Mr. Las Vegas!

Yeah, I know... I am MISTER Las Vegas. I play in the biggest poker tournaments in the world and spend many days per year in Sin City. I know almost every nook and cranny of this crazy town. Yeah, right! I spent 20 hours yesterday in MY ROOM!!! And loved every minute of it!!!! I played 2 hours of live poker, spent 45 minutes running around, and 1:15 at the pool.

The WSOP had an Omaha tournament - a game I'm not very skilled at - so, I went over to play the Bellagio 2pm tourney. About 1 hour into the tourney, I get pocket Aces - woo hoo!!! In front of me it went "call $100", "call", "raise to $450", ding ding ding ding I have pocket ACES!!!!! I raise to $1200 because the $450 raiser was a Euro nut job. It folds around to Euro nut job guy and he reraises me to $3,000. I decide to just call hoping he would think I had AK. The flop comes 972. He shoves all-in. I insta call. He shows me JJ. Weeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! Next card out: J Booooooooo!!!!! I pack up and slide out the door.

The good news is that it is only 3:10 (another 1:10 tourney for me). I hustle back to Rio to "late register" for the super satellite to the main event. I played quite a few hands in the first 30 minutes when the following action happens: Folds around to the guy next to me who raises to 400 - pretty tight average player. I only have 2,100 in chips. I see QQ and shove all-in (3rd time in 30 minutes trying to look weak). I really thought the guy would call very quickly because he's probably not goofing around with a weak hand. He's got about 4,500 in chips and finally decides to call. I am shocked to see him turn over QTo. QQ vs QTo is about as good as you can get it all in before the flop. I am an 89% favorite. My opponent tells the dealer "give me a straight, dealer!". I say "man, you don't ask for much, do you?". The 137 to 1 flop of AJK hit the board, and I hit the door. I am kind of getting tired of walking away laughing at my dumb luck. What can you do?

I went back to the room and did some work on my laptop. Watched a great college world series baseball game between Arkansas and Virginia. About 5:00 it dawned on me that I could play some online poker. With the time difference, all of my favorite events were starting. I signed up for 5 tourneys. Got bad beat out of 2 of them which caused me to play poorly to bust out of a 3rd.

That left me with 2 tournaments on Ultimate Bet which I was doing very well in. One of them was a $1000 buyin tourney with big payouts. I am killing it floating around the top 20 for most of both tournaments. Then, of course, the site goes down. They cancel the tournaments and give everyone their buyins back plus a proportionate piece of the buyins that had already busted out before the outage. I had gotten myself into great position for a $50,000 payday and now I was looking at getting $2,000 back.

Wow, I've done something to really anger Lady Luck. She is a fickle woman. I'll just keep bouncing along kind of like I do at home when I'm not smart enough to know that Mary Jane is mad at me.