A few hours before the flight home and another Vegas trip comes to an end.
It was always going to be a high variance trip and bankroll management was thrown out of the window.
On previous trips there was 1 biggish buy in game, the rest being the 100/200 at Aria or Venetian so losing didn"t hurt as much, this week we took some shots at winning decent money, alas it didn"t happen, can"t be too upset about it, I was prepared to lose i have no complaints. The winner of the Ph event won $100k, an amount not to be sniffed at, I only wanted the trophy though, money was irrelevant.
I think I played much better than last year and that trip ended with a decent profit, got lucky in the right spots, this year I didn"t, variance innit.
Regarding the games in Vegas, usual starting stack was 12k in all games including the Wsop circuit event but the difference was the structure and level length 30/40 mins,all levels were included so this makes the games a lot more playable.
The local games have far too many chips and structures are poor in comparison, I understand why they do it, games need to finish etc, people like loads of chips to see flops with and tbh my experiences this week have pretty much killed my desire to get home and play the local games, no doubt I will play occasionally but gone are the days of 3 games a week, partly financially and partly because the joys of playing flops turns and rivers with 7 people involved doesn"t really appeal anymore.
The daily Aria game was as above so all though it"s a nice room etc if I do return it will just be for Venetian deepstack events, pointless paying to come over here and just play in similar games which are just around the corner.
To summarise then, zero cashes, not adding up the buy ins, brings a tear to the eye, lol.
Had one of the best steaks I have tasted, again the price of this meal usually feeds me and Susan for 10 days, it"s once a year so why not.
I managed to get a ticket for Love at the Mirage, enjoyable, may of said this before but you have to wonder what goes on in the designers and choreographers heads when planning and producing these things, takes me all of the time to think of a colour if asked.
I am not a party animal and getting tanked up by yourself is not my idea of fun but had one heavy night on the drink just to numb the pain, met a few nice people at the tables and in the bar so overall it"s been ok, easier to say it"s been fantastic when you have come home winning, so ok will suffice, no feelings of tilt or desire to quit the game.
We play, we accept what happens, we decide what to do next.
I spent the last day being a tourist, wandered the full length of the strip, seen a few exhibitions just to kill time, pondered playing one more at the Venetian but that was scuppered when I fell asleep for a few hours and woke up 20 mins before late reg ended, wasn"t that bothered tbh.
I popped out for a few hours to get rid of the remaining $$$$, and bumped into a face from the past, Gripper, when I say bumped into,he was the driver of the limo which was sent,if you read the first of these reports 2011, you may have an inkling as to where I ended up, he is still a very scary man, I mentioned to him we had met previously and although he didn"t remember me he said he will drop me in the back way ( really scared now), so I didn"t have to pay the cover charge (nice gesture but cover charge was waived because I called the limo anyway).
I got back at 2am, packed my stuff, and that is the end of this years trip. Back to reality, Boro game on Friday, will try and make Newcastle game and would imagine that will be the only one for the rest of the month, may try and Sat into Genting Sheffied as well.
Hope you have enjoyed reading, although financially hurt a touch don"t think I could of done anything different in any games played, re decisions made, that"s all folks, run good, be lucky stay healthy.
New balls please Me 2 v Vegas 2, going into the decider
