its a madhouse

We just got here to the Rio, and its crazy in here. There are people shoulder to shoulder across the hall and in the amazon room. I dont know when I'll get a seat, but I'll keep you updated.

wtf harrahs

If you have been following the WSOP at, you'll have heard of all problems with Harrah's management. But, I don't understand why they only have 5 people at the cage registering players.

We came to the Rio at 11pm to register for tomorrows event. The line was still 100s of players long and people were saying that it was a 3 hour wait. There was no way that I was going to wait for that long. We decided to go sleep til 4am and come back to register. No way the line is still long that late at night, right?

WRONG

They had better figure this out soon, as I'm sure they are losing players to these hassles.

and i'm done

The last two levels were more of the same; get three bet, fold, get three bet, fold. Eventually I picked up queens and got it all in vs this terrible asian chick, but of course I'm colddecked and she has KK. Board craps out and gg me.

Tomorrow is the $1500 nlhe event, and while I'm disappointed that todays great start didnt turn out, tomorrow is the day I've waited 4 years for.

from the god table to hell

Level 4 started just as planned. My table was so easy to run over and by half way though the level I was up to 25k. Unfortunately not all good thing last. Our table broke and I got sent away.

On my new table I wasnt so happy to see a few familiar faces. Three of the first four hands were 3bet, and the battle was on. At the 2nd break I'm sitting at 19000 chips and hoping to get moved to one of those juice tables I see behind me.

first break of venetian

I sat down to a great table. I soon realized that 2 seats to my left was a player taking every hand t the flop. Goal: Play as many pots with him as possibe. For whatever reason he started respecting my bets, and I started abusing the tablw playing as many hands possible. At level 3 I have 16000 chips and control of the table.

Interesting hands from these levels:

Two players limp in early pos, I open 97o from the cutoff and we go 4 way to the flop. Flop comes 832 and the callingstation fish minbets. I call for runnerz, and the turn comes a 6. He minbets again and all call. The river is a 10 giving me the nuts. Fish bets 300 and I raise to 2000 hoping he had somthing. He folded.

I open AJo over ep limp and he calls. Flop comes Q32 and we both check. Turn and river are both 6s and I call his 2 bets down. He gets upset and open mucks so I dont even showdown my ace high. thankyou

Play has started so back to the table.

lets start the madness

Today is the begining of what weill be an awesome summer. Brandon, Derek and I got up early and headed to the Rio. I had to grab a lockbox and wanted to check out the Amazon room. The amount of work they did to change it into the poker destination of the year is amazing. ESPNs set was all built, and it is going to be fun playing on it later this month. I decided to play the $550 deepstacked event at the Venetian today, instead of the $5k mixed, to get a warmup in before tomorrows event. First place might break $100k, so it is worth it anyway.

The crowds for the $5000 mixed holdem event were much bigger then I guessed. At 10am the line was already a few hundred people long, so I expect tomorrows $1500 WSOP nlhe event to be massive. I wouldnt be supprised to see 3000 players tomorrow.

Play starts in a bit and I'll keep you posted

resting up for june

We arrived in Vegas around 11am today. I haven't slept more then an hour since Tuesday, and I'm extremely tired. I have sweet trip report, but I gotta get some sleep.

good night

drinkin in denver

We left for vegas at 2am today. After 14 hours in the car, we decided to take a little break from the rode in Denver. They have a cool outdoor mall area near downtown, and we spent some time looking around. Eventually, like all good drunks do, we found our way to a bar and grabbed some drinks. I just finished my first Fat Tire, and it lives up to it's name. If you have never had one, it's a must for every good drinker.

We are going to head out of denver around 8pm and head for the Grand Canyon to check it out. Going to catch the sunrise there and be in Vegas by 10am.

whats up for the summer

This summer I'll be in Vegas with every other true poker player, spending most of my time at the Rio winning bracelets. I'm going to keep this entertaining by giving updates from floor via my phone. I'll grab pictures or video if I can find anything entertaining.

I'll highlight the event I'm in every day and keep you guys up to date with all the news from my table. If you guys have any requests or ideas send me a shout and I'll see what I can do. The first event I'm going to play is a WSOP warmup at the Venetian. It's a $530 deepstack event, and I think will give me good warm up for any live rust that's collected since March.

Event #3 $1,500 NLHE is the first event WSOP event I'm going to play, and it's going to be exciting.

later

planned wsop events

Hey guys, the WSOP is almost here. Below are a list of events that I plan to play. I may change my plans, but these are the events I'm looking at right now. Events tagged with *** mean that I really want to play those events. I will play the noon holdem events those days extra aggressively to either build a big stack, or bust and be allowed into the 5pm event. Also, if I find myself short near the end of the day, I will try to make extra aggressive play to either double or bust.

• * 6/2 - noon #3 NL Holdem $1,500
• * 6/3 - noon #4 PL Holdem $1,500
• * 6/3 - 5pm ***#5 O/8 Stud/8 $2,500
• * 6/5 - noon #8 NL Holdem/rebuys $1,000
• * 6/5 - 5pm #9 O/8 $1,500
• * 6/6 - noon #10 NL Holdem $2,000
• * 6/7 - noon #12 NL Holdem 6m $1,500
• * 6/8 - noon #13 PL Holdem $5,000
• * 6/9 - noon #15 NL Holdem $1,500
• * 6/11 - noon #19 NL Holdem $2,500
• * 6/12 - noon #21 NL Shootout $1,500
• * 6/13 - noon #22 NL Holdem $5,000
• * 6/14 - noon #23 PL Omaha $1,500
• * 6/15 - noon #25 NL Holdem $2,000
• * 6/16 - noon #27 NL Holdem $1,500
• * 6/17 - noon #28 NL Holdem $3,000
• * 6/18 - noon #30 NL Holdem 6m $2,500
• * 6/20 - noon #33 PL Omaha/rebuys $1,500
• * 6/21 - noon #35 NL Holdem $1,500
• * 6/21 - 5pm ***#36 O/8 $5,000
• * 6/22 - noon #37 PL Holdem $2,000
• * 6/23 - noon #38 NL Holdem $1,500
• * 6/24 - 5pm #40 Mixed Holdem $1,500
• * 6/25 - 5pm #42 PLO/8 $1,500
• * 6/26 - noon #43 Limit Holdem $2,000
• * 6/27 - noon #44 O/8 $2,000
• * 6/28 - noon #45 NL Holdem 6m $5,000
• * 6/29 - noon #47 NL Holdem $2,000
• * 6/30 - noon #49 NL Holdem $1,500
• * 7/2 - noon #52 NL Holdem/rebuys $1,000
• * 7/6 - noon #55 MAIN EVENT $10,000