Just came back from my yearly Veags trip this weekend. Had a blast as usual.

Played only one tournament on Sunday 9th at the 2 PM tourny. $60 buy in which is great, esp after losing a bunch of money at Imperial Palace the night before.

6 of my buddies and me played. We had a side pot going. Last one who doesn't cash gets $10 from each person. After a couple of months playing Jokerstars.com, I am able to be a better poker player with the awful bad beats and donkey moves.

Started with 4K in chips and after the first break, 5 of us were still i nthe hunt. I had around 7K in chips. One thing we all agreed, the blinds were WAY too long, 20min. It got really boring the first 2 hours.

When the 2nd break came, up around 9K in chips with 3 of my buddies left. After getting blinded off a couple of rounds, I had only 1K in chips with blinds being 500/ 1000. Went all in and my pocket JJs held up and had 9K.

Next 10 minutes, had A10 which flop trips and gave me a river house. BAM! back at it. One hand that helped me to the final table was me being in the big blind with 69os. I goes all in, another calls, blinds were 1000/2000. I needed only 200 to call the raise. Flop was A-Q-6. I hit my six. I check and big stack checks. Turn came a 9. I had two pair. I was willing to slow play so I checked to big stack hoping he would test the waters. He goes all in which shocked me and of course I call. He had KQ, hit his middle pair Q. I had two pair and river was blank for him. I instantly became top 3 players out of 18.

After that, all in and lost. 6th place = $235. What a lucky day.