WSOP 2006 Las Vegas, NV

I got email notification yesterday that my pre-registration form and $10,000 deposit had been received. My beginning day for the main event will be day1B on Saturday, July 29, 2006. You can see the schedule for the WSOP under a link on this page.

There won't be much posting on this blog until I arrive in Las Vegas on July 24, 2006. I'll try to post at least once a day after I get to Las Vegas, but I'm not making any promises. My postings will probably be sporadic as my main focus will be playing 12-14 hours of poker a day and not losing all my chips, but I'll try to post mine and Jack's standings in the main event daily. Just remember, no news is good news, because if I'm too busy to post, then I'm still playing or sleeping because I only have four hours to sleep before I continue playing!

I want to thank all the Houston Hold'em Club members for helping make this amazing opportunity possible for me. I promise I will do my very best to win this thing. I seem to be a very lucky fellow. I've got a good feeling about this. And what a player Jack is. He knows how to make it to a final table and what to do when he gets there. I've got a really good feeling about what Jack can do.

I want to thank everyone who has played hold'em with me over the almost two years I have been playing. Today, I probably should be most grateful to the ones of you who took the most of my chips for teaching me the lessons I needed to learn, but grateful sure wasn't what I was feeling at the time.

Thanks to Dalton for inviting me into the Houston Hold'em Club and all the members for accepting me as a member. Thanks to the club officers, Ralph, Bobby and John for all the hard work they do to make the club so outstanding!

Thanks to Sonny for all the opportunities to play and practice with another great group of people. Thanks to Rod who is always helping make a game happen somewhere, somehow. And because the list has to end somewhere, a final thanks to Mark who is always willing to go above and beyond the call of duty to help.

I plan to play in some of the smaller WSOP tournaments as well while I am in Vegas, and will also write about them and anything else that happens while I am there.

In the meantime, since it's still three more weeks until Vegas, I plan to go to Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut the weekend of July 7th and play some tournaments there. I'll post to this blog about that trip, too.

Also, Mark, Lee & Neil are going to Vegas to play in the No-Limit Seniors Event on July12th and 13th. I'll post any news I get about their trip on this blog, too.