Vegas Day 5

Got up early and decided to play the 10 AM Flamingo tournament. This is a 60 dollar entry fee with only 1500 in chips. Terrible structure but it was in the hotel where I was staying so I thought I would give it a go. These kind of tournaments you need to get chips early or you are basically shoving with anything. Its either that or get blinded away. Of course I was basically card dead for the first few orbits. I finally got a hand and with a dwindling stack pushed with AJ. I got a caller who had KK. He had me covered but I managed to catch my Ace on the flop and I doubled up. Still pretty short stacked though and a few hands later and being on the button I decided to shove with pocket 6s. Unfortunately the BB woke up with pocket Aces and I was out in 13th out of 27. Made a mental note not to play this kind of tournament again. Tough to play poker when you only have such a limited amount of chips to start.

Decided to take the shuttle over to the Rio. As usual checked out the WSOP store in Rio but didn't buy anything. We walked from there over to the Palms and the Gold Coast. First time in the Palms for me. Not overly impressed. Probably wouldn't go back. Seemed really dark in there. Liked the Gold Coast though. Staff seemed friendly at its part of the same ownership as Sams Town. Had a bite to eat at TGIF which was decent food for the price. After dinner started talking to an older couple from England who had flown to Chicago and drove from there to Las Vegas using Route 66 some of the way. We ended up taking the shuttle from the Rio back to the strip with them and showing them some of the sites.

I decided to play the 9PM Osheas tournament. The structure isn't much better than the Flamingo but oh well when you have a non poker playing spouse you take what you can get. Pretty uneventful tournament. Only 12 entrants and I lasted until 5th when my AK after hitting an Ace on the flop came up against trip 3's. Tried to get into the drunk cash game out front but there was a wait so headed back to the hotel.