I was glancing over my intended schedule of upcoming live poker recently. For a while the rumor was the APPT was going to be starting up again in Macau in late March, though currently the consensus seems it’s more likely to happen in late April. After finding this out I realized it may line up very nicely for some of the other live poker I want to do, and end up creating a somewhat direct line of high stakes poker from Melbourne to Las Vegas. Here’s the post I made:
“So I was looking at the live poker tournaments I was intending on playing coming up, and while certain things are not 100% at this point (such as the dates for APPT Macau, which is likely late April but nobody knows yet) I found there was a real good opportunity to do an around the world trip including 4 continents for me and would likely be 3 for anyone else. I intend to write about every day in the trip to make the largest/most absurd trip report ever.

Here's the prospective schedule:
Around the world in ~90 days.

Late April- Melbourne to Macau

Macau to Hong Kong to Venice for Party Poker Million VI May 1

Venice-->Bari, Italy-->Olympia/Katakolon, Greece-->Izmir, Turkey-->Istanbul, Turkey-->
Dubrovnik, Croatia-->Venice, Italy.

Venice to Paris for Grand Prix de Paris on May 8th through the 18th

Paris to Chicago on the 18th, Chicago to Milwaukee, Milwaukee to Madison.

May 29th Milwaukee to Las Vegas for World Series of Poker.

WSOP May 30th through July 16th.

July 16th, Las Vegas to Melbourne Australia.


Obviously if you wanna go home somewhere else during that ~10 day off period in late May free, but basically I'm curious, anybody wanna come with?”

Seeing as I don’t have anything really mandatory to do in that time period, and leading up to it I’m doing nothing but playing 9 hours of online poker a day every day (to cover expenses and build my roll in general) it seems appropriate, especially since the travel line works out so conveniently. Also, if anyone is interested in filming that sort of thing and making some sort of documentary or what have you (no I don’t have the money to pay for it) let me know. In tournament entry feels alone I think this trip is looking at something like $125,000 US when you consider the WSOP. As Timex said in the thread “this is gonna hurt.” I would imagine the trip will likely result in my ending up:
A. Busto
B. Dead
C. Both (most probable.)

Meanwhile, earlier today I managed to make a very serious run in the FTOPS $1000 6 max event. Would today finally be the day I break through and hit the big score? Nope. I got pretty close though. For the third time I managed to go very deep in a $1000 major online tournament and come up ever so slightly short. With about 35 left I was something like fifth in chips. I ended up busting 33rd. I raised KK on the CO and the button flatted with aces. We got it all in for quite a lot of chips on a J high drawy flop. After that it folded to the SB who open shoved on my ~12 BB stack and I made the call with 44 in the BB. His KQs won the flip and that’s a gg sir. 33rd was worth $5,700, all of which goes straight to Timex.

Outside that I’ll be taking tomorrow off from the online game and going down to Crown for the Joe Hachem deep stacked 6 max $2500 semi shootout event. I’ll be writing a trip report, and hopefully it’s a long full of many, many hands. One time live poker?

lakeoffire says

Very nice run in the 1k. I saw your bust-out hand...cooler.

02/12/08

EdmondDantes says

I'm up for Paris in May and WSOP, obv. I'd love to do Turkey (hear nothing but good things from my friends in Europe who've been)...but can't this year.

02/12/08

harlem. (Anonymous) says

Sounds like a marathon. Keep up the great writing

02/12/08

Bumboklaat says

You are an awesome writer and player. Best of luck!

B

02/13/08

timex (Anonymous) says

build ur rollll fast. gl.

02/14/08

Anonymous says

That's quite an itinerary. Looking forward to hearing all about it.

02/15/08

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