Vegas: 2015
Business in 2015 has been absolutely booming, so unfortunately I have not had the time to put on our usual Simone Team Poker promotion. I did manage to get away to Vegas with my guest Mark Thompson (ID: MarkT123). We both had a great time in Vegas and did reasonably well in the WSOP event. I lasted about 7.5 hours before getting knocked out, and I believe Mark made it to about hour 10. Neither of us made it to the money in that event, but fun none-the-less.
I did manage to redeem myself from my last visit to Vegas for the WSOP. During that trip, I played in one of the Rio's nightly deepstack tournaments with over 1300 players, got to the final table as the chip leader(!), but ended up busting out a very disappointing 8th place... During this recent trip after getting knocked out of the $1500 WSOP event after 7.5 hours I decided to get into the 6pm $185 deepstack tourney with over 700 players. To make a long story short, I managed to once again get to the final table! This time, I was determined to hang in there and do better than last time. I had an average sized stack and managed to battle for quite a while. After playing for 13.5hrs in this tournament I was finally head's up! The other player knocked out the 3rd place finisher and had a ~2.5:1 chip lead over me. After playing a couple hands head's up we decided to basically chop the 1st and 2nd place prizes (a very nice $15,000 win!). After 21hrs of playing poker it was finally time for bed! A great finish to a very long day...