Entry 1: DTD WSOP Road TripWell, its been 5 years since my first WSOP diary, I read it last week after a guy at the club mentioned it to me, it reminded me of what my life was like back then, travelling the world playing poker for 3 years with little stress in my life, there was no damn recession, no DTD, no football club........don't ask me what I would do if I could rewind the clock
Anyway, it's back to the WSOP for me this year, my flights are booked but this trip is going to be different, this time I am hoping to take 15 - 20 DTD qualifliers with me - we have pre booked 20 rooms at the MGM from my friend Oliver Spier -who promises us all VIP treatment. Oliver is the Casino Host that usually looks after us at the Bellagio, he came over to the EPO at DTD in September and twisted our arm to change venues and promissed extra special treatment at the MGM, so we'll give it a go. The Bellagio and MGM are owned by the same company, but apparently there is a big push to promote the MGM at the moment since they built a new hotel block called Skylofts in their complex.
We also have a DTD Party planned in one of the nightclubs in Vegas, we are joining forces with Smart Gambler, owned my my Nowegian friend, Segal, the guy that originally helped bring the Norwegain Chamionships to DTD. By the way, I went to the Norwegian Chamionships in Latvia last week, the organisers moved it there this year which was a major disappointment to us, but we could not compete with the deal that the Riga Casino offered Donke, the championship sponsor, however, you never know, we might get it back in 2011
The slight problem is I'm not exactly sure how we are going to qualify 15-20 players from DTD yet, with flights, hotels and buy-ins we need to raise between $200,000 - $260,000 by way of some type of satelitte structure, live and online, but we have plenty of time to work that out. I remember when I did my last diary, the Gutshot took a team of 10 players over to the WSOP and had a great time filming them, one young Gutshot lady, Tiffany Williamson, finished 15th if I remember, how cool would that be if one of the locals like Ali 'Bag Of Bollocks' went really deep - you never know, strange things happen in life.
Anyway, my WSOP Diary and Dusk Till Dawn blog threads kept a few of you amused so hopefully I can make this third 'blog' interesting, and it's about time I did a follow up since the club opened, and go into how it feels after being open for over 2 years. There is plenty of stuff to tell you all, I don't know where to start, but we have 90 days till I fly to Vegas so that's ample time to re visit the DTD story and all the other crap that's been going on since then. This blog will be condemned to the Blondepoker archives when the last DTD qualifier is knocked out of the 2010 WSOP. Again, as with the previous blogs, feel free to add anything on the thread yourselves - but can I just ask you not to post compaints about ecash and the weekly tourney schedule on here please
Hey you never know - maybe if I try really really hard I might get as many hits as that great blogger and DTD's no.1 fan Mick McCool
Cheers Rob
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