 Vegas November 2008 |
| Day One |
| Not the most interesting day one ever but after a not-so-great start things got better...
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| First order of business was finding a poker tournament (duh!). We walked down to Planet Hollywood, bought into the 2pm tournament and then went in search of food. The choices were brutal...$10 cheeseburger almost looked like a bargain, we ended up eating at a Sbarro (which was still $8.50 for two slices of pizza).
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| I dunno folks, for a place that changed owners like 20 times (it seemed, anyway) you'd think they'd be looking for ways to get people in there. I don't know if $10 cheeseburgers and $15 salads is the way to go. Although the seemingly unlimited supply of ... ahem ... silicone enhanced female blackjack dealers, waitresses, etc probably brings in a few people. Not that I noticed, of course, but Tommy mentioned it so I'm just reporting what I'm told.
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| But on to poker, I had no cards at a table on which there was preflop raise and at least one caller on 7 of every 8 hands I would say. No limping, and I had almost no cards. I did fold three full houses - blinds 50-100 I try and limp in with A-6 suited and someone goes over the top for 600 so I can't play that and then a couple of 8-4 offsuit hands would have hit if I had called overbets. Had I ever gotten a hand I would have gotten paid, finally got a chance to lead out with Q-J suited with less than 10X BB and got two callers. Flopped a Q, but turn and river were both Ks and both callers had a K (so two-outed!).
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| Tommy had built up a stack but then was getting blinded off, eventually pushed with 5-5. Two callers, flop 9-10-Q, one caller then pushes and turns over K-J for a straight. Turn a 5, river a 10, Tommy triples up but only up to 10X BB and eventually busted out around 15th with only 6 paying.
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| So then it was on to the buffet at Harrah's which wasn't great but wasn't bad. Not a big selection but most of what they had was decent food. There are other buffets I would go to before I'd go there again ...
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| Then we went to Caesar's for the 7:00 tourney. $160 total buyin with add-ons but 10,000 chips and 30 minute rounds so a lot of play for your money. And Cody came out and played so it was like an old home game ... albeit with 80 strangers.
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| Cody was first out, set of bullets vs a boat with him on the wrong end. I was down around 7500 but doubled up on a coin flip (10's vs slick, held up, hit set I didn't need on river). I got a little run of cards, got up around 20K, then saw Tommy get up and leave.
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| But basically that was the extent of the "good news". In 3.5 hours of play I had exactly 4 wired pairs - the aforementioned 10s, pair of 9s that ended up costing me about 1K, pocket 3s and pocket 5s that all missed, plus slick only once (won a nice pot, only other decent one I won) and A-Q only once. And I finished around 27th of 80 with really nothing to work with (not even my folded rags would have ever hit) and as I said lasted 3.5 hours. And, again, if I ever could have gotten cards I would have gotten paid, there were enough loose players.
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| The hand I busted out on, almost pulled off what I thought was a semi-bluff but into a very big stack and it turned out I was drawing very thin. Pot committed myself with A-9 suited (bet 1/3 of my stack) and got one caller. Flop 9-Q-K. I push immediately. Big stack counts out the call 2-3 times, agonizes for a minute but decides he can afford to make the crying call and turned over A-Q. And no two outer for me...did hit a frustrating ace on the river to give me second-best-two-pair.
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| But I did win $150 of it back at the craps table at the IP, and Tommy hit a penny slot for $90 so the news wasn't all bad.
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| Sunday will start out watching football at the IP, and we'll definitely play in the 7PM at caesar's again. What we'll do in between, who knows.
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