went to the Bellagio friday 9am to play satelite for 2pm $1000 tourny.entry fee is $240 top 2 make it and get $60 cash.I MADE IT! had some time to kill so i walked over to Alladin for some 1/2 nl.played a while nothing playable lost $35.back to Bellagio for tourny,very good game ,stiff competition,the guy 2 to my left has a bracelet.i played a very good game went out in 20th place.not bad considering this was my first big tourny.there were 86 players 30 large to win top 9 in the money.....so close.on saturday went to Excalibur played 1/3 nl for an hour and cashed out up $113.that was it for me in vegas main reason of playing tourny was to see how i stacked up.now i can go to foxwoods and play 3 satelites to hopefully win my way into november WPT event.