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
,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.
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