I didn't have any set plans for heading to Vegas this year for the World Series seeing how I was just getting back on my feet poker-wise and it was simply bad timing. But a couple Sundays ago I found myself entering a $650 1000+ person satellite on PokerStars giving away 51 $12,000 packages to the Main Event, and sure enough I managed to lock up a package. It was an interesting satellite tournament with (seemingly) difficult decisions for me near the end, but I'm not much of a satellite expert so I'm really not sure. With roughly 56 players left I found myself sitting in ~45th place with ~6BB. The 50-56th placed players were all roughly 4BB and less, 3 or 4 of them with 2BB or less. I'm dealt KK in MP at a table with a couple big stacks who are calling shoves often. I fold. Two hands later I'm dealt KK UTG+1. I fold. I managed to limp (but without any limping! ugh terrible poker humour..) across the finish line without playing another hand, so results-oriented thinking would peg me as a genius. But for all I know I could have fudged that up because I barely scraped my way in.

Nevertheless, I'm headed to Vegas for the Main Event. I also decided that I'm going to play the $5000 6-max event that starts on June 30th as its the last notable event leading up to the ME, and its a good one for me to play. So I'll be in Vegas from June 29th - July 10th, unless I manage to go super-deep in the big one. To pass the time I plan on playing some 5/10NL but I'm mostly looking at it as a freerolling vacation after a few months of working hard online.

I'll do my best to have some interesting WSOP hands to look at, as I know everyone seems to miss the days where I used to post strategy-based analysis from online sessions. Until then, wish me luck!