I went down to Bally's poker room and they one game going but were starting another. Problem was nobody but me and 2 other guys showed up despite a list full of people. So I wandered over to Planet Hollywood and they also had one game going and were just starting another. The game that was going were the Snap Calls and Craps Rolls guys in the FUN trip report
I recognized hutchy from his picture and said hi. They left soon after which filled up our new game. It was a pretty uneventful game and I left when it was getting time to go over to the Aria. I won $62 and the only hand of note was when I flopped a set of tens. Everything else was a small winner or loser.
I never eat lunch in Vegas usually just breakfast and dinner. But since I had high hopes for going deep I grabbed a slice at Five 50 just before the tourney started. It was good.
As I wandered around Aria a bit I noticed they too are into the spirit of the year of the pig.
The tournament didn't go great
I did make it to the first break but severely damaged. I was around average shortly before the break and I raised a couple of limper from the big blind with 99. One of the limpers shoved and I thought he had about 6K so I called. But in reality he had about 12K. My 99 disn't improve but his AJ hit a J so I was down to 2100 from about 14K. I shoved with A5 and got called by 2 big stacks and ended up chopping with one of them. Then the break hit. About 3rd hand back I shoved with A9 off and got called. Earlier I had called this players short stack shove with AQo against their KJo but they hit the straight. This time their AK dominated my A9 and I WAS OUT!
I immediately jumped into a 1/3 game which went well. Despite bombing in the Tourney I got to walk out of the Aria with more money than I walked in with. I didn't play real long but one big hand came up where I stacked a guy. I was BB with AKo. Button raised to 12, sb called and I raised to 30 and both called. Flop was A35 rainbow. I bet 40 initial raiser mucked and sb shoved about 200. I couldn't see him having a straight but maybe a small set? I thought about and called. He had AQ and I held. Other than that not much happened it was a real boring game with 4 people constantly glued to their phones and really not much action. So I was tired and decided to take the money and run. It's not much in the way of chip porn but its all I got
I ended up winning $207
My back is killing me from sitting at a poker table all day long. I am gonna take a shower, grab one of those chair massages, and get some dinner as the pizza slice is wearing off. Then I'll probably try to get one more session in at Bally's.