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Monday, June 27, 2005

Tradeoff: chip count or bladder pain

via Jim McManus' daily report from the WSOP:

The main problem is that only two men's rooms are within walking — or sprinting — distance of the tournament area. When an event attracts over 2,000 male players, the lines during the 15-minute breaks become downright torturous. Many players have had no choice but to miss several hands after a break, a potentially costly tradeoff: chip count or bladder pain. Others have snuck into the adjoining women's rooms, sometimes without incident, other times with.

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