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Arrived here Tuesday evening after a long long day and a decent flight with the new BA direct from Heathrow although I must report that i found the onboard food inedible, other than that the flight was fine and landed on time at around 6.15pm local time and I got a taxi immediately after claiming my bag and was safely ensconced in The Golden Nugget showered and back in their familiar cardroom grinding $1/$2 by around 9pm.

I managed to stay up until just after midnight making it around 26 hours with no sleep and figured that I was bound to drop off immediately. Not a bit of it, I hardly could sleep a wink and was up at 7am the next morning and the bags under my eyes looked like large suitcases !

After some breakfast, oh how I love the breakfasts over here I went back to grinding the $1/$2 incurring another small loss and then decided to take the duece bus down to The Venetian and see if I could spot anyone that I know. No sooner was I seated at another $1/$2 table in a seat which was facing the tourney desk than I spotted Maria, Nicky and LeKnave arriving suitably late for the midday deepstack tourney that I had decided to swerve until I was over the jet-lag. They all looked fine and are apparently all sharing a room at shrewdie central.

I have just stuck to cash so far and am a few hundred in front but I'm going to dip my toes into the Venetian Deepstack $340 today. When I was there yesterday they were playing day two of Wednesday's tourney and I went over to see if i knew any of the survivors. Who do I spot but my old mate Rumit who was sitting comfortably with 19 left and $33K up top to play for. Good luck him !

Okay off for brekkie now then down to The Strip, will update again soon.

Ralph

Keep us posted Ralph, and have a blinding time mate.

gd stuff. Get in a cash game with Jones, get him a few drinks, EZ money. ;D

Have fun.

GL Ralph, enjoy yourself!

Have a fun and safe trip!

Good Luck Ralph, keep the updates coming.

GL Ralph, have a good and winning trip!

+1

Best of luck - the value is coming - I land tomorrow evening

 :)up

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Good update Ralph, keep them coming.

I hope Maria or Jones don't leave any money lying around!

Lol nice rubdown.

lol

Good luck in Vegas Ralph. Have a great time and get the lot.

Have a nice time Ralph  XXX  Muzelley

Hope you are still 'bossin' your table Ralph!

I went out after the second break when my AQ loses to A10, and then my AK loses to AQ. Atleast I'm running well in Vegas, oh wait... No I'm notttttttttttt.

At least you made some new friends eh? :)

Very true.... Nice to meet you mate. Hope you're still in? I'll be at the Venetian tommorrow, so will see you and Ralph then!

AA down to KK, fml and all that. Might play a bit of cash tomorrow, then its stratisphere, finding somewhere to watch the fight and blagging it into afterparties. Hope 2 cu tomorrow, can have a few drinks

Com night. Arrived yesterday and head over to Venetian and found Sunny and Nick 'dino1980' Wright playing Pai Gow while Nicky Evans was steaming in a sattellite. LeKnave sure didn't enjoy telling us Evans had got it in the deepstack with J-T on a J-T-x board vs 8-7...

Evans binks the sattellite despite us all anti-railing him as he gets it in with K-J vs A-2 and then 9-7 vs Q-J to win it.

Spur of the moment and we all decide to play a sattellite. Table reads two randoms, Knave, Evans, Dino, my friend Elissa from Pokerpages, me, Sunny and then two more randoms.

Best moment was when a crippled Knave is all in with Qc Jc vs Sunny's Ahrt 6h and the flop comes Th 9c 6c. We're shouting for bricks...Knave sure got there.

We had a last longer and Dino was holding the money in his cup-holder, I bust Dino through being a total card rack, but as he's leaving the table, a member of the floor says, "Don't forget your money!" and me and Evans shout, "Sure is his money now!"

Manage to win the last longer and the sat and we go and play some more Pai Gow, I do my brains but don't feel so bad when I remind the others it's all their money from the last longer. Knave, Dino and I play a dollar a high card as well as our bets and I think I win like 2 from 25 hands, one time Jones' has 5 high and scoops. The dealer is killling us and Evans sticks $300 on one hand which binks and gets him out of it. Brummieboy comes and joins us and immediately binks hands for fun as I continue to do my brains, though I do manage to grim Brummie one time for 25 cents as I have only 3 quarters and no $1 chips left in the high card game.

Peel my hand and get the Tc and Kh before getting 3d 4d 5d 7d....I show the hand to Jones and say "6d one time!" Peel and weeeeeee there it is. Then I realise I only have $1 on the bonus instead of the $5 I'd be playing previously. Still get paid 50-1 though.

We all head off over to the Green Valley Ranch in Henderson and see Steel Panther which was fucking hilarious while meeting up with some of the Pokernews people.  The PN peeps get a table at the drop bar after the show while Brummie, Knave, Evans etc play beer bong at the Irish bar nearby. I have like one drink and then realise I haven't slept properly in nearly two days and bail out, just got up and I feel like shit. But in a good way.

You could almost say he stole it....

I'm staying at the mirage atm - my m8 won a $2200 pot in the 1/2nl last night at the nugget....  I'd a good start won $650 in my first session but lost most of it back since.

ps I was on ralph's flight and can concur that the food was ubl bad.

