Vegas, Day One

I arrived in Sin City after an uneventful flight. After picking up my car and making my way to the Rio I started the long trek to find the World Series registration booth. After seemingly walking back to Indiana, I found registration to be painless, taking maybe 10 minutes. After wandering through the tournament room for a few moments, I headed back down the hall to attempt to meet Wil Wheaton, who has been covering the Series for PokerStars.

Wil was in the PokerStars lounge and I introduced myself. He offered some very good advice on my first WSOP tournament and helped me get over my jitters of having just dropped $1500 to enter a freaking World Series of Poker event. Thanks Wil.

Also in the lounge were pros Greg Raymer and Isabelle Mercier. Both were speaking to others so I didn't bother them. Isabelle is a stunningly beautiful woman. Her pictures, as good as they look, do her no justice at all.

Other pros I have passed in the halls: T.J. Cloutier, Chris Ferguson, Mike Caro, Kathy Liebert and Howard Lederer.

I found my friend Jeff who had just busted from the 7 Stud High/Low event and we headed to dinner.

My event starts tomorrow at noon. If I can't sleep I may go play a few satellites tonight. I'll post about those if something interesting happens. I will try to post as time allows tomorrow.