{"id":3230,"date":"2010-02-28T00:57:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T00:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:16:16","slug":"diary-and-update-day-two-at-the-wpt-lapc-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/diary-and-update-day-two-at-the-wpt-lapc-main-event.html","title":{"rendered":"Diary and Update &#8211; Day Two at the WPT LAPC Main Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Those who turned up five minutes before registration ended seem to be faring well today as the eliminations come hard and fast. Antonio Esfandiari didn&#8217;t even arrive until today, so had his chip stack completely blinded out through day one. Here is what his seat looked like last thing last night:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" title=\"Antonio Esfandiari LAPC entry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/antonio-esfandiari-lapc-entry.jpg\" alt=\"Antonio Esfandiari LAPC entry\" width=\"580\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/antonio-esfandiari-lapc-entry.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/antonio-esfandiari-lapc-entry-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They don&#8217;t call him &#8216;The Magician&#8217; for nothing &#8211; that said if you want to go anywhere in Vegas and you just say you know Antonio and magic happens! Thank you to Steve Hall of PokerGossip.com for the picture.<\/p>\n<h3>Why don&#8217;t you go to a tanning salon someone said?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After three weeks in casino environments, I am getting a little tired. Why don&#8217;t you go to a tanning salon someone said?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Good suggestion but I dont want to end up looking like the below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/tanning.jpg\" alt=\"tanning\" width=\"146\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As I write the field has whittled down to 288. From tomorrow I am on my own here. As I write this midway through day two we have the following runners still live.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sergei Norikov<\/li>\n<li>Malte Moennig<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Kimber<\/li>\n<li>Andrey Marsev<\/li>\n<li>Salvatore De Luca<\/li>\n<li>Marco Callari<\/li>\n<li>George Grant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">And it has been bike time for: Mykhailo Demydenko, Nicholas Verkaik, Rudger Gravestein and Gavin Greenwood.<\/p>\n<h3>Our boys with chips do not speak a word of English<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3234 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/TonyGKermitlowres.jpg\" alt=\"TonyGKermitlowres\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/TonyGKermitlowres.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/TonyGKermitlowres-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There may be trouble ahead. My learning and development schedule was light on Russian lessons and our boys with chips do not speak a word of English.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Maybe I should call Kermit the Frog, aka Mr Tony G,\u00a0but I&#8217;m sure he wont be helpful as he&#8217;ll &#8216;send them back to Russia.&#8217; Tony, can you help me with some Russian diplomacy? Do you know what the Russian for &#8216;On Your Bike&#8217; is?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To add to my problems Jeff &#8216;JaffaCake&#8217; Kimber is still in. A fellow Brit, we go back many years to the days of sports journalism. He found his way from TV and Satellite Week Magazine to becoming a major UK player.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He is from Newcastle in the UK though so I may find him harder to communicate with than our Russian players.<\/p>\n<p>Wi -ay! On your bike&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who turned up five minutes before registration ended seem to be faring well today as the eliminations come hard and fast. Antonio Esfandiari didn&#8217;t even arrive until today, so had his chip stack completely blinded out through day one. Here is what his seat looked like last thing last night: They don&#8217;t call him<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/diary-and-update-day-two-at-the-wpt-lapc-main-event.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[229],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77328,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions\/77328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}