As an avid fan of Sports Guy and Chuck Klosterman (both who do similar live blogs for ESPN), I decided to outright copy off of them and "live" blog the ESPN coverage of the WSOP each week. Since this obviously isn’t TECHNICALLY live, this article can be enjoyed two ways – by having it open and following along as you re-watch the previous Tuesday's episodes on rerun or DVR, or on its own (for instance printed out and taken into the bathroom at work … you're welcome for the idea by the way).

NOTE: Wasn't signed on AIM for this one since I was at The Bike, but will be for next week's Main Event coverage under the name 'ShronkDaddy'. Since I missed the original airing, I'm catching this one on DVR so the times are going to be estimated.

5:00 – The audio clip of Hellmuth saying "I can dodge bullets baby" has an entirely new meaning to me after Ali Nejad's musical audition (Click Here)

5:02 – Good to see Billy the Croc getting some TV time. I did a bunch of video stuff with him while in Australia numerous times for PokerNews, and he is definitely in the top 10 nicest people I've met in poker.

5:04 – Kido Pham – "We wanted to keep your around cuz we want your wife to know that you're on TV."
Irish Guy – "My wife doesn't even know I'm here man."

5:20 – Billy the Croc, referring to Kido sporting a "Smiley Dental" baseball cap (one of his businesses) – "If Kido wins, free root canals for everybody!"

5:22 – PLO is so weird. Grinder leads out into three players with a straight (drawing dead of course), Croc smooth calls with second nuts (Queens full), Irish Guy folds A-A-9-7 (for 9-9-9-A-Q, which I think is the 6th nuts), and young guy folds K-K-2-2. The A-A and K-K were in the pot for one bet preflop and both folded the turn without ever putting anymore money in the pot. PLO is so weird.

5:30 – Rail watch – Grinder's wife Lily, one of my poker crushes (along with Erick Lindgren and Bart Hanson).

5:35 – Kido says that ESPN's portrayal of him as a maniac helps him to get calls now. I hate to break it to you Kido, what helps you get calls is the fact that you never have anything.

5:37 – I'm staying at Barry's house and am periodically visited by his girlfriend Alex's niece and nephew. The four-year old just came into the room and started mocking Lon McEachern. Not good.

5:47 – Can ESPN just have a graphic on the screen that says that you have to use exactly two of your hole cards in Omaha so that Norman Chad doesn't have to say it once per segment?

5:50 – Rail watch – Sorel Mizzi in Peter Jetten's cheering section.

5:54 – "No celebration for MizRACHI as his ROCKY road continues." I see what you did there Lon. Homophones. Expert broadcasting.

5:59 – This broadcast is pretty bland. Needs a pinch of Lindgren.

6:03 – Seems like once a week something weird happens between the HD signal and the regular signal and for about five minutes the shot gets zoomed in to the point where the board cards are cut off. I thought this was just happening at my place, but it's also on the version I have that's downloaded.

6:05 – Rail watch – Andrew Robl also in Jetten's cheering section. I'm starting to feel like I might know this guy's online name if he's friends with this many other online pros. (NOTE: Looks like his online name is "Apathy." I guess I've kind of heard of him.)

6:11 – Lily and Grinder's mom tried to get a "GRINDER! GRINDER!" chant going … it started and ended with those two cheering alone. Also, when Grinder told The Croc his mom was a bit of a firecracker, he wasn't kidding; I've seen it.
6:13 – In case you were wondering: Yes, I am ignoring all the Hellmuth coverage on purpose.

6:15 – And just like that, this Harroch guy joins the club of players who have managed to make a WSOP final table and get less than two minutes of coverage, DESPITE the fact that he wrote "Poker for Dummies."

6:24 – Lily and Mama Grinder try to start the chant again, this time improving by one member as Billy the Croc joins in.

6:35 – I will break my embargo on Hellmuth comments to correct his grammar. "It would have been fun if it was you and I, Esther." It should be "you and me" instead of "you and I" since it's passive voice.

6:38 – Ok, I have to correct Hellmuth on something else. Never admit in a segment of The Nuts that your wife can beat you up.

6:40 – Annie Duke – "I'll tell you something that people would be surprised to know about me - that I'm not a total bitch. I'm actually really nice. My kids love me, my boyfriend loves me." Although this may or may not be true, I certainly don't think your family loving you is necessarily proof of you not being a bitch. I love my sister and she's a total bitch.

6:40 – Jennifer Tilly: "I failed math twice." Jen, they said something people would be SURPRISED to learn about you.

6:40 – Robert Williamson just used "Jitterbug" as a verb.

6:42 – Ok, I'm kinda over this final table. Someone flop a set against a wrap and let's get this over with.

6:46 – Rail watch – Chino and Chris Gregorian railing Grinder. I guess all his non-broke friends went home?

6:48 – Marty Smytthye's crew is chanting something in Irish (if that's even a language). International chants annoy me. They should be restricted to soccer matches.

6:49 – Norman Chad just said Smyth had a "nuclear wrap." I don't know if that was a term before he said it, but it’s awesome.

6:50 – They just showed about 45 more internet kids in Jetten's cheering section. Sorry, I didn't recognize any of them.

6:53 – Jetten's cheering section is much more effective at starting the group chant. It helps that there's a few hundred of them in the stands.

6:55 – With that Phil Hellmuth is NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS richer.

6:55 – At first I was pretty wow'd by Hellmuth predicting "I'm playing great poker; I could easily go four or five days in the Main Event." Then I realized that he probably would say that before every tournament. It's the same reason everytime someone takes a full court shot at the end of a the quarter, I always say "that's in." If it goes in, I'm a genius; if it doesn't, oh well, full court shots aren't supposed to go in.

6:56 – The guy who won the HORSE bracelet looks like the guy who invented Johny 5 in Short Circuit.

6:57 – NICE! Both guys flop the same straight, and one guy has a flush draw. I'm on a total cooler freeroll for this thing to be over.

6:59 – Boring Irish guy beats boring internet kid. Bring on the Main Event.