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Fremont Street - for better or worse - is like no other place I've been, so I sat in the open-air Starbuck's enclosure with my $8.72 coffee & watched the Fremont St world go by for an hour.

The "new" Circa Casino (surprisingly, it's approaching it's 6th birthday) has completely changed the Glitter Gulch end, but apart from that & the zipline which whizzes up & down overhead carrying lunatics, everything else is much the same.

So, first up, the $400 Big O/5 Card PLO at Golden Nugget.

I'm not sure I've ever seen such a combo before & I was looking forward to it immensely. I adore Big O, and it's a great poker regret that it's almost impossible to find a Big O tournament in the UK. I have a UK PLO Tournament Spreadsheet (all Omaha variants) which a gentleman on this thread kindly sent me a while back, & it's completely devoid of Big O. Preferably not mixed with PLO, but I'd take it.

I'd not been Downtown so far this trip so I arrived a couple of hours early & had a mooch, before buying a Starby. Medium Size, & it set a record price for a medium latte....

$8.72? Yikes.

Apologies for the radio silence to those who may marginally enjoy a daily morning squeeze from Vegas.

As Northcote Parkinson famously said, "work expands to fill the time available for its completion" although in my case we need to replace "work" with "leisure" because I've not done a jot of work in just over a year. 

Raducanu yesterday seemed to have limited mobility at the end of match 1, but seemed fine again in match 2.  Great work by the physio/whoever put that strapping on.

Backed Raducanu today at 1.77.  I think you definitely need to look out for Vekic going forward betting wise.  Think Boulter threw it away yesterday, must have been the high from her performance against Rybankina? 

Anyway backed Vekic at 150/1 e/w for Wimbledon.  Think grass form is very important and she was looking half decent.  Raducanu is still 33/1 in places, but not the same value.

Well that didn't last.  Vekic now 50/1 best priced at those that have adjusted. 
Think her and Raducanu both pretty much guaranteed seeds at Wimbledon now.  Baptiste and Mboko definitely out.  Bencic must be a doubt, having pulled out of everything before Wimbledon. A few others carrying knocks.

Would like to see Raducanu in Nottingham and miss Eastbourne, but looks like the other way.

Vegas old-timers may be mildly interested to know that "The Cromwell" is no more. It sat on the junction of The Strip & Flamingo, directly opposite Caesars & Horseshoe, which was Ballys until it became Horseshoe recently.

If that's not confusing, The Cromwell can beat it. Originally Barbery Coast, it then became Bill's Gamblin' Hall, then Cromwell. 3 days ago it was re-born yet again as "The Vanderpump", named in honour of Lisa Vanderpump, sort of Trump-style self-branding. Still owned by Caesars though to add more confusion to the mix Caesars, saddled by huge debt financing costs, was recently sold to Fertitta.

No idea who Lisa Vanderpump is but she seems to be some sort of USA Reality TV star & entrepreneur.

Raducanu yesterday seemed to have limited mobility at the end of match 1, but seemed fine again in match 2.  Great work by the physio/whoever put that strapping on.

Backed Raducanu today at 1.77.  I think you definitely need to look out for Vekic going forward betting wise.  Think Boulter threw it away yesterday, must have been the high from her performance against Rybankina? 

Anyway backed Vekic at 150/1 e/w for Wimbledon.  Think grass form is very important and she was looking half decent.  Raducanu is still 33/1 in places, but not the same value.

Mr Hellmuth having a full-on rant after busting a WSOP affair today.


https://x.com/phil_hellmuth/status/2064987119786090830


This from the man who published a book with the title "Positivity".

Was that Hellmuth? I thought it was Moulty.

Could just have easily been Moulty.

Mr Hellmuth having a full-on rant after busting a WSOP affair today.


https://x.com/phil_hellmuth/status/2064987119786090830


This from the man who published a book with the title "Positivity".

Was that Hellmuth? I thought it was Moulty.

If boo comes in with his standard "meh" we might just fall out.

Today's game of choice was the $240 Big O @ The Orleans.

Early doors ran well and made some nice hands, and ran my 30,000 starting up to 74,500 at the first break & 84,700 at 2nd break.

Continued to press & soon had 120,000 thanks to half of a nice 3 way pot before the table broke. Shame, was very comfy there.

Things started to go wrong on new table, lovely starting hands to raise with but flopping badly.

Then the decisive hand went off.

I've got.....

 

Raise, 1 caller, and we see this dream flop....


 

= Nut low, nut flush draw, set of deuces.

I bet, villain 3 bets & we get it all-in very quickly.

Fella says "you are in bad shape pal" & flips same low & a bigger set. Wow, I never expected that.

 

So we have the same low but he has a bigger set. There's no escape from that.

I'm not dead, a non-pairing diamond gives me three quarters, but it bricks out & I get quartered & left with some 60,000 from a 240,000 pot, in which I was assuming I was getting three quarters, i.e., 180,000.

32 left with 18 paid so I need a quick bounce-back with Blinds 4k-8k/8k, & A-2-3-6-K double suited is more than adequate to get it in.

Fella says those dreaded words, "go on, I'll gamble with you" (exactly what I want & need, obv) & he turns over an all paint hand with K-K.

Don't mind that, but we don't see a single low card, it comes all paint, & so that's that.

Tomorrow's adventure is a real swingy one, $400 Big O/5 Card PLO @ Golden Nugget. Seat belts & crash helmet needed for that one but it should be a bunch of fun.