Vegas trip. Beaten by the Missus.

Im now back to my home of England. I have my broadband ordered for next week so will be back on the tables soon.

My 2 week fly drive around California was great. Vegas was obviously the highlight for me. We stayed at the MGM for 3 nights and I think I only managed to play around 7 hours of poker. Vegas with the missus does not equal much table time. Turn back the clocks to last year when I spent almost 2 weeks in Vegas on my own and I played more poker than I slept but when you are with the missus its hard to break away to a table and leave her standing there. Itching to get to the tables I started to show her a few table games with the plan to break away when she was comfortable. Table games are -ev obv but I saw it as an increased rake added to the poker rake that I needed to beat. The poker games are so easy at the MGM this had to be a good move.

Missus +$750 on 3 card poker
Me -$18 on the $2/$5 (7 hours)

Can you believe the above. She ends up hitting a straight flush paying 40-1 on a $10 ante. This and a few other lucky hands puts her to a nice profit and more shoes/handbags purchased. Me, I played twice, buying in for the max $500 and getting it all in ahead at the beginning of both sessions and losing. I then spent the next few hours on both sessions clawing my way back to even. Not the profitable session I was expecting.

The MGM were only running $1/$2 NL and $2/$5 NL so I couldnt get involved in anything higher. I could have headed to another casino but with the missus comfortable and me in a seat I didnt feel like moving. The $2/$5 games were full of regs with not many limped pots. There were a few bad players and I tried mybest to LAG it up. I made one noticable mistake calling a $200 bet into a $900 pot with a made straight on a paired board 3 way. I was up against an obvious full house and an unobvious quad kings.

I did manage to play for an hour at the Mirage. We were there for the Cirque du Soleil Beatles show which was fantastic. I sat at a $2/$5 NL table that was a feeder table for the main $2/$5 table. The table broke pretty quickly and I was left playing Heads Up with a guy wearing a 2p2 shirt. I asked him if he posts there and he told me he owned it. I was sitting next to Mason Malmuth. I had a great conversation with him regarding his views on Absolute & UB scandals and also his views on poker and 2p2 in general. A very interesting chat that I may wrote up in another post soon.

The other highlight to my trip was seeing Jenna Jameson at a UFC fight. Dont pretend you dont know who she is. Ive seen more of her bits than my own missus.

Im heading over to a club where I used to run my poker school this afternoon. This will hopefully be my cash cow for live games. I made a ton of cash there before and hope to do the same in the next 6 months.

8th of July is my return to the online tables. I feel refreshed but out of practice. I think I will start at the lower levels for a few thousand hands to get back into the swing of things.

Until then......