State Poker Tournaments...WSOP HORSE event

I have been reading all the poker sites recently looking for some content for the site when I keep coming across the "State Poker Tournaments". Lets see now...There is the Oklahoma State Poker Championship in Tulsa, The Florida State Poker Championship in Pompano Beach, The California State Poker Championship coming up which Ben Affleck won years ago, and the Arizona State Poker Championship in Scottsdale last weekend. The tournament at the ASPC ended last week and they cut it off at 450 players with a $500.00 buy-in and they payed out 3 places. Get this payout

1st Place $100,000
2nd Place $40,000
3rd Place $20,000

A little math here and my question is ..."What happened to the other 65k?". Please don't tell me that the casino took that much juice. That would suck to play against 450 people and they only pay out the top 3. I wouldn't want to be the bubble boy in that tournament...Am I missing something here?Anyhow...My thoughts are why don;t we have a Louisiana Poker Championship and a Mississippi...or even a Tennessee. Maybe one of the Casinos in Tunica can run one for the Mississippi event and 6 months later run the Tennessee event.

I am now watching the HORSE Final Table event on my DVR. all I can say is "WOW"... I heard on one of the Pokerroad shows The Mouth talk about "Wait till the poker community gets to see Scotty on ESPN for the HORSE Final Table...Wait till they see him "MotherFuck" the dealers", but I had no idea how bad it was. I think I got equal parts more respect for E-Dog as disappointment from Scotty. E-Dog leaving Layne Flack hanging at the end was classic too. I loved it. You could tell Layne felt punked. It was obvious on his face. E-Dogs comments to the whole poker pro crowd of "I can't beat a drunk...some nights you can't beat a drunk"...ouch Scotty...that hurt ..."Baby".

As far as DeMichele (Pronounced DeMishel...not DeMikele)...I kind of lke the kid. He let Scotty get a little dignity back by burying the hatchet on the end and hanging out and congratulating him...just being a good sport. Scotty Jekel/hyded back into "Good ole Scotty" once he won the tournament. I really think that E-Dog came out looking like the champ. I loved it when E-Dog told him, "I ain't on Team Scotty buddy...never have been...never will be".

I just finished reading BeLOWaBOVe's blog and how you like this scenario....Your at the FTOPS final table in the $300.00 6-max with rebuys and your heads up for all the cheese. 1st place is a over a quarter of a million. You have a 5-1 chip lead with you having over 5 million and your opponent has a little over 1 million. What a situation is that? That would be all of our online poker dreams....then...you start to click the mouse...nothing is happening. All of a sudden your screen has no motion and nothing is happening. You attempt to type in the chat box but nothing appears...oh my god...YOU'VE BEEN DISCONNECTED!!!!...every online poker players worst nightmare happened to BeLOWaBOVe. I am getting the chills just thinking about it...I can't imagine what I would do...What about Monkey? Holy cow people would know what happened to him for blocks around his house.

Could you imagine the technician that they sent over to your house if this was you? OK...the everyday cable guy gets dispatched to an unsatisfied customer little does he know he is walking into a feeding frenzy of displaced anger because this specific outage has cost joe consumer over 100k. He walk in and announces his presence and looks for the Cable Modem...Damn...that looks like ...small pieces of it there in the corner...next to that baseball bat. Hmmmm. OK...the computer monitor looks as if somebody punched his fist right through it. Damn...Keyboard broke in half with broken keys all over the floor. He notices no mouse but thinks he sees a movement in the hallway. He makes his way down the hall and does not notice that joe consumer is sneaking up behind him with mouse cord wrapped around both fist in a strangulation type fashion...ok..ok you get the picture.

So what happened to our masked crusader you ask? He was able to get back to the game after losing 90sec of Fulltilt time on top of another 2 minutes (I am thinking time enough to reboot every piece of computer equipment he owns)...so about 3 1/2 minutes. His opponent has stolen enough blinds to be over 2 million...and He does eventually loses and comes out second. He doesn't blame this on him losing, but it had to effect you in some kind of way.

"I've got a tiger by the tail here and I'm not about to let go!" Leo DeCaprio as Howard Hughes in "The Aviator"