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and Huge is nowhere to be found. It was a sad day today as day 1D - the final “flight” of day 1’s - of the main event got underway and I was rolling out of bed at 12:15PM after a night of coughing and nose-blowing. I had decided several days ago that if things did not improve significantly that I would not cough up the $10,000 for the main event (there’s a sick pun to be had here about other green things I’ve been coughing up), and though I did win one mega-satellite at the Rio, it was not enough to put me in the black for the trip, and I was/am sick, and I’m just not feeling great about poker. It continued to be a bit sad as I sweated (supported or cheered on) Vanessa and Chad and Mark who were all playing today (all made it through day 1: Chad has 60k, Mark 38k, and Venassa had a nasty last half day and ended the day with 7k) but I still feel like I made the right decision not to play.

Sorry I haven’t been reporting much - it’s hard to find the energy to write when things aren’t going well. There certainly have been some poker stories worth writing about, and hopefully I’ll find the time to share some of them here.

Tomorrow, throat and nasal passages permitting, I’ll be playing the main event of the Caesars mega-stack series, a $1060 buyin three-day tournament that is expected to be a big enough field that they need two Day 1’s. It will start with a ridiculously deep stack - I’ll have 50,000 chips with the blinds at 25-50, one hour levels, and the antes won’t kick in until 600-1200 at level 8. It’s kind of insane, but hopefully there will be some idiots in the field ready to make mistakes for a *THOUSAND* big blinds. So that’s my main event this year I guess … disappointing, anticlimactic, but if I make a good score that would be enough to erase all my suffering from the past month.

I’ll post updates on twitter - if you don’t follow my twitter page CLICK HERE to follow my progress. Josh will be playing the event as well, for those of you who met him last week, and he’s a more faithful correspondent than I am … his twitter page (yes that’s his real last name).

I’m disappointed with how this year’s WSOP has gone, but I’m not in terrible shape. I’ve had some good fun, eaten some good food, had a great time with friends visiting, and even had a couple of decent successes at the poker tables, and there are still a few more chances to pull my world series out of the muck. And win or lose, I’m looking forward to my road trip back to Seattle in the new Miata, which has performed … better than me … at this World Series.

The Caesars event starts at noon - less than ten hours - time to get some sleep. Send out the good Hugepoker vibes.

-huge