CARDRUNNERS

What's Your Edge

Andrew

July 30, 2006

I've left Vegas and am now in a hotel in Atlanta. I am here until Thursday afternoon to work on auditing a company called Amvescap. Thursday will be my last day of work, so I am pumped for that.

So when I left off yesterday I was leaving for lunch with Taylor, Gaucho, Steam Boat, Melissa and also Whitelime from 2p2 showed up. We ate at a deli in the Rio and decided to go our own ways after lunch. I decided I didn't have time to play live because we were meeting with Bill before the CR dinner to go over some stuff. Ryan (steam boat) and I went back to his hotel room to just chill for a little bit. At first I was going to take a nap, but since I'm a degenerate, I decided to play some online poker instead. The only place that had any reasonable games was party. I also wanted to stick to party or stars so that I could use the resizable table option. My laptop only lets me play 4 w/o overlap and I was hoping to play 6. Luckily, the games were really good on party and I had a great session. I picked up about 4.5 buyins. It was nice to finally get a good session in online.

The CR dinner went great. It was cool to meet Cardrunners members face to face. The food was good and we all had a few drinks. Bill took some pictures, so make sure ot check them out (not sure where they will be yet). After dinner we were debating what to do next. Gaucho really wanted to go to the Ghost Bar at the Palms. It sounded pretty cool and I wanted to go as well, but we decided that I wouldn't be able to get in. Also, I wasn't dressed appropriately to get in anyway. We decided instead to go to the Venetian to play some poker. I ran into Jsup, JohnnyDrama and Used2beGood there. They were all in Aruba last year and we all hung out a lot there, so it was cool to see them. I got into the 5/10nl game and sat with about 3k. The game was full of nits. I played for 1.5 hours and I didn't see a single pot over $250 (i'm not exaggerating).

David (gaucho), who was playing 5/10nl at a different table, came over and told me that a bunch of 2p2 guys were coming out to play a 1/2nlhe and 1/2plo uncapped game. That sounded good and since I was bored out of my mind at 5/10nl, I decided to join that game. About two hands in David and I got into a bit pot. I don't remember if he raised first or if someone else did but someone I got $130 in preflop w/ 1/2 blinds and he called. I had AQo and the flop came down K10x. I bet out $240 and he called. The turn was a blank and I bet $420. He called again. I wasn't liking this. The river came 10. I thought for awhile and decided that I didn't want to give up. I wanted to bet an amount that looked like a value bet that would get him off a king w/ a reasonable kicker (thats what i put him on at this point). I bet $780. He thought forver adn folded. phew. A few minutes later the floorman came over and told us wed either have to switch to 5/10nl uncapped or 2/5nl capped at 1k. We went too happy about that, but we didn't have a choice and we went with the latter. I pretty much just slowly lost money the rest of the night. I lost a 1k pot to whitelime where I reraised 23s and pushed a KJ10 flop. He had AA and called. Dumb play by me. BLdsWttrs was plyaing and was sitting two to my left. It was fun to get to meet him. Suprisingly, a lot of the people at the table were playing pretty tight, but me and him splashed around quite a bit. A few of teh other 2p2ers there were Neon (bedeviling on UB), fsuplayer and flawless victory. There were a couple others, but their 2p2 names are escaping me at the moment (although I do remember their first names!). I left the game stuck about 1k and hating live poker. It's just too slow for me. I think I am pretty much done playing live cash games. I have a pisspoor record and I never have any fun. The only thing I can really see myself playing is some small stakes with heavy drinking involved. Losing 1k live stings.

That pretty much sums up my trip in Vegas. I wish I had more time there as it was a very very quick trip.

Time to get back to the grind of a long day of work with hopefully some poker and cr stuff mixed in. Come friday I will be able to replace work with a round of golf and some additional relaxing time. I cannot wait.

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