Sunday 10th July

This is what its all been building up to. The $10,000 main event. The biggest poker tourney of the year. Many people expected a massive drop in numbers this year due to the recent internet sites having legal issues. I expected a drop but not by as much as many predicted. I hear [...]

Sunday 3rd July

Having a ciggy on the balcony Nick comments on the cloudy sky. Not something you often see in Vegas. I then realised Kila was on the flight over. She’s obviously bringing it over with her.

A thunderstorm hit that afternoon. It seems to rain so different than anywhere else in the world here. Almost [...]

Vegas 2011 part 16

Thursday 30th of June

Cash at the Venetian Today and simply another extremely frustrating day. I am just not hitting my fair share of draws, however everyone else is making up for it by hitting theirs against me. $4000 loss is not great at all.

Friday 1st of July (Wow what happened to this [...]

Vegas 2011 Part 15

Tuesday 28th June

Today was to be my last Ladbrokes Sponsored event at the WSOP 2011, the $1500 NL. I sat patiently but had wiffled down to about 3300 from 4500 when I find AA. I raise from the cut off and am delighted to see the button re-raise. I am even more [...]

Vegas 2011 Part 14

Like any good Hotels which miss out floor 13 I will missing out Part 13 of my blog. I’m not superstitious but, hey! Why take a chance.

(The Rio has a floor 13, I know I have stopped on it and had the worse trip to Vegas ever. I did say good Hotels!)

Monday [...]

Saturday 25th of June

Nick had made day two of the $10k Omaha event but got knocked out when he ran pocket aces into someone else pocket aces, it was to be the end of another disappointing event. Afterwards he and Karl cheered themselves up shopping for more golf equipment. (Women do shoes and cloths, men [...]

Thursday 23rd June

Back to the Venetian for the cash games today and sat down on the must move table with just $1000 bucks. The first hand I play I call a raise on the button with 57 of clubs. The flop comes down 8 9 K with two clubs. Happy days! A flush draw and [...]

Sunday 19th of june

Julian Gardener and his lovely wife Kerry were in from Cheshire today so decided to join them for a drink over at the Wynn. Its one of my least favourite hotels but being a posh Cheshire couple [...]

Sorry for the delay in this guys. Obviously enthusiasm for these little stories is very dependant on how well I am running and it’s been a tough week. Not a disaster though, and roughly level for the trip thus far. Been taking it easy last few days and will be back with a vengeance next [...]