I hope everyone's having a great weekend (or *had* a great weekend by the time you read this). It started out as a gloomy, overcast, gray winter day here in Vegas-land, but the sun is now out, the "windy" has turned to just "breezy", and the Cardinals/Cubs game from Wrigley is on TV. Eddie and I are just chillin' out, relaxing with a couple of vanilla rum & cokes, and enjoying the day.
We got up early this morning with the intent of going down to Green Valley Ranch for breakfast at the Original Pancake House, but everyone else in town had the same idea and the line to get into the restaurant looked like the last day of the month down at the DMV. It had to have been at least a 45 minute wait to get a table. So we gave up on that idea right away, and decided to head over to Blueberry Hill on Green Valley Parkway instead. Of course, we couldn't leave without feeding the monster, and I told Eddie about the dollar slot that I've never lost on.
So we walked over to the other side of the casino and found the bank of magic slots, and wouldn't you know it--out of all the hundreds of empty slot machines on that side of the casino, there was one chain smoking old bag sitting at my machine hitting the button once every thirty seconds or so. She had 200 credits showing, so we knew that we wouldn't be getting a seat there anytime soon, either.
Basically our day at GVR was a total waste.
So off we went, and a few minutes later we were putting our name on the waiting list at the Bloob. Only a 15 minute wait there, they told us.
Once we finally got seated, it was coffee time. Eddie had some banana pancakes, eggs, and a ham steak, while I had pigs in a blanket and some hash browns. Good stuff, and for only $20 or so we walked away stuffed.
Now we're just kickin' it here at the house, sippin' on adult beverages and watching baseball. I can think of far worse ways to spend a Sunday afternoon.
As far as Saturday afternoon goes, we spent the day at the Sahara, playing in their daily No-Limit Holdem tournament. It's a good format--$42 entry fee with one $20 rebuy in the first hour, and 20-minute blinds.
Unfortunately, Eddie and I were at different tables and were unable to foist our particular brand of buffoonery on the poker room. And making it even worse was the fact that I was completely card-dead the entire time. In two-and-a-half hours, I had exactly TWO pocket pairs. With pocket jacks I raised 3x the blinds, only to see the jackass on the button to go all-in. Since jacks are weak against most all-ins, I folded, only to see the guy turn over his pocket nines. A few hands later I got pocket eights, raised, and only picked up the blinds.
Sadly, I only played nine hands the entire tournament--it was that bad. Of course, I had 'the Dougie' six times, and 'the Doyle' five times. But a pocket pair? Forget it. I did manage to triple up when I was on the big blind with four limpers, holding King-Eight of clubs and seeing two kings hit the board, but that's as high as my stack ever got.
My last hand came when the guy on my right went all-in for $2500, and I had Ace-Jack of diamonds and about $4200. So I went all-in, trying to keep it between the two of us, but somebody behind me with a huge stack also went all-in. We turned the cards over, and I was the bronze medalist--the guy on the short stack had pocket sixes, and the big stack had Ace-Queen. Had he not got in the hand I would've won it, as an Ace came on the river. But he got his money in and knocked both of us out at the same time.
I walked over to tell Eddie that I was out, and he said he was about to be, as he was all-in against a bigger stack at his table. The board brought no love and he went out in 35th place.
I think there were eighty-something players with about 30 rebuys, so they were playing nine places, with first place was paying $1600, and $800 for second. Unfortunately, we didn't even get a whiff of the prize money. But it sure was a lot of fun. I played well, just waaaaay too tight early on, especially when I saw some of the junk people were going all-in with. I would've liked to loosen up, but unfortunately I just got no cards after the first break. Ace-Jack of diamonds looked like a million bucks when I finally saw it come my way, but it proved to be my undoing.
Oh well. For forty bucks, it was a helluva good time. I'm looking forward to doing it again soon.
Mikey
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