Sunday, June 04, 2006
Vegas: Part 2
I guess it goes in Poker that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, and well, I have been hitting a string of pretty bad beats. I keep on putting my money in with the best hand and losing, I have been sucked out on for about 1500 in pots in the last three or four days. Two days ago was the first time that I have ever been affected by a bad beat and definitely got me pretty somber. My aces got cracked by kings, which for those that don’t play poker is like betting someone $250 that when you role a dice it won’t be a six, and then it is a six. I’ve lost more money in a situation where odds were more in my favor before, but because of the timing I was really bummed.
Cachaulo and I decided to enter a tournament at Caesar’s Palace, I was ready to get up from the Cash game at that point anyway, and I was glad I did. I managed to outlast a field of 78 players and make it to the final table. Considering I had been busted on the bubble and bad beat out of the four other tourneys I entered, I was happy this one worked out. I pushed for the table to take a chop, and we each won $810 dollars. Cachaulo bought 50% of my action, so I made $405. It seems that whenever Cachaulo buys a piece of my action I make a lot of money. I have definitely made him over a grand.
I have decided that being a poker player, three to four weeks is the perfect amount of time to be in Vegas. You get a chance to make friends with the locals and a few out of towners, and despite having played over 150 hours of cards I am still not bored with it. Now that I have had a chance to play many of the poker rooms in Vegas I can say that the Wynn is easily the best. Just like everything else at the Wynn they just do things right. I am ready to move on and do some more things with my summer, but I certainly have not had my fill and cannot wait to come back.
Cachaulo and I took one day off from poker on Wednesday to do some things that a normal tourists would do in Vegas. We woke up late and drove to the Wynn for the buffet, awesome food, comp’ed by the casino. After lunch we went to sports book and made about 15 $10 bets each. We sat there and watched all of the horse races, the baseball games, and the NBA playoffs. Almost all of my tickets paid and I made $70 on sports. Last weekend I also bet $120 to win $50 on Matt Hughes to beat Royce Gracie at UFC 60. I was pretty sure it was a lock and I was right. Cachaulo, Alicia, and I went to a bar in Henderson that was packed full of fight fans to watch it on pay-per-view and the fight was awesome. Hughes won in the first round and my bet paid off. After the sports betting, Cachaulo and I popped on the blades and we saw all of the shows on the strip. First, the Mirage volcano, second, the Bellagio fountains, third, the Sirens of Treasure Island, and last the mud wrestling at the Frontier. I have also managed to see my one Vegas show, Penn & Teller. It was not as good as I had hoped but I was still pretty good.
I am off now to play the tourney at Caesar’s again. I leave here in two days and Cachaulo is already gone. I am excited for the final stretch.
Cachaulo and I decided to enter a tournament at Caesar’s Palace, I was ready to get up from the Cash game at that point anyway, and I was glad I did. I managed to outlast a field of 78 players and make it to the final table. Considering I had been busted on the bubble and bad beat out of the four other tourneys I entered, I was happy this one worked out. I pushed for the table to take a chop, and we each won $810 dollars. Cachaulo bought 50% of my action, so I made $405. It seems that whenever Cachaulo buys a piece of my action I make a lot of money. I have definitely made him over a grand.
I have decided that being a poker player, three to four weeks is the perfect amount of time to be in Vegas. You get a chance to make friends with the locals and a few out of towners, and despite having played over 150 hours of cards I am still not bored with it. Now that I have had a chance to play many of the poker rooms in Vegas I can say that the Wynn is easily the best. Just like everything else at the Wynn they just do things right. I am ready to move on and do some more things with my summer, but I certainly have not had my fill and cannot wait to come back.
Cachaulo and I took one day off from poker on Wednesday to do some things that a normal tourists would do in Vegas. We woke up late and drove to the Wynn for the buffet, awesome food, comp’ed by the casino. After lunch we went to sports book and made about 15 $10 bets each. We sat there and watched all of the horse races, the baseball games, and the NBA playoffs. Almost all of my tickets paid and I made $70 on sports. Last weekend I also bet $120 to win $50 on Matt Hughes to beat Royce Gracie at UFC 60. I was pretty sure it was a lock and I was right. Cachaulo, Alicia, and I went to a bar in Henderson that was packed full of fight fans to watch it on pay-per-view and the fight was awesome. Hughes won in the first round and my bet paid off. After the sports betting, Cachaulo and I popped on the blades and we saw all of the shows on the strip. First, the Mirage volcano, second, the Bellagio fountains, third, the Sirens of Treasure Island, and last the mud wrestling at the Frontier. I have also managed to see my one Vegas show, Penn & Teller. It was not as good as I had hoped but I was still pretty good.
I am off now to play the tourney at Caesar’s again. I leave here in two days and Cachaulo is already gone. I am excited for the final stretch.
