(A group of us at FIX in The Bellagio)
On Tuesday night we hit up a VIP dinner hosted by Absolute Poker. The event was held at a fancy restaurant called FIX in The Bellagio. They brought us a variety of appetizers and small entrees as well as free drinks. The price for each plate was around $60 and god knows how much the drinks would have been. AP covered it all. At the dinner, we met Belooga, Airkid, and Hollywood Dave.
After dinner, we went to the Palms to Ghost Bar. Ghost is a club on the 55th story of the Palms Hotel and Casino. It was a sick nice place, but the drinks are expensive as fuck. Since Foolishgolf shipped a $13k WSOP package, he bought a round of shots for 11 people. The total was $110. Back in Iowa/Minnesota, shots are like $3-$4!!
After Ghost, a few of us went to the sister club Moon. This place was much more clubby than Ghost. It was packed. Right when we got there some dude bumped 2lip and made him spill his drink on his shirt. 2lip got pissed and threw the rest of his drink onto the other guy. Clover did the exact same thing at the VIP party on Monday night. The dude got pissed and started yellin at 2lip. They probably woulda duked it out if security wouldn't have come over and broken it up.
On Wednesday, I played my first poker event of the trip. I played in the $330 Venetian Deepstack tournament. My play was really solid. I took a LAG approach that worked for the most part. I bluffed a few small pots and built my stack up. Three hands eventually killed me. The first was me getting all in with 2 pair on a 4 card straight board, some lady called with KK and hit a straight card to chop the pot. That woulda put me at 40k, instead I stayed at 20k. Next, I had 67 suited in the bb blinds 300/600. Some donkey raises from the cutoff to 1500 (his stack was about 15k). I 3bet to 5k. He thought forever and called. The flop was J 6 3. I jammed since there was more in the pot than he had in his stack. He called and turned over 66. The donkey set mined for 33% of his stack! And on top of that, he hit the ONE card in the deck that I don't win the pot on. About 20 hands later, with only 13k, I raised K10suited from late position and was called by the blinds. The flop came 10 high. The blind checked to me, so I jammed and he called. He tabled 88. I bet you will only need one guess as to which card hit the turn.
So my first tourney kinda sucked. But hopefully I wasted my bad luck. Jdawg went deep in the 100k and 80k last night. He took 4th and 3rd respectively. Today myself, chipmystack, welcomeme, and clover are going to play the $500 tournament at Binion's. Should be a smaller field with a bunch of bad players
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