Friday 19th

Had a lovly nights sleep in my suite, i woke refreshed and ready for some more poker. I got down to the room at about 3pm, by this time there was already 8 2/5 tables running and about 12 1/2 tables running, Vegas is mental !! I sign up for a 2/5 game and get to work. There was no drunks at my table, but there were lots of players thinking they are very good at poker. I played pretty standard again, picking up pots now and then, mainly with basic continuation bets, or check raising orignal raisers off flops they were unlikly to hit. Im at about $600 from my starting of 400 when i get this hand:

UTG raises to 25, me 2 seats around raise to 70 with QsQc, all fold around to original raiser whom make the call - he has 300$ stack left, flops comes AsQd8h, he now bets out 165 into the 145 pot, i hollywood him for about 15 secs and then raise him, he snaps calls me with AdKd, no help for him and i pick up the pot. Sadly for this guy - he bought in for 500$, ends up 2 hands later getting it all in with JJ vs AA pre-flop, he wasnt too happy and left the table !!

After that good start to my day i took a lunch break at about 6:30, i decided to take the chips off the table (850 by that point) as i dont have the bankroll to be playing 2/5 properly, so i decided if i was to play 2/5 again id sit with 400$ again. After my lunch (at 7pm lol) i decided to give 1/2 another shot - over the last two night i had lost about around $350 at 1/2. Once again i really struggled, making lay downs when i was ahead and then picking up one or two beats from bad players. Although i was only buying in for $100 like normal i was down 300 in no time at all it seemed. I was sitting next to a nice young guy called Jeff, we were disscussing hands and how bad all the other players were at the table, was nice as majority are older - 30years plus, where as Jeff was only 23 so could relat to him better. In total i ended down about 325 from this 2 hours of 1/2 - a nap was in order i felt by this time - i cashed my chips and went for a snoozzzzzzzzzze.

Returning at 10pm i felt like playing a few more hours, ended up playing 3 hours at a 2/5 table, it was truly continental, Myself, a Canadian, an Iraqi, an Argintinian, a Austrialian and a couple of Americans. Once again there were no massive/crazy hands in this small session, i played pretty good - practiced putting people on what hand ranges i thoguht they had and trying to get tells of the other players actions and bet patterns. It was good as we had the same 9 of us for the whole 3 horus so i could study and apply different techniques to the different playing styles that were going on, but all in all only made 100$ on that table.

Up 225 in total roughly from the day, pretty happy with my play on 2/5, very unhappy on how ive been unable to get to grips with 1/2

On Saturday, as i had to be checked out by 11am i was up early, packed up all and checked out on time ! GO ME ! I had a choice, stay and play some poker - as there was plenty of tables running, ro head back out to the house to get some more sleep. As i only got about 6 horus worth i decided not to play and to go home, after all was said and done heres how the small stay broke down:

Poker

1/2 = $600 DOWN

2/5 = $975 UP

Hotel =$300 DOWN

So all in all it might look like i have waisted my time playing for 20 hours or so and make 75$ but i had a really good time and stayed in a very luxorious place for a couple of night so all worth the effort in my opinion !!

I will be iupdating daily from now on, or at least trying my hardest too !