Leach Learns Lesson"You can't get upset about it," says the real estate investor, adding with a smile "it was a misunderstanding on both our parts."
The confusion came when the remaining 150 players in the Poker Room were told to bag and tag their chips because they were moving upstairs to the Event Center. Everybody but Leach understood that it was a relocation, not the end of Day 1.
"I was talking to the dealer and I took it as we were ending early, which was great because I got ahead start on something I had to do early this morning," says Leach, who was surprisingly upbeat after hearing he was blinded down from 10 pm to 2 am.
When tournament directors realized Leach was missing and his stack was being blinded off, an APB went out to try and track him down. Announcements in the Event Center and Poker Room went unanswered, while blog posts were floating in cyberspace.
"You can't get mad, all you can do is regroup and start over again. They have tournaments here all the time," Leach says, while eying the satellite schedule to try and qualify for the Championship Event.
As Day 2 kicked off, Leach's 6k was enough to cover his 500 ante on the the first hand and with blinds at 2,500/5,000 was forced all-in from the big blind on the second. After watching David Tawil (Brooklyn, NY) tangle with Cathy Dever (Lancaster, PA) in the side pot, Leach waited until the river to flip over 5♣ 7♥ to seal his fate against Tawil's J♦ J♥.
"I'm definitely talking to the floor (supervisor) next time, and I'm definitely going to be checking the blog every 10 minutes from here on out," says Leach, who's off to hit his favorite slot machine before driving back to D.C.
"You always think how could anybody do something like put chips in their pocket, but now I'm sitting in their shoes."
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