Vegas Day 3

We got up and decided to do the pool thing. Went down to the main pool and it was packed. 10 AM and tough to find a chair. We managed though but made a mental note to go to the adult pool in future. Much more relaxing and even though it costs 10 bucks its worth it. After a couple hours of sun, reading and people watching we decided to head over to the Mirage for lunch. Had a lunch at an incredible place called the Carnegie Deli. Food was great and huge. Massive portions. After lunch played a few slots at Mirage and wandered the Strip for awhile. Did dinner at the Victorian Room at Bills. It was okay. Not great not bad. After dinner decided to head over to Osheas for cash game. Tables were full and a bit of a wait. They had a 7 PM tournament starting so I decided to enter that instead. They only had 10 entries so just 1 table. Its kind of a donkey fest chip wise but hey its poker. I managed to do all right early. Got pocket queens and won a decent pot. A few hands later I got pocket jacks. I raised . Got one caller. Flop comes A,6,8. I checked, he bet and I folded. He showed an Ace. When we got down to 5 and I was getting short stacked with only 2000 chips. I got pocket 3,s. Pushed, everyone folded. Next hand I got pocket Kings. Someone raised preflop. I was going to call but looking at my chip stack decided a push was a better option. He called with Q,10?? My Kings held up and we were down to 4.
I started getting some cards and my stack starting building. The short stack decided to push and I looked down and I had AdJc. After a lot of thought I called. He flipped over AhJs. That got a lot of laughter until 3 diamonds hit the flop and the turn gave me another diamond for the flush and he was gone. Down to 3. Only winner gets paid. I had the huge chip lead at this point. One other guy was very short stacked and I was the BB. He pushed and not costing much more I called with a brutal 10,5 off suit. Well he only had 8,4. Told you it was donkey fest. Anyways I flopped two pair and we were down to 2. I had about a 3-1 chip lead and he asked for a chop. First prize was 300 dollars. He suggested 150 each. I said no way how about 180-120. We finally settled on 170-130. Good deal for him and a profit for me of 125 after taking off my buy in. I would have played it out but he was nice young kid there with his girlfriend who was pretty excited that he did that well. Fun table. Not great poker but a pleasant way to spend a couple hours.

After that found the wife and headed down to Paris and listened to the young guys on the dueling pianos there. They were excellent. There was some pretty drunk people there who were throwing money at them to play songs. Literally giving them 20 bucks per song. They were making a killing. Fun to watch and after a couple glasses of wine that was our night.