...just so you know. We got here on Saturday evening. I'm staying with my friend Philipp who qualified through 888 for the main event. Our room is pretty balling. Here are some pictures (we have three flat screens 19", 40" and 32").
hallway

bathroom

phil

main room lcds

phil + bed

waiting list from the venetian in the room


So far we haven't done a whole lot. We've been to some restaurants around the Palazzo. We tried to go out yesterday, because it was independence day, but somehow we couldn't make anything happen. So we just ended up walking around the strip a little bit.
Tonight we are going to 888's vip party and then will probably hit up some places with some other poker players from 888 I could imagine.
So far I've been playing some 10/20 and 5/10 cash games, I don't have any plans of playing tournaments. I feel like they're a lot of regs in the cash games, but they lack a deeper understanding of the game and they play very deep so you can still have a reasonable edge on them even when you're playing in a game full of cash game regs, but you can hardly compare hourlies to online. A decent 1/2 reg makes more an hour than a 5/10 reg live. 25% rakeback in the Venetian is pretty neat though.
This year I actually wired money to the casino to play. It's kinda neat, because you don't have to carry around cash and it only took three days from Europe which is sweet aswell. The fees weren't too bad, but I always feel like I'm getting charged hidden costs somewhere. I think the banks don't give you the proper exchange rates. The Venetian claimed that they didn't charge me for my wire.
Anyways I'll update you guys if anything eventful happens.

Daniell