Re: Fossilman update
From Gutshot's website:
TURNING WATER INTO WINE
By David Lloyd
One of the longest roads in the world runs from Clerkenwell to the Rio on Flamingo Road. Gutshot’s Tiffany Williams can tell you all about it…Making it to the last 58 and out-lasting 5,560 other players, she’s fought for every piece of ground and seemingly walked every step of the way from London to Las Vegas…including the bits on water. It all began with a Gutshot free-roll on a cold and rainy night in March, when Tiffany splashed out on the £10 add-on and turned that into a seat in the $10,000 Main Event at the World Series of Poker.
That £10 investment won Tiffany a $1000 seat into one of the WSOP Super Satellites. By the time she arrived, two days before the ‘Dance’ she’d already waded through to large satellite fields in London just to get there. By the time she’d broken another field in the Rio to capture a seat in the Main Event, you could forgive her for thinking she’d already done enough to win the whole thing!
We all know it not that easy don’t though…That ridiculous winding walk from the front of Rio house to the back is there only to illustrate the death defying game of No Limit Snakes and Ladders that you’re about to play in with another five and a half thousand of poker’s lost and pretty souls. Keep looking for ladders and don’t look down, don’t ever look down! Keep moving forward and never think you can stand easily on the head of a snake. “You take care Y’all!”
Sauntering across from the Gold Coast to the Rio like Tiffany, having achieved so much in just getting this far, it’s easy to imagine some players walking up to the front doors and saying, “I’ve come for my prize…where do I pick it up?” The bus boy looks up and says… “Your bracelet is waiting for you on reception your worship …have a good day now!”
No brash displays of confidence and bravado from Tiffany though, more a quiet, self assured determination to give it her best shot. You’d have to go a long way to find a more understated player in this arrogant town. As I’ve been watching her over the last few days, she’s had the look of someone locked in her own zone, oblivious to the world outside her particular table…very serious, extremely calm and centred to the point of perfection. She may well have had the clock put on her, more times than any other player in the tournament. Tiffany cool and calm as you like. Has found her own time zone and these misfits will just have to wait.
She’s had her fair share of luck but has been able to capitalise on those moments and made a series of stunning moves on some of the most experienced players in the world.
Yesterday as the field grew smaller, you could see Tiffany’s mood lighten with a number of gentle smiles to friends behind the ropes as well as to players at the table. Was it because she’d reached personal target in the prize structure or was it more to do with finding her feet and feeling at ease with some of the best in the world? My own personal theory is that she was just thrilled to be sitting next to someone as talented as John Juanda, making moves and pushing them all off pots. It just looked like she was having fun. Here’s hoping it continues and takes her all the way!
In less than an hour, play begins again…Tiffany has $1.99 million in chips and 7th place. She’s guaranteed a $145,875 pay day but there’s $7.5 million out there for the winner and the top nine will all become dollar millionaires. Not bad for a tenner!
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