Vegas

First, congrats go out to Miami Don at the Hoy, defending my title proudly. Don's learning some poker slumming with tourists, it looks like. Gratuitous photo of Shaq with either Carmen or Miss Florida, not sure which.

Changed flights, and lookie who is on the new flight praying for an upgrade, but none other than Otis from G-Vegas and PokerStars blogdom/slave labor. BadBlood calls him while I'm chatting him up (lonely, lonely boy). No upgrade for Otis, and I head to my 36B seat (232 configuration, so it's an aisle). A few noticeable poker guys (one big guy with Stars swag on, another with his shades on the entire flight, working on being able to go long periods of time without being able to see anything). I played one Event #2 simulation on Wilson Turbo, got knocked out in 34th place out of 2442 for $35k or so, so maybe that is a good omen.

Otis and I wait for luggage, he calls prop bet after his bag arrives, sweats me to cab it together, but i send him on his way after fifteen minutes. I call Rio still trying to get a room tonight but no answer at front desk after 11.5 minutes, so off to the Bellagio for a night. Spoke to Linda briefly, who had dinner with Michael Craig as well as got knocked out of Event #1 (casino employee event).

Check into Bellagio, make another bad read waiting behind two couples from Shanghai with complications in their reservations. Just one night here, so left my big bag with the bellman and brought change of clothes up to the room. And what you would call a nice view probably.

I'll head to the Bellagio Poker Room in a bit, hopefully to sneak in some play. I'm fairly tired though and should write up the Tournament of Champions. One major change this year that Otis told me is that live news is only supposed to come from CardPlayer due to an agreement with CardPlayer, FullTilt, and WSOP. Don't know what that means exactly, but we'll find out soon enough. I'll be posting in bunches, so come back often, email me at cunningham@gmail.com, or leave comments. I will try and answer any questions as well as sniff out stuff as I can.