Day 3

The first thing I did was hit the blackjack tables and I promptly lost 3 doubles and splits to an English dealer named Jane. Luckily the shoes were pretty decent and I was able to eke out a decent gain.

I thenregistered to play in the 11 am MGM tourney and busted out first hand with J-J vs 2-3 clubs. He called a large raise and a large continuation bet then lectured me how you should never raise Jacks. Apparently I was stupid not to recognize his flush draw (backdoor runner runner).

I then went to Harrah’s and played in their bounty tournament. I had 80 percent of the chips and knocked out 27 people ($10 a head) when we split. I took down first prize and an invite to the year end tournament of champions so I will be back in August.

A woman was one of the last 3 and she had unbuttoned her shirt to distract the table. Hah! I was unfazed since she was had nothing on my wife Missy!

One notable incident occurred during the tournament. A dealer raked the pot after an all-in short stack survived without matching the chips. I helped figure it out and correct the problem but the other guy kept arguing. I looked him in the eye and told him there were only 2 things that were true in this world.

1 NEVER fight a land war in Asia.
2 NEVER argue math with an Asian.

Day 2

After taking a refreshing swim I played BLackjack for several hours and netted over $400 catching a few good shoes.

I decided to head over to Caesars to play in their megastack tourney for practice. My first hand I played Q-7 off from the big blind and flopped second pair. I may be color blind because instead of betting $100, I bet $1000. I got a caller and wanted to kick myself! The turn was a Q and I bet out $3000. Another call and another on the river. So I almost doubled up through a mistake!

The lesson here is always act like you know what you are doing, even if you don’t. Despite some good play I got caught making a huge bluff with A-8 suited against A-K (the guy was moving all in with marginal hands). The upshot is that I will not get in that situation in the WSOP.

I returned to the MGM to play some BJ and promptly lost almost $5k! Things were looking bleak for our hero until I used a positive shoe to win it all back plus $300 with large bets and doubles.

During this session I saw a craps table going nuts for 20 minutes. I meandered over and who did I see but my old buddy TJ Cloutier(a famous pro poker player).He was actually pleasant to me and we commiserated as he lost mucho dinero. I could do an entire blog on TJ saying nasty things about people. The entertainment value was well worth my losses. You have to admire a guy who can tell person after person what worthless halfwits they are to their faces wirhout ever losing track of all his bets on the craps table. Soon he ran out of money and he had a LOT. He went through a roll faster than my wife at Neiman Marcus. Last year he told me he won $40k in a tourney and then lost $50k at the craps table.

I went to bed thinking that if I ever start gambling like Mr. Cloutier someone needs to shoot me. Actually that someone would be Missy.