Feels good to be back in vegas. although i wont be here for long. U.S, Customs isnt really excited about me going back and forth like this.

So basically my game plan is to play a ton of poker for 2 months and see where i’m at.

I played a little bit while back home. Nothing much, just talked poker/vegas with all the local regulars who knew me from before. I think i made a few bucks tho.

then traveled to Victoria BC to visit family. and now arrived in LV last night.
My car was at Venetian so I went there to pick it up and played some 1/2 NL
I made a quick 170. Funny hand was a guy with K,3 on a board of 3,5,8 with 2 diamonds, calls after it goes bet, and raise by me. I had 8,9 of dimaonds for top pair with flush draw.
turn is a 3. and we get them all in. river was a J of diamonds for my flush, and he’s like Ohh, such a brutal suckout…..blah blah. I look at him confused, wondering how he can justify his flop call, 5 handed after a bet and raise, yet he feels he took a bad beat? give me a break. So i packed it in around 3am.

Today I started playing aorund 5pm. Played 1/2 NL at planet hollywood and after an hour of play i was up 380.
nothing really major either, i was just getting decent cards, and playing solid.
So with that in mind, I decided i’d quit cash games and play a tourney over at Sahara. its a 65.00 NL holdem tourney. start with 6k in chips. blinds are 30mins. but the structure of blinds is pretty good for a $65 tourney.

we started with just over 100, and got down to 30 players. I had zero hands for the last hour of play and was bleeding chips, i finally had to make a move with 10k chips and 500/1000 blinds. didnt work out though.

So I decided to go play some satelites at Venetian for their deep stack extravaganze events running all month.

I played a 130.00 satellite and busted 1st. Its very rare that i bust so early in a sng since i play them really well. But this was just a bad play by a bad player who got rewarded and i was out.
I then decided to play cash games while waiting for another satellite, which I feel was a mistake, but Now that i look at it, I was just unlucky again. I lost 200 with KK on a Qh,8d 4h board. Villain had J,10 of hearts and caught the ace of hearts on the turn.
I check raised him all in, and he says something like “Pocket queens……” and then calls. whatever. I’m just super pissed because as soon as that hand ended, they call my name for another satellite. so now i cant re-load.

I go into this next satellite steaming, but soon regroup and focus. well what do you know. I struggle to keep my head above water as i continue to get garbage hand after garbage hand. My best hand was K,Q. I spent the entire time winning small pots. I never went to showdown. finally we’re 4 handed . I ave about 1800 and blinds are 100/200 and chip leader limps from UTG. i push button with 3,3. He thinks for a second, and then says. “ahhh ok i call”

he has K,6.. ugh.. so standard that the flop is 10,6,4.. turn and river brick and i’m out. considering I had been playing very tight and never went to showdown, and that he had K,6!!! he should be folding there 110% of the time. So I lost all my profit from cash games today, but oh well.
I’m pissed at the poor showing in tourneys tonight, but I planned to play cash games to pay for them, and that part of the plan worked.
Now all i need is to get into a bigger event here and cash deep.
ship a 5 figure score 1 time!

cheers