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Actually this is not about the famous poker players but about some of the people I met. Some of the behind the scenes Hollywood Poker people as well as some members we all know and love.
Sunday
July 30th
Went to meet with Baileyhart at her hotel. She was staying off strip so we arranged to meet there and head over to the Rio where the WSOP was being held. I walk into the hotel she was staying at and head over to the poker room to find her. She is sitting over near by and calls to me. Never having seen even a photo of her I don’t know what to expect. She is a petite little thing with a great smile. Much more intimidating on the Poker Table than in person. She was as sweet as can be. We decide to go find BellaDonna and Cgar. So we jump into my car and head over to the RIO. She’s calling bella as we drive over and finally gets a hold of her and makes arrangements to meet inside.
We finally get to the RIO and make our way over to the convention center and through a maze of Gaming booths and drop by quickly for a peek at the HP booth. We then go on over to Doyles Room and find Bella and Cgar. We all all excited about finally meeting! Bella and Cgar are sitting at a small table in the Room with bags of “loot” they acquired at the convention. The convention has booths from nearly all the online Poker Sites and are giving away tons of goodies. Not just cheap trinkets mind you but some really nice stuff. I should of came by a day earlier darn it! So they are showing off their goods and I’m anxious to go get myself some goodies! But first they take us over to the Hollywood Poker booth an introduce us to the HP staff. Several HP models are there and some of the behind the scenes HP people. They are all great people make us all feel right at home.
So Bailey and I make the rounds gathering up goodies and samples at the booths and collecting everything from Poker Key Chains to Super glue! Don’t ask why someone who represents super glue was there. We are both hungry and go over to say goodbyes to Bella and Cgar. We meet one of the HP Model Heidi Blair at the HP booth as we say bye. Bailey is leaving the next morning and I am taking her to play in her first live game.
We head over to Boulder Station which is near where she is staying and to play. We buy in and both are seated at the same table. I’m going up and down, mostly down when Bailey finally gets a great hand and gets back to even! We decide to cash out, and head to her hotel. This table had one of them jerks who raises before the flop every hand. Kind of pissing most of us off. So it was good to get out. I drop Bailey at her hotel and say our goodbyes.
Monday
July 31
Arrive at the HP Booth around noon time Bella had told me that Vince Van Patten was suppose to play that day was stopping over there before he played. He was running late but made an effort to stop over and meet us. He arrives and flashes a huge smile!
I melt! He takes photos with all of us and chats a bit with the HP staff. I take a few more photos of HP Model Heidi Blair and Bella and Cgar. They are leaving today so I say my goodbyes and so I decided to spend the rest of the day hitting a few booths and gathering a few more mementos of my first WSOP.
~KellieKrop
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