The sequester alliance, if you will, was strong in its front, and Mike was evicted by a 7 to 2 count. However, I was wrong about Eric in that he apparently is obligated to vote as America does. I thought he might be allowed to switch it up in the name of his own safety.

However, is America’s Player now exposed to the rest of the house?

Moments after the live eviction, houseguests started questioning each other. Even on the live show, on CBS, you could hear Dick chiding Jen for voting to keep Mike. Problem is she voted to evict Mike.

Mike’s only ally, really, was Zach. Like the Howie-esque player he is, Zach stayed true to the bitter end, and the good thing for him is that everybody knew it. What will make this weekend interesting is in whether the house figures out who the second vote belonged to, and right now the speculation is on Jen and Nick, both of whom voted to evict Mike.

They don’t know that though, so let the games begin. Dustin is HoH this week after a competition in which the eligible houseguests had to answer questions about their evicted compadres. What this means for sure is that Amber is safe, and theoretically, if the week’s happenings mean a thing, it means Jen, Kail, Nick and Zach are in deep caca, particularly Zach.

However, if the houseguests figure out Eric’s vote, he’s in big trouble. There’s been some talk that he’s two-faced, and he got on Amber’s bad side earlier this week for picking on her mercilessly about something juvenile. Amber’s influence would weigh heavily with Dustin, so it would behoove Eric to play this right.

Did he? Check out this live feed I just captured in which Eric explains his theory of the 7 to 2 vote to Jameka, Amber and Jessica.

Honestly, it was pretty well played, and Eric didn’t even have to lie, although I might have suspected something myself if I were in the house. In other words, in the short-term — well done. But what about the long term? If Nick and Jen are able to gain the trust of the rest of the house on this vote matter, Eric will definitely become a target.

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DATELINE: HoH room.

TIME: 7:30 BBT.

DISCUSSION: How will the houseguests vote Thursday night?

It seems we have an unspoken, unformalized alliance in the house right now. Perhaps we could call it the sequester alliance. The houseguests have divided themselves into two groups. One group has Dick, Amber, Eric, Dustin, Jameka, Daniele and Jessica (in absentia). The other is Kail, Zach, Mike, Jen and Nick.

The first group met in the HoH room at length early this evening to discuss strategy going into Thursday night, and they decided loosely to put on a unified front after at first discussing the possibility of throwing a few votes one way or the other in the name of confusion. To keep things not so obvious.

At no point did anybody say, “Hey, this is an alliance, right?” However, it’s pretty clear that this is a group that would like to see itself sequestered together when that starts happening in a couple of weeks. Now, I think the sequestering starts at 9, meaning two of the other five people would be sequestered with them. The reason I believe this is because I’m pretty sure that at least six or seven have been sequestered in the past with the two finalists remaining. In fact, wasn’t last year’s final vote 6-1 or 5-2 in favor of Boogie?

When Dustin steps out to say, “Hey, like it or not, I think I’m voting in this direction tomorrow night,” Dick stops him and says, “Yo, dude, we have to be together on this,” which prompts Dustin to say, “Alrighty then, let’s take roll call. How ya’ votin?”

Now, before you say, “Well, Eric HAS to vote with America …” think about that. He does not have to vote with America. Considering he’s fast becoming the best player in the house and seems to have a growing, unspoken, odd couple alliance with Dick brewing, Eric would be wise to stick with this group for awhile. They seem to really respect his knowledge of the game from seasons past to make astute observations in this game.

Daniele says she’s on the fence, but there’s no way right now she goes against this group’s wishes.

Dick can’t vote, and Zach and Nick are wildcards — wildcards who HATE each other, btw, right now. As much as I would think this is a done deal, if the other group gets wind of the group who met in the HoH room on Wednesday night, we could have ourselves a really close vote. Right now, I think it would be 8-1 to evict Mike, but this meeting — if revealed between now and Thursday afternoon — could change everything.

Stay tuned. I think they’ll have more booze in the house tonight, so it could get really good.

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This week’s PoV competition featured six houseguests standing atop pedastals with giant hats on and what looked to be martini glasses on top of them. The object of the game was to be the last person standing atop the pedastals with the glasses on top of the hats.

Long story short, the houseguests were asked to go outside and taunt the PoV competitors to try to get them to laugh, to shrug, anything to make them fall off the pedastals. Jen won the PoV because Mike taunted evel Dick to the point where Dick threatened to put him on the block if he didn’t quit, and Mike didn’t quit, so Dick knocked off his own glass and nominated him.

In Mike’s eyes, he was being loyal to Kail for the purpose of demonstrating his capacity to be loyal to all the other houseguests. Earlier in the day, he had told the Oregon mother that he would take either Jen or Kail off the block if he won the PoV. Well, when he wasn’t picked to particpate, I suppose he figured this was his way to demonstrate that loyalty.

He thought he scored a coup, even though he knew he could be nominated by acting so brazenly.

He was, and there’s a good chance he’s going home. As of Tuesday night BBT, the votes are stacked against him. However, there are two days to go before what I’m sure will be a live eviction, so let the campaigning begin.

Plus, there’s always America’s Player, Eric, who I suspect will be asked to evict Kail. So, out of 9 available voters, Mike has one vote.

As of right this second, it would probably be 8-1 vote to evict Mike, although I think Amber and Dustin could be swayed.

What stands out this week is just how manipulative evel Dick can be. He and his daughter, Daniele, have grown closer and then fought before she cried on his shoulder before they fought again. Dick has made it clear that their issues wouldn’t be resolved in this house, and Daniele has made it clear to him just how uncomfortable he makes her sometimes.

Left out of this mix is Nick, who I am convinced will beat the living snot out of Dick by the end of the competition. He and Dick had the father-future-son-in-law heart-to-heart where the Minnesota football player says, “It’s not aboot me. It’s aboot your daughter. I really dig her.”

Dick offers the obligatory, “Yeah, well, if you hurt her, I’ll f****** kill you.”

The conversation from both sides is extremely sophomoric, but this is Dick’s modus operandi with everybody. He’s a certifiable nut, and he’s peeved everybody in the house at some point this week.

As for Nick and Daniele, all you have to know is that Daniele’s real-life boyfriend, Kris, has a MySpace page, and he currently lists his mood as “sad.” He also has as his quote, “TRUST IS LISTENING TO THE ONES WHO LOVE YOU AND IGNORING THE ONES WHO DON’T.”

You think that’s directed towards his 20-year-old sweetie? Or perhaps do you think she told that to Kris before she left Huntington Beach for the Big Brother house?

Daniele says she’s crazy in love with her real-life boyfriend, but check out this video with Nick on top of her from earlier Tuesday night.

The campaigning won’t really get buzzing until Wednesday night, so expect some more info then.

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