The Worst Winner

For the best part of the last ten years, poker legend Daniel Negreanu has been documenting his annual WSOP grind through a series of daily vlogs. I have watched bits and pieces over the years but never really followed it fully. But this year, one of my friends was buying a piece of Dnegs world series action through the 'Pokerstake' site. A few of our poker grouped chipped in £50 each, having initially been sold the idea (by my friend) that a big win would equate to a five figure return for us. Alas, after a second look at the numbers, the decimal point moved a couple of places and actually it was highly unlikely we could win more the a couple of hundred pounds, realistically.  Unperturbed, I was invested and decided to follow along with Negreanu's world series vlogs for the summer. It's kind of amazing that not only does Daniel churn out these videos giving an real insight into the world of a top poker pro on a daily basis but also that he's been doing it for so lon...

I awoke at 4am, 3 weeks after winning a $3000 WSOP package with PKR. The alarm wasn't due to go off for another hour yet but clearly my first trip to Las Vegas had me buzzing in anticipation. Mrs Mack, was making the trip out with me, she's got no interest in poker but wasn't going to miss out on a holiday to Las Vegas. We arrived mid afternoon and it was hot, crazy hot, I can't stress that enough, it’s hot in Las Vegas. After a quick taxi ride we got checked into the Palazzo which is like the newer half of the Venetian hotel (you know the one with the gondolas) and headed up through the casino to our room. Although it was 4pm in Vegas, it would have been midnight back in the UK and having been awake since 4am, we just wanted to go to sleep. I have to say I was pretty envious of Mrs Mack at this point, while she got to relax in our lovely hotel suite, I was faced with heading back out for the PKR Welcome Party. While I would like to think I'm an affable kinda guy...