HugePoker

As usual this trip, I just haven’t had time to write up events as they happen, and things have definitely been happening. Since my last post, I’ve won two-count-em-two more mega-satellites, this time without any deals being made (and without getting screwed over by my table-mates to end up with $3500 instead of the agreed-upon $7000), so both yesterday and today I was able to take home the full $10,200 prize.

As a result of this lovely turn of events, I am now definitely playing the main event, but for various reasons I will be playing my Day 1 on Sunday instead of Saturday as previously thought. I have already bought in to the event, and I *STILL* don’t have the cringey experience of handing over a $10,000 wad of $100 bills to enter the tournament - when I won the satellite and went to the cashier’s cage she counted out the $10,000 in tournament chips and said “Do you want to keep the chips or buy into the main event?”. At that point I knew I was playing on Sunday, so I said “go ahead and sign me up”. I guess I should have made her slide the chips over to me so that I could have handed them back, so that I could see what it feels to hand over $10,000 to someone in exchange for a little piece of paper telling me which table to sit at in order to play a card game.

It’s time for bed - tomorrow is study day, to get myself out of satellite mode and into cash-tournament brainwaves. Sunday at Noon Pacific time I’ll be taking my third stab at the main event of the WSOP - cross your fingers.

-huge

P.S. Almost forgot - the title of this post refers to the number of WSOP seats I’ve won this year: The online satellite on bodog before I ever came to Vegas, he $9,000 negotiated-settlement, the $3500 travesty of injustice, and two outright victories yesterday and today, for $10,200 each. Not a bad day’s work.