So if you've never cashed in a major event before, here's what happens.
1. Dealer yells out to get floor's attention, and you have to stand at your seat until they get there.
2. Floor calls it in on the walkie, and you stay there another minute until somebody else comes over and hands you a ticket with your place.
3. Then they lead you to the edge of the room to the first of many people that will ask for your total rewards card and id. They enter your name into the system.
4. Then they point you all the way across the giant ballroom and tell you to head that way and into the room across the hall.
5. When you get there, they ask again for your id and total rewards card and again type a bunch of stuff into the system.
6. Meanwhile, if you're anything like me, you are still kind of in a
complete daze as all this happens. You're sort of floating around still replaying the hand in your head, not entirely sure what's going on or what's next.
7. I don't know if they train the people in this room that the players coming to them are likely to be in a daze, and its part of their job to try and snap people out of it, but the guy typing my info into the computer keeps trying to talk to me even but I'm just staring off into space. All sorts of random crap like he's a barber or taxi driver or something.
8. Finally he leads you over to the other side of that room to the cage, where I think I had to show my ID again but I'm not sure.
9. Then that person finally gives you the money.
10. Now what?
11. Seriously, that's the next step - what do you do now? I have cash in hand, but it still hasn't really completely sunk in that I'm out. And I have absolutely no plan for what I was going to do with the rest of the night after the tournament.
I know I should be ecstatic at a great run - but I am mainly just bummed out right now.
I just head outside and open up my phone to grab a lyft back downtown.