A Crazy Weekend, TV time, and Maybe the WSOBlackjack?!?
Good times... Oh my goodness what a weekend. Thursday my friends Lars Rood and Doug Lawrence came into town. Lars was meeting two of his old friends from college for their annual Vegas trip and had asked me to show them around a bit. Sweet!Shortly before I left to pick them up from the airport I received an e-mail from my agent that I was being considered for the World Series of Blackjack season IV, basically a freeroll for a bunch of money and some TV time. Filming is at the end of this month so I had to get my application and audition tape in immediately. Hah. Good luck getting a poker player to do that in a hurry. So, Lara was kind enough to put my application packet together for me and I decided to shoot some video on my digital camera throughout the evening. I finally finished the final product Friday but wasn't able to get it uploaded until today. Content wise it kinda sucks, but I'm pretty sure it's original. If they're looking for a young, single, "Vegas high roller" type it'll work well. The quality is pretty poor though due to lack of footage and time, but it's a fun video.
Fortunately though I finally got my hands on the first episode of "Boston Rob and Amber: Against All Odds". It premiered this week and if you've seen it, yours truly is the guy who busts him ten minutes into his first session. You may remember reading about it this past fall. The show was not very reality except for the brief poker part as it seems pretty scripted, but I'm going to watch a few more episodes.
Basically what happened was I got a call from a floorperson at the Venetian telling me that I needed to be in this game. 2-5 NL, $1k max buy, full game, with Boston Rob for this TV series. Rob and I were the only ones who bought in for the full $1k. About ten minutes into the session, Rob limped UTG, I raised to $20, two players and the BB called and we saw a flop 5 ways. I held KTo. The flop came KTx with two diamonds. Rob opened to $30 (they said he checked on the episode). I knew he would want to play a big hand so I popped it to $120. Folded to Rob, and he went all-in with this goofy jedi mind trick wave of the hand and an "I'm all in." It was a huge overbet... $30 to $120 to... $1k?!? It made me stop and think for a moment, but I finally called. He showed the A 6 , the board bricked off, I gave them an interview (which they showed many pieces of), and the rest is history. My only complaint is that they didn't mention my name or occupation at all, and they definately knew who I was. Oh well. They really could have edited the interview to make me look bad and they did not.
So, I edited the episode down to that two minute scene and also sent that into the WSOB people. I'll probably find out the results pretty soon, and you'll be sure to know shortly after I do! That'd be so sweet...
Ok. Off to the airport. Spent some time hanging with the guys, went to dinner at Capo's, met up with Jim Shipley, went to the Venetian to hit up Tao, that failed, and ended up at Voodoo. From there I played some dice, won, went to the Venetian, played 1-2 NL $200 max with the boys, won $1100, and finally got to sleep at 11am.
Friday. Woke up late and hungover. Met up with the boys. What'd they want to do? Party some more. Aya! Ok... So, called AJ at the Wynn and he hooked us up with a walk through the line and free cover. Long story short, stayed up late some more, got home late (ie after sunrise), and slept some more.
Fortunately they wanted to keep it mellow Saturday night and they headed home by 1am. Jim, Doug and I went to the Wynn to play some cards. Everybody ran bad. Except Jim. He just played bad ;-). I played 30-60 and lost about $1200. Pretty disappointing considering the game I was in, but can't win em all, eh?
It was a fun weekend, a little crazy at times, but overall a good time. It was nice to be able to treat some good friends to something they couldn't have done on their own. I spent a bunch of money, won a bunch of money, and ended up coming out $600 ahead on the weekend.
This week: not going to Tunica. Thought it was going to be running later than it is. So I'll be playing the live games here in town and getting back on the grind. Next tourney is the LAPC. Hopefully I'll get picked for the WSOB! If you want to see either of those videos, I've uploaded them online and can send you the link.
Until next time, peace and good luck!
Devo
PS - Lara and I are still together very much. The "single" comment is in the legal marital terms, not anything else. Sorry for the confusion.
posted by Devo @ 3:57 AM
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