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[Because of this 30-day threshold, many hotels and resorts in Nevada limit stays to 14, 21, or 28 days to prevent guests from legally establishing permanent "residency rights".]

Nice one Tony, I hope to join you tomorrow.  2 bullets no joy yesterday.
Down to 7k (from 25k) after 5 hands today but somehow on 1st bullet with 55k first break.  Crazy game .
Good luck tomorrow if I don’t see you - which hotel did you move to ?

Morning Rob.

I had a peruse of the WSOP App but never saw your name there, no good? What's today's plan?

Hotel palaver - I never changed Hotels, I changed Rooms. There's some obscure Nevada State Law that says you are not allowed to book more than 10 or 12 days at a time & Boyd Gaming, who own The Orleans, enforce it. So I had 2 bookings, back to back. Checked out at 11am, went & did some shopping, came back an hour later & checked back in.

Yeh no joy in big O, lasted to level 10.  Then had many many corona .
Early bath today in plo at V too.
Just went through extending my stay until next Tuesday which despite being diamond plus was still a hassle.
In my app it says all comped but host in diamond room insists I pay a paltry $30 a night for 3 nights - so little I’m not sure why they don’t just comp it all lol .  She also tells me I have to go the old fashioned go to front desk tomorrow evening to see if they can keep me in the same room the next day and avoid “moving rooms” like yourself.  Sometimes I do wonder if it’s 2026, some things are still way behind the ball for modern times.

This "having to switch rooms" malarky makes no sense, but I guess they are just staying the right side of the Nevada rule thing.

Mr google states....




There is no Nevada law specifically preventing hotel or motel stays longer than 11 days. In fact, under state law, stays that go beyond 30 consecutive days trigger Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 118A, which governs landlord-tenant relationships. Because of this 30-day threshold, many hotels and resorts in Nevada limit stays to 14, 21, or 28 days to prevent guests from legally establishing permanent "residency rights". If a guest attains tenant status under state law, the hotel must pursue a formal, lengthy court eviction process to remove them.To get around this and avoid establishing legal tenancy, many extended-stay properties or hotels require long-term guests to either:Temporarily check outMove into a different roomFor stays expected to last longer than the 11-to-30-day threshold, extended-stay properties operate under different licensing rules than standard, transient resorts

I knew it was 30 days, so surprised by their rules for a short stay in comparison.
Though populised by Howard hughes refusing to leave his hotel, it's more about they can no longer charge you tax on your hotel stay after 30 days

Jut so that it makes sense to me Doobs, can you tell me what your average MILE time is for your 5k?

PS- Keep up the good work.

So am running a mile in 11.5 minutes, so just over 5mph.  Not going to break any World Records soon.  Have started beating people in the 55 to 59 age group, and I didn't use to. Think in my 2nd or 3rd parkrun I beat two people in total, and one of those would be tailrunner/walker, now I beat 25% or so; but a few more walk these days. 

There is a lady in her 80s who walks around ours with a stick most weeks.  She does about 70 minutes, but probably puts in more effort than most.  Always give her a cheer when I go past her on my last lap.

My daily 1k isn't every day, I just try and average that, so if I do a parkrun, I only have to run 2k in one evening during the week.  This week I need to do two 2ks and a 3k to keep on track.   I was over 10k behind at one stage, but have caught up.  If not busy, will try and do two 2ks and a parkrun.  People tell me I need to go 6ks, so 5k doesn't feel so bad.

And... Do you have an average MPH for your daily 1k?

Jut so that it makes sense to me Doobs, can you tell me what your average MILE time is for your 5k?

PS- Keep up the good work.

Meh

 

Meh

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Overall, I'm delighted. The cards were kind (until they were not....) and I played far more aggressively than I usually do.

A tremendous 3 hours of poker, maybe the most enjoyable I can recall.

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We return from the break & I take another pot.

And then a very weird pot goes off.

I raise with A-2-6-Q-K. (I forget the suits but it's not relevant).

It comes.....


 



Ooh, lovely.

POT

Then I may have audibly gasped when he 3 bet me.

I suppose he CAN have 2-2 in his hand, but more likely we have the same 6-2.

In a flash, all the chips go in & cards are otb.

And yes, he has the same boat....


A-2-6-8-9 v my A-2-6-Q-K.

We just have to hold now, for the chop, but we have better (bigger) danglers.

To my horror, the Dealer Turns the 9, & then for rubs, Rivers another 9.

GG.

FWIW, the odds on that flop are 50% chop, 27.5% me 22.5% him.

So it's not a huge outdraw really, but it's certainly not an ideal time for it.

A good example of how every street in 5 Card can change things. He flopped sixes full of deuces, turned sixes full of nines, & rivered nines full of sixes.

It could just as easily flipped my way, or chopped. Welcome to 5 Big O.

PS - it was for a 600,000 pot with average at around 320k, & Blinds 5k-10k. Pretty sure I could have gone a long way with a 600,000 stack.