blonde poker

 

In the last 48 hours I've only managed to put in 3 hours of poker. Just after posting the last update, I played one single table satellite. One 'interesting' hand, only as another indication of the value on offer over here. With blinds at 100/200 and 5 players left, I'm in the big blind with 5,000 chips, the small blind has similar. Folded round to him, he makes it 600, I call with Ad-5d. So far this player has acted weak with a strong hand, and acted strong with a weak holding. Now he is acting strong so I'm sure his hand is weak! The flop is 7-5-3 with two spades, and he strongly bets 1,000 into the 1,200 pot. I move all-in, happy to take the pot down now and not let him hit his probable overcards. He calls instantly, oops seems I got this read wrong, I can't possibly be winning here. Well he turns over A-2o (with the 2 of spades, lol). No gutshot 4 and no backdoor flush and I win the pot and go on to make a deal heads-up.

 

As the A-2 man leaves the table another player says to me do you know who he is? Um, no, I reply, and he tells me he is a fairly famous actor/comedian called Norm Macdonald, I've still never heard of him but maybe somebody reading this has. I had a look at his Wikipedia profile here, I'm guessing he just got bored when he made the call and $500 means nothing to him.

Independence Day saw us head over to a bar/club called Studio 54 in the MGM Grand. It stayed open stupidly late so yesterday was a bit of a write-off. In fact I managed to emerge just in time to play the $500 5pm multi. I folded 2-2 to a large preflop reraise only to seen the flop come down Q-2-2 and two players couldn't get their chips in fast enough with A-Q and K-K. I didn't win a pot and lasted less than an hour.

Last night we went to an excellent steakhouse in The Venetian, then I nearly died of boredom as TJ Green and co got stuck into the dice. We then had a wander down the strip, and for some reason decided we would play 2 hands each at a $1-$5 spread-limit cash game on the strip. We somehow won a $400 pot with K-9 against K-Q, A-9, and A-A! Our hourly rate in this game was ludicrous so we may give up on the WSOP and stick to this in future :-). Here's a photo of Dave excitedly stacking a load of $1 chips as Martin, Jeff and Resteal Ray look on in the background.

Today I actually plan to play some poker. A frightening thought I know, but I'm going to try and make some dough in the single table satellite arena and then use this to enter Event #13, the $2,500 NLHE which starts tomorrow.