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Late Start Equals Late Night Profits
July 08, 2009Ding Dong . . . Ding Dong . . . f**king hell Mat, just go answer the damn door so you can get a lift to work . . . it’s been like three hours and I’m already up
Well that’s what I was thinking before I rolled over in my uber-comfy bed to see the alarm clock on the bedside table . . . 7:38pm . . . WTF!
I had slept in way past what I’d expected, and now my day off had been turned into a night off. I knocked on Donnie and Eric’s door (which is just outside ours), “you just get up . . . you gotta be kidding me” quipped Donnie as he headed back up the stairs shaking his head and laughing. Still adjusting to the brightness of light I slowly stumbled up the stairs behind him to see him cooking dinner as I sat down on his couch to discuss our plans.
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We had decided on heading to Caesars Palace to play some $1-3 No Limit Holdem as we have been told that it’s a fairly soft game. We grabbed a taxi and forty bucks later, following a traffic standstill on Flamingo Road, we were there.
They opened a new table in under three minutes time as we seemed to attract a bevy of people – obviously I had my I AM A FISH neon sign flashing on my back!
I took down my first pot when I check-called each street against an Asian LAG and old-man NIT with
on an Ace-high straight and flushing board to see my stack climb over the $250 mark. An orbit or so later I called $15 out of the small blind with 
against the LAG who had already started making moves, bluffing and raising with garbage.The flop fell down
and I check-called $35 to see the 
fall on the turn and another check from me. Facing a bet of $55, I moved all in for $165 more, and following about ninty-seconds of deliberation the LAG folded.The hand became an avenue of discussion between me and Donnie, with his argument being a call on the turn and either a donk lead on the river or gamble with a check. Personally I wished I tanked on the turn and did the old ‘I guess I’m all in’ show like I have a draw. Either way it was a good session for the both of us, as I cashed out $403 and, courtesy of a quad bonus, Donnie cashed out up $250 – not a bad two-hours I say!
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After exchanging some texts with my two Melbournian’s in James and Rob that had just arrived in town, we both decided to head over to Imperial Palace to catch up.
We tucked into some Subway before heading to the Rio around 1am to check out what was going on.
The Ladies World Championship (in which I’m doing the final table tomorrow) was down to the last two tables while the Omaha Hi-Lo World Championships was on the money bubble. We showed the WSOP noobs round before Donnie settled into a $10-20 Limit Holdem game as James and Rob headed to the other side of the Rio to play some $1-3 No Limit Holdem.
I sweated them for a while, before returning to sweat Donnie and his continuance in running bad at the Rio. 3am came round which meant our ride was ready, and after a quick visit to the petrol station for some snacks and of course petrol, I was at home and on the computer writing this blog!
Bring on the Ladies tomorrow!
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Dinner, Security and Hi-Lo
July 27, 2008Being Sunday over here I headed into the Rio at 5pm with Dane as we both had to cover the Limit Omaha 8 (or Hi-Lo) event. It started pretty slow, but eventually things got going with a few Aussies bagging their chips for day 2 including Billy "the Croc" Argyos; who I happened to lose a $20 side bet with. I took the overs on 200 players remaining at the end of the day in the 550 field and he took the unders; the result, a final count of 188.
During the dinner break, I grabbed a cheeseburger and fries and went to sit down in the dinner tent. Not more then two bites into my burger I was joined by PokerStars pro Victor Ramdin who joined me for dinner. We discussed all things poker and gambling, Crown Casino, the Australian economy and of course cricket (since he is of Indian decent). All in all it was interesting having dinner with him as I was unsure of whether or not to talk to him since the dinner break was only short. However with his great personality it was easy chatting with him, and consequently enjoyed an interesting dinner break.
After we met up with Garry to have our daily meeting I sat up my computer in the far corner under the 'Player of the Year' hanging pictures. Only several minutes in to replying to emails etc, a few of the guys set up a sit-n-go on one of the empty tables. I decided to join them to play a HORSE sit-n-go.
After getting stacked in stud hi-lo, we were approaching our second holdem round before security came in to escort us out. We were happy to oblige, but they wouldn't even let us clean the mess up that we left. With arguing not really helping, or going anywhere, we just put up with it and left.
I headed back to the computer and took full advantage of the free internet. Not leaving until 6am, the whole Rio was empty; all 165 tables or so, apart from the few cash games still going, were empty of the cards, the chips and the players that have filled them for the past few weeks. Tomorrow - Event 18 - $5,000 No Limit Deuce-Seven Lowball with rebuys . . . ship ship.
An empty Amazon room at the Rio -
Vegas here I come!!!
July 26, 2008ONE TIME!!! (isn't it funny how you either really hate that saying or really over use it . . . by the end of this trip you'll understand that i'm in the over using category) Anyway, back to it. ONE TIME!!!
Today I got confirmation on all my flights. Yep thats right, I'll be heading to Las Vegas tomorrow night and will be there for a total of 43 days working for the PokerNews live update team.
In about 18 hours I will be boarding a plane to Sydney and then to Tokyo and then to San Francisco and then Las Vegas - long journey, but it will all be worth it when I hear the buzz of the Rio, the shuffling of chips and loud calls of "all-in on table 23".
