Letter from Doke 4th July 2011

Hi,

Doke here again. I'm still in Las Vegas at the WSOP.

Since the last letter I played two more bracelet events, a midweek 1500, and a weekend 1k. I ran pretty badly in the 1500 and exited late on day1. By contrast, I ran very well in the 1k, finishing day 1A with three times the average, and 5th in chips overall. We're back tomorrow (Monday, 10.30 PM Irish time) and I'm hoping to kick on and get a deep run. I have problems tweeting from here but will try to keep any of you who are interested updated on Twitter and Facebook.

In between those two events, I headed downtown to Binions (the spiritual home of holdem, where the WSOP was born) for their main event. Once again I put together a stack early on only to see it disappear in level 12 about 30 from the bubble, losing a 70/30. Downtown Las Vegas is quite an experience, more down to earth than the
sanitised tourist trap that is the Strip.

All work and no play makes Doke a pretty crabby person so I've also done quite a bit of socialising this week. The highlight was Neil Channing inviting me along to a barbeque in his Vegas mansion. The guest list read like a who's who of UK and French poker: Neil knows how to look after people.

A quorum is also now forming most nights at the traditional Irish watering hole in the Rio, Shutters bar. Las Vegas is somewhere it's only too easy to overdo the partying and drinking though, so I'm trying not to do that so to be focused for the main event which starts next Friday. I'm playing day 1A.

My son Paddy is arriving here in a few hours to keep me company for my last couple of weeks here. It's his first time in Vegas so hopefully he'll enjoy it, aside from having to listen to the old man complaining about beats.

Good luck at the tables - unless I'm at the same table :)

Doke
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Keep up to date on how I'm getting on in Vegas on my blog
(http://dokearney.blogspot.com/) and on Twitter (daraokearney).

For details on all Irish Eyes Poker promotions in July, including:

Iron Man Dublin Promotion (€20,000)
Summer Freerolls (€46,500)
July VIP Matrix Promotion

See http://www.irisheyespoker.com/en/Poker/Promotions/monthly-promotions.aspx