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An Experiment in Excessive Poker Play

Wow, I am completely burnt out today. I wasn’t able to get it together enough to get to a brick and mortar casino, so I am going to play a sit-n-go online.

I play a small stakes sit-n-go on UltimateBet and or course, it goes badly. I flop a set and my opponent gets his flush. There goes 1/3 of my stack. I flop 2 pair and my opponent gets a set. There goes 1/2 of my remaining stack. I flop top pair and a flush draw and my opponent has a set. I lose the remainder of my stack and go out 7th out of 9 players.

I’m going to go to Hard Rock Tampa tomorrow, hope I can get some traction there.

Wish me luck!

I think I caught 2 or 3 hours of sleep on the plane, so I am a zombie when I get back to Orlando at 5ish. A buddy of mine, Big H. , is having a home game tournement tonight at 8 and I promised to be there. A shower and couple of cups of coffee later I show up and buyin for $60 – 50 for the pot and 10 dealer incentive. Level 1 blinds are 25-25 (He uses WSOP blind schedule).

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Golf at Bali Hai

Today we started off with some golf at Bali Hai which is just off the strip. It used to be you couldn’t get a tee time, never mind afford it, but times have changed and the rates are 1/2 off and the next tee time after us was an hour later! We almost had the course to ourselves. We only saw one person, looked like the clubhouse pro, playing a speed round through us. Awesome day out, despite the 104 degree heat.

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Bellagio Poker Room

So here it is day 2, and after that disappointing start yesterday I decided to try a new venue, the Bellagio. I have heard they have a nice poker room. I get there about 2:00 and there is a tournament already in progress that i could buy into for $540 – Wow, I guess I’ll give the ring games another try. I sign up for 1/2 NLHE and after a few more sign ups, they start a table for us. This crowd is more social than the midnight MGM burnouts, so I am already enjoying myself more. I sit at seat 10 and put a hundred in and the cards fly. Most others are in for $200 which is the table max buyin.

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MGM Poker Room

What a rough flight to Vegas, 6 hours of hangover on a plane with screaming kids is not cool. Why are people taking their kids to Vegas anyways?! I arrive, and luckily there is no line at the 104 degree outside taxi stand. Vegas seems a little quiet this weekend. I’m staying at the MGM Grand and my uncle and a few of his relatives are out here for the weekend too. Should be a great time. Time to clean up a little, power nap, food and then Gamble!

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Matador's Winner

Ugh… my head! RangTang shots are not a good idea the night before a flight to Las Vegas. So, I thought it would be fun to go to my favorite downtown Orlando Hold’em free poker league venue, Matador, and play some poker to “warm up” before my 30 days begins. I also managed to talk a friend into playing who has never played before, pretty sure she has the “bug” now.

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Chances are, my amateur poker habit is pretty similar to yours. Somewhere between casual hobby and clinically obsessed. I play in a free poker league once or twice a week, have a home game with friends once in a while , and a few times a year visit a casino to play some “serious” poker. I fancy myself a solid player (Never met a poker rat that thought he/she was bad or stuck overall!), but I couldn’t tell you if that is truly accurate or pure imagination on my part.

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