Ever wonder what it’s like to travel the live tournament circuit? Poker pro and ESPN’s Bernard Lee gives us this exclusive insight into the world of the live tournament scene as he travels from a WSOP Circuit Event (in which he finished in 3rd place) and just hours later travels to Foxwoods Casino to play in the World Poker Tour $10,000 event.
“Well, it’s been a crazy but great day. I just took third in the WSOP circuit $10k regional championship here in Hammond, Indiana… still the goal coming out here was to try to get the seat into the freeroll $1 million invitational in May and mission accomplished… we’ll see what happens there. But now the race is on to get back to Foxwoods to play in the ten thousand dollar WPT Main Event there.”
The video starts with Lee recapping what happened in Hammond at the WSOP $10k circuit event and explaining he will only get a few hours sleep until he has to get to Chicago to catch a plane, without knowing how he’s going to get to the airport to Foxwoods.
“We have some work to do to get on a plane tomorrow morning. As you can see it is 12:24 am on Central time. I got to get on the computer, figure out my fight, figure out how I am going to get from the airport over there [Foxwoods].”
The next scene shows Lee waking up at 3:45am which is barely enough time for him to run from the hotel to catch his plane. From there we see his whirlwind adventure take him to the airport where he checks in from the plane prior to take-off. From there he catches a ride from the airport to Foxwoods, and finally, checks in just moments before playing in the $10k event which is slated to start just minutes after his arrival.
Bernard Lee is a professional poker player who has two deep runs in the World Series of Poker Main Event to his name. He is also a columnist here at Poker News Daily and at ESPN.com and can be seen on the ESPN web show “The Inside Deal”.