French people are mean. Entertaining, but mean.
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.