In seven days I will be packing up my jeep and making the drive from North Carolina to Las Vegas. If all goes as planned I will arrive just in time to pick up bigdogpckt5s at the airport. We'll head over and move in to our new house for the summer before going back to the airport to pick up aznAllin007 and DannyN13. I suspect we'll be having In N Out Burger for dinner!

The grind starts the very next day with the first $400 Venetian Deepstack event. Hopefully one or more of us can make a nice run in that and get the summer off to a good start. My basic schedule is all set and I'll be playing at least 15 events with a few more likely sprinkled in, but I really wanted to set aside time to get a lot of marketing done this summer, so I left plenty of days off in my schedule.

I plan to give plenty of updates on the trip across the country via Twitter and might even try and knock out a few vlogs along the way so make sure you follow along!

Good luck to everyone else making the trip! Hope to see all of you at the tables soon!

I've recovered from my trip to Atlantic City for the World Series of Poker Circuit Event at Casesars. Had an amazing time hanging with the crew up there! Several of us made nice runs and cashes in tournaments, which was great to see. And, of course, it was a blast railing those guys.

While I had an amazing time, poker could have been better. I think all of my big hands and bust out spots were pretty standard. I made my deepest run in Day 1B of Event 2. I managed to work my stack up to $27K at 600/1200 which was a workable stack at that point, but then I lost two really crucial flips. One where I opened from MP with AJdd and an 8bb stack shoved with 66. Lost that flip. Then lost 88 to AK a short time later to cripple me.

All in all, I am happy with how I played though and was stoked that some other guys had a bit of success.

Going to spend the rest of March grinding Poker Maximus, and then am going to take it kind of easy on the poker front until I leave for Las Vegas on May 25th to spend the summer out there for the WSOP.

Good luck to everyone else grinding Maximus!!

On March 2nd myself and a bunch of friends (bigdogpckt5s, RonFezBuddy, TTwist, Cougars4444, etc) are heading to Atlantic City to play a couple of World Series of Poker Circuit Events. Should be a fun time, so if you are heading up there towards the beginning of the series, make sure that you say hello.

I'm also super busy gearing up for this summer's World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. We have the house booked that we will be living in for the summer. We decided to get a place with a pool this year, so should make for some good parties and BBQs. Looking forward to grinding a bunch of Venetian Deepstack events and some WSOP events. Probably mix in a few Caesars events as well. It should be a fun summer as I'll be living with Bigdog, Marc Alioto, DannyN13 and Cougars4444. Always a good time with those dudes.

Would be great to meet more P5ers this year, so if you are going to be out there for the summer, say what's up.

in the meantime, make sure you are following me on Twitter @derektenbusch as I will be tweeting updates from the circuit event in March and of course all summer long in Las Vegas.

Until next time,

KB