WSOP - Part II

The following is Part II of the Yellow Knight's epic journey to the World Series of Poker.

So what does $10k get you at the World Series of Poker? It gets you a chair, a stack of chips with no monetary value, and a elevated sense of hope that you will become a millionaire in a week and a half. Conversations at the table ranged from how much money is expected to be paid, and to which celebrities they have seen so far.

Without going into details of my poker playing, lets just say that however well you play, ultimately it comes down to is luck. I definitely felt I played very well, but to win a large tournament like that comes down to how the cards fall into play. At one point during my two day play, I had a very comfortable sized stack, but I had to accumulate or inflation will catch up with me. I lost on my second day of play with an unfortunate matchup with someone who caught his miracle card on the river.

Placing in an event like that out of the money makes you wonder what you could of done with $10K. Although I didn't really put that money out of my own pocket, it would of been nice to have spent some of it. Ultimately it was an investment into an opportunity to possibly make a six to seven figure payout, but I will never see any of that unfortunately.

So after losing an major poker event like that, what does one do? I went out and had a nice steak dinner, went to walk around the other casinos to see if anything was going, and I played a little poker in the casino tables. I decided not to stay any longer as I would be tempted to play more poker than I had intended. So I flew out the very next morning and came back to Texas.
Would I do it all over again? Maybe, depending on how good a year it has been for me. But it was an amazing experience nonetheless to part of something that huge. My goal is to just make enough to get me through grad school. Anyways, enough about me. I'm going to get back to work now.