Addicted

WARNING: Little poker content

It's 12:30am the day of the big day and I'm here updating the blog because I found out I actually have wireless internet access from the hotel room. Speaking of the hotel, it's huge, has a mind blowing aquarium, beautiful weather and people, and food is really really expensive here. Although after spending some time here, the $9 USD I paid for coffee, juice and a danish seemed like a real bargain. The main thing that blew me away was that the restaurant we had dinner at tonight had not just one, but a page full of wines over $10,000 per bottle.

PokerStars has really treated the player very well. They threw a great cocktail party the night before to open things up, and when we got back to our rooms we found a huge tote bag crammed full of goodies for everyone. Who knew they made a PokerStars teddy bear or PokerStars luggage tags? They've even embroidered our names on the bag.. luckily real names, but screen names.

On to poker.. the first night was super satellite night, where people could enter a tournament that would pay out entries into the WPT tournament. It was $200 plus rebuys and it was somewhat of a surprise to me that the room was almost full of super sat players. They ended up payig 17 seats - so over $136,000 in the pool for a super sat. Not bad. Other cash games and small tournaments started up, but I vowed not to play until the big event to keep myself from tilting before I even started.

Apparently there was a big pent up demand for poker from hundreds of internet starved players. Later on that night, when I was walking back to my room, I passed by a bar where they had wireless coverage. It was full of glowing laptops, more often then not open to PokerStars or Party Poker. Should I have expected any less?

Today I played poker groupie and hung around the room to get a feel of what was going on. I managed to recognize quite a few pros playing today - John Juanda, Moneymaker, Raymer, Kathy Liebert, Hoyt Corkins, Dewey Tomko. Managed to get a few pics without making myself look like too much of a dork. I spent most of my time wandering around the resort and eating, so for real poker updates, see the official blog: http://caribbeanpokeradventure.blogspot.com

Enough for tonight, I'll try to keep everyone posted tomorrow.