Well not off to a great start! Finally landed about 3.10pm, about an hour late, out of the airport and into a taxi in record time... OK ride to the hotel and no queues at check-in... it got worse from here.
It would appear that I don't have roaming enabled on my phone. I knew there'd be something I hadn't done before leaving! So, a little sooner than anticipated I have to pay for the internet access to check with the Virgin Mobile website to see if there is anything I can do about it without making an international call from the hotel phone... it would seem not!
I have a look at the WSOP updates to see how James 'Flushy' Dempsey is getting on in the $10 Omaha Hi/Lo event and find that he is well chipped up and they are down to two tables. I decide to go over to the Rio and rail for a while... I find his table just as they get down to the final table and go on a break!
After a quick snack and a drink and with time to kill I decide to play a $125 SnG satellite. With just 1000 chips and a 15 min clock these get crapshooty in a hurry... and I hurried out in 5th place!
I wander back to the final table, where play has resumed... unfortunately watching a limit game from a distance is just too boring, I managed about 30 mins and bid my farewell to the Rio and headed back over the road.
As I walk through the door into the casino I hear an announcement, "Seat open... $1/$2 No Limit Hold-Em." Clearly it had my name on it. I sit down with $200 and soon witness some of the worst poker I've ever seen... unfortunately some of it came from me! An alert and patient man could have cleaned up in the game - I'm sorry to say I was neither.
After loosing $50 or so, I re-load another $100... drip some more away playing like a girl... and then decide to trap the bully with my pocket Tens. There had been an early raise to $6 - this only meant the guy had two cards, no more, no less... then as was usual there were three or four callers... I call also from the button, as does the SB... then Monsieur Bully (yes, he was French), not suprisingly makes it $60. As before they all fold, one after another, round to me... but of course this time I 'ave set zee trap por M. Bully... Boom! I move all-in for my remaining $200'ish... there how do you like that? "I like zis vey much," thinks M. Bully, as he calls and flips over AA. Bastard!
That was just after 11 pm, I'd been up for 26 hours... time for bed.
And now, at 6.30 am, I see that Flushy is still playing and is heads-up against Sammy Farha... I don't think I shall go over, the way I've been running they'll finish it just before I get there.
I haven't completed today's agenda yet... it begins with shower, followed by breakfast... we'll see what happens after that.
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