Event 12: Private Poker Goes AWOL

$170 + $30 Deep Stack Double Play NLH (2 Re-entry)

The key to being a good poker player is patience unless you're in a re-entry tournament, then you have other options.

After two and-a-half hours of grinding on Table 15, Joe Altomonte (West Patterson, NJ) can't take the slow play and shoves all-in "blind" and is called by Sean Ripp (Massapequa, NY), who had a couple of final tables last year.

Ripp wins the hand with K 10 vs Altomonte's 6 2.

"I can't take it anymore," says Altomonte, who the won the last event of the 2010 Summer Open, "We've played six hands in an hour."

Altomonte has been nicknamed Private Poker after becoming the protege of our own Colonel Poker while learning the ropes as a junior blogger. When the Colonel heard the news, without missing a beat says, "guess he went AWOL."

For $200 Altomonte re-enters the field, but the Private is back in boot camp and stuck on KP duty.