Day: Thursday Oct 26th

Total Cash: VERY LITTLE

Eric's Play: Not good

Shirley's Play: Not much better

We are alive!! Everyone and there Uncle has been writing asking if we are ok and why we are not updating the BLOG and when are we going to update the BLOG. Well here it goes!! :)

Well where did we leave off? hmmm... Has it really been a week? Holy! Well I here are the poker stats: (I know Joe I didn't follow your advice)

Friday Oct 20th - Mirage - 10/20: -1000

Friday Oct 20th - Bellagio- 30/60: -2800

Sunday Oct 22nd - Orleans- Tourney: -105

Sunday Oct 22nd - Orleans - 1/2NL: -300

Sunday Oct 22nd - Mandalay Bay - 4/8: +65

Monday Oct 23rd - Wynn - 8/16: -600

Tuesday Oct 23rd - Wynn - 4/8: -173

Tuesday Oct 23rd - Orleans - 4/8: +350

Wednesday Oct 24th - MGM - 4/8: +100

Yep it is Ugly! I don't know what to say. Well it is a no brainer, we might be heading home soon. What to say, what to say. We have decided to do up Vegas, and play a little less poker. We went to THE PRICE IS RIGHT on Tuesday. It was a lot of fun, we didn't get called up on stage, kind of good I guess cause we would have had to pay the 30% withholding tax on any prizes we won. I have no idea how we would have gotten a washer and dryer home?? LOL. The guy that hosts "BLIND DATE", Roger Lodge, was the guy that hosted the price is right. He did a good job. I would have some pictures for ya, but they didn't allow cameras in the show! On Wednesday, we went to the Ballys show, Jubilee.

Jubilee is an old time Vegas show, big color, big costumes, lots of dancing and singing and the best part of all, the show was TOPLESS. LOL To be honest I really didn't enjoy it that much. Shirley loved it. I found there to be a lack of story. It seemed like they were doing the same thing over and over, I don't know, I probably just didn't get it.

OK, Poker talk.

On Friday we went to the Mirage and played 10/20. I got stuck really quick, I bought in for a second time and shot off another 500. I was stuck 1000 and not happy about it. We left and I though how am I going to get that 1K back? That is when I had the GREAT idea of going to the Bellagio and playing 30/60 to get it back! Boy-o-boy was that a mistake! I went card dead! I played for 10 hours and only had KK once and I ran into AA . Then a couple hours later I picked up QQ and ran into AA. I never had AA, AQ. I had AK twice lost both times. I won 4 hands in 10 hours. The real kicker was 20 minutes after the KK vs AA. I'm in the small blind with J7 of clubs, there is 5 way action to me. I call. The board comes 89T. I flop a straight. I lead out and got 3 callers. Turn A. I lead out again. One caller and a raiser. I re-raise. The raiser, 4 bets. I call. River comes 2. I check. The guy bets. I call. He shows QJ. I lose. YUCK!!! I played until 10:00am. I knew that I was just going to have to take a big loss and move on. That day was the single biggest mistake I have made. It wasn't the way I played. I probably didn't play my best, but I didn't poorly. It was the conditions under which I played. I played over my bankroll. I played in a bigger game to try and save a loss. Big mistakes! I good friend of mine just reminded me that we all get the nuts an equal number of times. But good players don't shoot off there bankrolls when they are running bad!!! So true!

I then took Saturday off. I didn't do anything. But I did find a place that serves PUMPKIN icecream!!!! I'm addicted now. It is the BEST!!!!

On Sunday, I play in a tourney at the Orleans. More mistakes. But Poker Mistakes. There was 26 people left in a 100 man tourney. Avg stack is 9700. I have 21,000. Blinds are 500/1500 with a 200 ante. (500/1500 is an Orleans trade mark) Anyway, I'm one off the button and everyone folds to me. I raise to 4000 with 98s. I get called by the big blind. We have equal stacks. The board comes Ad 9c 3s. The BB bets out 3000. I think for awhile. I believe that my 9 might be good. So I call.... Man is that bad.... Turn comes 7d. The BB now checks. I bet out 3000..... Nice bet?!?!? Into a 15,000 chip pot. The big blind just calls! I'm sure he doesn't have an ace. River comes deuce. He checks..... and what do I do.... Check.... Nice check! He shows 9T. I'm out kicked and I lose 11,000 chips. If I had of put in a proper raise or pushed on the turn or later I would have had over 30,000 and cruised to the final table. Instead, I'm crippled.

We played some more over the next 3 days, you can see the stats. There are really no great stories to tell.

Poker Sucks!

Not really, I don't think that we are going to goto L.A. anymore. We are probably going to stay here for awhile. See if we can grind out a couple more weeks. Heading home is probably going to happening sooner then later. There is at least one more show in the near future.

The plan for tonight is to go find a good low limit game. Lots of drunks playing at 11:00pm. Hopefully be able to win a couple hundred. Then who knows.

-Eric