Vegas, June 2009
14 parts · 2 Jun 2009 – 26 Jun 2009
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Vegas Schedule
Nearly that time of the year again, so I have put together a provisional schedule of the tournaments I will be playing in Vegas. In addition to the below, I've got a…
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Vegas Day Zero
Gatwick airport 9am - location is the overpriced seafood bar. I am just about to tuck into my seafood platter, when I notice Dan, formally from Eastenders, sitting right next to me.…
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Vegas - Middle of the Night
Jetlag has kicked in, and I am sitting here at 6am after eight hours sleep waiting for the midday Venetian tournament. Shazbo has been dispatched for coffees, so I guess I'll just…
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Vegas Day 1 - Venetian $500
Well I'm out about half way through the field of 660 - I played pretty well apart from one disastrous hand, so I'm quite happy. I also won $700 on some poker…
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Vegas Day 2 - Cash Game Woe
After my early WSOP bustout, I went to join the guys at the MGM playing a cash game. The Nit wanted to be on his own table (and sure enough ground out…
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Vegas Day 2 - WSOP $1500
I really felt stuck in the mud in this tournament - nothing got going and I busted shortly before the end of level 3. The table was as as you would expect…
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Vegas Day 3 - Caesars $340
Unfortunately I only just received Ian's post on the last entry, so we arrived a Caesars to discover they had scrapped their old poker festival, and were now just holding $340 tournaments…
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Vegas Day 4 - Venetian $340
This will be a quick one. I made a conscious decision to play more hands today in the early levels, as I've been playing too tight early on so far. This worked…
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Vegas Day 5 - WSOP $1500
Another bad day at the office unfortunately, and a bustout half way through level 3\. "Refreshed", after an all night drinking/poker session with the Baron and the Nit where I at least…
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Vegas Day 6 - Blue Man Group Embarrassment
Went to Blue Man Group last night - clearly I was very tired and hungover, with the squits, after an all night session with the guys the night before. Unfortunately, I scored…
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Vegas Day 7 - An Afternoon in Treasure Island
We had a great day today - not from a profit point of view necessarily, but our cash table was great at TI. We discovered the phenomenon of "lemon drops" from Dave…
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Vegas Day 8 - Running Good Against the Baron
What can I say, but I run good against the ginger guy........ Made about $400 in cash games today, the majority caused/saved by: Hand1 Myself and the Baron get in all in…
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Vegas Day 9 - Time to Leave
I didn't manage to play any real poker yesterday - I was exhausted after stumbling back at 6:30am from Planet Hollywood with The Don who had postponed his flight by one day.…
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Vegas P&L
So the dust settles on a fun, if unprofitable trip to the gambling capital of the world. The disappointing aspect was that I never got going in any of the five serious…