Heh, thanks. I’m looking forward to sharing them!

Thanks, Pie. In past years I’ve kept a notebook where I record key hands and observations, but I didn’t this year, and I don’t feel like the writing suffered too much because of it. There’s really only a few key hands that I need to recall, and those tend to be etched in my mind for better or worse.

To be honest, though, I do fudge some of it. Especially if it’s unimportant information like which suit a card was (if it doesn’t make a flush at least possible then it doesn’t matter) then I may just make something up for the sake of retelling a more detailed and coherent story. And then there are probably some details that I think I remember but have in fact gotten wrong. You learn to sort through the information. I won’t remember a lot of the standard or straightforward things that a player does, but I will usually recall if he plays a hand strangely or shows down a big bluff or something like that.

As for the editing, I guess it’s a compliment to me that my stuff doesn’t get aggressively edited. The 2+2 article is adapted from e-mails I was sending to family and friends during the event. Many of them aren’t poker players, so I had to add in a lot of details for the 2+2 audience, which is probably what resulted in a higher-than-average number of typos and errors. I’ll try to be more mindful of that for Part 2, thanks for the feedback.

I am always curious how poker players recall their hands when they play so many in a day. Some players (Bernard Lee) claim to write down every single hand but others claim not to take any notes. Knowing you are going to be blogging and writing about the Main Event, do you take notes beyond what you would do for your own poker improvement?

I know I’m a douchebag for asking this, but doesn’t 2+2 have an editor? I saw several missing words in the online article; stuff that rarely if ever is found on your blog.