Ok... this will be a long one, but will try to make is as short as possible.
So since my last update I've been to the following places: Singapore, Mallorca (Spain), Mexico City, Las Vegas and back to Mallorca.
SINGAPORE
After my trip to Bali I spent about 3 more days in Singapore and went to 2 nice restaurant aside from discovering the city. The funny thing about those restaurant was that both where in hospitals... I would chose a hospital as my location for a restaurant but whatever... Here are some pics of the food:
Wagyu A-5:
Black sesame ice cream:
Aburi sushi:
Anago nigiri:
Uni and o-toro:
MALLORCA
After Singapore I went to see my family a couple days and started preparing for WSOP
My home town Valldemossa:
Deia:
MEXICO
After Mallorca I had to go to Mexico for some days as I was the Godfather of my nephew for his first communion.
Some tacos:
Gusanos de Maguey (worms!)
Escamoles (larvae of ants!)
LAS VEGAS
Now let's get to Poker! Basically I mantained a super nice routine the whole trip, and from the 28 days I was there I trained 27, and 90% of the days I would have an eggwhite omelette at the Aria Buffet, order chicken with veggies from All American Dave and end with some nice dinner. During my stay in Vegas I lost some weight and got in pretty good shape. Since I started dieting and working out I've lost about 12 kg and this is how I look now:
Pretty happy, but still a long way to go.
Anyway, now let's go with poker before ending with more food pics. I played about 207 hours this trip and mainly 10/20 and 20/40 with the occasional 40/80. I started playing only at the Bellagio, but this year the games have been terrible and I started looking for games in other casinos such as the Aria, Wynn or the Rio. I must say I run pretty game in regards to getting in good games but ran pretty decent in poker winning at around 7 bb/hour which considering the games I was in is okay. I also played 4 tournaments: 3k 6max, Venetian 1600 with 3m gtd (lasted 15 minutes), Monster Stack and Main Event.
Here are some chip stacks, I almost always forgot to take pics but thid years biggest stack was a little over 20k, nothing compared to last years 100k+ stack but who cares as at the end I has a pretty small percentatge on last years game anyway.
MTT Stacks:
Monster stack: busted around 100 from the money...
Main Event: Busted in brutal fashion around 200 from the money with KKvsAQvsAK and another guy claiming to have folded an A, flop QQx and bye bye.
That's the pokers... I met some really nice people this trip, had some drinks with the legendary Wazawskihh and Marc Mcdonnell, some nice sushi with friends from Spain and London, etc. I absolutely enjoyed this trip and I was super happy to mantain and early schedule routine the whole trip.
Now more sushi pics:
Kabuto Edomae, my favourite or maybe second favourite place (close with Yui Edomae). We ordered the omakase plus some extra nigiris.
La Reve at the Wynn:
Hiroyoshi: That one is a la carte and among my favourites:
Yui Edomae: Amazing! We went with my wife and 4 other poker players, we played a guessing game of who get's closer to the actual price of the bill and I won so I didn't have to pay for myself
Raku: Wagyu A-5 was super good, pork ear not so much:
Sen of Japan: Was super nice with some friends and wifes, unfortunately I lost a 1000$ cardroulette
I think I'm gonna save the pics from mallorca and post them another day...
Next plans are: Mallorca until EPT Barcelona, basically chill out and study and work out. After that EPT Barcelona (but only 5 days this year as cash games suck anyway), London for a month and then 2 months to LA and 10 days to Vegas for WPT 5 diamonds, and then probably Mexico for christmas.