The 2019 World Series of Poker (WSOP) draws to a close with German poker professional Hossein Ensan outlasting a massive field of 8,569 players. submitted by ellesiahaan to DragonDRG [link] [comments] 55-year old Ensan bagged the $10 million first prize in this year's series which was held in the Rio in Las Vegas cementing his place in history as the winner of the 50thAnniversary Main Event. Ensan, who entered the final table as a dominant chip leader, kept a cool head to maintain his lead for all but a few brief moments on the last day, edging out Italy’s Dario Sammartino. Sammartino pocketed a tidy $6 million for his efforts. Ensan’s victory saw him become the oldest player in over 20 years to win the world’s most prestigious poker tournament – something made even more memorable by the fact that this year’s Main Event was the second biggest of all time, behind only the 8,773 entrants who took part in 2006. Ensan showed remarkable focus and stamina over the 13 straight days of play to whittle down the monster field and become this year’s champion in what has been a record-breaking series seeing 187,298 players competing across 89 events, with a total of over $293 million in prize money awarded. Ensan is the only player who resides in Germany to win a bracelet this year and also the second German to win the Main Event (Piuz Heins was the first in 2011). Poker tables will be accessible in Dragon Junkets, but the game of choice for many VIP / High Rollers is Baccarat which although having a long and illustrious history is also known for players wanting to remain anonymous for various reasons. Even as far back as the 1960s billionaire whales such as Akio Kashiwagi, also known as “The Warrior” were dropping over $200, 000 per hand and scooping winnings up to $6,000,000 – so in today’s money that would be a phenomenal haul. A win of over $55million happened in the 1990s through games played by several High Rolling Asian players over several months almost bankrupting the Crown Casino, Melbourne in the process. Despite avoiding the limelight, and more often than not keeping the location of the Junkets private, the influence of Asian High Rollers is unmistakable; and they absolutely show no signs of slowing down any time soon. https://blog.dragon.online/2019-world-series-of-poke https://preview.redd.it/hf8jnjgpd8c31.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=006247105f5d913d36d94c87b94b5af8c91cb158 |
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Thanks for doing this. I love Vegas and spend a lot of time there. So this is very interesting for me. Anyway, did anyone ever trash a room? If so how did they? Also is there any advice you would give if one of us ever got to the villas? Things that we should ask for? | We had the one guest with the crazy party I mentioned in another comment trash the place pretty good. There was a weird burlesque magic show he went to and he invited all the cast to this room for a crazy party. Around 6am in the morning I went into the room to pick up the dishes and there was crap everywhere and the damages was around 15k. I remember there were playing cards everywhere, the toilets were overflowing, we found a crack pipe and love stains everywhere. |
The villas are for what they consider the big time high rollers, you need a really good casino host and a big pocket. Toby Maguire wanted to stay in our villas and the going rate was $20,000 a night. The largest bedroom was 16 thousand square feet, six bedrooms and two stories with an elevator. If you do get a good host ask for what ever you want, you gamble up to $5,000 a hand and you get what ever you need. | |
What was your favorite memory with him? | I have a lot of great memories but the one that made me laugh was there was one night where I got a call at about 3 am in the morning and he wanted breakfast for 14 people. I was the only butler on duty during that graveyard shift. He asked for 14 omelets and 14 orders of pancakes. I called everyone in the casino and had all the cooks running to make this order while I made the table. I had to serve the whole breakfast at now 4am in the morning by myself. I came up with the two carts full of food trying to plate it as fast as I can when Prince stood up from his chair and walked over to my cart. He grabbed a plate of pancakes and started helping me serve. I couldn't help but to laugh from the Charlie Murphy story on the Dave Chappelle show. This was my favorite moment...ever. |
But did he offer them grapes? | Chaka Khan was there and she wanted avocado with her omelet...I had to run my ass off down to the kitchen and slice one up. |
Craziest things you've seen during your time as a butler? What're you doing now? | Long story short but if there was a guest staying with us who was famous for making a sex tape with a certain celebrity. He went to a magic show where a former hot babe was hosting the show. After the show he invited her and all the cast to his suite. This show was kind of like a freak show so there were midgets in make up, tattooed faced shirtless guys with crazy piercings and stuff like that. They had a massive party and I saw people having sex, doing drugs and just pure fucking insanity. In the aftermath the room was destroyed and the two would be celebrities went and got married, but they were divorced a few days later. Room damages was around 15k. |
Any cool souvenirs? Besides the pick? Also, any weird naked moments? | I took home bottles of expensive wines and cognacs. Elton John signed an old record my dad had. |
Weird naked moments...yes. Weirdest was with Sir Elton. His massage therapist wanted an outlet extension so I ran to go get one. As I entered the room lobby Sir Elton walked out of treatment room naked; he didn't notice me but I saw his bare naked ass. Hope he never finds out about this...He isn't on Reddit, is he? | |
Call girls would flash us all the time. There was a photo on my old flip phone of me licking whip cream off a girls boob and the guest took the photo. | |
Please tell me you had much more action than licking whip creams?! | It's Classified] ([Link to media.giphy.com) |
