The first hand of the first day of the game is covered at the World Poker Tour’s Foxwood Poker Classic last Friday, and Ron Massett sits at a table tucked at the back end of a giant Sunset Ballroom. Massett, a 44-year-old financial adviser from central New Jersey, notices that there is an empty seat across the table and thinks for himself whether someone will fill it 20 minutes before the event’s registration is officially closed.
Meanwhile, in the lobby of the ballroom, an unfashionable Phil Ivy arrives with an unwrapped white dress shirt, jeans, and an iPod around his neck. Ivy, the biggest name for the event in the Deep Forest of Connecticut, is almost half an hour late, but that doesn’t stop him from getting the little star treatment.
A blonde woman immediately greets him with a big smile and a hug as she hands him a powder blue full tilt poker baseball cap. Ivy turns around and recalls her own smile as she hands over the registration form to a WPT employee.
With Tiger Woods walking toward the first tee of a major competition, Ivy starts making long, deliberate steps along the center of the ballroom. Everyone pays attention, including Maset, who can’t help but think for himself, “Is Phil Ivy going to my table?”
“As he got closer and closer, I kept saying to myself, ‘Phil, go on. Don’t sit here,'” admitted Marsett with a smile. “So when he sat at the table, I was like, ‘OK, it’s time to step up my game.'” 온라인카지노
“I’ve played against him before, so I know what it’s like. You’ve got to realize that if you want to survive, you’ve got to bring you back to the ‘A’ game. Because if you don’t, someone like Phil Ivy is going to take your lunch pretty quickly.”
When you’re a player like Ron Maset, and you make the brave decision to compete in WPT, that’s life. Maset, who will be the first to admit he’s not as skilled at Texas Holdham, has played in only a few of these big events over the past few years, not quite as good as the professionals in the field. And he realizes that if he gets to sit at a table with players like Ivy and Nick Shulman, his $10,000 buy-in could go away in an instant. Ivy won the event in 2005, and if he gets to sit at a table with players like Ivy and Nick Shulman, who were already seated at Ivy’s left-hand table, he realizes that his $10,000 buy-in could go away in an instant.
But with Ivy and a career-high $5 million and four WSOP bracelets seated, all players at Marsett’s table had a significantly lower chance of winning, but that doesn’t mean they’re ready to cash in their chips and go home.In fact, most of them enjoy the opportunity to take on one of the most skilled and recognized players in the world.
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