Vegas daily - March 26

Today I got going about noon starting at the Luxor poker room. The only seat available was at a $3/$6 limit game so I played that. I got off to a good start but then had a number of coolers against a lady playing insane cards from out of position. 9-4 offsuit, J-2 offsuit, 10-4 offsuit etc. - not only did she play these cards but she cracked my big hands 6 or 7 times where I was ahead until the turn and betting every street and then the river made here a hand. I lost my $100 and could not believe her luck. I decided I would be able to get it back because she was so bad so I spent another $100 just having the same bad luck. So I stopped playing and decided that table was a cooler.

I played $1/$2 NL for  short while and made a net loss of $20 before deciding to go to Ceasors Palace for their 7pm tournament. It cost $160 to enter. I was playing well and chipping up to well above average when I made a bluff 3 bet on this chap to my right. It worked so I tried it again a short while later. It worked again.  The next orbit I raised his bb again from under the gun and he pushed. He had about half my stack. I looked at my cards (pocket 8s) and decided he was just playing back at me to stop me from bullying him so I called his all-in and he showed the aces. Ouch! A while later I moved tables and was trying to chip up again when I pushed in with A-10 suited from the cutoff. Unfortunately the BB woke up wth QQ and that was that.

I then played some $1/$2 NL at Ceasors and made about $120 back of my tourney buyin when they announced they had a few seats left for the midnight tourney. So I bought a seat. This only cost $60 and had about 50 runners. The problem was I was supposed to check out of my hotel the next morning and drive back to CA and by playing this tournament I would be really tired (and probably fall asleep at the wheel).  So after and hour or so I regretted my decision to play but I was chipping up well and still pissed at my 8-8 mistake in the early tourney. Nothing much happened except we played for 5 hours until we had 8 left on the final table and all agreed to  8 way split. I felt I would win if we carried on but I was tired, aware of what was going to happen the next day and just glad to be going to sleep. The good news was a $307 payout.

I took a taxi back to the Luxor and finally got to bed about 5.45am....