Several years ago I took my youngest son to the consumer electronics show, now he's 21 and wanted to do the show again, but also wanted to play a little poker. the problem was, there was a slight difference in our bankrolls. So I gritted my teeth and sat through several sessions of 2-4 limit, so that he could play poker as well.

Day 1/Session 1 --MGM

We started out our poker odyssey on a profitable note at MGM. I'm not much for trying to give a blow-by-blow analysis of any particular hand, suffice it to say that I played tight aggressive and never ended up being down or up much more than $30. I would say that most of the players on my table at least were similar, although there were at least two calling stations towards the end of my session. I called it quits up $26 and being up for 26 hours. Tyler (my son) called it quits about a half-hour later and was up $44.

Day 2/Session 2: Monte Carlo

Tyler and I took a mutual vow never to play at this poker room again. between a Japanese tourist, who called everything to the river cracking my Aces once, making three flushes on the river and a never-ending string of obnoxious locals who seemed to treat the room more like their own private living room than a poker room. Add this to a few dealers conveniently allowed local to skip big blinds and never make them up and I'm happy to let someone else spend their money at Monte Carlo. I finished up the night $100 down. Tyler finished $80 down.

Day 3/Session 3: Excalibur

I wasn't very enthused about playing at Excalibur, but Tyler wanted to play there because it offered 2-4. It proved to be an entertaining and slightly profitable session for both of us. I ended up having a player put me all in by continually raising me when he had a full house and I had quad fives.
since Excalibur offers a bad beat jackpot of secretly hoping that he had quad sixes or something comforting about making bets when you know the worst thing that could happen is you're going to take all of the other players chipset was to the extent that you can match his bats. And if you're really lucky, he'll have intellectually have the better hand and he'll be the winner of the bad beat that hand alone. Along with the bonus spin that I was able to take on the wheel ensure a profitable night. Ironically, about 20 minutes after I had quad fives Tyler hit quad aces, beating the same player that I had been to once again had a full house for our trouble. We also got Excalibur have. I'm pretty sure I lost mine on the flight back to Iowa at the end of the night I was up $32 and I think Tyler was up about the same.

Day 4/Session 1--Treasure Island