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Day 6 is still pretty darn deep.  In other years Day 6 is the bracelet after-party right?

scsuhockey10 is the focus of the lj sphere today as he enters day 3 of the World Series of Poker Main Event.  At the end of day 2 he had a major surge.  I think that his surge kind of mirrored my last day comeback in Vegas, which got me back into the black poker-wise.  Minor difference is that Bob is playing for a World Championship Tournament and millions of ( Read more... )

The Mongoloid Bay is on of the most irritating poker rooms in Vegas and as a result they had few good players.  There were some hyper aggressive Swedes, one said he was in the 1/2 PLO game for 1.5 k, not suprising since it was around 100$ to see the flop, in a 1/2 game ( Read more... )

From my phone.  I get 10 min free internet from Orleans for the 5$ resort fee.  I am losing 90% of my "sessions" which are about one hour long. Not sure where to go, too many choices!  I think I will try the Riviera, been meaning to go for like 4 trips now.

time to stop worrying and get to work.  I will keep you all posted.  bye.

I'll be there July 1-3 and 5-8.  Let me know.  For Main Event participants, I certainly give pep talks. 

I booked 3 nights at the Orleans on vegas.com which has a "Double the Difference" best rate guarantee.  Their rates were 59.50, 31.50, 31.50 while hotels.com had 29, 29, 29.   It will be interesting to see what, if anything, I get back.  But I paid the 10$ for the cancellation waiver so I think I am safe.  I saved screenshots of hotels.com and ( Read more... )

It's my favorite time of the poker season.  The planning of the vegas trip, in this case my last one as a free guy.  The trip itself never lives up as it usually involves me sneezing and slogging from one boring poker game to the next identical game.  But the planning and price haggling is truely a vacation by itself.

this year's angle is the " ( Read more... )

Leftover from May's Vegas trip was my final night at the Mirage 10/20. (Hey, have I ever finished a trip report except 2007?) The 10/20 game was tight tight, it might as well have been a Tuesday morning in 1998 with Tom McEvoy ( Read more... )