Great thread, just read start to finish. amazing writing!

1-secret-1,

thanks for sharing your history w/ us. this thread is the best thread i have ever read in the whole internet. actually this is the best thing i read in a while... already linked to many friends and also to my father.

i really like the whole history: you being 38y old w 4kids and wife, high school teacher (damn it, i wish i had a teacher like you!) and you coach football!!! thats amazing!!! i also love the fact you knew you probably was the ''fish'' latter in the tournament, but instead of chicken out, you played your game w/ you own reads, being confident on them !!! i also love the hard work before playing main event.. eating well, exercise, driving 1hour to pratice deep stack live poker.

you are my idol.

Great read. Thanks for sharing your story.

wow...amazing story!!!!

cant wait to read how you did this year!!!

Interested to know what happened this year. OP had a free entry from FTP due for cashing last year, did he get it?

It took me over 6hrs reading this thread and i have to say i loved it.Very well written.Congrats on ya winnings.

LVL HoF:

MTTs - this thread, hands down...amazing. It was awesome to see your writing style evolve and develop over the course of the thread. I was quite disappointed that you turned out to not actually be a hedgehog.

cash - MM or Shaffer

general TRs - rockfish

nice to see this thread got bumped i enjoyed this thread immensely and plan to take my first trip to the WSOP this year for a couple events

Just stumbled upon this thread and had a marathon reading session.

Great posts OP, and congratulations on the deep run.

Thank you for bumping. An amazing read - this is an experience I dream of having.

fyp

awesome report.

thanks for all the sleepless nights I have ahead. going to play my first vegas wsop this summer. man I'm so pumped.

This story was so amazing. Thank you for sharing your awesome experience and congratulations.

Very nice thread. I will make my first post saying that this was a good read. I have read many trip reports on here. This one was good. This one is up there with MMoore's and leo doc, thanks.

just found this!

what a great read! i read urs and mooremoneys this week

now i have to go back to make up fr 5 days of missed work


tks!

Did my 4 or so hours of reading this and I applaud you for this! The info. is very in depth for the 6 days that you survived. What ever happened to this last year (2011)? No such luck in the Satellites?
Thanks