Waking up in the early afternoon, still drained and disappointed from the day before, and a little hungover, Chip and I decide to go downtown to the Golden Nugget and check out their tournament series, which fortunately for us starts a little later than the others.
We get to the GN, where they've just started their $150 afternoon tournament. There were 67 players. I had no desire to play an all day, small field tourney for no money. We decided to play the nightly $120 at the Venetian instead. This left us with all afternoon to screw around. I had stayed downtown my only other visit to Vegas, but hadn't been there on this trip yet. Chip hadn't been there in years, so we decided to hang around. We had a sausage and peppers sub and a beer from a street vendor...delicious. We checked out the pool at the GN, which if you haven't seen, is awesome! There's an aquarium built into the pool, so you look like you're swimming with sharks and fish...the waterslide even goes through the tank. Very cool. We tooled around for a bit, drinking pina coladas and generally being very touristy....we even stopped by the Pawn Stars pawn shop. There is literally a line to get in the place now, unbelievable. It's on a pretty much unused part of Las Vegas Blvd, between downtown and "the strip", right next to a peep show, and across the street from a head shop, called Weedz, yet people are lined up on the sidewalk to catch a glimpse of Chum Lee...pretty funny.
After just chilling the rest of the day, it was time for the nightly tourney at the V. Right out of the gate, I start playing super aggressive poker, getting tangled up with an Italian pro in more than a few hands. He and I were clearly the only real players at a very soft table and I shouldn't have been playing against him, but I was tired of what had transpired from the start. He had just about 5x'd up right away from idiots going all in with nothing premium in the first couple levels of the tournament. I've said it before, this play is just inexplicable...and terrible. I was getting mad, because I see this in almost every tourney I play in, and I'm NEVER the recipient of this great fortune. I have to watch as player after player dumps their chips, but not to me because I can't pick up a hand in this spot. I start trying to take some his unearned chips and it's backfiring on me as he continues picking up hands. I finally get really low on chips and make a move on a guy with nothing, but betting a flop that says I do. Here's another situation where instead of the donkey kicking their chips to me, they're calling me down with 3rd-bottom pair with the world on the board...this will be a recurring theme. Unlike last night in the DSE tourney, where I don't put all my chips in on the river card to take down the pot, this time I do, and I get called with 3rd pair. Furious at this play, I just get up and walk away...I may not have even been covered but I didn't care.
Out of this tourney in about an hour, I decide to play another $130 Sit n Go to get into Saturday's DeepStack Extravaganza tourney. All 10 of us agree to put up another $20/man for a last man standing bet, which means not only would you get $500 in tourney entries, and $70, you'd get at least half the $200 prize. We quickly get down to 4 guys and decide to chop the $200 right away, so everyone is now only in for $100. I take out the 4th guy with AQ against QJ. At this point, me and another guy were clearly chip leaders over the 3rd. The short stack raises all in with 88, I call with AK, and the other chip leader folds A3 suited. The 88 holds up, and they are now the 2 chip leaders. If the other guy would've called with his A3, he would've hit a straight and knocked us both out, but top 2 get paid, so I would've automatically won because I had the 3rd guy covered in chips. Before the next hand, the guy that beat me asks if we just want to chop the prize 3 ways instead of 2, which is a very classy move. We agree and each receive $300 in tourney entries and $80 cash. This means I get to play Saturday's DSE for free, an awesome move! The move was extra classy considering who it was. During Monday night's tourney, I had been sitting next to a 50ish woman. Her husband came up while we were playing and said he was going home. He had just lost with quads to a straight flush in a 2/5 NL game. Excited, I say, "That's great sir! What was the bad beat?", not realizing there really aren't many bad beat jackpots in Vegas. He just says, "I'll see you at home" to his wife and takes off. I quickly realize what I've done and apologize to the woman for my comment, I really thought he was excited, not pissed. This was the same guy that offered up the chop. Thank you sir.
Saturday will prove to be a very long day...
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