It's fair to say her trip to the Bahamas hasn't gotten off to the best of starts for Alexandra Botez.
She almost missed her flight. She was coolered out of her first tournament. And — perhaps most unbelievably of all — she forgot to bring a chess board.
"One of my close friends is Dan Smith and at every event we get together to play chess for like five hours," she told PokerNews. "And we were going to do that this time. But I was so late to my flight and I almost missed it — and I forgot to bring a chess board.