In the MGM Grand right now. Went down to the sportsbook to see if there might be one tiny screen showing the Ireland v France game. At the other end of the room I spied one screen which was showing football. I wandered over to find it was the Portugal v Bosnia game - wtf? So now up in my room 'watching' the Guardian text commentary.

Played two deepstacks so far - got gg'd in both (AA v K3sooted and walked into a slowplayed nut flush with 97 on a 3499 board). Had a bit of a result after Thursday's game. Got knocked out in level 2, so had a look at the What's On in Vegas magazine and saw that Leonard Cohen was playing at Caesars Palace for one night only. Went and bought a ticket then played $1/$2 and won back both the cost of the the ticket and my deepstack entry. Concert was awesome - he played for nearly three hours.

The MGM is absolutely pumping this weekend as it's the Pacquiao v Cotto fight tonight.

I am only slightly jealous

well im very jealous lol

i felt that in soton wow

Satellite was great, never heard so many rub downs in my life! I was pretty much gg'd, when Nicky shoves on my raise, and my sixes run into his kings. Then finally I leave the table when it folds to me on the small blind, I push with 76off, and get snapped up by AK who makes a house.

Played the $550 today and as per usual, just running bad in tournaments out here n Vegas. Can't win flips, let alone 75 - 25's. Hopefully can do better in the $550 tommorrow or the $1k on Monday.

Ralph has decent chips with about 50 left in today's  $500. Rest of us busto. My day was pretty comedy, will write about it later as am on my phone atm. Fields are tez.

I played The Venetian $350 on Friday but busted out around 150th/450 so went back "home" downtown to The Nugget and ground the $1/2 retrieving about $250 in a truly wild Friday night game. Unfortunately I had the table maniac on my extreme left who kept opening for $40 ! so had to tighten up as he was sitting with about $1k.

I decided to play the Binions Saturday tourney which seems to be their best of the week, $110 entry with $10k gtd. There were roughly 110 runners making about $3k first prize. I got nicely chipped up early and was looking good to final until my KQ<JT crippling me after I made top two and the ice-cream binked a str. gg me. Twelve got paid and I was 14th   :(

I went back to The Nugget and tried to grind some more $1/2 but the only decent game was a really wild and deep $1/2 with a drunken laggy Andreas Hoivold post his High Stakes Poker debacle. This was obviously the one game that I should be avoiding and a few glasses of wine later I was sat two to Andreas' right, and an hour or so after that -$500, Marvellous. I slunk off to bed none too happy with myself but when I woke up I told myself that I was playing well and should play The Venetian $550 so after another hearty breakfast I dueced it down to The Strip, entered the tourney and got seated at a table several seats down from young  Floppy.

There was one key hand on that table that chipped me up. A maniac had arrived on our table on my direct right and had been raising most hands often showing air so I hadn't played a hand for about half an hour. I open for 600(3xbb)  in lateish position with Kc, Jc and get FOUR callers and the flop comes down Ac, Js, 9c and I lead for 2200 which is raised on my immediate left to 6600 and then called in another spot. I now shove for 16k total and the raiser folds but the caller calls and tables 6c, 7c :) I scoop a nice 40k pot which is at least double the average.

Cutting to the chase now, at the end of a long day 204 runners has condensed down to ten and I have 280k which is about average and $2k is locked up with $25kish for first. We continue from 4pm today.

LOL Cashaments  ;karabiner; ;sexybanana; ;karabiner;

Just one minor thing is that I don't have an ITIN thingy although the floorman at the V said that it only takes a day or so to process and there would be no problem retrieving any deduction. Does anyone have any advice for getting one sorted in the next few hours ? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'll come back online in an hour or so after I've had my brekkie.

Good work Ralph, win it all.

GL Ralph.........

Goooooooo Ralph.

Go Ralph, win the lot.

I think if you chuck the cashier $20 they will do you one instantly. I recall someone doing this at the Bellagio and it was all sorted the same day and no deductions made.


GL at the f/t win it all!

gl ralph

Win it all Ralph

 ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

whats the hoivoid hsp debacle?

My day was very up and down in the deepstack. First hand, we're playing 6-handed with the bb sitting out and UTG opens to 275. I peel Ahrt 8h and someone else comes along too. Flop is T85 two diamonds, we both call a 675 bet. But I c/f on the 2c turn to another bet, other guy calls but then folds to a third barrel on the Js river. OR had Jacks.

Couple of hands later, young Asian kid raises to 250 in MP and I just flat bb with JJ. Flop comes AT7 and I c/call 325 but then c/f to a 700 bet on the 9 turn. Felt like I played this hand a bit weak, but I think it's ok. Marvellous do 2k in the first 10 minutes.

Dribble down to about 11k and 5 ppl limp on my big blind at 100/200, I check 6-2 and flop comes Td 2c 2s, gets checked around and the turn is the Jd. I lead for 650, old guy makes it 2k on the button, don't like flatting here b/c so many rivers go c/c or I have to pay off a bet if he has a draw. I make it 6k though I wish I maybe had shoved, made it look more drawy, he folds anyway.

