Sleep With the Fishes, Dine on the Whales

Finally some Hands and some poker talk... Made a stellar call, in the final three of a tournament, to cripple a guy and guarantee myself top 2 money. Flop was rags. Turn a brick. River a brick. I got AQ no pair. Guy bets every step of the way. My read tells me each time he doesn't have it. At the end, the bet is big enough to cripple one of us, but I can still survive if I fold. I think about it for 3 minutes and then decide to trust my gut. Dooschbag turns over a lowly 7-2 (no pair), I win. What a schmuck no need to bluff off almost all his chips there. Why did you call he asks me? I couldn't really answer, I just knew even with a board of rags he didn't connect and he didn't have much. At another final table this asshole who works in the hotel club gets into a hand with this big teddy bear nice guy from Texas. Ahole raises, nice guy reraises, Ahole calls. Flop brings an Ace (I put ahole on KKs the way his face drops). He bets despite himself and then get...

Met up with another friend of mine, who moved out to Vegas to become a poker pro. When we did we saw what appeared to be the filming of a porno at the Harrahs outdoor carnival bar. We saw the "plot" part guys so settle down. Anyway, this 4 or 5 attractive, but porn star attractive so not, raided the bar and started grinding with people in the audience as a dude filmed them. After molesting two old black guys, one of which had a cane, they started heading our way. I gave them the look of death, I'm not being in any part of a porno movie. All the while an old guy named Cook E. Jar sang along to 50 cent, bobby brown, and every hip hop artist. He was 57, white, and fat. Surreal. Yet, so surreal, with the security guys taking pictures with the porn stars, and a guy sporting the Ronaldo triangle cut and a Soul Train circa 1984 suit getting down even when the music stopped, and women of all ages baring their breasts it is a stop you should make in Vegas. Great free ent...

Ran into a college buddy who 10 years ago moved to Sweden and fell off the face of the earth. Nobody has heard from him. He was stunned when I called him over waiting in line for the $500 Satellite at the Rio. He had no idea who I was and I of course f'd with him until he did. Turns out he married a Swedish girl, got tired of the unending sunlight in the summer and became an online limit poker junkie. The rake alone from his last year was $100,000. He's the type of guy that could be a poker millionair in a blink of an eye. He's working for a Euro company taking care of all their Main Event contestants. As I've remarked before I wasn't too impressed with that contingent in the cash games or tournaments I played but I wouldn't be surprised if one wins the M.E. If so, I hope it's one of my boy's.

Also, the two NFLers that tried to kill each other in Vegas earlier in the year, walked into Caesers at the same time, randomly, while we were playing there in their late night tournament. I must be bad because I was running a bluff on a kid who called me down on a danger board, with me betting every step of the way, with Ace rag. Couldn't get anything going in that tournament but I might have been a little impulsvie. A specific Louisian politician I keep seeing at the Wednesday tournament at Harrahs (new orleans), and at the bigger visiting tournaments was... playing at Caesers in Vegas. I get back and read some old papers from when we were there and the Times-Picayune is quoting him about Road Home stuff, and I'm thinking he must have stepped away from the felt to take those calls.

After my friends run of bad luck we decided to watch some summer league games at the Thomas and Mack center. Great deal. We got to see three to four guys per NBA team that will be starting and basically had our choice of seats. Not only that, the GM for the Hornets was approachable, so to alot of front office guys and players just watching from the stands. David Lee from the Knicks has a hot ass girlfriend. They watched the young Knicks play and three rows back, draftee Spencer Hawes and rookie of the year Brandon Roy spent more time in the stands staring at her than their Washington U boy Nate Robinson playing. Isiah Thomas was there. That made the concession guy fill better because he was no longer the dumbest guy in the building.

I went with my friend who may do some blogging for GCP. Unfortunately, it took him some time to get used to live action play and when he did he started a horrible run of luck. On his last day, his win it all back day he sat down for a cash game in our hotel... With the mandate to play tighter than a drum, he did... only to lose set to higher set, lost flush to higher flush, and full house to full house. Not only that, this absolute jackass who took both of us for a couple hundred our first night there, by shear dumb play, played in the Main Event and was in the top 5% after the first day. He also stopped by my buddy's table just to (rub it in, gloat, brag) let us know. Other than that, I think the trip is always judged partly by the distractions. As my bud said the pool at the T.I. was a great one. He thinks part of their payment package for the waitresses is a trip to plastic surgeon for knockers overflowing is an apt adjective so to uncontainable. .

Read the articles on the glummed faced Main Event contingent, those sullen and non-fun participants that started the event, and what's being attributed to the cause of their stick-in-the-mud mentality? It's because the online sites pay their winners in cash and those winners then have to use that 10k, they actually hold it before they buy their seat. Suddenly, they realize the value instead of it, and it's no longer getting a Full Tilt entry certificate so the money is actually real and they are all playing to win. Ummm... not exactly. Anybody who has won a "seat" be it a $1,000 or a $50,000 HORSE seat appreciates the value of it. Nobody isn't thinking this 10k could be better spent on 10 flat screens around my house or I hold in my hand a decent used car. On top of that, besides Kimmono lady, and companies inserting stooges into the event for P.R. purposes everybody has been playing to win. Just because it's a freeroll makes you less desirous of 5 m...