Some of you may know that I used to play a lot of poker. Unfortunately that's not the case any more. I really enjoy live poker when I'm in Vegas, I enjoy the major tournaments and I've definitely not participated in my last WSOP. But as for online poker and the daily grind, I've quit it. I just don't find it exciting any more. While the mathematical aspect acquired my interest early on, I never enjoyed grinding as such, it was purely for monetary reasons.
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I wanted to log a lot of poker playing hours today. At about 12 PM I went to the MGM Grand, a room that I'd never visited. After playing there for about 5-6 hours (please don't ask how it went, I got butchered), I've got mixed feelings about the room.
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The last $1500 NLHE event was starting at 10 AM, so I really had to get up early. Though I'd never be able to do so at home, I actually managed to get up at 8 AM and get to the Rio at 9 AM. When I registered I was told that the tournament wasn't starting until 11 AM though - it seems I messed up in the dates, the last $1500 event was actually tomorrow, not today.
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Today was the second last $1500 NLHE event of this years WSOP. I went to bed at 8 PM the night before and slept all the way until 9 AM so I couldn't blame my performance on lack of sleep today - unfortunately.
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I got back home from Spearmint at around 7:30 AM, pretty wasted to say the least. I know from experience that setting my alarm clock on my cell phone won't help as I'll just keep sleeping if I don't have a life threatening reason to get out of bed, so I'd just sleep until I woke up.
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I got up at my usual time today, around 6 PM. We were headed to Ballys to get drunk and maybe play some drunk poker. We got a seat in their 1/2 NL game pretty quickly.
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After Santana I went to Rio with Abuello to see if we could get an update on how Mika (Miwala) was doing in the Main Event, and danes in general. While we didn't find Mika (later on I found out he busted earlier on to a nasty rivered flush vs. rivered full house hand), I did meet Hostrup (Carl) waiting for cash game entry. I signed up for the $2/5 NL game also.
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So today I got up a bit earlier, at around 4 PM. At about 9 PM I took a cab into the Rio together with a couple of the other guys to pick up my Main Event registration, this time there were no problems, thank god.
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So I finally got into my first ever real poker cash game at a casino. My main game is without doubt tournaments, I rarely play cash games as I don't think they're nearly as interesting, also I'm far worse at cash games than at tournaments. When I do get into cash games online, I usually play the NL25 games at Party, I've had lots of problems beating even NL50/100.
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Finally the day arrived, I've just turned 21! At four minutes past midnight I registered for my WSOP Players card at the Rio, while being registered I got a good chat with the girl behind the counter, she laughed a bit when she saw my 'I support single moms' t-shirt - she said she liked it.
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