I woke up Saturday morning feeling pretty fatigued.  I guess getting a couple hours of sleep a night over the last 3 days will do that to do.  My initial plan was to play the $1500 2-7 event but with how things work out, it wouldn't be possible.  It's ok though because Jason and I made an agreement that we will play this event next year.  Maybe I can even convince OEric to give it a shot too. 

We got ready and met up with our friends from Arizona at the pool side bar for some drinks.  Caught up on old times for a bit and we parted ways to meet up with the SLC Group at Golden Gate for some late breakfast.  There, we met up with OEric, Rich, Justin N, and Eric L (maybe one more person but I don't recall right now).  During lunch, the three of us decided to play the Binions tournament that started at 2.  I also lost a prop bet to Rich during this period of time.  Go figure.  I told myself that I would come out ahead betting props with Rich this trip and that was the #1 priority, moreso than taking down an event or winning a main event seat.  Somehow I managed to lose the first one, which I was 99% sure on.  God I run so bad ...

I walked over to Binions and entered the event.  I think the entry totaled a little over a hundred, very disappointing.  I sat at a very talkative, entertaining table.  A guy went busto in the first orbit on a flush draw.  Good thing its a deepstack event.  I couldn't get anything started in this tourney and went busto about 3-4 hrs in.   I lost the majority of my stack when my KK didn't hold against A10.  I walked right over to the cash game and jumped in to a 1/2 NLHE game.

I felt like I had a good handle on the players at the table, 2 of them sat at my tournament table.  I lost close to $300 fairly early when I raised with AJs on the button behind some limpers.  Flop came A 10 6 rainbow and a guy checkraised my continuation bet.  I've seen this guy do the EXACT same move with top pair no kicker 3 times and 2 of the 3 times, he caught his 2nd pair.  I go into the tank because there is a chance I could be behind in this hand.  Against Bruce, or anyone else at that table, its an automuck.  He accuses me of "hollywooding" and that I'm taking too much TV time.  We wound up getting it in and he tabled AQ.  It was seriously the ONE time he had a hand.  I was able to battle back and finish the session +$24 so I was happy. 

On a funny side note, the table next to us was playing 2/4 limit and these old dudes were getting ROWDY.  They are yelling, screaming at each other causing a ruckus.  At one point, old guy #1 asks for a set up and gets it.  A few orbits goes by and old guy #2 asks for a set up and gets denied.  Floor yells "I just gave you a new set up, I'm not giving you another one!"  #2 blows a fuse and goes off about how come the other guy gets a set up and gets anything he wants blah blah.  Then the two dudes start yelling at each other and the floor had to come separate them!  As the floor is walking away, he yells "I want my damn set up" and the floor responds "NO!"  He says "I want a new set up because these cards are bad," as he proceeds to pick up a card and rip it in half!!  I started busting up laughing.  I couldn't believe what I just saw at a 2/4 limit game mind you!

After the session, Justin and I walked over to Main Street Station to meet up with everybody for dinner.  Pretty much the entire crew was there and it was a grand ol time.  As we were walking out, we had $40 leftover from our dinner tab.  Why not put it all on one number on the roulette wheel right?  Well, theres 15 of us, so lets go with that.  We all walk over to the roulette table and OEric plops down $40 on #15.  The ball spins and I watch intently.   It literally falls IN & OUT of #15 only to settle in the next door neighbor, #34.  "Too bad there wasn't 34 of us..."  At this point, everybody kinda went and did their own thing.  Jason, Justin, and myself met up with our buddies from AZ and played blackjack at the Las Vegas Club.  I played for about an hour and won $100.  It was my first and only time sitting a table game the entire trip.  It was a personal thing that I wanted to do this trip where I wouldn't play table games or at least only on a limited basis.  I did get pretty tipsy though because there was a point I tried to throw a $5 chip to the go go dancer in the middle of the pit and tagged a dealer in the back of the head.  Oops...  The rest of the SLC crew caught up with us a little later and they were playing Pai Gow.  We wondered Freemont trying to find a $3 craps table to no avail.  At that point we were ready to crash so we headed back to our hotel. 

TK