Sunday cont'd

We had decided we were going to
play a poker tournament on this trip,
so Gina and I headed down to the
STRATOSPHERE. Nicer inside than
I expected. Was expecting a run down
dump. Very busy casino. Poker room
was totally dead though, one table at 6pm.
Werent going to wait around and chance it
if there would be a decent turn out for
their tournament.

Headed over to the SAHARA to play

their popular 7pm $45 tourny with

optional $20 Rebuys for the first hour.
4k starting chips. (+2k for $20r/b).
136 Entrants.

25/50 level: I played lots of speculative
hands trying to hit a monster and
double up, but I basically stayed even
in chips.

50/100: only played one hand, KK.

100/200: only played one hand, AK,
"stole" the pot by continuation
betting every street.

200/400: played one hand, AA.
Still basically at my starting
stack of around 6000 chips.

300/600: didnt get dealt anything.
Table got broken, moved to button
at next table. 2nd hand, got dealt 99.
Folded to me, pushed all in from
cutoff position with 5200 chips.
Donkey Polish guy calls off 95%
of his stack from the Big Blind with
A2 off. A on the flop. Turn gives me
a diamond draw. River is 2 of clubs,
I'm out.

Gina ran into the same guy later
in the tournament, roughly 18 people
left, same situation. She's on the button,
folded to her. She doesn't have a lot of chips
so she pushes with 66. Same Donkey Polish
guy calls from the big blind with A5 off.
This time no luck for the donk. Justice !
She doubles up.

Gina had a couple other memorable hands.

She made a Paul Magriel style bet, putting

out one of each color chip as her raise.

Totally confused everybody and they folded.

At the 100/200 level,she set a trap by

limping in middle position with AA,

knowing that the chip leader & table bully

in the small blind was ripe to take a beating.

True to form, the bully pops it to 1100 !

Gina, without missing a beat, pushed her

whole stack (about 6000) into the middle,

and the donkey called with KQ offsuit ! LOL

Nice double up. (incidentally, she played

with the same guy later on in a cash game

at the VENETIAN and watched him piss away

his big stack twice and go broke).

Gina ended up finishing 6th out of 136

for +$260. (No tax withholding, just signed name).

Way to go GINA ! !

Lots of offers for a chop deal,
but as often happens in low buy-in
tournaments, inexperienced chip leaders
get greedy and ask for $ proportionate
to their chip stack. And as often happens,
the big chip leader who refused the deal
got knocked out in 7th !
HAHAHA, looks good on you asshole.
He originally wanted $1400 !! to chop,

then refused a $650 chop. In the end,
he left the tournament with $170 instead.
Let that be a lesson.

Because a few people refused the
different chop deals, the tournament
that usually only lasts about 4 hours,
didnt get done until 1am (6 hours).