Monthly archives: June 2008

Trip Report Part 2: On the Board.

09Jun08

I now have my first cash of the trip, but also my first heartbreak.
Unlike every other tournament I’ve played out here so far, I opened Wednesday’s WSOP $2500 NL on fire. By the first break my 5,000 chip stack had grown to 15,000. And despite bluffing off half of those chips to Can [...]

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Trip Report Part 1: Deep Breaths…

04Jun08

Welp, Janeen’s brother’s wedding was quite nice.  The celebrity nuptials went off without a hitch.  It was a somewhat low-key party, hosted by a good friend of the groom at his strange expansive house in Chicago.  The bride and groom chose to eschew a lot of the typical formal reverie; there was no cake cutting, no first dance, no grandparents [...]

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