Best of luck later on Doobs - I see you bagged a decent stack overnight.
Steve Jelinek and Tikay's pal
Leif Force also have very playable stacks with ~200/1300 left.
Ah thanks. Got about average in the PLO8 with 7 places to the money. Game has changed a bit with a big blind ante. It was the same at the Venetian in the $1,000, which definitely felt a bit turbo. Half hour blinds (venetian) and big blind ante means you can go from a comfy stack to short in no time. Cashed in that too btw. Think if I min cash this, I am about breakeven as the first bullet started well, but then went very pearshaped. I made 3 correct folds then couldn't bring myself to fold 4th time.
Things I have learned. Think Paris is better than Ballys. I think it has better ventilation, so isn't nearly as smoky. Given all the Covid about, then not sure I want to be somewhere with a lot of Covid and bad ventilation. I literally had people coughing pretty badly next to me on both sides for a time yesterday. It was day 1 ffs, don't play if coughing like that or at least wear a mask... I know it could be just the aircon/vegas flu, but..
WSOP cafe is hilariously bad. Stale food for twice the price as before. Decent food isn't far away, but with 15 minute breaks and big queues it remains illusive for much of the day.
Registration queues are awful. Was about an hour for collusus, which seemed reasonable. One hour 20 for the PLO8, which didn't. Running a $600 deepstack with re-entries and the 2pm deepstack meant finding a good slot to register was difficult. And was late in Venetian, so couldn't do it the night before.
I think I have found the best place in the Encore for noise. Got a room right next door to tower suites, and didn't hear the club noise at all at the weekend, and didn't need to pay the $65(!) a night for a room above floor 30. Not had a bad meal yet, but prices of eating out noticeably up.
Virgin clubhouse was a bit disappointing. It was lovely, and there is a sofa in the lift; to go one floor! They managed to cock up 3 things on my food/drink order. I know people make mistakes, but seemed strange in a place like that when I only ordered 5 things. Fish and Chips a bit underwhelming... with oven fries? Whisky selection decent, and wine was decent when it got to me eventually. Vegetable gyoza also good, seating choices, plane view is solid for plane geeks. Nice place to spend the hour's delay.
Virgin Upper itself was very good this time. Seemed to have a decent crew and everything came quickly and was decent. Would do that again.
Finally, Pads is in the last day of the tag team, so will keep an eye out for him, but we might be in different casinos, so don't know how feasible that is. Lots of drama in the 50k with Hellmuth doing his best to make poker players look awful again, though Negreanu is giving him a run.
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