my wsop trip

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I had planned on attending this years wsop since last years ended, this was supposed to be my trip to play a week worth of poker non stop. Somehow my wife, my son, my daughter, my brother in law and my mom and stepdad ended up coming....dont ask me how. I had put a ton of volume in online poker about 2 weeks before I was supposed to go and my wife decided that June 15 should be our day to spend together. Wouldnt you know it June 15 was the 2nd day of the $1500 event. Well to be fair to my wife I decided I would not play in this years WSOP and just hang out with my buddies, meet people and spend time with family. Here is my trip.


TRAVEL

I work for a airline so travel for my family and I are free, I used my buddie pass's for my brother in law. The only problem is we fly stand-by which means if the flight fills up we can not go. So we get to the airport and pretty much every flight to Vegas is overbooked, we cant even fly to other stations to get to Vegas because all the transfer routes are overbooked. Now I can not fly a lot or I go crazy, I cant stand to be in a airplane all day, my mom found a route going through like New Orleans, Phenoix and then Vegas, not sure about New Orleans but it was some smaller station like that. This would mean 2 days of flying which I just can not do. So I told my wife to go ahead and I would meet them there in couple days, its easier for me alone to get around then with group. I showed up 2 days later with no problems.

WSOP

This was my 1st year going to wsop, with online poker I never really was too interested in the wsop. Sure there is the braclet and stuff but I didnt think it was that big of a deal. Hell I could play the Sunday Million and make 1/3 of a $1500 buy-in for like $200. Man was I wrong, completley wrong, soon as I got there I realized how great this place was. And of course I wanted to join events soooo bad but couldnt or I would face the wrath of my wife. I was with my Friend Chuck and he said just join this event with me if you make 2nd day you wife will understand. After I got done laughing at him I said no she wont she has bought show tickets. Ok so I railed Chuck his 1st day of event 27, his table was in back so I wasnt able to see the play but I watched a table close to the rail. He came running up to the rail about 3 hours in and said Phil Hellmuth was going to be at his table, Now I dont get thrilled about pros that often but I do get thrilled about online pros.

The way I think about it is, online pros never really helped me improve. I was brought up through online poker and the online pros are the ones that improved my play. I learned through forums like this one and cardrunners, because of this when I overheard someone mention the name "lilholdem" and I looked right and saw I was excited. I talked to him and told him that he taught me to play poker, which is true I used to watch him multi table online. No I didnt know his hold cards but I did learn a lot about position aggression from him.

I really really enjoyed this years wsop even though I didnt play but I do plan on playing next year for sure. I told my wife im coming out without kids next year.


Zumanity


We went to New York New York for dinner and a show, the dinner was amazing. But it could not even come close to the show, the girls were topless the entire show pretty much but after 10 minutes you really dont realize they are. The shows just that good, we were sitting in the front row so we got involved in the show at the begining, one of the preformers handed me a dildo and we had a cock fight. My wife was embarassed I could tell but me I could care less, hell I will never see these people again so who the hell cares. If you havent seen this show though I recomend going with someone your real intimate with becuase its very sexual.


thats pretty much my quick update thanks for reading.