Get moved tables and lose a couple of pots to a guy who seems to playing pretty well. My opinion changes when he fails to get the lot with 3h 3c on an Ac 3d 4d Aspades 7d board against Ad Jd. Action went c/c, bet (from the A-J) call, b/c. This nearly life tilts me.

Get moved to Sunny's (Free Rollin) table where there's absolute superdonk getting the lot. It's 300/600/50 and he's limping every hand and never folding. One hand he limps UTG on Sunny's BB and the K-2-3-4-4 board gets checked down. Sunny shows 7-6o...losing to 8-6o.

I dwindle down to about 5.5k and limpstation limps utg, I jam Ks 9s in his eye since I'm miles ahead of his range. He calls with Qh Th and somehow misses on a Jh 7d 4h 9d 2s board, then berates me for pushing with K-high. Next hand, he opens for 2.2k a little pissed I've got Kc Qc and it's greeeeeeeen, I jam again for about 13k now. Someone jams behind for about a similar sized stack and limpstation folds. Opponent has A-K but I bink straight away to put me up to 30k. A couple of hands later, the one good player on the table opens to 2k from the cutoff, I repop from the big blind with Ac Jc, he insta-jams, I sigh and call and flip goot vs his 9c 9s and suddenly I have about 54k.

The limpstation then just starts calling off his whole stack over the next couple of hours. His last hand was awesome, he limps utg for 1,000 playing about 15k, Scottish guy next to him limps Ad Th. Small blind shoves Kc Qs for about 17k, limpstation snap-calls all-in. Scottish guy looks miserable and folds. Limpstation had 3c 2c, I kid you not, and he busts.

I lose a couple of pots and get moved again to a new table. First hand I get 6-6 raise to 2,500 at 500/1,000, it's passed around to the small blind who jams for 17k. Blinds are about to go 600/1,200 and I'll have 23k if I call and lose here, it seems pretty marginal so I fold.

It gets to my big blind and the small blind playing 16k just limps so I just glance at Jh 8d declare all-in and throw out 20k to cover him. He snaps...Ah. Crap. He shoves in his chips and flips....A-2, owned. I flip my cards and then....the dealer MUCKS MY HAND! I say, "What are you doing? He called all-in." The dealer says he didn't hear me call and I said, "That's because I pushed first," he has shoved my cards right into the muck and they have to get the floorman to come along. After much searching, including me seeing a couple of jacks that were sure gonna come on the flop now, the floor guy recovers my hand and I sure bink.

Down to 23k and midposition opens to 3.5k and I have Kc Qc in the small blind and jam and everyone folds to put me back to 30k. So by now I must have the image of a complete maniac but then the table breaks and I get moved straight into the big blind with about 50ish left or so.

Button opens to 4k and I repop to 12k with Ahrt Qh and he folds, I then try a couple of raises from the cutoff and button but get 3-bet both times and have to fold.

A round later and middle position raises to 3.3k and gets flatted, I jam for 27k with Aspades Qs from the cutoff, OR tanks for five minutes and calls with A-K and other guy folds. I hit a Queen on the flop but I get the full 'yell-fist-pump-combination' when the king comes on the river. Stay classy, America.

These comps are great though, I wish I had time to play more really. Good luck to Ralph, he seemed to be constantly chipping up all day and has more moves than the other players will give him credit for. Not gonna play the $1k today, just chill out and then the $340 tomorrow.

flopps, what happened with hoivoid and the HSP

gogogogogogo the Shalsonator!!!

oh and this....


assuming they did a galfond on him

No idea Trigg and wtf is a Galfond?

When I arrived Tuesday evening there was a $300/$600 FL $25k sit-down Stud game in the back of the cardroom and I spotted Andreas there with Barry Greenstein and a few other high-rollers. I was speaking to one of the dealers the next day and she said that he "didn't do very well"

We got chatting in the crazy Friday night game and he said that he lost $200k in the HSP and "never hit one flop" so he couldn't be arsed to play any of the V events after that. Expensive trip for him but he was still great fun to play with.

On series 2 I think of HSP Phil Galfond was invited and then had to wait all day to get in the game and wasn't able to play a fraction of what he was told he would despite moving $700k cash out there.

I played yesterday as well and got nowhere. Played three of these so far and managed my best result yesterday of making level 6. Though I didn't buy-in until ten minutes before the end of level 3. Nothing noteworthy - reshipped 99 with 9.5k at 300/600 and other guy had AA.

Reiterating what Floppy said, fields are really tez - on Friday I was the youngest at my starting table by about 30 years.

After burning $550 on the deepstack yesterday I went back to the MGM and set fire to $665 playing cash. Seeing as up to that point my cash winnings so far were $664 this now means I'm down a buck.

Will go down to rail Ralph later on.


Blatant 'I'm going to get the lot in the deepstack' brag post IMO.

He was in LOTR obv.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/why-do-pros-do-phil-gandolf-photoshop-thread-133706/

gl ralph TIDx

+1

-1 Kiss though

7 left here. Ralph doing ok atm with 250k blinds 6/12k. Avg is bout tree fiddy. Oh and he's sporting a fetching blondepoker cap.

glgl Ralph.

