Venetian Today

The WSOP is basically over until the main event, and I haven't played any of the events since the SHOE event. My poker schedule is basically full from now until the main event starts on Sunday for me. I am playing a 1k deepstack event today at the Venetian, a $2500 Bellagio tournament tomorrow, and then another Venetian one on Saturday with Bob and maybe my dad. I like to play a lot before big tournaments because it helps me stay in the right mindset and really hones your play. I am really looking forward to the Main Event. The Main Event is basically the total opposite of most of these prelim tournaments. For the prelims, the larger buy-ins get more chips but better players and the smaller buy ins get a lot less chips but the players are really bad. The main event, on the other hand, a player starts with 20k in chips and the players are still awful because everybody thinks they are a poker player these days thanks to Chris Moneymaker and Jamie Gold.

As for the sightseeing, we didn't make it to the Grand Canyon because it was like a 4 hour drive, but we did see the Hoover Dam, which was really cool. When you look over the edge, it's like 700 foot drop down to the water. It's also really amazing to see how much concrete they used to build it. I will be posting pictures here in the next few days for some perspective. We are also going to take a helicopter to the Grand Canyon on one of my off days so that should be very interesting....