Vegas Day 1 (Sunday)

Well its only 4:45pm but ive made it to the room and first impressions are that the hotel is damn good. Got a pool view and check in couldnt have been smoother along with connecting to this internet. The flight was 1.5-2hrs late but was expecting it given events of last few days so not too bad really. Hotel at airport was also very good for what i paid, will definitely use again, Ramada Plaza to note for future combined with parking package.

As for the rest of today i will try to stay awake to midnight or beyond and adjust this body clock to how i want it. I could nap now then go out in a couple of hours to play light poker or get a meal but im seriously thinking of having a shower and going straight to Caesars in time for the 7pm tournament. Hmm mayb $600 (sunday bigger) is a bit steep when im likely to be totally knackered, Venetian has a $175 at 8pm i think although there might be some small festival type thing on there still so i have to check and decide.

Plenty more updates to come and i will split them into each day i think and edit a post if i want to add after posting earlier during a day. Laters......

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OK so heres what happened, got a taxi to Venetian to possibly play their 8pm tournament although i was aware it might not be on. Got there about 7:15pm but the tourney was cancelled cos of their deepstack stuff earlier so i just sat on a $1,2NL table with the max $300 buy in instead. Several white russians later (yeh i lost count and they were strong), a couple of bud light and some fish n chips and its 1:30am and i head back. It was pointed out to me out about 1am that i had been up for over 24 hours straight, as it turned out this ended up being 28 (Im becoming hardcore like Dean Troop) hours. I figured this would be my body clock corrected but ive woke up after just 4 hours at 6am and im hungover and not sure if i can get back to sleep for now. Cash table was usual nut fest anyway and i got involved more and more as i got drunker, some hands below.

About an hour in mayb 7 in limped pot Kc10c4x flop and bb nutcase bets $20 (into the 14$ pot), im utg with 44 and make it $70 which he calls. I put him on a top pair or mayb a QJ but i havent seen evidence that he bets draws yet, although he does bet almost everything else. When he calls and a 7c comes im stuck with a tough decision as i need to decide whether to free card it or bet to protect against a 4 card flush. He messes about and i dont put him on a flush and bet $200 (only leaving $30 or so behind) but he moves in and a 4th club did come on the river. Turned out he didnt need it though as he did have Qc3c, oh well $300 down nice.

Stayed around $300 down for hours until maybe 3-4hours later i started hitting some decent hands. I didnt have to show a lot as people would fold the turn or river after calling some big bets prior often so i actually picked up a loose image which helped get me some healthy action or 1 or two biggies. Didnt win it all back in one hand though but gradually made it right back up to level and finally finished about $45 up on the night. Not bad considering i wrote off $300 earlier, but more importantly i went from uncomfortable at the table into very very comfortable and really enjoyed it more than i would expect to, hense the 2am bedtime not midnight as expected :)