Upper West Side WSOP Through the Years

A long long time ago I played in a weekly card game at Columbia University on the upper west side of Manhattan.  That weekly game eventually spawned into a yearly trek to Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker where we would compete in our own tournament: The Upper West Side World Series of Poker (UWSWSOP).

Back then I and others used to chronicle our adventures on the usenet group rec.gambling.poker (RGP).  Here are some archived links to the trip reports I and others have posted through the years.

2001 : The innagural year.

2002 : The first ever UWSWSOP

2003: "Ten Days In The Desert"
Day One
Day Two (with an argument with Daniel Negreanu)
Day Three
Day Four
Day Five: The Matrix Has You
Day Six: Good Hand White Boy
Day Seven: Where the Sun Shines
Day Eight
Days Nine and Ten: Vegas is a Manhandler

2004 "This Time It's Personal"
Day One
Day Two: Walking Around Lucky
Day Three
Day Four: Advanced Strategy
Day Five: Without Lamps, There'd Be No Light
Day Six: Fitting Ending

2004 "The Jury Is Out" (By Josh)
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
Day Five

2005 "Ante Up"
Pregame
Day One
Day Two
Day Three and Four

2006 : The "Lost" Year. (No TR)

2007
Day One: Coming of Age in Las Vegas
Day Two: It's All Over but the Crying
Day Three: Back on Top



There haven't been any trip reports since 2007, but the UWS gang still goes to Vegas every summer to meet up, eat, gamble, and compete for the coveted UWSWSOP trophy.  The members of the group are getting older, fatter, bearing children and becoming responsible members of society now.  So there is no telling how many more years this trip will last.

I post these links here to inspire myself and the other members of the group to take a stab at writing more trip reports this year and going forward.