If anyone cared, they'd probably already realised that I'm not soliciting any poker sponsorship for my upcoming Vegas trip. It's a bit late now at T minus 2, but - amazingly - leaving everything until the last minute isn't the reason.
In fact I'm actually quite organised for this trip. I already had the "oh shit where's my passport" panic earlier in the week, and as long as I don't move it again in the meantime that should be that.
There are just no poker tournaments of note going on in Vegas during the very quiet Christmas period or over insanely busy New Year weekend, so there's nothing to get excited enough about to get anyone else involved.
Last December I got to play in the Ultimate Poker Challenge which kept on running weekly throughout the holidays, despite getting only 36 runners for a $660 tournament in Christmas week. Six players got on TV, but only four got paid. I'd love to be doing that again, especially with those great odds of televised glory. After seeing that disgraceful turnout though, I'm not surprised that there's nothing special going on at this time of year.
Tournament-wise I do want to play at least one of the midday deep stack events at Venetian ($540 Saturdays, $145 every other day) which should be handy the first three days when we're staying next door at Casino Royale and I'm still too jetlagged to play well at night. Otherwise, I'm just going to play it by ear. The last few weeks playing online I've flitted between fixed limit and no limit, so I really don't know yet what will take my fancy.
Don't worry though. I'll be pimping myself out again to try to win as many people as possible their money back - or even a small profit this time - in 2008. Stay tuned.
