Provisional Vegas Schedule
Vegas looks like it’s going to be brilliant this year. I’d love to be able to stay for the full 6 weeks of WSOP, but will have to make do with 10 days. All the other casinos seem to have cottoned on to the fact that the WSOP simply doesn’t offer great structures at the lower buy-ins, and there are numerous tournaments all over town which offer deep starting stacks, and reasonable buy ins. What the blind levels will be like in these tournaments remains to be seen, but I have heard the Venetian has a particularly slow one.
I’ve put together a schedule for the trip below - I’ve opted for all no limit holdem, because I haven’t had enough time to practise Omaha this year, so entering big buy-in Omaha tournaments is likely to be negative expected value for me at the present time. My schedule may change, of course, depending on how many second days I make, and also, if I win early on, I may give the 10k heads-up championship event a bash. Failing that, this is what we are looking at:
8 June $540 Caesars
9 June $500 Binnions
10 June $540 Venetian
11 June $5,000 WSOP Event Rio
12 June $2,000 WSOP Event Rio
13 June $2,500 Venetian
14 June $250 Binnions
15 June $3,000 WSOP Event Rio
16 June $225 Caesars
Add to this 500 dollars for a few smaller “fun” tournaments, plus a 1,500 USD cash poker budget and I think we are looking a great few days. Stamina will be one of the biggest challenges to be faced - with 12pm starts every day, it will be vital not to be out on the pop too late into the Vegas mornings. Easier said than done…
I am back on the live tournament trail for the next 2 nights, probably both times at Loose Cannon - I’ll blog them later in the week.
| PROFIT/(LOSS) USD 2008 | |
|---|---|
| Live Holdem Tournaments | 3,590 |
| Live Holdem Cash | (1,661) |
| Live Omaha | 110 |
| Live “Professional” Tournaments | (10,291) |
| Home Games | (460) |
| Online Holdem Tournaments | 53,932 |
| Online Holdem Cash | 17,026 |
| Online Omaha | 630 |
| Rake | (1,801) |
| Total | 61,075 |