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Where to start... We woke yesterday, Monday, and I wrote the blog below. After that we headed to the pool. WOW I have never been to the pool here it is CRAZY cool, I have some pictures... lets see if I can get them on the Blog.... I have been have some trouble....

OK so after we hung out at the pool for awhile we headed inside for some lunch and drinks, I had some pizza and a couple corona! We then went and got 2 tickets for KA! It is a show here at the MGM. We got good ticket 3 rows back off the balcony, they still ran us almost 300 bucks, but that is OK. The shows starts at 9:30pm on Tuesday, good for us as we really have nothing planned. A Buddie of mine told me that we had to go the last time we were here in Vegas but never went! So Niel we are going!

So After the ticket booking we headed to the poker room to see what was going on. We found a poker tourney that started at 6:00pm, we decided that we would both play in it, good practice for the WSOP. It was a $125, good starting chips, long blind levels, but bad blind increases. It was only 2:00pm so we had sometime to kill so I played a little 1-2NL. There were 2 hands of note.

I have AA under the gun raise to $10 everyone fold to the BB he calls, Flop comes Qh 8s 4d. He checks I bet $25, he calls. Turn comes Ts, he checks I bet $55, he pushes for 105 total. I call he has J9. I lose.

I have Ac7d on the button, 3 limpers, I call. Board comes 7h7c4c, Check, check, bet $15, I raise to $45, fold, fold. Then the raiser pushes for $170, I think and think and call. he has 6c8c. TURN comes 5c, he makes straight flush

The max buy in at the 1-2NL is $200, at this point I was in for $500 and only had $125 in front of me. I did manage to grind it back to $500, but it wasn't fun! :)

So it was tourney time, I was at table 5 and Shirley was at table 2. I liked the look of my table, we had some loose players that were going to make it fun. About ten hands in I have 55 in middle position I limp with 2 other limpers. The button a bit of a crazy man raises it 3 times the BB. I call with 3 others... 5 way to the Flop, Ah Tc 5d I flop a set (who can tell me where this is going?) first spot bets out 1/4 of the pot I call and the button raises to 3/4 the pot, first spot folds I call. Turn 7h I check looking to check-raise-push. Button checks. River comes Ks I bet 1000. button raises to 2k. I call he has QJ... I have $225 chips left.

I go out 5 hands later AhJh vs. KhTh all-in PF

What a fun 20minutes!!! LOL Here is Shirley to talk about her tourney experience:

I didn't get any hands for the first 3 orbits, which was good because I like to have that image. Anyways, the fourth orbit: I'm the big blind. Under the gun raises to $200, and there are 4 callers. I look down at pocket kings, and re-reraise to $1000. Everyone fold except for middle position. Flop is 5s, 9s, and 5h. I think this is a pretty good flop for me, and to avoid any potential hazards, I push for the rest of my chips which is about $2200. He immediately calls, and shows 5d and 7h. I don't improve on the turn or river, and am out in the first hand I play.

So we were down and out!!! We went and grabed another bite to eat. Had some more drinks, played some low limit holdem and then went to bed at 3:00 am.

We woke up today at noon and decided that we had to head over to the RIO and sign up for the WSOP event 35. This year I did not bring large sums of money with me thinking that I could just buy-in to the tourneys with the old VISA card, well they don't except VISA buy-ins. Luckily I had enough for the buy in so there was no big worry. But it could have been a deserter! Shirley then chickened out, she has informed me that she does not want to play in the event. That is OK, it is probably better that she doesn't, I think she would just be too worried about the money and not play here game! So I'm all signed up and ready to go

The Rio is packed right now. They are running the Heads-up tourney to day and there are a lot of big name in this tourney. The only pro I didn't see today was Daniel. Phill Hellmuth was at the final table of the 3k event, he is going for bracelet #12. I watched that event for awhile. I left after they were down to 6 handed. it was pretty exciting here are some pictures

Here is one of the First round Heads-up matches that I found very interesting... It is Howard Leader VS Dan Harrington

Harrington WON...

Anyway we are now back to the MGM Grand now. I'm writing this blog and Shirley is downstairs playing the piggies. We have the KA! show tonight in about 2 hours or so then maybe some poker. we have nothing planned for tomorrow but I'm sure we'll find something!! LOL there is shopping that has to be done, I'm told! Then the Big tourney on Thursday. I'll probably write more tomorrow and give a show update and poker update. Anyway I'm outta here TTYL

Eric