I was the only tourist in the game, and the youngest player by about thirty years or so. They had a nice, quiet $1-5 game with a $.25 ante and a $.50 bring in. The only live stud game I found in Las Vegas during my visit from June 30th until July 6th was at Sam's Town. There were plenty of limit and no-limit hold'em games, and of course numerous satellites being run for the Main Event, but absolutely no stud. I checked in during the entire week I was there and saw no stud, stud-8, or razz in either the low- or high-limit sections. Though an occasional game of $50/100 stud-8 was offered, stud itself was never spread (at least based on what I observed and heard from the three floor people I spoke to).

The side games at the WSOP were disappointing for stud players. I left well out of the money, probably finishing at about 200th place out of 730. I played for seven hours, got knocked out on an uneventful hand of stud-8 after having my stack slaughtered in an Omaha-8 hand. The event I entered, $1,000 S.H.O.E., featured stud, hold'em, Omaha-8, and stud-8. or S.H.O.E., or variants of 7-card stud, such as razz (low stud) or stud-8 (high/low stud with an eight qualifier for low). The rest were either mixed events such as H.O.R.S.E. That being said, only three of the twelve events with stud were actually pure 7-card stud tournaments. Even the-second place finisher, Bruno Fitoussi, managed to earn over a million for his efforts. It generated a prize pool of $7,104,000, with a winner's purse, won by Freddy Deeb, of $2,276,832. (Hold 'em, Omaha-8, Razz, Stud, and Stud-8) event. In fact, the biggest event at the WSOP, at least in terms of the initial buy-in, is a stud event! That's the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. This is unusual these days – as the nation has gone hog wild for hold'em, to the exclusion of stud. What makes the WSOP special for me is that it, unlike nearly all other multi-day major tournaments, it actually features a few stud events. It's 55 events in many different poker disciplines, culminating in the famous $10,000 Main Event. But it's really much more than that one event. That's the one that where the winner earns several million dollars, gets his face in the mainstream magazines and newspapers, and attracts the interest of the general public. This six-week poker competition is known best for its Main Event, the $10,000 no-limit hold'em contest.

I just came back from a trip to Las Vegas – where I played in the World Series of Poker.

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