Still 7 left. Ralph just reshipped against the SB trying to steal his BB - SB folded. $3.7k locked up so far.

get it won ralph !  ;goodluck;

+1

get it won! ;slavedriver;

6 left now - Ralph still on 280k. $4.4k in the bank.I'm heading off now but I assume Floppy will be about somewhere to update you (seeing as he has a cheeky percentage)

gl ralph

how much uptop in this?

5 left. Gtd $5.5k 230k at 8/16k

Best of luck Ralph.

Ralph busto. Reshoved 9d 7d and missed vs 44.

ul mate, still a nice little ship though.

ul gg

Wow, didn't know BA was flying to Vegas from Heathrow. GG all those 7am taxi journeys round the fcking M25  in horrendous fcking trafficto fcking Gatwick at fcking 7am.

Great trip reports Ralph and nice touch already gl for the rest of the trip.

Cliff Notes to back story?

+1 tho you might arrive in Vegas hungry

Well done Ralph!!!  Hope you got the forms sorted.

Nice one Ralph wp.

   Miserable looking Scot may be Double up.

Well done sir.

Geo

WP Raef, nice one.


Times are better but prices ain't from what I've seen. Ever tried broken flights with United? I'm going back to these imo.

From what I saw, prices were a bit better than Virgin and heathrow is alot more convenient than Gatwick for me.

I can't bear the broken flights. Waiting around at a souless airport for another 3 hour flight when I'm already knackered does my head in.

There's a United flight to San Fran that leaves Heathrow at around 1.30pm, then loads of evening short-hops on to Vegas. Just time to get through security and for a quick pizza. The future imo.

I've got 500k of Virgin Airmiles to use up before I can consider using another airline... sigh

 wp ralph, nice score

chompy how much cheaper are non firect flights

i checked last night direct flights are only £600 (from aberdeen)for later next year
i have to go next year for my 40th  and i cant see it being much cheaper non direct
and the less stop over i have will make it alot easier getting on and off planes

If anything non-direct flights are a bit pricier. I prefer them because of flight times, mainly coming back, but I'm defo in the minority.

WP Ralph really chuffed for you.  I'm getting withdrawal and symptoms of depression already!!!  Keep updating.

oh thats on then times i saw looked ok for me as they are early to late afternoon take offs which suits me down to ground

cant stand a flight at 8 am as i need to be at airport alot earlier than most people even on a demostic flight i have to be there 2 hours before a flight

tnks m8

ps nice cash Ralph

My hand of the trip so far was at the Nugget where I 3 bet pre with K3o having looked at the K twice.  The flop came KKT and at the end of the hand I proudly turned over my quads to claim a high hand jackpot.....

   Maybe it was Davie Meyer.

We only played one of the deepstacks and Maria (Daves wife) was the only one who cashed - so we've just played cash since to save further humiliation.

This summer I had a week in Colorado after Vegas and flew with United as they flew from Denver to Heathrow on the way back. 

I paid £500 for Heathrow-Vegas-Denver-Heathrow

The Virgin return was £470 iirc so I don't think it's more exp to fly with non-direct, not in my experience anyway

You're only 39?!?!?!?

Makes me feel even older. I thought You, Karabiner and Tikay were the only poker players older than me.

yep although i feel about 80 just now

Well done Ralph. Nice cash!

Thanks everyone for all of the good luck wishes, they give me a warm feeling and I really appreciate them.

Thanks also to my blonde railers Floppy, FreeRollin' and AndrewT

The old spirit of blonde is still alive and well :)

Obviously pretty damn chuffed to have binked a decent score but I was totally knackered yesterday even before the final table started after the fourteen hour+ day one and then another sleepless night but as soon as play started the old adrenaline kicked in and I completely forgot about it.

Pretty standard final really, I waited for a couple of the shortstacks to exit and then picked my spots to 3-bet/reshove which worked for a while but i never got any cards to work with. AQ once and 55 were my two best hands while three of the other players went on big heaters finding AA several times each and another guy's TT binked Erik the Skandie's KK.  So fifth place for $5500, it feels sooooo good to type that  ;sexybanana;

Right, I'm off for some brekkie and then back to the V for today's $340, it would be rude not to...

Well Done Ralph!

Also, I don't think I'm going to see you now unless I come down to Venetian for some cash tonight, but basically I got on the phone to Virgin to ask about Upper class upgrades, and managed to get one for £700. So, I'm now off back to the UK tomorrow on upper class, wiiiiiiii !

Downside is that I was going to stay with Dave, Nicky and Tom for a couple of days, but that's not going to happen now... would have been good!

Sure didn't busto the comp within an hour today. I'm the best.

I did my stack mainly because of 3 hands,  am playing 15k having chipped loads in the first 10 minutes thanks to good cards and flops and have a very active image. utg raises to 300 playing about 9.5k, guy to my right flats and I reraise to 1,500 with queens. Passed back to utg who instantly jams all-in. Other guy gets out of the way and I call but he has kings. Knocks me down to 5.5k.

