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Joker161:
I must have missed the clock because we are on Level 18 now. Omaha. I raise from the button with TT23. The BB calls. Flop is AQT. She bets I call. Turn is a three. I'm worried about the straight and so need the board to pair on the river. She bets and I have to call because most of my chips are in the middle. The river is a queen, but it turns out that's the card I didn't want because she has AQ. Out in 16th. Shame, but very good fun. For the last three hours it's felt like I've been on borrowed time, but then if I swerve that queen I would have been on over 100k and well in it. It's 9pm now so I'll go and find Matt and get an Uber home.

Joker161:
Got back to Harrah's and Matt suggested we play the 10pm $70 tournament. OK. I was sort of thinking I need to get as many free drinks as possible to make up for the loss of $70 in this crap shoot. Anyway, it turned out to be quite a laugh. On my right was one of the players with whom I chopped at the Flamingo the other night. The most amusing hand of the night was where he was all in for 800 in the BB (blinds 400/800). He didn't look, obviously, and I had K2 suited and called for a laugh. There were a few other callers. On the turn I had a flush draw and so I showed him my king and was just about to show the two when the dealer said "no, there's another player." Two to my right there's someone with his hands over his cards. No penalty because no one seemed to give a s**t in these tournaments. I expect him to bet but he checks. I hit the flush on the river, bet, and the "cover my hand" guy calls. I show my flush. The Flamingo bloke turns his cards over one by one and he has aces! The very next hand I'm the BB and there are three calls. I raise pretty big with AK. I get a min re-raise from a Finnish bloke (I find out afterwards) who hadn't seemed to know what he was doing all evening. I push and he tanks before finally calling with QQ! I hit a king on the two-spade flop, and then it's runner, runner spades for his flush. Quite an amusing hour and a half. Off to bed now.

ian.ski309:
Very entertaining as always Joe  :)

Joker161:
Thursday 4th July

I got woken up at 2.30 am (didn't reach the phone in time) then again at 4.30am by an MBNA fraud robot. An automated voice tells me they are a bit worried about a few payments. I have to go through various "press one" etc. Thing is, I tried to warn them I was in Vegas through the online account and there was no way of messaging them. I then rang them up and there was another automated message saying there was no need to inform us of foreign travel; just use your credit card as usual. SO WHY THE F**K ARE THEY WAKING ME UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT? Of course, it's day time in the UK, but perhaps the robot has the mathematical ability to work out it's the middle of the night in Vegas. FFS. The good news is that I'm sleeping so well this year that I managed to get back to sleep on both occasions. I wonder why? Perhaps it's Harrah's. I might have to stay here every year!

More good news: I'm watching Wimbledon and the Farmers Insurance advert has come on. At last! Vegas trips are not the same without Farmers. Also, Nadal/Kyrgios is about to start on the TV. Good job my Venetian PLO bounty tournament doesn't start until 2pm.

Joker161:
Breakfast at 9am, then a trip to Walgreens with Matt to get some supplies. Big breakfast then snacks during poker seems to be the way forward. Back to the room for the Kyrgios match and to get ready for the Venetian. There was an earthquake a couple of hundred miles away and Harrah's swayed a little bit. Tempting to evacuate, but the tennis was good.

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