I got up at my usual time today, around 6 PM. We were headed to Ballys to get drunk and maybe play some drunk poker. We got a seat in their 1/2 NL game pretty quickly. I didn't really like Ballys poker room. It didn't consist of more than 6-7 tables max so it's a small room. The chairs were very good, a lot better than at the Rio. The tables on the other hand, I hated the felt. It's hard to describe, but it felt a lot softer than at Rio, meaning that cards were more often sticking...

After Santana I went to Rio with Abuello to see if we could get an update on how Mika (Miwala) was doing in the Main Event, and Danes in general. While we didn't find Mika (later on I found out he busted earlier on to a nasty rivered flush vs. rivered full house hand), I did meet Hostrup (Carl) waiting for cash game entry. I signed up for the $2/5 NL game also. After about 10 minutes I got called over the speaker, my seat was ready. Luckily I got a seat at Hostrups table, in fact I got...

When I went to bed yesterday (after the Main Event) at around 7 AM, I didn't think of setting my clock. I mean, I didn't have to get up before around 5-6 PM, I'd be long awake before that. Anyways, someone knocks on my door hard while I sleep. I look at my cellphone to see the time, my eyes are all hazy. Hot damn, it's like 6:25 PM, yikes, I guess I really needed that sleep. We had to be at the MGM Grand at 7:30 PM since we were going to see Santana live that night. ...

Today was the big day. Today was the day that I was going to play the WSOP 2006 Main Event with a $10k buy in! I guess it was a bad "decision" to only sleep 5 hours that night. I woke up at around 6 AM and couldn't sleep any more. Not because I was overly nervous, though I guess the excitement might've played in unconsciously. I got at my table at about 11:50 AM, pretty unknown table, no one I recognized, I suppose that's good. I quickly took the lead at our table, I was...

So today I got up a bit earlier, at around 4 PM. At about 9 PM I took a cab into the Rio together with a couple of the other guys to pick up my Main Event registration, this time there were no problems, thank god. I decided to sit down for some cash games since I was nowhere near ready to head for bed, so I bought into the usual 2/5 NL game for $500. Today I got a somewhat worse table than last time, worse in the way that people were a lot better. Most of the...

So tonight I woke up at 7:30 PM for some reason. I have no idea how I could sleep that late, I mean, it wasn't more than like 6:30 AM when I got back from the Rio last night. But whatever, it was great to get some sleep. At around 10 PM we went to the Pokerteam DK party at their house on the other side of the strip. Great party, lots of danish poker players, cool to have a danish gathering. Norsemen were holding their own party in a house right next to us. It was also cool to...

So I finally got into my first ever real poker cash game at a casino. My main game is without doubt tournaments, I rarely play cash games as I don't think they're nearly as interesting, also I'm far worse at cash games than at tournaments. When I do get into cash games online, I usually play the NL25 games at Party, I've had lots of problems beating even NL50/100. I was planning for playing the NL1/2 games in Vegas, but the Rio has 2/5 as it's lowest, and i didn't really want to travel further into the strip as...

Finally the day arrived, I've just turned 21! At four minutes past midnight I registered for my WSOP Players card at the Rio, while being registered I got a good chat with the girl behind the counter, she laughed a bit when she saw my 'I support single moms' t-shirt - she said she liked it. I also got an application made for my ITIN number, just in case I make a major cash in one of the tournaments, it would be a serious bad beat if I were forced to leave behind 30% of my winnings...

So today we decided to take a trip to the Grand Canyon just outside Las Vegas. I've been to the Grand Canyon once before on an earlier trip when I was seven, but honestly I couldn't remember it that well besides it being hot as hell and, well, grand. We took the large package consisting of a 40 minute flight in a small plane that took us over the Grand Canyon to a small indian run airfield on top of the Grand Canyon edge, a busride along the edge of the Grand Canyon, a helicopter trip into...

So I finally arrived at Vegas! Lack of space After a grueling trip of about 24 hours I finally arrived at our house in Vegas. As expected the overseas flight was a living hell due to my size and the lack of space in tourist class. To make it even worse, since I last flew with SAS, all passenger seats in tourist class now has their own little TFT monitor. Why is that bad? That is bad because these monitors run off a computer placed below one of the seats in the foot area. Naturally i...