Upcoming Poker Schedule and a Big McCain Bet
A few months ago, I posted a schedule of the poker tournaments I was going to play into the forseeable future.
The trips on that schedule were:
Vegas WSOP Circuit at Caesars (wound up cashing in a $1k prelim)
Party Poker Million Cruise (3rd for $160k)
New Orleans WSOP Circuit (15th in the Main Event)
WSOP (18th in a $2,500 prelim and 159th in the Main Event)
The only other three poker related trips I've taken this year were:
Oklahoma State Championships of Poker (5th for $22k)
Venetian Deep Stack in February (4th in a $300 for $11k)
and
Irish Poker Open (washout)
So 7 trips and cashed in a tournament on 6 of them. Classical conditioning says go to more tournaments.
With that in mind, here's the trips I plan on taking into the forseeable future:
August 17th-23rd: The River Poker Tournament in Thackersville, Oklahoma
Five hour drive from Houston with a $2,000 buy-in. A tournament in Oklahoma with a sizable buy-in that will attract virtually zero professionals? Yum, yum!!
September 4th-6th: Gulf Coast Poker Championship in Biloxi, Mississippi
Six hour drive from Houston with a buy-in of $5,000. Plus, hanging out in po-dunk towns in the deep South is always an adventure in and of itself.
September 27th - October 5th: WSOP Europe and EPT London in London, England
This is a trip I'm really looking forward to. The European Poker Tour officials were savvy enough to schedule their EPT London event literally right after WSOP Europe concludes. Flying all the way to Europe and getting to play two big events rather than just one is definitely nice. (Note: The buy-ins for these events are £10,000 and £5,000 (roughly $20,000 and $10,000). Good chance I'll be interested in selling off a little of myself for these events, so get in touch if that interests you).
October 12th-14th: WSOP Circuit Indiana in Elizabeth, Indiana
$5,000 buy-in.
November 15th-18th: Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge in Tulsa, Oklahoma
$5,000 buy-in.
Beyond that, it's hard to plan anything out. One trip that I think sounds fun is the Aussie Millions in the early part of next year. Whether or not Australia is in the picture depends on how well I run in the aforementioned events and whether or not John McCain wins the election.
I'm building what will hopefully be a pretty large position on McCain through online sportsbooks. So far, I've wagered about $5k to win $12k on a Repubican to win the Presidency. The odds these idiots are laying on Matchbook and InTrade is unreal. It's absurd to think that Barack Obama has a 70% chance to win the election. It's like... he's trailing in the polls to McCain amongst likely voters. At the end of the day, nobody likes arrogant liberal elitists who tell people that they need to learn Spanish and complain about the prices of arugula at Whole Foods. Especially when that person has a middle name Hussein and donated $27,000 to a church whose pastor says things like, "God damn America!"

The trips on that schedule were:
Vegas WSOP Circuit at Caesars (wound up cashing in a $1k prelim)
Party Poker Million Cruise (3rd for $160k)
New Orleans WSOP Circuit (15th in the Main Event)
WSOP (18th in a $2,500 prelim and 159th in the Main Event)
The only other three poker related trips I've taken this year were:
Oklahoma State Championships of Poker (5th for $22k)
Venetian Deep Stack in February (4th in a $300 for $11k)
and
Irish Poker Open (washout)
So 7 trips and cashed in a tournament on 6 of them. Classical conditioning says go to more tournaments.
With that in mind, here's the trips I plan on taking into the forseeable future:
August 17th-23rd: The River Poker Tournament in Thackersville, Oklahoma
Five hour drive from Houston with a $2,000 buy-in. A tournament in Oklahoma with a sizable buy-in that will attract virtually zero professionals? Yum, yum!!
September 4th-6th: Gulf Coast Poker Championship in Biloxi, Mississippi
Six hour drive from Houston with a buy-in of $5,000. Plus, hanging out in po-dunk towns in the deep South is always an adventure in and of itself.
September 27th - October 5th: WSOP Europe and EPT London in London, England
This is a trip I'm really looking forward to. The European Poker Tour officials were savvy enough to schedule their EPT London event literally right after WSOP Europe concludes. Flying all the way to Europe and getting to play two big events rather than just one is definitely nice. (Note: The buy-ins for these events are £10,000 and £5,000 (roughly $20,000 and $10,000). Good chance I'll be interested in selling off a little of myself for these events, so get in touch if that interests you).
October 12th-14th: WSOP Circuit Indiana in Elizabeth, Indiana
$5,000 buy-in.
November 15th-18th: Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge in Tulsa, Oklahoma
$5,000 buy-in.
Beyond that, it's hard to plan anything out. One trip that I think sounds fun is the Aussie Millions in the early part of next year. Whether or not Australia is in the picture depends on how well I run in the aforementioned events and whether or not John McCain wins the election.
I'm building what will hopefully be a pretty large position on McCain through online sportsbooks. So far, I've wagered about $5k to win $12k on a Repubican to win the Presidency. The odds these idiots are laying on Matchbook and InTrade is unreal. It's absurd to think that Barack Obama has a 70% chance to win the election. It's like... he's trailing in the polls to McCain amongst likely voters. At the end of the day, nobody likes arrogant liberal elitists who tell people that they need to learn Spanish and complain about the prices of arugula at Whole Foods. Especially when that person has a middle name Hussein and donated $27,000 to a church whose pastor says things like, "God damn America!"
