For those of you who follow poker closely, Bobby’s Room in the Bellagio is a familiar name. It’s where the best and richest live poker players go to work every day in an attempt to add to their already huge bankrolls. The blinds are normally $4,000/$8,000 and the people there play everything from 2-7 Triple Draw to Pot-Limit Omaha.
But I recently saw a video on the Internet of Jean Robert-Bellande talking about how the blinds have gone up to insane amounts. $8,000/$16,000 to be exact which is the biggest regular poker game I’ve ever heard of (not counting the little challenge Andy Beal issued to Phil Ivey and all the Full Tilt fund babies of course).
Bellande went on to say that all of the regulars are in Bobby’s room like Phil Ivey and David Benyamine along with Tom Dwan who I didn’t know played there. However, he brought up something even more interesting when he said this French business guy by the name of Surriol (???) was the one doing all the winning. According to Jean, Surriol had all of the chips and all of the other players were sitting on short stacks.
He also mentioned that the pots they were playing for were $200,000 - $300,000 every time at least. To be perfectly honest, playing for that much money would make me absolutely sick even if I was rich. I don’t know how these guys are able to do it and they must have nerves of steel to put that amount of cash on the line.
Even Robert-Bellande, who’s a well noted player, can’t handle that kind of limit as he plays at the $200/$400 limits. I don’t think he’s alone though since almost every other player can only dream of playing for that kind of cash.