Wrapping up another long and enjoyable vacation day in Vegas. I think I played well in the Aria tourney but screwed up at the end. I lasted 5 hours and went out in 28th place with 95 runners (11 paid). I was card dead most of the time but did make a few hands and stole whatever whenever I could. I only showed down 2 hands the entire tournament and lost them both. First was in the early rounds when I flopped 2 pair and expensively got flushed on the river. That knocked my 20K starting stack down to about 13K but by the first break I ground it back up to about 23K.
After the first break I just got ground down and at the second break I had about 16K. But right after the break I started getting my only cards of the tourney and played them very aggressively. I got up to about 45 K and then started bleeding chips again. It was 1600/800 200 ante when I raised to 4500 in middle position with AQ suited. Only caller was a big stack on the button. I knew nothing about him because we had just gone to 3 tables and he was new at my table. Flop was K high with 2 rags nothing of my suit. I lead out 7K and he called. Flop was a J giving me a gutshot. I was really trying to represent AA or AK. I shoved (about 35K) the turn and he thought for a very long time and called with KQ off. I hit no Ace or Ten and was out. Maybe I should have gotten out of the way after I missed the flop but I thought I had fold equity.
Anyway by that point it had been hours since those pancakes which had long worn off and I was starving. Sticking with my meatless Friday meal plan I went to the Henry at Cosmo and got the fish and chips. This was absolutely delicious! And it was a **** ton of food. I ate all of the fish but only about half of the fries. There had to be 2 large potatoes worth of fries there.
After dinner I cleaned up and relaxed a bit and then headed over to Planet Hollywood for some cash. The table was pretty good and active and I got nothing to play and folded almost everything for the first hour. Then I hit a mini rush and started getting some cards and hitting some flops. I played for about 3 hours when I was just to tired to keep playing plus the action players had left. Plus I started quaffing some beers and started feeling them a bit and didn't want to play stupid. My meager chip porn which is very lame by LVL standards. I end up winning $202.
The cherry on top of the day was my baseball parlay coming in
It isn't big or calculated but simply a fan bet. I bleed White Sox blood and hate, loathe and despise the Cubs. So I always bet a $10 Sox win Cubs lose parlay. These can be lucrative because the Cubs are always way overbet and everyone knows the White Sox should suck this year. Yesterday it missed because they both won but today it worked. The $10 pays $62.88 so it is a long shot hence the wimpy $10.
So today I lose $240 in the tourney and win back $202 in cash and score a little on the parlay. As long as I don't get killed I am happy as I only play once or twice a year. I think I will stick with cash tomorrow and maybe take another shot at the tourney on Sunday.