GL to Eck and MickeyP

[ChipRich]

gl both, shib it.

[The_duke]

Go deep and enjoy the experience

[Matt50]

Good luck both,get it done boys.

[kinboshi]

Go deep and enjoy the experience

Wise words.

[Colchester Kev]

Go deep and enjoy the experience

Wise words.

maybe if they were auditioning for a porn film !

[Claw75]

Go deep and enjoy the experience

...as the actress said to the bishop....

[RichEO]

GL guys. Will keep a look out for you.

[madasahatstand]

Good luck guys, not that you'll need it with your skills

Have a great time too.

[Tonji]

GL chaps

Blonde T shirt for the Final Table!!!!

[Eck]

Right people apologies for the lack of updates but i figured if i am going to do some they better start now before i forget what the hell happened.

Disclaimer: Details may be blurry due to what will become obvious.....

Day 1:

Standard flight delayed at gatwick we arrive in vegas staying at the Luxor get checked in and head over to the Rio to register. I forget to lift my passport so will have to come back next day to go through the process (sigh). By now we have been on the go for best part of 30 hours and it is about 9pm vegas time. So we decide to have a beer or two in the Rio. Meet Morlspin, DaMatrix and GamblingGaz (only knowing people by forum names seems a strange world). Anyway a couple of crap lagers later Brian (MCFC on various forums) suggests if i fancy a Guiness we go to O'Sheas so it would be rude not to.

We have a few drinks of the black stuff in O'Sheas and we are down to about 4 guys left. Myself a young lad called Ollie Crawford who won a seat on Virgin, Brian who has came out for 5 days to Rail his mate who he travels to lots of festivals with. His friend is called Stephen Boyd some may know him as the "the Mole" on Virgin poker where he plays cash up to the 300/600 euro blind level.

This is Steph:





So this is steph's first time in Vegas (amazingly he has only been playing a few years) so i decide that on his frst night seeing the Rio (which is pretty tacky even for vegas) and O'sheas (which is a bit of a dump) wasn't giving him a good idea of the place. I suggest we head over the road to Caeser's and have a look at the card room etc which are pretty impressive. Arriving at caesers about 10pm (remember how long we have been up here and well on the sauce) some idiot suggests we play the 11pm tourney (ok it was my idea) young Ollie thinks this is a great idea and registers i have second thoughts and decide to sit down at a 1/3 cash game and steph decides to play some 5/10 cash.

At about 2.30am Steph and I are sttod outside the poker room having a ciggie i have ran my $300 up to about $650 and he has increased his $1000 to about $6500. we couldn't see ollie and figure he has busted so decide to play for about another 1/2 hour and head as we are absolutely shattered and pretty drunk (trust me there is a theme developing here) Can't remember much about the hands apart from annoying a guy from luton by calling his flop bet with the stupid intention of making a play at him later but actually hitting my gutshot for broadway and he couldn't lay dowb his 2 pair   

Just at that point Ollie appears he has been out of sight at his table and is well chipped up with about 3 tables left. Well it would be rude to leave the guy i mean we have known him for about 8 hours now so we decide we are there till he bursts. We leave Caesers after 5am (gets rather vague here) Ollie has chopped the tourney ($120 buy in btw) for $1k. I cash out over $1k from the 1/3 game and we realise Steph, who was last seen tipping a wee chinese woman $50 at a time to stack his chips when he went for a smoke, wasn't about. we figure he has gone back to hotel as he was well gone earlier so we head back and find most of them in the bar at the luxor. Steph soon joins us and it turns out a couple of yanks he was playing with took him to a bar but he got a bit wary and left fairly soon. so after more drinks we head to kip after 6am ish   

Steph is in the room net to mine and i ask him how he finished up? he is that drunk he pulls out a bundle of notes and asks me to count it. i made it at least $9k so a cool $8k profit first night in vegas..net morning he said he found another grand in another pocket 

Right that was day 1

[Eck]

Day 2:

pretty knackered up about 11am Steph and i went to the rio to get me registered. Steph managed to leave his i-phone in the taxi so not a good start. Got registered had no real enthusiasm to play so we had a chilled out day we went to binions as we thought some guys we knew were playing a comp there but couldn't find them so proceeded to have a few beers and slowly made our way back up to the luxor stopping off at the Wynn for more beers. met the team from virgin in the luxor (and the missus, yes she did actually come too, have only seen her for a couple of hours a day until now, but she is having a lovely chilled out time)

further drinking in bar and we dicide to go to MGM for some cash. Pretty bad idea as everyone isn't admitting they are knackered so nothing to report think i dropped $40 B we met brian there he made a nice profit and steph came out slightly up. so we head back to hotel and Steph and Brian do there best to initiate me into the newest poker team on the circuit. "You have heard of the Hendon Mob and the Hit Squad, well meet the Glenfiddich Gang!!! Now get that down you!!!" don't even like whisky but im not rude as you know.

Think we made bed for 6am.

[Eck]

Day 3

this is getting tough here...old memory cells are fading.

