Day: Friday Oct 20th

Total Cash: 8154

Eric's Play: -819

Last 5 sessions:

Wed Oct 18 - Bellagio - 15/30: +616

Wed Oct 18 - Orleans - 4/8: +112

Thurs Oct 19 - Orleans - 1/2NL: +460

Thurs Oct 19 - Orleans - 6/12: +372

Thurs Oct 19 - Orleans - 6/12: +62

Well Finally I'm putting a little run together I have profited the last 6 times I have sat at the poker table. I've take the advice of one of my poker father figures and have decided to not put so much strain on my bankroll, Thanks JOE!

On Wednesday night after I wrote the last BLOG, I though I was going to crash. I couldn't sleep so I decided to play some cards. I didn't play long but I managed to make $112 in the 4/8 game here at the Orleans. Nothing interesting to talk about really. I made it back to the room around 12:00am and went to sleep

Thursday morning we woke up early 9:00am, I forgot that Thursday is "play at the ORLEANS day" for Shirley and I. They have a draw here every Thursday where they just give away free money. You collect these little ticket through out the week and they go in a barrel and they do a drawing of 20 names through out the day. If you get called you spin a wheel and can win between 1000 and 10,000. We had a lot of tickets, Shirley can really sweet talk the casino guys into giving her a whole lot of tickets.

During the day I played 3 poker sessions of 4 hours or so. In the morning when I got to the poker room the only game going was 1/2 no-limit. So I sat in, these guys were pretty bad. The table consisted of 3 old timers, 2 guys that had been there 24hrs and were still drinking beer. Two fresh guys that had just woken up (Both were in town on business but had no clue) and there was one lady at the table. It was an EXECELLENT table. They were all pretty weak. I have no Big hands to talk about I really made the 460, with well timed raises, and re-raises. I did have AA run into JJ and I won $230 pot on a Q high board.

After that session, Shirley got me and we headed to the buffet for dinner, I'm sure that I have talked about the buffet here at the Orleans before. It is probably the best value we have come across. After that we waited for the 2:00pm ticket drawing, 10 names were drawn and we didn't get called!! O-well back to work for an afternoon session.

In the afternoon I sat down 4-8 the biggest limit game they have going. I noticed that they had a 6/12 interest list going as well and it had 6 people on it. I went to the floor boss and ask him if he would start it short handed. Of course like EVERY floor guy in EVERY casino, he said no. I then proceeded to find all the people on the list and asked them if they would play short handed. Three of the six said yes. Three people plus me makes four!! LOL And I knew I could get Shirley to play in it, that makes 5. So I continued to bug the Floor man and finally he gave in and called the list. Well I thought that it was going to be 5 handed, but 8 people showed up. We played 8 handed on and off for the afternoon. I managed to scoop $372, After 4 hours I was starting to get hungry again, and it was getting close to the 8:00pm drawing. So Shirley and I went to get some food and wait for the drawing. NO LUCK again, they didn't call our names.

Anyway, we headed back to the hotel room. Shirley wanted to take a nap. I wanted to go pay the bill for the week. So I headed to the front desk, there was a long line but I had nothing going on. When standing in line there were these to young ladys standing at the front desk and one of of them was going off on the hotel staff. I guess that the company that they booked there hotel reservations through had messed-up the dates. She was sooooo pissed off. She was swearing F-this and F-that. It might have been the funniest thing I have seen in awhile! After that show I paid our bill, It is costing us $550 bucks a week to stay here. Not the best but I'm really not complaining about it either.

It was 8:30pm or so and Shirley was napping, so what is a guy to do? Night session! LOL, When I arrived to the poker room the 6/12 game was still going! So I sat in it. I got stuck quickly! I was in for $500 and I had $21 dollars left at one point. Anyway after 6 hours I crawled out of the hole and made a profit of $62, I was happy!

I didn't get to bed until like 5am. We slept in until 3:30 in the afternoon and here I am writing this BLOG. The plan for the rest of the day is to go to Balleys and get tickets for "THE PRICE IS RIGHT" they have the TV show there. It is Vegases own show. It doesn't have BOB, but it is the same thing. Shirley really wants to go. Then we are going to head over to the Mirage and buy some "LOVE" tickets for next week. At the Mirage I'm sure we will play poker. After that who knows!

-Eric