(Ken Light, a Rutgers University graduate student, is in Las Vegas to compete as the first amateur ever on NBC’s Poker After Dark show, hosted by Shana Hiatt. Follow his blog entries through Monday’s tournament, exclusively at luckydogpoker.com.)
By KEN LIGHT
LAS VEGAS — Today’s the day and I’m not nervous anymore. I wasn’t very nervous yesterday either.
I’m just flat out looking forward to going down and playing some poker with these guys. It makes me excited to think about them on their way over here, maybe driving here even as I write this, or at least getting ready to be on TV just like I am.
I’m going through a million things in my head, though, like how much I’ll talk to them, how much they’ll talk to me, how I’ll handle a big pair early, if I’ll go over to the bar and talk to Shana like some players do, and if I do what on earth I’ll say.
I’ll probably get extremely nervous right before the cards start flying. This is what happens when I have to give talks at scientific conferences as well. I’m not nervous before the talk until the guy before me is finishing up and I start panicking, hoping that a fire will break out or they’ll have left me off the list and I won’t have to talk or something will save me. Then I get up there and about one sentence in I relax and I’m fine.
Ozzy Osbourne once said that the concert he’s not nervous before will be his last, so I think I’ll be OK.
More to come later, although I can’t give actual results on here. I’ll try to talk about hands, the experience, and just generally make it the best read of the series.
Stay tuned!
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