We made our way to the La Salsa Cantina from the Aladdin, and headed to the private party section in the back. I’m sure there are some good stories to come out of this party, but I don’t really have any. I just chatted with and met a lot of people. I finally met the other guy who was staying in my room, Joaquin, though I don’t think either of us had actually slept there yet. I also met Grubby, Pauly, Al, and many others.

Fast forward to after the party. Felicia was supposed to be setting up a mixed game for us at the Plaza, but it’s full for a tournament, so a bunch of us wander over to the Nugget. As soon as we hit the poker room, the floorman asked us what he can do for us and what we want to play. This begins the 2-4 HORPSE game. Again, I don’t remember the entire table makeup. I’m sure we had Bobby Bracelet and Joe Speaker at the table. Chad was apparently there, too. I had been up too long at this point, and wasn’t taking notes. I lost around $80 of my $100 buyin in the first round of Omaha. After that, I decided to just fold any four cards I was dealt in that damn game.

I wasn’t really involved in any notable hands in this game, but it was a ton of fun. I raised preflop in pineapple with 972, threw away the 9, of course. I bet out at the T2T flop, and took it down with the pineapple hammer. It was probably the best hand after the flop, anyway. I got dealt three kings – in pineapple. That was useless. Bob took down a pot that was almost $150 in Razz. All three players in for the capping had decent hands. I honestly can’t really remember any other hands from that game, but it was a blast. Sometime in the middle of that I had a hot dog from the snack bar – other than a donut at the plaza, the first thing I ate since arriving in Vegas.

After that game broke, I went back to the Plaza intending to finally head to bed. I stupidly decided to check out the poker room there to see who was around first, and of course had to sit down in the mixed game there. Not too long into the game, I look down at my hole cards and see the first pocket aces I’ve been dealt all weekend. We were playing razz. My doorcard was a 2, but there was a lot of action with low cards showing and I had to dump it. A little later, I got A♥A♠9♠ playing crazy pineapple. The flop was Q♠3♠3. Given the action, I knew I was behind to at least a 3, and dumped an ace to chase my flush. I hit on the turn, but was behind to Al’s Q3 the whole way. I stuck around until the game broke, and finally went up to bed, at around 1am. I had been up for 40 hours.

…continued…

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