Cutoff limps for 100, small blind makes it 400, I flat Tens and cut-off calls. Flop is 832dd, small blind bets 1k, I call, co folds. Turn is offsuit 7 and he sets me in. I tank and fold, he shows aces.

At 75/150 I make it 400 playing about 3.6k from the hijack with KQ. There's an extra 75 in because a new stack came along and 525 of it gets anted into the middle. bb is the only caller, flop comes K87cc, he has checked dark and I bet 625, he makes it 1,600, I jam and he snaps with aces. Marvellous.

Gl to the rest of the guys.

First break about 14k. Was up to 17k but dribbled away. Ralph wasn't at his table when the break started - hopefully he'd just wandered off early and isn't busto.

Ralph if you need to shift some $$$ then I'll take some off your hands.

I think BA will be more than Virgin eventually, but they have a price promo atm. They virtually giving em away to buyers in the states. I've always taken non-direct route, much cheaper. However after 15 hours on planes just to get to vegas, via charlotte, I think I will always fly direct from now on.

23k at second break, which is average. Ralph busto.

good luck Mr T!

QQ v TT and AK v 77 - up to 71k wihich is double average.

Plus I've discovered the free wifi works in the poker room - stops me standing outside the Grand Lux Cafe.

Flat pre imo

Next break - on just under 100k. Average about 50k. Been moved to a tougher table with three guys on my left who are chipped up and know what they're doing.

glgl

Made dinner with 90k.About 90 left,top 47 paid, 30 diiiimes up top.

gogo

Bad session there. Have 50k, avg 95k. Literally did not get one raise through uncalled. Binked a runner-runner flush after just being forced to call a 3bet all-behind me with 56green. Won 20k with a 3bet with AA but have slid from 130k to where I am now without winning a pot. 57 left, 45 get paid.

I had position on Ironside for 2 hours - he aged several years and never returned to Glasgow...





 

gl m8 - just got out of the Jersey Boys show and a bit pished but will pop over and see how u r doing after I make an attempt to check in for my flight 2mrrow :(

dino1980 just text me to say he has 150k.

gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Don't bother - I won't be there.

Gone in about 51st. Reshipped with 77 from BB - raiser had 99. A bit rash this close to the bubble - then again easy to say 'fold to the money' from the rail. Probably should have embraced my inner nit.

gah bl Andrew. :(

Ul Andrew, you clearly needed the Jones anti-rail behind you. When I was on the actual bubble last week (46 left & 45 paid) he was shouting behind me that I should bubble purposefully, stand up and with 2 fingers in the air, announce "f**K you all" whilst I depart penniless. 

Needless to say I tried but an unlucky soul on another table went out AK to Rumits Quads! Damn, next time Jones!

GLGL to the Blondes and wd to Ralph!! Great thread - keep the updates coming blondites.

Got another text from dino1980. He has made day two with 180k coming back to 6k/12k/2k with the average 275k with 17 left and about $1,250 locked up.

gogo Dino

 ;sexybanana;  TID

I arrived just after noon for the $340 and made my way to my table which was just a couple away from where AndrewT was sitting and after around fiteen minutes' play I was chatting away to my neighbour, a young internet pro called Chance(honest!) when I hear a vaiguely familiar voice from the far end of the table(I am in seat ten and the voice came from the formerly vacant seat two). "I laise" said the voice and I turned around to see my old buddy and Liverpool fanatic Pete Costa smiling away as per usual and in his customary good spirits until I mentioned LFC obv. ;)

We both made the first break, me with 16k+ and Pete with a little less and chatted away happily about Pete's new games which really sound like a brilliant idea and I'm sure that he'll hit the jackpot with his new lottery brainwave. Pete went out shortly after the first break and I followed shortly after when I couldn't fold my overpair to a flopped set that could have not have been more obvious had the ice-cream played them face-up. I knew he had a set when he check-raised the flop but instead of folding and leaving myself with 13k(above the starting stack) I made an almost involuntary shove. What a donk. Well at least I got it out of my system and I'm off to play today's $340 donkament hopefully with a little more discipline.

GOGOGOGO Dino today.

Proposition count thus far: Hookers 3, Drug Dealers 1.

Good stuff Ralph, keep the reports coming ...

On another note, the goons have an ever increasing injury list, Van Persie is gonna be out for ages.

gogogo Dino

I have never been propositioned by a hooker in Vegas - I must look like I have no money.

Giving the deepstack a swerve today - still in a bit of a 'fuck poker' mood. In the MGM sportsbook watching Den v USA and Bos v Por whilst reading the text commentary on the Ireland game.

And gogoogoggo Dino.

think it was ralph doing the propositioning

oh and tid nick

Am at the Venetian playing O8, youngest player on the table by about 30 years. Nick's comp starts in about 2 and a half hours.

must be having fun there then :P ....

"I Remember in my day when..."

How about nippers?



And GOGOGOGO Dino

Hahahaha, I'll never forget getting propositioned by this big fat black mamma, outside the toilets across the way from the card room in the Venetian. I was pretty drunk at the time and spotted her a mile away as it was pretty obvious from her skanky outfit what she was up to. As I approached she said ' You wanna do some business', I said 'what you selling?'. She thought for a second pointed to her crotch and said 'Pussy Man!'. LOL classy bird.................

haha com

Choice of shirts must be similar to the local plain clothes cops...

or the locals that they know have no cash for there "business"

Hey all, Dino finished 12th for $2.3k, which he was pleased and disappointed with, I ran goot with a swapped 5% again.

