Thanksgiving Week Roundup
Little Mr. Mom, little 100-200; all in the life of a poker pro. Happy Thanksgiving boys and girls!Last time I wrote I was headed off to the UPC $600+60 event, hoping once again to make the elusive TV table. However, the most exciting thing that happened there was seeing Pam Brunson, a friend of mine, who HAD made the TV table from Sunday's event... wearing the last bracelet that her dad (Doyle obv.) had won at Binions. So freakin cool. It was a neat moment to wish her good luck before she sat down. From there I headed to Bellagio after my 2.5 hour visit to Binions and sat immediately in the 100-200 game. The game was a total rock garden and I escaped after two hours up 1200. I then moved to the 40-80 mix which was super juicy and ran TERRIBLE. Enough said there. Then, went home, played online, and blew another $600. Total loss for the day around $2k.
Tuesday I woke up and decided to be Mr. Mom - doing laundry, cleaning up, and generally catching up on everything that I have failed to do for the past two months. I got insurance on my bike and paid for six months, went to the DMV and registered it, bought a mouse, fed my snake, and continued to do more house chores. I think I did somewhere around eight loads of laundry. Sick, eh?
Wednesday I woke up with intentions to do much the same, and after doing more laundry, cleaning the bathtub, and attempting to clean my room, I gave up. I headed into the Bellagio around 5pm to play some 1-2. They finally got a THIRD (sweet, eh? not even a tourney in town!) game started around 6:30. I sat, played four hands, folded them all, and then got moved to the main game. I folded my first hand, won the second, and then won the third... good for up $3k immediately. NICE! I played for another few hours and finished up $4800.
The game was pretty interesting. The mix consisted of Scott Fishman, two local pros, and myself - which is usually an outlook for a pretty bad game, but it was actually a pretty good game. After the two local pros shipped out, Kenna James shipped in, and let me tell you - I was very impressed with what he did to the game. He reminded me much of what I like to do to a game - walk in, be loud, be funny, be personable, and generally fire up the game so it's fun and loose. I hope to reach that point where I can do that to a 1-2 game. I was also impressed with Scott's play - 100% solid. There were no real interesting hands, but y'all might get a kick out of this one. Dave, who looks familiar and regularly plays in the bigger games, raises UTG+1. The fish to my right cold calls, and I three-bet with the A K . Dave 4 bets, and we both call. The flop comes rags. Dave bets, fish calls, and I muck my AK - figuring that I'm drawing to 6 outs at best - quite possibly 3 or 0. Either way, bad spot. The turn comes a Q , Dave bets, and the fish folds. Dave shows 5 8 . Atta boy! Pretty silly when you broke it down, but it sure was good for his image, and he played it good post acting on his reads.
So, here I am fifty-one minutes into Thanksgiving. I was really hoping to head home for the holiday, but found out this week that my sister was not coming down from Colorado, nor were we sure if we'd be able to see extended family. I was planning on heading down and then coming back immediately tonight to meet Lara, who flys in at 1:30 PM today! WooHoo! So instead, I'm picking her up from the airport and we're headed to John's house. I'm pretty excited to have a family thanksgiving dinner with one of my best friends here in town, my girlfriend, and my roomie Danny. Should be good times!
Peace and good luck,
Devo
posted by Devo @ 2:06 AM
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