Can Only Have $6 million

And on top of it all, some guy called Bruce Leyser is claiming that Jamie Gold promised half his winnings to him. Since Jamie took first.. that means he owes Leyser $6 million!

Harrah's has frozen the prize fund, and is happy to release half to Jamie, while allowing time for Jamie's legal team to challenge the case. Leyser has a text message saved on his phone in which Gold pledges the 50/50 share, which alledgedly arrived on final table day.

If you won $12 million, would you try to back out of share deals you'd made? What if no-one would ever know? If Leyser is making it all up, it is a dark day for poker indeed.