Basically we got up, fed and hit the bar tbh. Steph and Brian were due to meet a team from Punter's Lounge in Blondie's bar at PH. We waited for MivkyP who was at the Manadalay Bay watching the darts and headed down. it was $10 for a wristband and they gave you a plastic drinking vessel which you coiuld refill for your pleasure for 2 hours at no more cost. They probably didn't do too well on the profit side of things that day......

This finished about 6pm and we deicided to play the 7pm at PH was a $70 freezout. Chopped it 3 ways with Morlspin who kindly offered the 3 way chop whenit got down to 3 and we went on a break. I gladly accepted as Graeme had a large chip advantage blinds were huge and the missus ahd joined the team who looked like they were having a riot at the paino bar behind the poker room. the other guy who looked like a younger, fatter Paul simon thought for a minute and accepted. They need to have a 1st 2nd 3rd for there records so it was all in next hand and Paul simons AK held even though my Q4 turned a flush draw. Reason for the details there is in case Morlspin tries to tell anyone he won a comp in vegas...

Proceeded to bar, copious amounts of corona then headed back to Luxor and instead of doing the sensible thing and going to bed (I am playing the ME next day) I get a drambuie and head of to the 1/2 game in the Luxor. I proceed to play the most Uber aggressive poker of my life and put most of the table in fear of their life..   ( been spending to much time talking to the mole who plays short handed cash) anyway think i lifted a $300 profit in a couple of hours and headed to bed at 3.30 well slaughtered to get some sleep..

I start the Main event at 12 am so perhaps not the best preparation.

[Eck]

OK day 4 this is going to be short as i haven't had a drink yet today and it nearly 3pm ffs.

main event: get up feeling like crap, absolutely no idea why reckon it must be something viral...

My table is in the Brasilia room which is dissapointing as it doesn't have the same feel as the amazon room. My table had to my right some young american who i subsequently found out was 3rd in the short handed comp Minieri won. He got his aces busted by AK 3 handed but seemed only slightly annoying which was a bonus. I was in seat 9 (9 handed)

Seat:

1 - Cecilia Nordenstam

 

2 - random yank
3 - Random turkish guy
4 - American guy who professes to play in WPT. Must have made his money in Software or something as he pretty much stinks a poker.
5 - 21 year old in the full tilt gear called "chad". Spoke in that lazy american drawl and kept talking to Norman Chad and Lon Mcwhateverisnameis as if he knew them when they walked by. Said he read cardplayer a lot and mainly played omaha online but had no idea who the guy sat in seat 6 was.
6- Rolf Slotboom



7 - old American guy who just wanted to survive
8 Justin Flitz

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9 - Some ridiculously hungover Scotsman.

[Eck]

First hand of day Chad limps folded to BB (Random Yank) who raises to 300 (50/100)
fop comes      RY bets Chad calls, Turn  , RY bets Chad calls, River   RY bets Chad reraises (forget all bet sizes but reraise was i think 5k on top of RY 2k bet) RY calls he has the Full house with a Queen, Chad flips         


First 3 levels (2 hour levels) had very little cards and felt like kack so played not much nursed stack up to heady heights of about 24k. Had cultivated a rock like image so any action i made was given respect except by random yank who called a few raises but passed to the c-bet and "chad", who was putting me slowly on life tilt with his drawl and general Americanness, who called a raise from and led into me on a jack high board for a bet of about 800 in 2nd level but soon disappeared when i repopped to 3k. i figured finding out if my tens were good and what my image was like. Chad then went up in my estimation by informing the table i had only played like 5 hands in 4 hours cementing my rock like image with those not paying attention. This helped immensely in allowing increased nicking.

Was fairly dry on the card relied on reraising Justin when i had any reasonable holding. Justin was raising pretty much most pots folded to him. Then in the 3rd level (i think - was a long day and i was struggling by on one egg benedict that i had managed to eat at breakfast) I looked down to see   and as i go to lift some chips to raise i hear the dealer say "oops Misdeal" (was the first of the day). sigh.......

Level 4 (5 levels per day)

Chad limps UTG folds al way round to BB (Clifford something the incredibly bad poker pro) Clifford checks Chad bets takes the pot and show queens. This induced Rolf to ask why he limps utg with queens and chad slurrs out that he expected one of us guys to come over the top and he was going to repop. which made us then question him about the possibility of commiting his stack to a raiser who may have him beat in a deep stacked tourney with a pair of queens. Think he thought we were crazy tbh but chad does read a lot of the updates so perhaps...

anyway midway through level 4 Random Turkish Guy Limps utg and it folds to me on the button and would you believe it   . i raise to 1200 (150/300 25 ante). RTG reraises me to over 6k (can't remeber exact amount but felt it was enough to commit him to pot as he was on about 20k too. So in they go and he calls with    Aces hold and i am over 40k - sweet.

Continue to play day out with fairly solid values as i absolutely done in and happy with 40k to go into day 2. Eventually nurse it up to 49475 winning the last hand of the day and will return on wednesday hopefully in better condition...


Right that is enough for now as i am now suffering withdrawels will try to do another update soon...

[amcgrath1uk]

awesome report.. hope it continues!!