The 2010 WSOP Experience

by Geoff on July 24, 2010

All week I have been recapping my trip out to Las Vegas for the 2010 World Series of Poker. I wrote it partly for my family and friends that read this but I also wrote it down for myself. Though the days were long and tedious at times, the experience flew by. I wanted to be get it all out on “paper” so I can share and remember.

2010 WSOP Trip

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This is part IV in a multi-part series covering my trip out to Las Vegas to cover the 2010 World Series of Poker. Please see part Ipart II, part III and part IV.

Even though I had been up for about 23 hours the day before, sleep was hard to come by on my last night in Vegas. I was partly excited for the play down from 27 to 9 and partly afraid to be woken up by housekeeping sometime after checkout. I had set the alarm on my iPhone so I wouldn’t sleep past 9:30 but as it turns out I would be walking down the halls of the Rio at that time. For those of you wondering, my iPhone alarm sounds something like this.

I was the first one into the media room since it was so damn early, well second as Seth Palansky (WSOP Communications Director) beat me in….and he was in for a looooong day. When I got settled in I was able to parse through the table draws and chip counts and get some notes written down about the day to come. This is what the Day 8 table draws were: [click to continue…]

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2010 World Series of Poker Trip Report – Part IV

July 22, 2010

This is part IV in a multi-part series covering my trip out to Las Vegas to cover the 2010 World Series of Poker. Please see part I, part II, and part III.
My second full day in Vegas started out a lot like the first. Wake up, shower, valet, Rio….ground hog day? [ Though I should mention that [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker Trip Report – Part III

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This is part III in a multi-part series covering my trip out to Las Vegas to cover the 2010 World Series of Poker. Please see part I and part II.
My first full day in Vegas was Day 6 of the 2010 WSOP. We got the car out of valet and headed over to the Rio to [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker Trip Report – Part II

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This is part II in a multi-part series covering my trip out to Las Vegas to cover the 2010 World Series of Poker. Please see part I here.
For me, the 2010 WSOP Main Event started early. My trip wasn’t until July 14th (Day 5) but Paul would be out there for the start of the [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker Trip Report – Part I

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I wanted to take a moment and write about my experience at this years World Series of Poker. This will be more of a trip report so for reports on what happened and photos from the event check out the updates Paul Ellis and I have over at the Twitter Poker Tour website. This will [...]

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Virtual Audio Connector + Ustream + Skype

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All you [...]

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Since its founding in 1948, the Jimmy [...]

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