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Well, Paul and I arrived in Vegas on Wednesday and were actually a little worse for wear after landing. I guess flying halfway around the world can have that affect on the body. The flight from Brisbane to Los Angeles, then through to Las Vegas took around 18 hours.

The first event on the calender was the party we hosted for all the Poker.com WSOP seat winners. The location was the world renowned Bellagio Hotel and Casino, which provided the perfect background for a poker themed party.

Both Paul and I had a great night meeting all of the players over some relaxing drinks, it was great to finally meet some of the people behind the Poker.com nicknames.

Unfortunately the team couldn't party all night as the first day of the Main Event was less than 12 hours away! Of course, not everyone had to play on Day 1A, so some of us stayed out after the party. As the porter said when we arrived, "No one sleeps in Vegas baby" so we kicked on!

So what's the next best thing to playing the WSOP Main Event? Playing in any one of many Vegas poker rooms to get a little practice in. For some of our players this meant their first 'live action' poker before making their WSOP debut.

Paul and I watched for a little while and saw a few famous faces in the Bellagio High Stakes room, including our favorite player of the week, Minh Ly. We were tempted to join the action, but once we saw the 3 hour waiting list for the $2/$5 NL Hold'em, we decided to call it a night and went to bed.

[Photo Caption: 9PM at the Poker.com WSOP Main Event Winner's Party - Just some of the faces we can now put to the nicknames at Poker.com: sliekas (Illinois), mazzawi (Canada), cashflow5 (Colorado), MsRounders (Florida), PiggyMcPig (Tennessee), brian41683 (Massachusetts), Dragons (Kentucky) WSOP 2006 ]

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