The Vegas Summer Begins

Save for Later

Waking up at 6:30 am was not how I planned for the summer to begin, but since I did, I figured I might as well start things off in a productive fashion and get a blog post done.

I arrived at the TPE house at 2 PM yesterday.  Cougars and Bigdog had already arrived and had pizza waiting for me.  The house we are staying at is really nice.  5 bedrooms and plenty of "living area" to hang.  We also have a pretty sick game room with a pool table, blackjack table and a big 50" television.  I suspect we'll be spending some quality time in there…but lord willing I won't be losing any money to bigdog in pool.  I'll get a video tour of the house up in the near future so you can see how team TPE is living for the summer.

We pretty much just hung out and got situated on night one.  Bigdog and I ordered up some In N Out Burger which we ate while he casually shipped another $250 heads up SNG on Lock Poker.  It had been a long travel day and we both crashed early.  Cougars went out to meet up with some friends but I think even he was back pretty early and resting up for todays grind.

All three of us are playing the Venetian $560 today at noon.  We start with 15K in chips, so there should be some good play early.  I'm interested to see what kind of field they draw and what the competition is like.  I suspect there will be a combination of pretty bad players mixed with some good internet kids playing this since the WSOP has not really kicked off yet.

All three of us will be updating via Twitter, so make sure you are following along:

http://www.twitter.com/derektenbusch

http://www.twitter.com/bigdogpckt5s

http://www.twitter.com/cougars4444

Hagbard Celine will be arriving tomorrow and the rest of the guys shortly thereafter, so it won't be long before we have a full house.  Everyone seems to be in great spirits and primed for a bunch of deep runs.  I really feel like someone in the house is going to do something big this summer.  We'll do out best to ship something for the TPE nation!!  Thanks for all the support and words of encouragement leading in to the series…it means alot!

Let's go!