Sub-Zero

Yep! Left today or is leaving today.

I wish I was in town tonight I would throw a party for the returning Champion.

Even if you didn't win the big bucks, you are still a winner to us.

ATOice

Rob, keep your head up! No shame in going in on a good hand.

You could have done it seven-deuce off, and I may slap you.

Good job!

spoonsports2k

good job buddy

Basement06

Gratz on a good run...tough way to lose, but that's why they call it poker!

ITBs2k

I wish I was there. Congrats on gettin that far Rob.

PrimoGen

I am working on a nice written story to post up to update you guys.

Thanks to everyone for rooting for me and all of the support. it was THE most incredible trip of my life. I learned a lot about myself this weekend. Even though I did not make the cash bubble on this trip. I made it to the top 30 % of the playing field over the first 4 days, outlasting thousands of people (including most of the pros and celebrities).

I am not bragging...more just making myself feel better but I am SO glad I was blessed with this opportunity. I am 30000% more confident in my abilities and i plan on entering again next year (now accepting sponsorships )


Huge update (much reading) coming soon ASAP. for those interested enough to read it

here is me contemplating my next move during the first hour of day one ( at this point I only had about 15 more hours of tournament play left) HAHAHA:

LOOKING GOOD....

LS-1

That pic is sick Primo, i love the WSOP branding in the table, that makes it so much better. Well done sir.

PrimoGen

6+ hours in a plane sucks, there is no getting around that. Trae (a good friend of mine) and I boarded our flight bound for Las Vegas, around 7am after getting to the airport early enough to secure the front of the line for boarding group A on Southwest. Trae wanted to make sure to get the emergency exit seat over the wing so he could have the extra room of not having a seat in front of him. A smart move on his part but it meant a lot of extra time at the airport and getting up around 4am that morning so it was an early start for what would be the first of many long days and nights.

We are off to Vegas Baby!!

We land around 11am Vegas time after spending almost three hours in flight on both legs of our trip. We had a same plane layover in Kansas City before arriving in Vegas. Our plane lands and the firs thing I notice is the weather. It is nearly 114 degrees but it feels like 90 since there is ZERO humidity. The thing that is weird about that kind of heat is when the wind blows across your face it feels HOT like it is coming out of a heater at you. It is quite oppressive but different from our oppressive weather here in Florida. Our weather weighs you down and you sweat like there is no tomorrow, out in Vegas you evaporate your sweat instantly and it does not feeling like you are dying directly but in reality you are. We hydrate every time we see refreshments from this point on through our journey.

My stepfather meets us at the airport and gets us to the hotel and we attempt to check in. Too early for check in so we decide to finish my registration at the Rio. Josh (RXDI) tried to remind me to find the entrance to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) that is separate from the formal casino, before I go in with good reason. I did not remember to think of that advice and spent the next 45 minutes walking through/around/up/down this casino looking for the WSOP area. It was held in the conventions area adjacent to the hotel/casino and if you enter at the grand entrance at the front of the property you are in for about 2 miles of dodging retirees, cocktail waitress and a sundry of other types trying to find where you are going.

Vegas Disclaimer: I have never been here before but I have been to various other casino locations. Biloxi, Nawlins, and other reservation casinos all over the country. They aint

PrimoGen

Small blind raises me all-in, knowing I am overly crippled by my chip count. I call by holding my 400 in chips high over the table and splashing the pot. He turns over AQ and I sheepishly turn over my big slick and they hold up. I DOUBLE UP with a round of applause by the people in the spectator areas behind my table. Over the next 40 mins I play the best/luckiest poker of my life. I double up again and win large pots by betting hard and going all in several more times. I need to get to at least 40K or more to be effective on day 2 and there are players at my table with close to 90 and 100K. the blinds and ante on day two will start at 600-1200 with 200 antes and I would not last long with less than 20K. I work and work and work and turn my last 400 chips into 25K again and I now have a crowd of people behind me, chattering to each other about my huge comeback. No cameras for some strange reason though. Maybe there was not enough noise being made or the fact no pros or celebs were involved, who knows, oh well.

The time clock is down to 1:30 left in play. If I fold my last hand I will have enough chips to obviously sit for day two but not enough to be effective IMHO and (in hindsight) the stress and fatigue of the day is getting to me.

I look down at AJ off suit. Keep in mind I have tremendous table presence. I have risked my tourney life several times at this point on quality hands and won. I have respect from everyone at the table except this one guy who kneecapped me earlier getting most of my chips before dinner.

He leads out with a raise of 3500. I re-raise to 8000 which has told everyone in the past that I have a serious hand. I am looking to double up again and the rest of the table knows it. He calls and the flop comes A58 rainbow (3 suits). He checks to me and before his signal to check is even completed I say ALL-IN. I stare him right in the face and wait, and wait, and wait. The time clock has now run out but we must finish the hand. I had the option to call time on him and force him to make a decision within another minute but I am not that way (maybe I should have been).

I decide to mess with him as much as I can. Earlier in the evening he folded to me on a big hand when I encouraged him to call me with MY chips. I now said

RadioZero

thanks for the blog entry, very nice. congrats!