Tuesday
Despite the lack of sleep I woke up relatively wide awake around 8:00 AM (what can I say, I love gambling). I made myself stay in bed untill 9:30 but than went down to gamble. I bet on sports and played some slots and sitgned up for the 11:30 poker tournament. After meeting everyone else for lunch (McDonalds) I went to the tournament.
The poker tournament included 43 players who had each payed a 43 dollar entry fee (I was quite sure the winner would be 43 years old). I learned that only the top 4 players got money. I was somewhat dissapointed because I had expected to finish somwhere between 4th and 8th. The game started much like my last game at CGs. In the first 45 minutes I didn't win a single hand. At this point I went all in after the flop with a pair of threes. I won. The next hand I went all in at the end of the hand with Ace high. I won. I than proceeded to go half an hour without winning another hand. However, in spite of the fact that I had only won two hands I had made the final table of 9 players. At this point I finally started getting some good hands. (pocket jacks, Ace King suited, caught a straight on the river to keep me in the tournament). And I found myslef in the final 6 with roughly the 3rd or 4th most chips at the table. At this point it occured to me that I might be able to sit around and wait everyone else out and finish 4th without playing another hand. Evidently this is what everyone else thought also because nobody wanted to play a hand. At this point I simply said, "screw it" at played more aggresively than I had the entire tournament. I acctually played pretty much the same stratagey that I played in free tournaments when I'm playing for a hat or a T-Shirt. Using this stratagey I ended up getting a decent size stack of chips, and knocked out all of my last three competitors. I finished first in the tournament and won about 520$. Previous to this the most I had ever won gambling was 18 dollars on a round of roullette. Deffinately one of the highlights of the whole trip.
After that I called my friends and walked down to meet them further south on the strip. We checked out a few casinos in that area (The Vanthan, The Paris, Ceasers Pallace) than went back to the hotel and eventually went to bed.
The poker tournament included 43 players who had each payed a 43 dollar entry fee (I was quite sure the winner would be 43 years old). I learned that only the top 4 players got money. I was somewhat dissapointed because I had expected to finish somwhere between 4th and 8th. The game started much like my last game at CGs. In the first 45 minutes I didn't win a single hand. At this point I went all in after the flop with a pair of threes. I won. The next hand I went all in at the end of the hand with Ace high. I won. I than proceeded to go half an hour without winning another hand. However, in spite of the fact that I had only won two hands I had made the final table of 9 players. At this point I finally started getting some good hands. (pocket jacks, Ace King suited, caught a straight on the river to keep me in the tournament). And I found myslef in the final 6 with roughly the 3rd or 4th most chips at the table. At this point it occured to me that I might be able to sit around and wait everyone else out and finish 4th without playing another hand. Evidently this is what everyone else thought also because nobody wanted to play a hand. At this point I simply said, "screw it" at played more aggresively than I had the entire tournament. I acctually played pretty much the same stratagey that I played in free tournaments when I'm playing for a hat or a T-Shirt. Using this stratagey I ended up getting a decent size stack of chips, and knocked out all of my last three competitors. I finished first in the tournament and won about 520$. Previous to this the most I had ever won gambling was 18 dollars on a round of roullette. Deffinately one of the highlights of the whole trip.
After that I called my friends and walked down to meet them further south on the strip. We checked out a few casinos in that area (The Vanthan, The Paris, Ceasers Pallace) than went back to the hotel and eventually went to bed.
posted by Blake Stockdale at 10:26 PM
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