I've managed to swing a few days off from work and the wife is on board for a 3 or 4 day visit with her folks around the fourth of July, soooooo.... the weekend before that I plan to drive out to Vegas with my homies Sven and Cali for a few days of degeneracy. Mikey P. will also be there tackling his first ever WSOP bracelet event, using a seat that he won in my home game. Should be a grand old time!
Myself, I plan to stick to the 3pm Rio Deepstacks, and an occasional silly late night (but not too late) turbo. If I happen to bink a monster cash I will certainly partake in a bracelet event; perhaps the July 3rd Little One for Little Drop $1,111 charity event, or maybe the noon July 5th $1500 last chance donkament.
Of course I'm especially excited, after a good long time with my family of course, to swing back to the Rio on my way out of town on the weekend of July 6/7 and take in, for the first time in my life, the full glory of the greatest poker tournament on the planet - The Main Event.
Hopefully I'll bink a super mega-cash and actually get to play in it, but just checking it out will be well worth it. The atmosphere no doubt will be electric as always, plus there should be plenty of opportunity for star gazing. Not that that's my big thing, but it should be cool just to chill and check out who's there.
I've been eyeballing the other events around town -
The Venetian Deepstack is going on, and is certainly prestigious and well run, but the price points ($400/$600) are a little too steep and the fields are notoriously a little too tough.
Both the Aria and the Wynn are running series, but both will be concluded by the time I roll around.
Binion's Classic is an actual possibility, as there is an Omaha/8 tournament that is reasonable on Monday and will be great fun, if not actually profitable.
Caesar's has it's Megastack Series, and I love these because the structures are the right kind of shitty - meaning they are genuinely one day events that won't have me playing till 2am and not cashing. It could happen.
The Nugget of course has it's grand series, which is also well priced and also happens to be soft - it too is a very real possibility for Monday or Tuesday, especially if I don't cash in the Rio DS's.
The Rio also is putting on an additional poker series called the Carnivale of Poker, which is pretty weird to me because really, where are they going to put everyone? The price points and structure seem to be really similar to the WSOP Circuit events, which I have very little interest in because I get two of them every year here in L.A. and they tend to have tough fields and endless structures along with mid-sized buy-ins that don't come close to matching the prestige of a bracelet or the payoff of a Rio DS. (Though at least the circuit events do have a spiffy Circuit Ring you can win.) And yes, they are 2 day events and yes they start at 11am. Meh.
I am in fact planning in advance to play both 3pm Rio Deep Stacks, on Sat and Sun; as well as to be prepared to play the 6pm or the 10pm if I bust. (Not both - if I bust the 6pm I'm done).
I would like to get up early enough on Sunday to hit a $75 mega at 9am, but I say that every year so who knows.
But beyond the first two days, I'm pretty much up in the air. If I don't cash I'm more inclined to play smaller events such as the Nugget nooners or perhaps even the downright cheap Orleans events which include a tasty looking $60 Omaha/8 tournament on Monday.
We shall see!
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