Holiday

I am back.

Arrived back from Vegas this morning - we spent 5 days there, and two days in Chicago before that (plus one day at O'Hare waiting to get on a plane after ours was cancelled).

In Vegas we stayed at the Paris, which is a hotel I had previously had a pretty low opinion of, but it turns out that Paris is really quite nice. Its right bang in the middle of everything and is connected to Ballys (which has a very friendly poker room).

Non poker highlights included: playing a (not cheap) round of Golf at he Bally Hi course (just past the Mandalay Bay); getting drunk at the Crown and Anchor (the best place to watch football in Vegas) during the England v Brazil match); going to the Cirque de Soleil at the MGM (never thought I would say that); and dinner at the Country Club at the Wynn.

Poker

Poker wise - I decided against entering the $1500nl WSOP event 3, which started Saturday. I went over to the Rio after the England game on Friday to have a look - the registration queue was about 5 hours long (which was more time than I had) and that made up my mind for me.

I spent a couple of hours looking around - the whole thing is amazing - and whilst it is now my overriding aim to play at the WSOP, I think I made the right decision not to go in this year (I need to get some live experience first).

I only managed to play poker three times (at Ballys) for about 4 hours per session. I played 1/2nl.