The main event is well underway; blog highlights:

• Pauly continues with his excellent real-time coverage
  
• Flip Chip continues to post some excellent photos and coverage of the event. Man, Dutch Boyd and Penn Jillette are looking rough. Evelyn Ng is definitely not though.
  
• Wil Wheaton is busted out
  
• Head on over to Poker Nation for not only a pretty solid blog, but also some good pictures of Pauly's much-lauded bad beat that he handed to Shannon Elizabeth.
  
• not WSOP related, but the over-under is set at 50 for the number of hot dogs Kobayashi will eat at next year's hot dog eating contest. I'm calling it: bet the under like there's no tomorrow.
  

A few other random notes -- as promised, my sidebar now is linked to my bloglines account, which means the links you see there are the actual blogs I read.

I've been enjoying the Flickr Poker feed, which shows the latest poker photos that have been added. Apparently there are no Flickr users at the WSOP, because there have been almost no good WSOP photos lately. But I did find this one:

"I can't believe you check-raised a baby."

I came across a nifty little site called 43things and was surprised to see that only 12 people want to win the WSOP, making it a less popular goal than winning any poker tournament (18) or playing strip poker (14), and a drop in the pond compared to losing weight (1,845). Go figure.

As for me, winning the main event would be great but I've got my sights on a bracelet from a two-day event first.

i am an idiot and i am lead by richard simmons

Posted by: idiot on January 5, 2006 08:50 PM

i am an idiot and i am lead by richard simmons

Posted by: idiot on January 5, 2006 08:53 PM