Bobby’s Room and A Change of Plans
So on Tuesday the plan was to just play cash games at the Bellagio and take the tournaments off for a day. We started a 2k-4k mixed game - same lineup and mix of games as previous with a couple other players thrown in. Game was not that special again. The lineup has been tough every day the game has run so far. As we were playing Phil Ivey was trying to talk some of us into playing the 3k HORSE tourny that was starting over at the WSOP. Most of us were planning on skipping that one to rest for the 10k 2-7 NL on Wednesday. But he made me an offer I felt I couldn’t refuse. He layed me 60k to make the final table of the 3k HORSE vs me laying him 50k to make the same final table. With a field of 450 players, most of the time neither of us will have to pay, but that was enough incentive for me to leave the Bellagio and jump in the HORSE tourny. I also crossbooked 20% with both Abe and Benyamine for the tournament. I was up 74k in a bad mixed game at the time so it was easy to leave and it would be more opportunity now in the tournament.
So I ended day 1 of the HORSE with an average stack, but Ivey, Benyamine, and Abe were all busted out of the tournament. So total freeroll for me for day 2. It would turn out I would cash in 36th place. Another deep run but ultimately dissapointed. 36th would pay $5,838. So I get an additional $1,160 from the crossbooks and me and Ivey are a wash. I won about 7k in the Chinese Poker during the breaks.
So during the tournament I am randomly seated next Dan, a friend of mine from back home. We are catching up a bit on what is going on his life and when he asks me how I have been doing out here, I tell him everything is going great but I am desperately homesick. Miss my wife and kids. So he says he has the cure for that. He is taking his jet home on Friday back to Philly and coming back to Vegas on Monday. He tells me there is room for me. Wow, best news I heard all trip. This came out of nowhere and when I thought about it, I could not pass on this offer.
So I am planning on playing at the Bellagio today and then taking a weekend back home.
Recent Result for Tournaments:
+2800
Net total for Tournaments +$15,300
Recent Results for Cash Games, Prop Bets, and Chinese Poker
+74k in mixed game
+12400 in prop bets
+7k in Chinese
Net total for Cash games, Prop Bets, and Chinese Poker +$260,400
WSOP 2009 Trip Total +$275,700