I have been dabbling with the idea and perceived burden of doing a trip report as this will be my first poker-centric trip to LV. I have previously been to vegas 6-7 times with some of my absolute best friends but we more or less drank for 5 days/nights straight and I paid little mind to poker. This trip is going to be a lot different as I am spending the next 5 days more or less as a business trip as I always treat every poker trip or session I play. I do not play the game full time but spend a lot of time on the felt and take the game and meta game very seriously. After persuading my wife and bribing her with $500 worth of Torrey Birch Sandals and random crap from Bloomingdales I received the green light. Needless to say I booked my flight that night and couldn't be more excited to grind away the week. I will be heading out with a solid group of poker buddies and will be playing a mix of 2/5 and 5/10 NL. I can't say for sure how often I will be updating or how solid of a trip report this will be and I can also assure you I won't be wanting to talk much hand analysis on this report but if your looking for some session reports, chipporn, and maybe a sweat in an MTT then feel free to read along. That's all for now... currently on my way to the airport let's make some 💰

So it has come to my attention that the only way i can post Pictures to this thread is by uploading them to a computer first. Is there any possible way I can upload pictures from my iPhone directly to this thread? I do not have my laptop on this trip with me and any trip report without pictures would be pretty much useless as I didn't want to make this TR about hand analysis. Unfortunately if I cannot upload pictures from my iPhone I will just have a mod close this thread so as though I don't waste people's time... sucks as I was actually looking forward to doing my first TR ever.

Tapatalk. Also there’s a photo uploading tutorial thread somewhere on this site.

Get the Imgur app, then copy/paste the direct [img] line should do it. See this post for more info

Okay so I downloaded TapaTalk this is just a test to see if I can contribute to the thread through this Application here and post images and updates of my TR.


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So it Looks like it worked and we we are in business! Thanks for the direction guys I appreciate it. So long story short I arrived in LV with my buddy around 2pm yesterday. We linked up with a couple other poker buddies and headed to grab some lunch. I then headed over to the WSOP room to see the gorgeous pavilion room with cash games running hence the sarcasm as the room imo is not exactly as welcoming for cash and comfortable as others on the strip. Ran a 2 hour session in juat to kind of get the experience of playing in the room but won't be returning there for cash.
Around 10 PM headed back to Aria to grind 2/5 NL for the evening bought in the max 1k and ran up the following stack in the span of 5 hours before hitting the hotel room as I had been up 24 hours straight from traveling. Games at Aria were very good last night and this will be one room I plan to play a lot on this trip. Oh and yea I posted the obligatory "shoe" picture as everyone else does. I am glad I will be able to follow up here now that I can post pictures day 1 we logged 7 hours at 2/5NL for a + 2500 day...Let's keep this ball moving in the right direction!

Good luck buddy - the poker pic looks great. Those shoes though - wow.

Thanks bud maybe if I scoop enough this trip I can buy another pair...and ship them out to you haha

I generally play 1-2 MTTs a year as I grind cash regularly when I get the time to play... With that being said this may and probably will be the only MTT I fire during this trip... it's kind of a hybrid which I like... venetian $1,100 progressive Bounty with a 300k Guarantee.... Let's get it... also a couple pictures of the Sands Expo Center which is where all the venetian Deepstack MTTs are being played this year from my understand.








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First break about 13K from 15K starting stack...




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If you run well in them then send me two pair. And holy hell is that a basement?

I see you found their parking garage.

Sure does look like a basement but if it pays out I'll have no complaints that's for sure

Dinner break of Venetian $1,100 Bounty 57 left waiting for payouts as they should be posted when I return from dinner break.... had a big hold with 10 10 vs Ax Qx for a double late last level... have about 43K coming back to 1K-2K 300 ante let's Spin this up... side note I have collected a whopping ZERO bounties thus far




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Duuuuuuuuuude Those shoes....

Burn them and go barefoot at the very least. Or do you wear them to make it a challenge to pick up girls

Are you a "libertarian?"

Blahhhh 24th/274 couldn't really get a lot going all day but first ever MTT played in Vegas and I cash on 1 bullet so I'll take it




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Not bad. Keep it up.

What Are Thooooose!

Since my shoes are getting so much love I'll post a couple more for all of you to indulge... you can find them at Kenneth Cole... should I just leveling everyone and instead of posting chip pics just start posting my shoes from here on out?

As far as today's poker schedule goes I have a piece of my buddy in the 1K BB ante WSOP event which starts in 30 minutes and I am unsure I was planning on MAYBE playing but but might just grind cash all day we shall see hopefully we will have a picture of heaps posted by this evening.




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In for shoe pics.

Well we decided screw it let's take a rip at this WSOP 1K BB ante event... Side note very first hand I ever play of a WSOP MTT event Kh Ks.... 50/100 blinds no ante... raise to 325 get 5 callers flop Qh Qs 2x checks through turn As... needless to say KK got ugly fortunately just lost my preflop open... let's find lightning in a bottom






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Heading Back after second break with 11,600 blinds at 300/600 ante 600




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Dudes giving grief about those shoes are flip flop and croc wearers so consider it a compliment.


How about a pic of them on the poker table next to your chips?

Hahahah No doubt I have thick skin I'm not worried about anyone playfully trolling. me scooping a pot with a snapshot of my shoe on the table would be pretty much epic.