SHOE Event

I played the SHOE event at 5 p.m. with my dad yesterday. It was a lot of fun and it showed me I need to work on some of my other games, especially limit hold em. My dad and I both struggled up to the dinner break. I came back from dinner with 2k in chips and Lauren came by to rail me for a little. As soon as she sat down, I won to huge pot in Stud high and was over 5k!! She must be my good luck charm. I then got moved to a new table and proceeded to bluff off 2k of my stack with A8 in the BB to a button raiser who flopped top pair. Two hands later, I called a raise with A10s on the button, and the flop came 10 high. My opponent ended up having pocket tens for the nuts and I lost another 1500 chips. From here I hung around for awhile, and then got it all in on stud 8/b and I rivered a Queen high flush and an 8 low, but I got clipped by an Ace high flush and a 7 low. I sort of blew the tournament by bluffing off all of those chips, but it was still a good time.

I woke up this morning around 9 a.m. to finish my quizzes and research paper for my class by the 2 pm deadline. I got it all done around 1:30 and was treated to an excellent barbecue chicken lunch from Lauren. The 1k rebuy was today but I don't think those are good tournaments for me because I'm not willing to rebuy 10x like some of the people. So just some online poker for me later today. Hopefully I can keep up the good play. I have had two profitable sessions in a row and want to keep building on that.

Tonight Lauren and I are going to David Copperfield here in the MGM. From what I have heard, he is an excellent magician and I always enjoy magic shows, so it should be a lot of fun. We are also going to the Grand Canyon and the Hoover Dam tomorrow, so I will have a lot to write in the next post....