been at the aria 2 days now, very nice it is too but the bed is way too soft for my liking. went to a nice seafood restaurant with scotty after his FT heroics, he was in good form & took the beat very well considering the stakes, cherry cokes all round. I jumped into day 1c of the venetian 1100, it ended up getting just over a 1000 runners & I return today, one of about 180 day 2 players with an average stack, a very playable 35bb. loads of UK pros showed up, Cody, Lewis, JP Kelly, in fact the only absentee was scotty...mbn to take a day off. it's the 1500 megastack over at the rio tomorrow, 15k stacks, blinds start at 25/25, my worst nightmare lol, but folk are predicting a 5000 runner field so I shall be treating it as my main event. I think tony scraped into the PLO8 day2 so glgl to him, more updates in a day or 2 Posted by yoyo
Can tell you're getting on a bit Julian with comments like that
Good luck for day 2 and all your events. Big turnout for the Venetian considering the owners stance regarding online poker....
been at the aria 2 days now, very nice it is too but the bed is way too soft for my liking. went to a nice seafood restaurant with scotty after his FT heroics, he was in good form & took the beat very well considering the stakes, cherry cokes all round. I jumped into day 1c of the venetian 1100, it ended up getting just over a 1000 runners & I return today, one of about 180 day 2 players with an average stack, a very playable 35bb. loads of UK pros showed up, Cody, Lewis, JP Kelly, in fact the only absentee was scotty...mbn to take a day off. it's the 1500 megastack over at the rio tomorrow, 15k stacks, blinds start at 25/25, my worst nightmare lol, but folk are predicting a 5000 runner field so I shall be treating it as my main event. I think tony scraped into the PLO8 day2 so glgl to him, more updates in a day or 2 Posted by yoyo
Obvious link here! You need to teach Ryan how to hold his cherry cokes!
...don't even get me started on the water pressure in the shower,
day 2 in the 1100 at the venetian started ok but once again I think I tripped over myself 4b shoving AQ from the c/o into the active BBs KK....there was a slight wrinkle in the play of the hand when the button threw out a slightly bigger raise when he hadn't seen my initial raise....it kinda ended up looking like a squeeze from the BB, anyway, not a happy camper with how I played my last 40bb.
cash games continue to go well & it's 6 wins from 6 sessions as we speak, whudda thunk it, I'm in danger of having a break even trip if the run continues to hold....
had a good run in the huge 1500 megastack, had chipped up to 40k from 15k & promptly ran KK into AA quickly followed by AA getting busted by QQ when he pinged a str8 on the river.
it ain't all bad, the boy scotty is poised for yet another deep run in that event within another chance of making my mrs proud,
home tomorrow, really enjoyed the trip; struggled in the MTTs & tbh, with hindsight I just don't think my in game focus & my stamina were good enough; I made more than a handful of iffy plays & despite being well rested/not partying hard I spent a lot of the time yawning & daunted at the slow pace/long days...not good for a supposed MTT pro!
I unreg'd from yesterdays 1k after another long slog in a 1500 only to bust near the end of day 1; I chipped up early & made a mis-step trying to push the old guy off his hand, re-raising all-in w 88 on a Q77 when he had AA - that knocked me from 25k back to 7k but in true yoyo fashion I was up to 35k within 3 hands, as you can imagine it wasn't pretty lol...
I dribbled down to 20k at 300/600, a 7k stack moved in in the c/o, I re-shoved AQs on the button but the same old guy woke up w KK in the BB & I was toast...not sure whether flatting 7 & folding w 13 back is correct, but given the ooppenent it's hard to range him on anything worse...
cash continues to surprise, 10 from 10 winning sessions, absolutely loving it; it's just so nice to be anonymous as I tend to get stationed ALOT in the UK, here I can sit there quietly, make the odd move, get the folds when I need to, hey I even won a high hand jackpot at MGM for $100....as natalie bromley commented, 'was it ever in doubt'.
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Good luck for day 2 and all your events. Big turnout for the Venetian considering the owners stance regarding online poker....