Hold Them Poker 1/19-20
We arrived around 8am and ate at the Spice Markey Buffet in the Aladdin/Planet Hollywood. Food was good, especially the made to order omelettes, ham +mushroom +cheese, yummy!!
This is my second trip to the renovated Aladdin and I'd have to say that I miss the old place. The new layout is trendy and nice, but it losses it's appeal very fast.
Soi, after checking into the room and changing clothes(it as really cold), I make a quick tour of the sportsbooks to find a the best line for the games. Everything's the same, but I hold of making my bets for now.
Somehow I end up at Barbary Coast's Double Deck BJ game, which is actually pretty good. After a few hours of variance, I leave down $200. Too make things worse, the game starts before I'm able to make my bet (it was OK though, I liked the Saints).
Ok, time for some poker, I head to the Bellagio and it is utterly packed, just as you would expect on a weekend such as this. I try to get on an 8-16 but there are a few hundred people in front of me so I get on a much shorter 4-8 list as well. About 30 minutes later they open up an new 4-8, insted of an 8-16, for some reason. And I'm covienently already sitting at the table that the game is going to be at(Iwas watching the game).
I'm in the 6 seat and have a great view of the game as well as all the eye candy walking past the poker room. The line-up was pretty typical:
1 seat: Young, tight player waiting for 8-16
2 seat: Young, Persian loking to see a lot of flops
3 seat: 30ish, semi-attractive, loose passive calling station(femal, obv)
4 seat: 40ish, calling station, luckbox
5 seat: 4 seat w/ broken luckbox
6 seat: musta been some type of pro player slummin it at 4-8, possible athlete/acor
7 seat: Old, tight, Jewish lady, waiting for 8-16
8 seat: tight, dorky kid, saw 12 flops in 5 hours
9 seat: young kid, didn't say a word, but I knew what his story was. From his clothes/play/headphones, I could tell he was from LA and was just looking to make a couple bucks, like me.
So I'm enjoying the football game(and poker) and manage to win $100. Shoulda been alot more but I got cold decked with flush