["Vegas on $2,000 a Day" is be a series of features on personal experiences at the World Series of Poker, offering (a) information and insight to those traveling to Vegas during the Series; (b) a "virtual experience" for those who won't be able to make it; and (c) entertainment at my expense, because it appears I have hooked up with, for the second year running, a landlady who wants to kill me. Read on!]
Tuesday, May 26, 10:40 AM
BOULDER CITY, NEVADA – The World Series hasn’t started yet. I haven’t even made it inside the Las Vegas city limits. Nevertheless, I am physically and mentally wiped out. It’s appropriate that my audio companion, Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, is about the world’s most gruelling footrace. (Excellent audiobook, by the way; probably the only thing to keep me from completely chucking my sanity and pitching my Mercedes over a guardrail into the Hoover Dam.) I’ve been awake for 26 hours, driven 400 miles, and am about to arrive at a destination that I currently have no means to enter.
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