I left July 5th for the week and decided to do this trip on the cheap by staying at the Gold Coast. This is a shithole but, whatever it is right next door to the Rio and only $49/night. It also has $10 Pai Gow tables which proved to be a true blessing!
Anyway I went fully intending to play a full schedule of MTTs but when I bubbled the Big O event at Caesar's the first night, lost a flip in the WSOP Bracelet Bounty tournament and finally lost with KK on a K36 flop at Venetian, I punted on tournaments and hunkered down in the Big O and PLO cash games primarily at Rio. I ran reasonably well for most of the trip and posted some decent results playing mostly 1-2-5 with a little 5-5 sprinkled in:
Not super but not too bad for the low-stakes I played. I did run bad in a few rather large pots that we ran more than once. One in particular, I got AA24K all in on a 35x flop and ran it 3x against a guy with a flopped set and terrible low. I think the pot was ~1500 and I only won 1/3 of the pot so that is like losing as I am pretty far ahead in that spot. Couple others where I was pretty far ahead and had to chop pots we ran twice. If I had to guess, I probably lost $1-1.5k running it twice. Of course, the boards could have easily been flipped and I could have been saved by the second runs so whatever.
Think I am going to Borgata at the end of the month for a PLO weekend (not going for full weekend) and then back up in mid September for the Borgata Poker Open and play in a few events there.
Maryland Assembly passed table games in MD so it goes for a vote in this November's election. MD legislators are so fucking LOL. Years of fighting this dumb issue only to see PA, DE, etc. open table games and gambling to huge windfalls. Suddenly they are on board in spite of years talking about how bad it would be for the areas, etc. I fully expect to see a huge inner city casino, likely in the inner harbor in the next 5 or so years. Remains to be seen how the games will be but I suspect they will be pretty good. There is an existing slots casino 25-30 mins from where I live and I think that will be a pretty good spot once this shit gets worked out. Probably will be pretty sparse for mixed games initially but over time that may develop.
Been playing a bit of golf. Game is pretty rusty but about what I expect given my inattention to my game. Going to play 1 or 2 events in Sept/Oct so may try and tighten the game up a bit over the next few weeks.
Took the family to Kiawah Island last week and went to one round of the PGA Championship. Place is awesome and my buddy's place where we stayed is pretty strong. I did follow both Rory and Tiger for a few holes. THE PGA in their infinite wisdom put them back to back on TH and FRI so the crowds were pretty much out of control for them and empty on the rest of the course. Seems like dumb planning on their part but I'm sure TV had a lot of input on that. Couldn't really get close to take a pic but here is a pic of the clubhouse and few guys on the putting green (click to enlarge).
