May 28, 2009

  • Viva Las Vegas!

                  

                     The time has come, I'm all packed and ready to go and will be leaving for the airport in the next hour or so.  Departing in Ontario, CA at 7:50PM and landing in Las Vegas, NV at 8:50PM.  I have butterflies and am really nervous for how this trip is going to go.  Will I do well in my tournaments?  Will I win a bracelet?  Will this trip change the course of my life forever?  Will I be able to keep myself away from gambling in the pit?  Will I manage my money right?  Will I party too much like I did last summer?  All these questions racing through my head, it's probably normal to worry as much as I am but at the same time I'm really excited and anxious.  I feel like a soldier being sent off to war, only in this war it's every man for himself.  I've played poker around the clock everyday ever since I got back from my last summer Vegas trip and feel like I'm more prepared and disciplined this time around.  Tomorrow will be used to run errands and settle in to my new home, Rio All-Suite Hotel, for two months.  Saturday at Noon will be my first tournament which is the WSOP "Stimulus" Event #4 $1000 buy-in, which being their lowest buy-in to date, it's supposed to break the record for the largest player field size in a live tournament setting, we'll see if that's true.  As I said in my previous posts, I won't be playing as much online poker or posting in this blog as often as I used to but, I did setup my twitter account and will update everyone on my progress, chip stack, living status, etc.  on a regular basis.  So for those of you who are interested on being updated, you can follow up on me with this link:

    http://twitter.com/ecafkrod

    Again thanks to everyone who has supported me every step of the way and thanks to all the people who wished me luck, I'll need all the luck I can get!  See you on the felts!