Evans, LeKnave, Dino and I then went to the Palms to play Paigow. Obviously Jones' ran like god, especially in the $1 high card we always play. The three of them have gone to see this mini-version of the UFC, the 150lb division I think it is. I'm heading to LA tonight (currently at the Airport) to go on a road trip to San Francisco, before flying back home next Wednesday. Dino is on the same flight so 10 hour session of Chinese on the plane looks like a plan.

Anyway good luck to those guys, Ralph and Andrew T in the remaining comps. Maybe I'll have time for one more before I come home. :)

It's the WEC, lucky buggers. UFC's sister/brother company. They only have 135lb; 145lb and 155lb divisions I believe. Report please.

tell nick not to worry about 12th as he has 1st booked for saturday

I know nothing about UFC/WEC but it was pretty incred. Had seats in the second level that were central to the octagon. The fellas to the right of us were pretty connected as they were mates with some Armenian guys who were fighting in a couple of the bouts. The title fight was pretty incred, Jones and I flipped for who got to choose their horse first, Jones obv won the flip and picked the defending champ Mike Brown, mostly because he was at one point sponsored by Full Tilt (grease Lederer) so I got the challenger Jose (who I would've picked given first choice).  Couple of rounds later Jose had him on the mat and was just battering his head and the ref called the fight over. I think Nicky might be going to UFC on Saturday.

Suppose its probably more fun than using the money to pay back what he stole....

Another day, another deepstack, another sniff of the money. This time went out about 48th with 36 paid.

Started great - got a couple of hands and ran a big 3-street bluff to get up to nearly triple starting stack by the first break. Had a great table - it was one I knew would be one of the last to break and everytime someone busted they were replaced by an old guy. No restealing or check-raise bluffs or anything like that to contend with - just ABC players thinking about nothing other than their cards.

Though I was card dead the rest of the day I resisted the urge to do anything wild - knowing I'd get paid off when I did, such as with AK v AJ getting me a full double up, and also able to get plenty of blind-steals through (including one 4bet button shove with  9s 8h against the SB who was getting annoyed with my button raises and who I knew was the one player who would do a bluff like that)

Late on I lost half my stack in a limped pot from the SB when my Ac made a four-flush on the river, which sadly had given the BB a full house with T4.

Down to 9BB a new player (who I'd played with a couple of days ago) shoved for more from mid-position. I had  9h 9c and knew he wasn't open-shoving better. He had   Ks Qh and hit on the turn to send me to the rail.

Updates please Ralph, Nick and Andrew? Having withdrawl symptoms, so need some updates - and hopefully ones involving winning lots of money!

all i know is nick is fav to win tonights comp

What's this story? Must have missed it if it's a forum thing.

He sure won't do all his money on pai gow poker within an hour of winning the comp..... that, or trying to win the $3mill on wheel of fortune..... good luck!

I played the Deepstack $350 on Wednesday and lasted almost until the dinner-break exiting around 100th, a pretty unremarkable card-famished grind really. The only thing worthy of reporting is that on my starting table sat on my direct left was none other than a rather sleepy("Im a night person")Tom McEvoy. I told him that if I'd known that I was going to be sat next to him I'd have brought along a couple of my books for him to sign. He chuckled good-naturedly and said that he would have happily obliged. An absolute gentleman and a pleasure to spend a couple of hours in his company at the table.

Took a day off from donkaments on Thursday and just did a little shopping stocking up with some new jeans at the Levi's store and played some $1/2 at the V(terrible game) touched base with LeKnave, Nicky and AndrewT and then headed back to home base, The Nugget, and played a little more cash losing small <$100.

Went back down to the V yesterday(Friday) for another bash at a $350 but after my AK<AJ crippled me my Qh,Jh ran smack bang into KK and I didn't get the favourable flop that I had been hitting a few days ago. I busted out around 3.30pm which is before the 2nd break. I discovered that there was a $1/2 PLO game running in the salon so plonked $300 on the table to give it a spin. It was a wild and woolley game with a mixture of young lags and older nits, obviously I fall into neither of these groups ;) and there was frequent light 3-betting pre with the likes of QQxx. I originally spun down to about $200 but eventually cashed out $920 at 10pm. The key hand being when I limp 3-bet a button raise to $95 pre-flop holding AAT9 having previously chipped up to c$500 and the flop came down a rather delightful 6,7.8 rainbow and when I led for $200 the ice-cream snap set me in. My str. held and I never saw what he had, kerrrrrching :)

The last couple of hours I was sat next to a pretty amazing old guy by the name of Ernie an 84 year-old Holocaust survivor who had been incarcerated in Auschwitz but "didn't like to talk about it at the poker table". He was a fascinating table companion and bright as a button, I hope I get the chance to chat with him again before I leave.

I'd better go now as some old bat is moaning behind me that I'm hogging the machine(I'm in the hotel lobby on pay-per-surf).

