So I guess I’ll keep a WSOP log in this manner throughout the series to catalog interesting events and play throughout the events. I’ll be playing an event every day with no break, plus side events, so hopefully things get intense at some point. This ‘episode’ will have no poker, so if that kind of thing doesn’t interest you it will be a major tl;dr. After today though, every episode will catalog an event.

More or less, yesterday kinda sucked. Not in that everything goes horribly wrong at every possible moment way, but just in the general being sleep deprived and spending 20 hours In airports/planes which is fun for absolutely nobody. It’s the first time I’ve been in the U.S. in about 6 months and I am experiencing what you would call ‘reverse culture shock’ which is basically when you spend enough time away from your home country, come back, and find certain things weird. Like what you ask?
For one I’ve forgot what its like to be around white people/English speakers. The people in Malaysia speak English but it’s a totally different blend and the accent is quite thick. They also have a certain twist to the language that, if your not expecting it, can make conversation quite confusing. Either way, all these white people are weirding me out. Coming back I can see why people think we’re fat, man I definitely never realized it before. One special little “WTF?!” American moment came when the baggage handler at LAX casually asked me “any guns today sir?” as if he was asking whether I wanted regular coffee or decaf. Like seriously, it’s become pretty sick to me that the answer could be “why yes, of course. Allow me to remove my arsenal from my person for you” and everything would be cool.
So I got to Vegas, stumbled into my room exhausted, smelling worse than a retirement home. I discovered I had torn a hole in the ass of my favorite $1500 Zegna suit, which really really sucks if it can’t be fixed. Not because of the price, but because it was that special kind of suit that just looks so smart and professional that you can do anything in it. I’m 95% certain that, if done while wearing that suit, I could shoot a man in front of a police officer and get off with a warning. If it is permanently [censored] I will definitely be spending most of the WSOP in my room crying.

I met up with some 2p2’ers for a late night Korean dinner which was awesome both in company and in food quality. It was very good to finally put faces to names, and we reached a consensus that it is 10X easier to call people by 2p2 names instead of getting on first name basis then switching back and forth depending on who knows who and whether on the forums or etc, so if/when you meet me take it as a given I will likely forget your first name if you tell me it and call you by 2p2 handle. I then also got a call from the elder part of backing super duo Timepa (or shall it be Stevix?) that they were pwned by their condo combination and needed a place to crash. No worries then, slumber party at Bond’s. It was good fun as we rented ‘Bring it on’, played ouija board, and discussed who’d been getting fat and how hot Colin Farrel is. They got up about 9 to sort their various issues out, and unfortunately since my body seems to think its midnight, I woke up after 5 hours sleep and can’t fall back despite it being 3 hours before an event, which is basically why you’re all getting a rambling and pointless trip report entry.

So I’ve got the NL/limit 5k championship event, and I feel pretty good for the amount of jet lag I’m on going into it. I’ve also been playing almost zero tournament poker for about 2 weeks leading up this after 5 months of nothing but, so I feel pretty sharp and patient. Hopefully things go very well, and when I write a far more interesting trip report tomorrow it will be full of hands. Also, I plan to either charm or bribe my way into getting my name on the poker news update reports, which shouldn’t be to hard cause I know the pokernews people pretty well from last year. So for those who have an interest in that sort of thing, my updates will be under either “Tony Dunst” or “George Dunst” depending on how legal they want to be.

That’s about it for now, hope to meet the guys who are arriving as they come and best of luck to everyone at 2007 WSOP.