Las Vegas Poker Blogger Gathering #5
“You have to believe me when I tell you the trip was extraordinary…not because of the poker…
not because of the partying…
not because of the poker pros…
not because of Vegas…
the trip was amazing because of the people involved.”
Amen.
So many stories. So many laughs.
Never enough time.
Sadly, I have made it my habit to never attempt to blog these incredible blogger get-togethers. I don’t have the talent to recapture what it’s all about.
But others do.
You’d need to be there. Seriously.
Thankfully, there are plenty of Trip Reports listed below.
It sucks coming home after these. Sure, you end up having the time of your life, but still, there’s always that feeling that there wasn’t enough time. Because there isn’t.
I’m always happiest at that one moment in the weekend when I’m sitting off to the side somewhere, having an excellent conversation with typically a person or two, and then taking a minute to look around at all of the bloggers happily laughing and chatting in many large and small groups and soaking it all in.
Actually, I think the word is Thankful more than happy, but it’s all the same thing, isn’t it? I should wax poetic about this, the friendships and the camaraderie, how this all came about and how lucky I am to be a part of it. Talk about +EV memories.
But I’ll spare you, gentle reader, in the interest of getting this link list up. Suffice to say, this was the most enjoyable Gathering I’ve had since the very first one. Thanks to everyone, most especially the lovely April for setting this up. I can’t imagine how she does it, but she does.
So allow me one quick anecdote from our first evening/morning of heavy drinking in Las Vegas at the infamous Geisha bar at the IP. If I told you how much I spent at the bar over those 12 hours, you wouldn’t believe me.
We already had one casualty. A certain tall birthday boy had been guzzling shot after shot after shot before collapsing in the 2nd floor bathrooms. A few kind souls (BiggestRon & FTrain, I think) went to fetch him.
Because our Birthday boy was so damn big, they were forced to load him into a wheelchair and take him to his room.
But then even more craziness: we had word that a girl blogger had passed out in the men’s bathroom. We rushed to help but the paramedics were already inside, attending to our femme fatale.
As they checked her blood pressure and whatnot, and to find out if she was OK/coherent, they asked one simple question to ensure she had her wits about her.
“Honey, can you tell me who the President of the United States is?”
And she quickly replied, “Fuck that, I’m Canadian.”
Awesome. Score one for the bloggers.
And so, here are the Trip Reports in all their glory. I’m guessing folks are still recovering and these will be coming in over the next few days so just keep checking their sites. Hilarious - you can’t make this stuff up. Don’t miss Dawn’s post, damnit.
Enjoy. Updated ones are at the top.
Sir Waffle - Online Poker Thoughts
Never Play Cards With a Man Called Doc
Bobby Bracelet
This is not a Poker Blog
A Moment With EasyCure - Michael
Fool and His Money
Kristen - Pot Committed
If I missed anyone, please let me know so I can add you.
Pokerworks.com
Deutsches Poker
Poker Français
Póquer en español
Poker in Italiano
Magyar Póker
Hrvatski Poker
Dutch Poker
Brasileiro Poker
December 12th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
Holy shit ALL those bloggers were there? When’s the next one, I’m coming out!
December 12th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Iggy, it was so great to meet you. Dawn had given me the whole "you are going to looooove Iggy" but I wasn’t quite prepared for the man behind the myth. If you find yourself in NY or AC, definitely let us know–we’ll travel for Iggy-time.
And I AM collecting on that $100 bet you made with your heart about ‘08.
December 13th, 2006 at 9:46 am
Reports about my height are greatly exaggerated.
Great to see you again Iggy
December 13th, 2006 at 10:01 am
Not one person made a little-person joke? What a swell group of folks those bloggers are.
Thanks for the links. Good stuff there!
December 13th, 2006 at 11:20 am
I managed a short post of the WPBT event, what I remember of it but I was so sober I probably missed the best parts. I do claim to be the only one to go out of the tournament to runner, runner, runner, runner, runner. Hey! So who hasn’t misplaced their hole cards at one time or another?
http://www.pokerblog.com/wpbt-placeholders.html
December 13th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
i’m a posting… got the prelim up…
You saw me, and I saw you.. but, I don’t think you remembered me… not that we saw much of each other last year..
This next statement is pointless, but what the hell..
You were introduced to me by She Verb I think, cuz I mentioned I wanted to meet ya, and when I saw ya ( was drunk ) I said sumtin like, your not at short as I imagined… it was in the hallway, where the tourney was.. about a year ago…
how could you forget..
http://slayrepokerquest.blogspot.com
December 13th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Truly awesome. What a great sendoff before I head to the desert.
December 13th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
Iggy…
Was great to finally meet you, even though I was the one drinking the Guinness while you were guzzling something else.
Keep wathcing your mailbox. Something’s on it’s way…
December 13th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Ditto what Karol said on great (finally!) meeting you & if you’re in AC, I will come too.