Proposition count: Hookers 4, drug-dealers 1, acceptances 0

Edited post-brekkie as the PC is now old bat-free.

Keep um coming Ralph.

Sat in the Saturday $550 deepstack on the same table as LeKnave. In level 2, nothing of note yet.

Had a day off from poker yesterday. Broke a pair of sunglasses I'd had for about 36 hours. Had a $200 dinner at L'Atelier Joel Roubachon. Went to see Lewis Black at the Mirage.

I've found that the non-poker days after long tourney days really do refresh me

Back from LA tomorrow night, Lewis Black any good Andrew? I've got a couple of his albums.

Lewis Black very good. I didn't realise he was quite so mainstream - audience was a bit more rednecky than I was expecting.

Just won a nice chunk 3-betting KK from the SB v a button raise. Flop is Ace high and he calls my cont bet. Turn is another Ace and we both check. River is blank and I check call his bet and he mucks without showing. Up to 24k from 15k starting stack.

First break 28k, LeKnave about 20k.

GLGL Andrew.x

Gone - 88 v TT on a T82 flop. LeKnave still in.

super sick, ul.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=44797.msg1089056#new

UL nick

good effort Nick.

Had an enjoyable 8 hour session playing $1/$2 cash at the MGM. Torched one buyin then spun the next $200 up to $1200 before dribbling back to $830 making hero calls.

Big hand was when one guy managed to stick $600 in with AJ on a A726 board against my 77. Toasty life.

I stayed downtown yesterday and played the Binions 2pm. $110 tourney which has a $10k guarantee and gets just over 100 runners. I chipped up from the 5k starting stack to 8.5k at the first break but went very card-dead for the next session chipping down to around my original 5k. It gets pretty crapshooty after the second break and I 3-bet shoved the opener with AJ of green(see how I'm picking up the lingo?) and got another shove behind. Not a bad spot really as one of them had QQ and the other KK, unfortunately I hit the J instead of the A and it was gg me.

After a refreshing cup of tea in my room in The Nugget(you must put bottled water in the kettle it makes all the difference) I decided to check out the $1/2 games at The Nugget which get pretty damn hairy at the weekends with their unlimited pullup. I sit in the game for a while starting with $300 and have chipped up a little to about $400 when who should arrive on my immediate left but my new buddy Andreas Hoivold who told me last Saturday that he was going home on Tuesday. A week is a long time in Vegas and he is now selling his house in Norway and looking to buy something here; I suspect that he has been bitten by the love bug judging by the new twinkle in his eye. Anyhow I digress..

Andreas is on my left and sits down with $1k. On Andreas' left is a wily Chinese guy who goes by the handle of "Bruce Lee" and always sits at least $2k deep and generally likes to cover the table. It's my BB and Andreas straddles of course for $4(this is his first hand remember) there are a few limpers including Bruce and Andreas raises to $30. Bruce snap-shoves his $2k and Andreas snap calls his $1k, all of this happening slightly slower than the speed of light !

Bruce tables KQo and Andreas shows 33 which hold for a tasty first pot of the evening.

I got lucky in the game when I called a small raise on the button with 63 of green and the flop came 2, 5, 9 rainbow which was checked around. On the turn along came the 4h smoking a pipe for a sweet nutshot(I just made that term up) and the guy who was slow-playing his set of 555 paid the full penalty by grtting felted, kerrrrrching :) I decided to leave the game around 12.30am as I was a little tired and the game was seriously volotile. I must just say what a splendid fellow Andreas is, always in good humour even after a bad loss. I like him a lot and hope that things work out well for him here.

I was going to play the super-sat for the V's ME today although I'm coming home on Tuesday as you can sell the lammers if you win but I had a restless night after following Kinboshi's "Beginners' Guide to Sushi" and sampling a sashimi of Toro which tasted delicious but kept me awake all night virtually.

I'm going down to the V now to see if there's any Omaha and to mingle and hopefully rail a little.

Proposition count: Hookers 5, Drug Dealers 1, acceptances 0.

I've played with that Bruce Lee guy many times, he's been a regular at the tables in Vegas for a long time.

Booked the Vista Suite at Mandalay Bay for the last 3 nights of my trip at a discount rate . Wiiiiiiii

Are they minging?

Expensive IMO..........

yes particularly when they rob you*


*not me or you I hope

no they keep refusing as they dont want to take the risk of ralph crooking on them he is getting on a bit

Really enjoyed this thread.... Got me all excited for my trip in Jan!! Hope you all enoy the remainder of your stay!

First he started playing online slots with my money, then he just realised it would be easier to steal a few thousand.

How much?

whats been deleted

a post by a banned member who opened a new account

What did it say?

It was an attempt to stir up trouble.

I guessed that...........so what did it say then?

LOL if i tell you what it said, then there would be no point deleting it.

Its gone, soz.

