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Pat's Poker Page - May 10th, 2005
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Vegas report
Well, a couple of days here helps me realize just how good poker is in Arizona. My own experience here after two days, plus conversations that I had with a few friends who are playing here all the time, tell me that I won't have to travel here much. Weekends seem to be good, but the high limit games during the week are populated with good players.
Played in two terrible games Sunday night, an 80-160 holdem and a 75-150 mixed game, and lost about 800 before going over to the Mirage to look in on the room and see how the satellites for the tournament were going. No big games at Mirage, but I did play one satellite. Finished 4th of 10, but no money in that!
Played the 1k no limit tournament yesterday. Very short stay! First hand that I played, I called a raise from the BB with AQ of spades. Flop was Js 10c 9s. Pretty huge draw for me, but it didn't come. Next hand was AQ, flopped Q high, but the other player had KK. Nothing much good happened, other than having plenty of time to play live games.
Before heading back to Bellagio, I walked over to the new Wynn casino. It's terrific. They obviously spent a ton of money and did everything first class, but there were no poker games higher than 20-40, so I went back to Bellagio.
Played in a much better 80-160 game last night for 7 hours and won 4500. No real interesting hands to speak of. Most of the session, had 3 very poor players in the game, so the game was ok even though there were several tough players.
Gus is working in Vegas for the moment, and I had a chance to talk to him about the games for a bit. I also talked to Mike on the phone for awhile, and we may get together later tonight for a drink.
Ken Aldridge, or "Teach", as everyone knew him on the cruise last year, called Sunday night. We had a terrific talk about poker in North Carolina, er, I mean, they don't play there because it's against the law. Yeah, that's it. It was great to hear from him, and he was very, very excited for me in my new career.
The 7 card stud tournament starts at 2 today. Looking forward to playing my best game again...
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