A Charmed Life
I had a fairly easy final table on Tuesday night - the 2-7 Triple Draw. We were done by 11pm AGAIN. Two nights in a row I got out of the Amazon Room before midnight. That's practically unheard of. Tuesday night we went over to the Gold Coast to celebrate Change100's birthday and to engage in a little $1 bowling.
Then I had the day off yesterday. My only regret about that was that I missed the kick-off of the $50K HORSE event, in addition to the arrival of BadBlood and Otis. But I used my day off productively -- CK and I watched the exhilirating Germany-Turkey semifinal of Euro 2008, lazed around the house a bit and then went the Prime for dinner with Dawn Summers, Alceste and Dawn2. I got the porterhouse and demolished that baby.
Afterwards, we went to the Seahorse bar in Caesar's, which has a giant mermaid statue with incredibly fake breasts. Not only were the breasts too round, but as one of the Dawns pointed out, they had that weird fake breast "separation". My thought, if you're going to commission a statue of a naked chick, why not make sure the breasts *look* real (even if the model used has fake breasts)?
It was at the Seahorse bar that Dawn Summers remembered why I am the original Assface. I believe the comment that did it was when I said, "You know that normally I wouldn't defend X." Dawn kept expecting me to say "...but in this instance" or something similar. Nope. I was just pointing out that I won't normally defend X. Statements like that make me the original Assface.
When we were done listening to the nostalgic 80s music blaring in the Seahorse bar (reminding us all that time moves in a linear fashion), it was off to P-Ho to meet up with Mookie. The P-Ho poker room had only 1-2 NLHE (yuck), 2-4 LHE (double yuck) and a three-handed 15-30 mix game. I might have played the mix but for the fact that (a) it was three-handed, and (b) badugi was one of the games in the mix. I don't know badugi well enough to play 15-30.
Instead I went outside for a while to people-watch, then did what I do best when I need to kill time in a casino. Paigow. There was only one other person at my table, a middle-aged white guy who was betting $200 a hand on the main bet, and $25 a hand on the fortune bonus. I immediately put him on tilt by not betting the fortune bonus, and catching trips, quads and a flush inside of ten minutes, while his fortune bonus went unpaid every time. Then he lost five or six hands in a row. More tilt. I capped it off by squeezing my cards every time, only serving to enrage him further.
In the end, I finished up one Corona and $10. Plus one guy on tilt. That's a pretty good night. I went and collect my "little woman" (as Dawn now apparently calls her) and we headed home for a 2am hot tub session in the backyard.
It was a pretty good day. And today, I don't have to be back to the Rio until 4:30pm for the 5pm start of the Stud/8 tournament. 42 straight hours without having to be in the Rio. Fantastic.