Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas – Day Zero

How cool is it. Wake up at 3 am, rush to the airport, and get on a plane for Las Vegas. It’s very cool. My plane touched down at 9:30 local time and I met up with James. We got a chauffeur to take us to the Rio, in a black Ford Cadillac Escalade. (Thanks James, you know how to ride in style)

Too bad the Rio was full the previous night, as there was no room at the inn (so to speak). We ended up pre-registering for our room and checking our luggage. We had brunch at the Saò Paulno, and I took advantage of that and had NY steak and eggs. Did I mention I hadn’t eaten since 8pm the previous night?

We were hoping to run into some people we knew but it was way too early. However, we did catch Shawn jogging by the restaurant.

We thought we’d catch up on some poker playin’ so we bought into a no limit Texas Holdem tournament. $70 for 3700 in chips. Hey, that’s over 70 big blinds. There was a three table max and we didn’t do so well. We had some fun, however, and soon after were up in our suite, where I took an hour nap. James woke me up and I thought I was still back home in my room. It was very disorienting.

We headed down stairs to the casino floor were we finally saw some friendly faces. James took a few of the fellas out for lunch to a great Italian joint called Cafe Martorano. It was a little scary because it was such a “romantic” setting, and there were us five guys. After 2½ hours, and full bellies we were finally ready for the charity poker tournament.

Which was a great success. I was knocked out at 34th place by “Carl” from the UK who “had to go” and pushed all in all the way to 2nd place. My friend Logan got 5th, and he’d never played before. Cool.