Congratulations Benton!

My buddy Benton won a $10,000 WSOP Main Event seat via Tropical Poker.

He accomplished this by almost outlasting a huge field of 19 players. Yes, you read it right. Talk about an overlay. 19 players. The buy in was a little over $200. He went out in 2nd place but the winner was "unable to meet eligibility requirements". My guess is that the winner was under 21 years of age.

Voila, a ticket to the big dance.

Benton, when you win, don't forget the little people you met along the way.
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There is a layer of smoke over the Las Vegas valley. The smoke caused the moon to look orange. This picture was taken on Tuesday night. It doesn't do justice to how strange it actually looked.

In a little over a week I will be headed to Alaska on a poker cruise. This will be my second poker cruise. The first one was in Feb 2005 to the Eastern Carribbean.

Who would have thought that dealing poker would have opened the door to cruises and Carribbean "vacations".

At the end of September I will be headed back to Aruba for the Ultimate Bet event.

It's a tough job, but someone has to do it. It might as well be me.