Vegas

Vegas Should Have a Warning Label

Here’s what drives me nuts about Las Vegas: even when you have an awful trip and get killed, you still can’t wait to go back. That’s how fun it is. I mean, even when you lose you and your friends still wind up talking about how fun it was and how you can’t wait to [...]

General Gambling, Poker Commentary, Poker Travels, Vegas

Vegas This Weekend

I’m going out to Vegas this weekend for a few nights. This whole trip originated after getting an offer for a few free nights at the Venetian. When I saw airfare was cheap and that a Deep Stack Extravaganza series was running at the Venetian, I was like, “why not?”
Since buying airfare, the whole [...]

Poker Travels, Vegas

One Way Ticket to Vegas

I’m heading to Vegas for the World Series of Poker in twelve hours. It still seems surreal to me that it’s already WSOP time again. It feels like not more than a month or two ago I was sitting on a sidewalk outside the Rio taking a moment to honor the inevitable emotions one will [...]

Poker Travels, Vegas, WSOP

The Bottom

I just had about the longest five minute walk back to a hotel room in my life.
Played the Venetian $2.5k Main Event today. The five levels leading up to dinner break went pretty great. We’ll get back to those in a minute.
After dinner, I was in the tournament for 2.5 hours without winning a single [...]

Poker Travels, Vegas