MORE 2005 WORLD SERIES OF POKER + DR. PAULY PHOTOS

Dr Pauly poses with fan at the 2005 WSOP Show.

We enjoyed the coolest high temperature ever for this date. The high was 85 degrees and that was at 4:00 am. Most of today has been down right sweater weather, under eighty degrees, cloudy and rainy…more like our Christmas weather. What a city. We hit the record highest temperature ever recorded in Vegas; then we set an all-time low temp for August, all within a span of a few days.

The good Dr. Pauly will be on the road soon, taking some needed time away from Las Vegas and checking out the action back east. He will continue to provide readers with his trademark live blogging of major poker events. We certainly had our share of adventures, drama, excitement and chronic fatigue as a result of our constant live coverage of the 2005 WSOP. Pauly and I would cover the different events with each of us on the floor walking, talking, watching, chasing leads, visiting with the pros, listening to the gossip, working the trade show, interviewing and the number one thing we did, listen to bad beat stories, thousands of bad beat stories. I was straddled with pounds of cameras and lenses filling gigs of flash cards; while Pauly was weighted down with pounds of laptops, cables, recorders and air-cards he used to provide the readers with live news as it was happening.

We developed a routine that produced an end product of instant, accurate accounts, complete with photographs, of all the 2005 World Series of Poker’s forty-four events. We typically worked a twelve hour plus day at the Rio Resort, and then we would head home so Pauly could write the event article and I could process the images for publication in the blog articles and galleries. In addition to all this, Pauly was writing for Poker Player Newspaper (online and print), FOXSports, Tao of Poker and many of the other outlets of his work. We believe we provided some of the best coverage for this year’s “big show” and we are quite proud of our efforts. Thanks to the many readers that sent emails we know that our stuff was well received. We are already planning our future coverage enriched with the incorporation of some of our reader’s suggestions and ideas for improved tournament coverage. Least we forget, The Poker Prof was the director of this show giving directions and providing the technical expertise and resources needed to get the information to all of our visitors. We also wish to think all of you for visiting and supporting our advertisers.

We learned a great deal during the month and a half of the WSOP followed by the Ultimate Poker Challenge and the Bellagio Challenge Cup. We learned that it becomes difficult to continue to provide quality content with no days off and little to no sleep. This is especially true during the latter days of the long tournaments so this will also be an area of future improvement.

I decided to provide some of the photographs I shot of Dr. Pauly during the months he lived in Las Vegas. He got to do some cool stuff during his stay and the pics are a reminder that covering poker can be a lot of fun. I am looking forward to the next gig for us.

Thanks Dr. Pauly for a job well done!