Heres the proof.....

So I mentioned I have been sick/jetlagged/tired all week and played yesterday and lost. Heres an example of how it affects you.

I have been getting large electricity bills even when I am out of town. The meter is being misread. On August 2nd it was read at 46180 and I received a large bill. I was not even in town for some of the time I was being billed for. I decided this week I would take daily meter readungs to see how my electric usage surged or varied between days depending on what things were being used. So I had:

Mon: 46872

Tue: 46895

Wed: 46925

Thu: 46953

All good so far, until today when I took the reading. It is 45xxx not 46xxx. I checked this 3 times today and it is definately 45xxx. So I have gone out there 4 times this week whilst sick/tired and all 4 times I have read the meter wrong.

Its an easy mistake but the sort of small small mistake a tired person makes and the sort of small small mistake a poker player makes again and again to lose lots of money.

Dont play poker when you are tired or sick!!!!!

Dont break the rules

So I've been sick this week and also jetlagged and somewhat tired. Of course the rule I am referring to is:

Do not play poker when you are super tired OR when you are sick.

I played yesterday and lost 4 buy ins online playing PLO. So I played a couple of 45 man SnGs and lost them too. Unsatisfied I went to the Hawaiin Gardens casino for the first time since I got back and entered their tournament and lost that.

So I played some $40NL and lost a couple of buyins and then tried my hand with $3-$6 omaha 8 and lost another couple of buyins.

All the time I was coughing, croaky and had a headache.

It kind of sucks that when you are sick/tired you cannot even think what went wrong. I got my money in with AK v AJ and lost. QQ v AK on a K-Q-10 board and lost. Top 2 pair vs another guys 6-3 after a large preflop raise and lost when he rivered the straight. All I remember was getting my money in good and losing again and again.

So there you go - dont play when sick people, and dont play when you are tired. And especially dont play when you are SICK and TIRED....

Vegas results

Vegas update:

1. Played overnight $1/$2 NL session - win $475

2. Play early morning limit o8 session - lose $45

3. Play short daytime $1/$2 NL session - lose $200 (see below)

4. Play short evening limit holdem $4/$8 session - win $80

I feel I played ok. I lost the $200 getting it all in with kings preflop against a fish with A-4 but unfortunately the flop had an ace so the fish got lucky.

The wife took $240 of my winnings for slot machine madness and I dropped another $300 showing my friends how to play craps, blackjack and roullete but that was the cost of entertainment. I won $150 on a slot machine waiting for friends/wife to return from the pool and another $200 playing blackjack just before we left so the end result is about break even.

Now Im itching to plan my next all poker vegas trip.....

Vegas baby

Im still in love with Vegas. Somehow I need to fit in some poker play but

a) my wife is with me and does not like poker too much

b) we only have 2 nights

c) friends are meeting us the 2nd day for drinking/gambling probably non-poker!!

Heres how I have done so far:

- we left UK at 2pm and arrived in Vegas at 6pm after a 10 hour flight. I tried to sleep as much as possible knowing my wife does not like sleeping in planes so she has arrived shattered.

- check in to hotel and relax with wife for a bit - she IS shattered so I sleep for a couple of hours with her.

- with her approval (shes half asleep) I leave the room about 10pm for an overnight poker session. I have had lots of sleep today so feel great.

- play in Venetian until 8am, then sneak upstairs to greet her just as shes getting up.

- she wants to play slots so I gave her $100 of my winnings and shes gone down to the casino for a couple of hours so I quickly nap to grab more sleep.

- late morning I get up, we meet up - she tells me shes has booked into the spa for 3-4 hours

So what shall I do now........heading to the poker room...cya. I have about an hour or two before our friends arrive so a quick cash session should be fun. So far I've win $475 in last nights session but donated $100 to wifes slot gambling!! Hopefully I can win that back now.

UK trip number 2

So I went on another UK trip but this time it was with my wife and all about visiting family and friends and not so much playing poker. Having said that I did fit in a bunch of poker.

I played a few pub games where I enjoyed a couple of pints, a couple of smallish tournaments but mostly playing cash PLO games which I feel is my most improved game this year. I am winning fairly consistently online playing PLO and also had a number of good live sessions.

Its strange that for all the poker in California and Las Vegas there are very very few PLO games. There are lots of Omaha 8 limit hi-low games but almost zero pot limit or just Omaha hi.

This made my adventures in the UK more enjoyable. They have a strange dealers choice setup where the dealer asks if you want 2 cards (holdem), 3 cards (Irish) or 4 cards (PLO). Lucky for me most players choose PLO.

Anyhow the UK trip ended and I have flowb back to Las Vegas for 2 nights with my wife before going home to California.

WSOP update

So mi_turtle finished 106th which was good for over $100k.

Then there was a 4 week wierdo period where:

a) everyone on 2+2 seemed to pick a fight with him

b) one of his students claimed he ripped off a charity donation

c) he deleted his twitter account and disappeared

Anyhow the furore eventually disappeared and he did a video interview on pokerstatic.com to explain everything.

Whatever anyone says about mi_turtle (and he has plenty of critics) theres not denying hes a good poker player.