I flew into Vegas Saturday night and went immediately to the MGM poker room. Started at the 4/8 limit game, the waitress came by and brought 5 coffees and 2 waters for the table. Not a good sign. I also saw a local player at the table whom I had seen there before and I hadn't been to Vegas in months so that was another bad sign. None of my hands were ever exposed and nobody ever paid to see any of my cards. I probably should have bluffed but I figured that there were so few people in each hand that they probably had something. My usual strategy is to play tight aggressive until people quit betting against me and then bluffing, bluffing and more bluffing. I just didn't feel comfortable bluffing when I hadn't shown any cards at all.

The 4/8 game broke up early so most of the table went to the only remaining limit game open which was 2/4. Unfortunately it was the same thing there, I don't know why somebody would try to grind out a living at 2/4 limit but it was the tightest 2/4 game I had ever seen. I didn't have a room that night so I stayed at the table anyway. The 2/4 game broke up at 9:30 am and there were no other limit games going on. I couldn't believe how few people were playing poker, I've never seen the room so dead. Still nobody wanted to see any of my cards the whole night. I was able to keep ahead of the rake and have $12 more in chips than when I started. I played for 12 hours and only was up $1 per hour, just the same as the comp.

Sunday night I hit the Excalibur for their 2/6 spread limit. I'm not a big fan of the "room" there but usually there are drunk tourists. The 2/6 spread is a pretty good game, but still no drunk tourists. They just have a single $2 blind and with the $6 bets you can get some reasonable sized pots with a few raises and reraises. I would say about half the people playing had never played a spread limit game before and were only playing because the 2/4 limit was full. I played for a couple hours and when pretty much all the chips on the table were in front of me, I had to leave. My only complaint here was that people were all playing short stacks.

Final night I decided I was just going to drink as much as possible so I went back to the 2/4 at the MGM. I was thinking I needed to change my table image so I went for the maniac. I overacted how drunk I was and was chatty, cracking jokes, taunting everybody I was in the pot with, hitting on all the ladies at the table, "forgetting" what my cards were constantly, pulling an occasional straddle or playing out a 7 2 off suit and saying "damn I missed the straight draw" when there wasn't even a straight draw on the board. A few at the table were drinking and laughing with tears in their eyes and teasing me back but most of the table was mad and on tilt which was exactly where I wanted them. Once I had made the impression of the drunken idiot, I tightened up my play. When I had a hand I got plenty of action from everybody and walked away up hundreds of dollars from a 2/4 table which was pretty unbelievable. When I sat down I wasn't even thinking I would win after all it's just 2/4, I was just there to drink this last night but it turned out to be the best night both in chips and fun.

Seems to me that most people were playing tournaments and very few at the cash games. I don't like tournaments because the blinds get too high at the end so you basically have to go all in with whatever hand you randomly get and I like to be able to come and go as I please.