[Scooterdoo]

Arrived in Vegas early afternoon and headed to the Rio about 5pm. Lucky for me I took several people's advise on this forum and pre-registered and sent my money for the the first two events ($1,500 NL tomorrow and $1500 pot limit on Sat) prior to coming. There was no line at the will call desk to pick up my table assignments but the line to register in person for tomorrow's tournament was about 3 hours. Last I heard they are up to 1800 people and expect it to sell out. In fact I heard a rumor that they will be taking a few hundred alternates. I also heard that the tournament might now last over 3 days. We'll see.

It does seem to be fairly well organized. The lines for the sats were pretty short; I played in 4 $175 sats the most of the lines were only a few minutes -- once I waited for about 10.

Results:

first 1 table: got down to final 3 with blinds at 300/600 and all of us essentially equal we decided to split it -- 540 each. Okay, not a bad start.

Second 1 table: lost in first level, $175 + $50 last longer. I was still in my very loose mode from the prior end of the other sat so I made a pretty stupid call late in the first round with an A weak kicker and a flop of Axx.

Third Sat: $175, won it. Did a $200 save with the other two guys when we were 3 way, so I won $1620 - $400 for $1200. Plus we had a $50 5-way last longer and I split it when we had 2 left.

Fourth $175: won a 6-way $100 last longer for a nice $500 profit. Got heads-up with a guy who really didn't know how to play heads-up (he was playing for good cards and seemed to be folding much too much). He was practically begging for a split when we were 50/50. Once I got to 70/30 with 300/600 blinds he suggested a 65/35 split. I didn't want to, but I had a bad feeling that it would come back to haunt me (even though I felt I was much better) and I wanted to end the night on a good note. So I now have 6 $500 tournament chips and I did net just under $3,000. Not bad for day one!

I have sossman's cell and tried calling him around 9pm. He had just arrived at the airport and was heading over to the Rio to signup for tomorrow. Hopefully he gets in... I do think there's still room.

I look forward to hooking up with some of the other guys tomorrow. If anyone at the WSOP is reading this we're meeting at Starbucks at 10:30am. I assume it's the one near the convention center and not the one in the main casino. We'll see. Be sure to send me a private message and we can exchange cell #'s. I'll check the forum prior to heading out in the am.

Good night!