Come with me to The Venetian in Las Vegas for a $600 buy-in tournament with a $150,000 guarantee — and yes, I’m breaking down the strategy as we go. One of the biggest themes in this vlog is the late-reg vs. start-on-time debate. My take: if you think you have an edge (especially in lower buy-ins with lots of recreational players firing early), you want to be in there from the start. But if you don’t think you have much of an edge in a tougher field, there can be real value in coming in later. You’ll see me navigate early-level chaos (including me admitting I can get a little “crazy” too), then we pause to review key hands. I break down a spot where I flopped a flush draw, turned the flush, value-bet river, and got raised — and I want you thinking about whether that’s a crying call or a disciplined fold. Then I show a check-raise bluff line with 8♠7♥-type equity where I apply pressure and pick up the pot on the turn, because aggression wins in poker. It’s a real-life tournament session: table changes, stack swings, and the honest reality that sometimes you play solid and still end up in the tartar sauce.