 Vegas November 2012 |
| Day 3 - More Aria |
| Last Updated: 2012-11-06 08:59:34 |
| Another day, another deep run that was just short...
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| Went to the Bellagio for what I expected to be a lunch buffet on a Monday but it was brunch. Not a complaint, just not what I expected. Love the flank steak that I got with my big ol' omelet. And the soft serve ice cream is still the best anywhere on the planet. I don't know what they do that nobody else does but it's amazing how good it is.
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| Unfortunately that was the highlight of the day for me.
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| Bought in at Aria and within two rounds I was down to half a stack. Not a good start at all after having mostly good starts to that point in the trip. But from that point I managed to build it back up. Once I got back around starting stack I made a couple of takeouts of short stacks, got paid both with aces and queens and before I knew it I was up over 30K from my 10K starting stack.
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| Eventually we get down to 24 players from a start of I think 118 so they are paying 12. I had been maintaining my stack, got moved to a table with the guy who was playing every hand the day before who took me out hitting a gutshot. Sure enough he was playing exactly the same way, watched him call an all-in that would have crippled him if he lost with nothing but an over card...and proceeded to hit runner/runner straight to take out the other guy. Brutal.
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| So still around 30K, a guy who was fairly tight but was also making some well timed moves raises out to 4500 and I look down at A-Q and call. He only has about 18k. To my surprise a very short stack calls for about half his stack. Flop rag-J-Q. Can't beat it, right? Well all the chips go in, the very short stack turns over J-10 off but the middle stack turns over pocket Kings. Ouch. I get no help from the turn and river and I'm back to just above starting stack and below 10X BB. I get away with two light shoves, but the blinds go up again and I get it all in with A-10 suited, run into A-K and that was that.
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| I dunno, I just don't see how I get away from that hand. Just bad luck, another deep run cut short.
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| I went and watched the Eagles for half an hour until the 7:00 starts up...they SUCK.
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| So into the 7:00 and it was UGLY. Aces cracked by 10-9 suited in the second round, bought back in, again dropped down to around 6K, built it back up around 10k, went card dead for a while, blinds get up to 400/800 and me around 8K, shoved w/ K-Q and ran into A-Q. Ugly.
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| And that was my night. Went back to the room, hung out a little and passed out.
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| Obviously I would have liked to last longer in the tournament, but I needed the good night of sleep so there is a silver lining there.
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| So today I'm a little torn about what to do. First I have to go to the bank and reload, I don't like carrying my whole bankroll around w/ me and I don't get nearly enough exercise out here so the walk to the Wells Fargo tower is at least something.
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| Then my problem is that I really want to play in the HORSE tournament at MGM at 7:15, but I'm not going to spend the whole day sitting around waiting for it. If I play at Aria and go deep again I will surely miss it. I could play at Wynn, but that's always a small tournament compared to Aria. So I think the plan is going to be play at Aria, if I go deep enough that I miss HORSE it should mean I'm in the money so I guess I'll have to live with missing it. |
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