Thursday 17th

I woke excited, after a nice 8 hours sleep i felt refeshed and ready to hit up some more poker, i packed up a little bag for my 2 nights (250$) stay over at The Venetian and off i went. Once i got there i check in and chill in my room for a bit :

Very posh ! :) !

Nice views outta my window ! :)

Come 6pm i was ready to take on the poker, so i wonder down stairs and decided to sit in the 2/5 game, after watching the 2/5s the day before i had come to the conclusion that it was a much easy game to beat, i was able to pretty much put the players on the hands they showed and was able to read them easyer than the 1/2 players.

Sitting with 400$ i felt good. I got onto a table with two quiet drunk players, as alchole is servered free to the players some take advantage of this. The table was quiet friendly so this help me to settle into the game, i picked up a few pots and rolled up to 500 with no problems, then got my most interesting hand of the evening : Drunk (very talkative) player raises from UTG+1 , we have one caller to his left, then i call in D with TT. flop come Q73, this gets checked around including me so we see a 8 turn. The original raiser now bets out , only 35 into a 80$ pot, the player to his left folds , i call him. 3 on the river and things look good for me i think. He then stops his friendly banter and bets out 105, he goes stiff and stars at the board. I imidetaly try to engage him in conversaion, he does not even blink, i think for another 30 seconds and decide he is bluffing and trying to take the pot away from me, so i call he mucks and i take down the pot. NICE

After about 3 horus playing 2/5 i had rolled up to $825, I decided to jump off of the table, the drunk guy had just got busted - and two seats were filled with full buy (1k dollars). It felt like the time was right to move on. So i took a small break - cashed up the chips, had a wonder around. I decided to sit myself down at a friendly looking 1/2 game, sat with $100 and played away. Once again like the night before i got smashed big time, getting my reads wrong at ever action of an opponant. One perticually bad read was as follows :

This hand occurs on my second buy in for 100$ - i had lost the first with a couple of bluffs in spots and getting called by top pairs without kickers and middle pair hands. I raise to 10$ from MP1, CO raises my raise up to 25$ D then re-raises up to 60$, this is the first hand i have seen the player sitting in D raise PF, and he has rarly even got to a flop. I think for a second and fold my JJ, CO then shoves in, D calls amost instantly (they both have around $250 stacks) they decied to show their hands, CO shows 88, D shows 77, I CRY !!!! :(

All in all a lost another stack on that table befroe calling it a night - ending being about $275 down from that 1/2 game - still up 175$ on the night.