Last call...
So yesterday I skipped the first two mega-satellites and played the very last one at 8pm. Eight and a half hours later, I was cheering with 43 other players who had just won their seat into the main event. It was 4:30am and a third of us would have to show up at 11am to start playing... I got lucky and drew the second flight so I'm starting tomorrow.
I'm so stoked about getting in this year. It was looking pretty sketchy that I'd get a chance to play in the main event. Yesterday, if I was a magic 8-ball I would have replied with "Not Likely". So now if I do well, I've got a pretty good story to tell...
I was playing it off to most people who asked that it wouldn't be that big of a deal if I didn't get to play this year... always another tournament... not in a hurry... and on and on. But I would have been pretty disappointed to not get a shot in the biggest poker tournament ever.
Bobby and Scott both started today. Scott was down to his last thousand in chips at one point. Just got the update from both of them, though, and Bobby's up to 22k while Scott is back strong at 17k.
Also, before I signed up for the mega yesterday I stopped by the WSOP Lifestyles convention that is going on down the hallway from the tournament area. There are a lot of booths and whatnot, with tons of gorgeous convention girls who are handing out magazines and CDs and t-shirts and what not. I stopped by to meet with the producers of Poker Royale, which is a poker gameshow on GSN. There's a decent chance I might get to come out to San Diego to tape an episode. They want to do a Battle of the Ages. We'll see how it goes.
Wish me luck tomorrow. It's going to be a bloodfest. It's like being dumped into an arena with 6,000 other gladiators back in Rome and seeing who the last man standing is. A lot of people have been talking about what a crapshoot it's going to be with so many players. I just keep saying, though... doesn't matter if there's 100 or 100,000... you play them nine at a time. And as long as you're never the next one to bust at your table, you're going to get there. Evidence... in the last two years, Dan Harrington and Marcel Luske.
I'm so stoked about getting in this year. It was looking pretty sketchy that I'd get a chance to play in the main event. Yesterday, if I was a magic 8-ball I would have replied with "Not Likely". So now if I do well, I've got a pretty good story to tell...
I was playing it off to most people who asked that it wouldn't be that big of a deal if I didn't get to play this year... always another tournament... not in a hurry... and on and on. But I would have been pretty disappointed to not get a shot in the biggest poker tournament ever.
Bobby and Scott both started today. Scott was down to his last thousand in chips at one point. Just got the update from both of them, though, and Bobby's up to 22k while Scott is back strong at 17k.
Also, before I signed up for the mega yesterday I stopped by the WSOP Lifestyles convention that is going on down the hallway from the tournament area. There are a lot of booths and whatnot, with tons of gorgeous convention girls who are handing out magazines and CDs and t-shirts and what not. I stopped by to meet with the producers of Poker Royale, which is a poker gameshow on GSN. There's a decent chance I might get to come out to San Diego to tape an episode. They want to do a Battle of the Ages. We'll see how it goes.
Wish me luck tomorrow. It's going to be a bloodfest. It's like being dumped into an arena with 6,000 other gladiators back in Rome and seeing who the last man standing is. A lot of people have been talking about what a crapshoot it's going to be with so many players. I just keep saying, though... doesn't matter if there's 100 or 100,000... you play them nine at a time. And as long as you're never the next one to bust at your table, you're going to get there. Evidence... in the last two years, Dan Harrington and Marcel Luske.
posted by Dutch Boyd at
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