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Fuck live poker!

And if you had told me the only pro player I saw my entire trip was Bernard Lee, I would have laughed my ass off.

Incidentally, he was a super nice guy, so Im gonna hope he comes in 2nd only to Rizen.

We came back a little earlier than expected, but now that Im back Im totally glad that we did.

Officially, I played 4 tournaments at the IP. I cashed zero times, with the one bubble, and about 987329487 bad beats. And 1 time of running ak into kk in a 4 bet pot. 3 times I managed to accumilate larger than average stacks. That last stat I dont like given I had no cashes. Maybe Im just being results oriented though.

Officially at the Beau, I played one tournament, the WPT nightly 2nd chance. Even though that was my only MTT cash, I am very pleased that it occurred in that tourney.

I played one sit and go last night, a 10 seater 65 that paid one 530 seat. A drunk old lady to my immediate right was very adamant about organizing both a last longer as well as a bounty. I believe we got 6 and 5, respectively, with only those competing being eligible. (Our "organizer" busted when it folded to her on the button and shoved about 25 big blinds at 50-100 with j6, only to be called by the chipleader in the BB with AK, lol)

I chipped up early when I got someone to double me up with 99 vs my kq after checkraising him allin on a K77 board. Then a shorty pushed in, and in a 3 way pot, flopped quad 6s, but received no further action.

Eventually, we got down to three. One kid was uber fucking fidgity. It was very apparant that he was fucked up on something, but I couldn't tell what. Perhaps the pot was impairing my judgement.

Right before the blinds hopped up to 3-600, ADD kid runs to the bathroom. I couldn't believe it. I really had to piss as well, but this was not the time with every blind being so crucial! I picked up 2 blinds in a row, which were crucial being the shortstack.

Eventually, we agreed to a 3 way chop, as I wanted blackjack money, and on top of that we were definately crapshooting and I had already survived one 60-40, and was not looking to deal with another.

After the sng, it became blatantly obvious the ADD kid was all coked up. Whatever, to each his own.

Today after running the AK into KK, I went down to the table games. I wanted to play blackjack, but the table I wanted was kinda full. I saw a 3 card poker game and played the 5 dollar bets. In a span of about 10 hands or so, I hit both 3 of a kind (30-1), but a straight flush (40-1) as well. I dabbled in blackjack and craps and lost a little but overall the table games broke me even minus expenses for the trip (it wasnt even that much too, like 300 bucks).

All in all, Im very glad to be back home. I hope to be writing some non poker related topics this week, which will be a nice change of pace, as Im kinda of sick of tournament reporting by now :)