The World Series of Poker at this stage is a giant game of "Where's Waldo?" Only in this game, we don't even have the benefit of a candy-striped shirt to act as a beacon. Twenty percent of the field is decked out in PokerStars gear and finding one person among a sea of other folks is as much of a challenge as kneeing the looky-loos in the kidneys to make a pathway to the players.

The blog's home base is near the featured table. For the better part of the last hour or so, Jesus Abreu, a PokerStars player from Miami has been duking it out with Marcel Luske and getting some good time under the TV lights.

Still, the poker jones required a battle into the field. I played "Where's Waldo" for quite a while and finally found some faces I'd been looking for.

Where's Rocco?

Pro-golfer Rocco Mediate is having, in his words, "an absolute ball." After making the top ten in the U.S. Open this year, he had his sights set on the WSOP.
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