Vegas trip report

what a day!

As I was leaving for the sunny climbs of Vegas on Friday morning I thought it would be a great idea to stay up through thursday night and sleep on the plane. This great idea turned out to be not really that great. ( a lot of my great ideas follow this pattern). I could not get to sleep no matter how hard I tried. Oh well I'll just make sure I stay up 'til a reasonable hour and everything will be fine . I dont play until Sunday anyway..........

So I arrive at the check-in desk at the Rio only to be told that my reservation has been cancelled as I didn't turn up the day before." I told the guys at the poker room I wouldn't be turning up until today" I bleated . After they pointed out the fact that they did not physically have any rooms I decided that I was onto a loser and went for a beer or two. After chilling with beer and cigarrettes for a while, I decided to pop down to see Adam who was my contact and would be at the stand in the EXPO that is running here.

Predictably Adam wasnt there and and I spoke to a very nice Lady who gave me the name of another nice lady who she assured me would fix my room mix up. So back off to the hotel reception I go. The decision is to put me in another hotel until sunday when more rooms become available at the Rio. Great I thought , I 've been up for 35 hours and I need to sort myself out. Adam then appears at reception and says " you are playig now" . I laugh out loud at the absurdity of his statement as I have an e-mail in my pocket that says I play Sunday. When he doesn't join in in the giggle I realise he is serious. "So I have no place to stay and I have missed 5hours of the main event "? I enquire somewhat incredoulsly . "yes" is the short but definate answer I recieve.

Clearly, getting in to the event is the top priority so I hustle on down and register , get my seat allocation and plonk myself down wondering how i am ever going to manage to get through this. My stack has dwindled down to around 8.5k. Which is plenty to be going on with.Phisically tho I am a mess and mentally I am totally unprepared.

11 hours later after making an awesome call ( if I do say so myself) and some good laydowns. There is a cheer and I have made it through to the second day with a workable 15,700. The blinds are 250/500 with 50 next I think. My stack has been to the centre on 3 occaissins with 77 (too short couldnt pass) KK ( it's KK) and Aj ( short stacked in the cutoff ) which rivered a j against 88 to keep me in the tournament.

I have never felt as bad as I did toward the end of the day . Nausea, sweating, black spots before my eyes the whole 9 yards. for the last 2 hours i could barley play and just played the cards as they came.

I am amazed that both me and my stack got through , I was sure one of us would fail. The poker gods showed a little mercy and now I cant wait for tuesday.

I am staying in the Mirage until Sunday when I will be back at the Rio.

I was supposed to meet Tank for a few drinks on friday night. If anyone sees him tell him I was a bit busy!!

I should be a bit miffed at the balls up really but how bad can life be when I am in day 2 with a workable stack? Adam seems a good guy and has already mentioned compenstion so I am sure they will see me alright.

Anyways bedtime
Good luck the blondes.