Being the center of gambling world (for now), Las Vegas exerts a pull on all gamblers. The pull is similar to gravity in that the more gamble in a person, the stronger the pull. 1100 miles away from me, thousands of people are making their pilgrimage to the yearly event that is the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Every poker player dreams of being at the (3 month delayed) final table of the Main Event, but to play in any event something that everyone schemes to do, even if just once just to say they were there. I was in LV for the first days of the main event back in 2006. Even though I was just a spectator, the experience was amazing. The site of the row upon row of poker tables in the Amazon Poker room was staggering.
Unable to attend, I'll have to live vicariously through the legion of bloggers who will be in attendance. Always a perennial favorite of mine is The Tao of Poker. Pauly's untiring capture of the less seen side of the WSOP is something to look forward to every day. It truly is the next best thing to being there. In fact, even if I was in LV at the WSOP I'd still read Tao of Poker just to know what I was missing.
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