How does one start out in the butler business ? | I got lucky but also I have a natural gift in customer service. I was hired as a butler apprentice, which is where most would begin. Some people would be an apprentice for 12 or more months before even getting a full time butler position. There was an opening for a full time position 3 months after my start date, I interviewed for it and they gave it to me. I was one the fastest and the youngest to get it that quick. The pay as an apprentice was around $11 an hour with half percentage tips and my final hourly before I left was close to $18 an hour with full cut of the tip pool. |
What's the craziest story you have of Prince? | The breakfast story was the craziest for me but I remember after he won his Golden Globe for Happy Feet it was in his room but in an odd place. I was in the room with my manager and I looked at it and said wow, I am actually looking at a Golden Globe, my manager laughed and asked me if I could guess why it was in an odd place on an oak table in the room. I didn't know so he lifted it up and there was a burn mark from a candle which Prince caused one night. He was using the Golden Globe to cover up room damage, which is hilarious. |
Would he be charged to replace the table at the end of his stay or was it within the range of wear and tear? Since he was there for an extended stay did you replace the table during his stay since it looked bad? | I am not sure what happened to the table, we probably charged him I would imagine. |
What's the most unforgettable gossip you've heard from your guests? | I overheard about certain celebrities being either gay or bi-sexual from an other celebrity. No names that I am willing to share, sorry. Also I heard a story on a celebrity's first encounter with cocaine, it was actually mickeyed into his food when he went to a dinner party at a Mr. Wilson's house...may or may have not been on a beach ;) |
Heard a rap star talk smack about other performers after the MTV music awards at the Palms Casino. He had me cracking up as I was trying to serve him late night dinner. | |
Wow! Were those names surprised you? I mean, doesn't they have a bisexual tendency image? | Some were and some were not. I think celebrities go to crazy parties, get high and certain urges come out, doesn't mean they are gay, it was just the drugs filling out a possible fantasy. |
Did you ever hear him playing guitar in his personal time? | Just the piano. One early evening he ordered pizza which he wanted to eat during a movie. I got him pizza from the casino and as I was clearing off the coffee table one of his guitar picks was there. I picked it up and asked him where I should place it, he responded in his deep voice "You can keep it". So I did and I gave it to my dad as a gift, the pick had his logo on it and it was white and purple. |
Are you still here? What's the most Jeeves moment you've had as a butler? | I've never read any of those stories but Las Vegas butlers are a lot different than professional butlers, we get to do all the fun stuff. I would watch the clients get drunk all night and wake up at 2pm in the afternoon as they stumbled back to the casino floor. As long as we did what they asked they didn't care how we acted. Most of us Las Vegas butlers were no gentlemen. |
Would it be better to be a casino butler or to be a personal butler? | Personal butler. I never liked Vegas, no culture to it just all the bad stuff. People acted differently in Vegas so I would prefer to be there when they were just themselves and not the playboy or hot shot. I never felt comfortable being in their room around their personal space, felt out of place. I think that is why I changed my job and moved away from LV. |
Anything interesting stories with Toby Maguire? | Really nice guy. He was there to play poker at the WSOP, not the main tournament but the lower ones not televised. He had a backpack with him and no other luggage. I asked if I could take it from him to bring it to his room and he declined, I asked if it was because his spidey suit was in there and he gave a big smile and laugh. I liked him. |
Do you know of any independent Butler service providers in the Vegas area? Some some stuff I'm considering it would be helpful to have one on schedule for a few days. | Some butlers build a great rapport with high rollers and they can be requested at other casinos. There was one of the butlers that worked at Caesar's Palace and Sir Elton really liked him so he would come work with us when Elton stayed. Nice guy, I can see why he was favored. I am sure if you had a service where you would be hired independently you could go where ever your employer goes. |
For whom did you most enjoy buttling? | There was a guy who would come a lot and he would always invite me into his room or out to the casino. I would be his wing man and we would drink, talk to woman and he would order me food. He loved Marie Callender Pies so we would have to go get it for him which I ate with him while the other butlers were working. |
Sounds like a great client! If that's the proper term... Maybe employer? | Client or guest is the term I would use. They were not paying us to wait on them. the casino was. I was employed by the Rio. |
Hey, thanks very much for answering my questions! Please have yourself a wonderful day. | Thank you. You as well my friend. |
My understanding is that the concierge/butlers serving the high end suites could get anything available in Vegas 24/7 for their VIP guest, including high-priced escorts, blow, speed, any food imaginable, etc. How true is this in your experience? | No really, I would never get asked for any of that. That is all the casino host or their direct dealer. Concierge would get escort services but they were mostly female concierge so they would hate having to do that. Food requests, yes, had a guy that wanted the prime rib at a Main Station Casino, I went with another butler in a limo to go get it really late at night, also In-and-Out burgers and Taco Bell. |
What was the wildest thing Elton John requested? | His morning routine was odd. We would have all the London newspapers printed out for him and he would eat some dry crackebiscuits with his favorite jam (marmalade), Fuze juice, and a shot glass full of about 20 vitamins...every morning. I would make about 3-4 espressos for him as well in the morning. |
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