VEGAS SATURDAY

I couldn't sleep last night, so I stayed up reading until about 4A. Tom had set the alarm for 530A, and I got up to drive him to the airport. Afterwards, I came back to the room and crashed for hours, finally getting up around 2P. I watched Fox News and played Full Tilt tournaments all day while munching on trail mix and Zone Bars. I was looking good in the FT tourney as chip leader with 60 remaining, 18 paid, but it dried up pretty good and I barely squeaked into the money before busting out in desperation.

Around 8P, I got hungry and ventured out of my room. I went down to the PokerRoom suite and enjoyed some drinks while railing Samuel play deep in a Party Poker $20 MTT. It was a fun atmosphere with all the Swedish babes and fellow poker players with an open bar. I had no burger in my belly so I felt the effects of the Long Island Ice Tea. Link told me how he made the final table of the Bellagio $1k and cashed over $14k. Samuel challenged me to a heads-up duel. I got the lead on a big confrontation which I won and it was all academic from there. If I get a big lead heads-up, you are pretty much toast unless you get very lucky a few times in a row. I was able to wait for a good spot to get it all in and I took him out. Only then did I realize that we were playing for $10.

Now that I knew money was on the line, I gave him a shot at getting it back. This match lasted quite awhile but I kept stealing or earning the small pots and when I put him all in, he never expected me to be so strong as pocket nines so he called with K7 and technically I won with flush over flush when four diamonds hit. So I made $20 while drinking free Heinekiens in the lounge. I love these PokerRoom guys. Henrik also showed up, coming from three and a half weeks of vacation in Italy and replacing Kim who left earlier in the day.

I left the lounge in search of a burger and knowing where to find one, at the Sports Kitchen in the Rio. While I was waiting in line, three babely twenty-somethings got in line behind me and I found myself making pleasant conversation. Two of them were very interested in the poker player angle and they invited me to sit with them even after I had ordered my burger to go. I was surprised to learn that it was 2A, so I canceled the order of onion rings to focus on the burger. While we ate, one girl looked like she was so unhappy to be there that I called her on it. I said "it's 2AM, if you had designs on being somewhere else, don't you think you've had time to get there?" She couldn't really respond because she was happier being the victim than being the leader. The leader seemed to be the red-haired heavier girl who demanded they stop for something to eat. The third girl was an attractive brunette, which is my favorite thing of all. She was full of pleasant conversation while I ate, but ultimately, they were headed to the Voodoo Lounge for dancing and I am too old and ugly to get in there, so I went back to the room.