TUT!!!

sometimes i wonder why we dont drop all the rules to the forum and just let anything go apart from the fact the forum would turn into a quagmire very quickly, atleast it would stop people querying every deletation and ban the mod perform

np I was just being nosey mate............ I can probably guess what it was about.

thanks

$180 a night instead of $340. One of the last nights before I came over to LA I won around $600 in a 1/2 game at the MGM and decided to live it up for my last couple of days. :)

whats the difference between a normal room and the suite
surely your only there to sss and sleep
unless you plan a party with the local lap dancers

mbn to know your going to be young more than once!

cant even remember the first time

i just dont understand getting a suite in vegas unless your are planning on spending time in there

Looks great on the website. Enjoy

Bloody Hell that looks nice. Enjoy. x

I'm out of here tomorrow. Managed to do pretty much sweet FA on my last full day in Vegas. Didn't wake up till 1.30pm and it was 5pm before I ventured out of my room.

At 11pm I finally got myself sat down in a cash game and managed to pick up $400 after one rivered straight vs KK, one flopped full house with KJ and one 'please please please fold' bluff with the nut low of 45 on a T239J board.

Been a fun trip - the final scores on the doors were +$838 for cash and -$2520 for tournaments (with two near misses).

The Venetian deepstacks really are awesome and I would thoroughly recommend anyone who has any idea of how to play a tournament to give them a go.

guess that rules me out

Hopefully going out for a week during February,,, looking forward to playing one then... unless the schedule has changed for 2010...

Nicky came 4th in the 500f yesterday for 11diiiimes.

pretty ul not to go further with AK<KK 4 handed bvb. ice.

Flushy will be pleased...........

N1 Nicky, stick it all on casino war if you ask me.

Found a decent bar on my last day in Vegas called the Yard House In the Town Square shopping centre, $10 taxi ride from MGM.
Reckons it has the biggest selection of draft beers in the world. Can't believe that but it had a cracking choice and was a nice change from the Casinos. I know Dave has been missing his Boddingtons.

http://townsquarelasvegas.com/dining.html?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=14&sobi2Id=115

Oh yeah, Yardhouse is awesome. There's a good club around there too, forgot the name. Evans has gg-ed the ME. Jones grinding between Nenad Medic and Steve Jelinek with 22k. I'm off to play cash.

Doubt i will be getting paid

Omaha game in the V is pretty incred. Playing the nightly 120 before going with Nick Wright for some steaks.

269 players in the main event with 148k up top. Gl Jones...

I was waiting for the duece bus to arrive downtown this afternoon as I was about to make my way to the V to rail the boys and eat some Chinese food at my favourite Asia Noodles when i saw a grizzled old black guy who was obviously down on his luck as he was sitting on one of those stone benches near the bus-stop and asking for spare change in a gravelly tone that Louis Armstrong would have been proud of. Everybody was ignoring him but I had 50c in my pocket and quietly slipped it into his hand and then joined the back of the queue.

The bus arrived and I got my $7 ready in my hand with the $5 bill on top to buy my all day ticket and the old black guy was still sitting on the bench, as I went past him he enquired in the same gravelly tone almost sotto-voce "got a spare five?".

Just a quiet day for me today although I'm about to play some cash at The Nugget and have a few glasses of wine so minor fireworks are not totally out of the question as I think Andreas is still around. Coming home tomorrow evening on the BA flight which leaves here at 8.30pm and I will be bringing a couple of Cantor's finest corned beef sandwiches to sustain me rather than subject myself to the inedible muck that BA calls food.

I've had a really great time here even though it was a solo trip this time but I've just about had enough and as always will be pleased to get back to my cosy little flat and sleep in my own bed; it won't be long now..

You are friends with Nick Wright, aka Dino1980?

If I was the black guy on the bench I would have been sayin "Get a cab you fkin peasant"


:D

To me you kind of are a black man.

Ship it all Jones!

gg me gtfo. busted 2nd last hand of the day.

torny was mad soft, with only a few faces in the field.  had Nenad 'suck' Medic on my right most of the day.

Andrew - what did you think of the dinner - was it the one at the MGM? I went there for new years eve a few years back and was bedazzled by phony French waiters and gold leafed plates and fruit.

That sounds like the full-fat 3 Michelin star restaurant - I was at the 1 star one next door - the one where you sit at the counter.

Food was pretty incred - nine courses (all basically two mouthfuls on a plate). All kinds of fancy stuff.

Hey Ralph

Nice to meet you a few times in Vegas.

I think you forgot to post about how you tried to chat up the mother / daughter combination in the airport bar, and then threw up on the flight home...

Probably just slipped your mind ;-)

Take care

Patrick

Ralphy baby .... details please !!

 ;popcorn; ;popcorn;

He prob got a bit sick when who he thought was the mother turned out to be the daughter...

Well thanks for that Patrick, and you semed like such a pleasant fellow too..

I've not been the same since I had those couple of glasses of wine with that young lady at the airport, I must have picked up some kind of bug, not via the mile-high club either (although it might have been an option  ::)) as I've hardly been out nor eaten much since I got back home.

I made myself some chicken soup today which as many will know cures everything so i'm hoping to make an appearance at DTD at some point this weekend. Hopefully I'll see you there  ;nemesis;

Just caught up with this - great read Ralph, (& AndrewT's), proud of you.

Might see you Sunday in Notts.

hahahahaha