"I Luuuv play Poqua"- Chau Giang

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Tonight I dealt cash and I think I am beginning to enjoy it as much as tournaments, as long as there is a balance of both. People are starting to tip better and getting to deal multiple games is a lot less boring than the same thing all day long.

For instance tonight I got to deal a Pot-Limit Omaha 8/B game with 6 cards. How crazy is that? I find dealing those new weird games dynamite. Like dealing Baducy... which is a split-pot game dealt with five cards, 3 draws, and you form your best badugi and 2-7 triple draw hand. Whoever comes up wth these weird alterations to games has to be a sick sick degenerate, but I love it.

I dealt a pot tonight that was 250 bb's deep and Queen high won. How sick is that... queen high! One player had an open-ended straight flush draw and one had the queen high flush draw. These people at the series are just sick gamblers, and all these pots play huge because of it.

Also, while dealing the 10-20 Omaha 8/B game all I thought about was jumping in... that has to one one of my worst games, but the play was so incredibly soft that I just wanted to ask for an early out just to play it. I actually went to go put my name on the list to play it after I got done, but the game had broken up.

On the other hand, my few days off this week were pretty eventful.

I started it off by playing at a deepstack tournament at the Venetian. I had a really soft table draw and was chipping up quickly. Unfortunately the soft spots at my table eventfully went broke and started being filled by decent players. I went into the final 5 tables ( out of 288 players ) with 39k and average just over 35... only problem is that the blinds were now 1.5k-3k. I showed my stack with 8's from EP and got called by 10's and was knocked down to 9k. Shipped the rest UTG with Kd-4d and got put into the pot heads up against A-10 and went packing.

Next day I played at the Mirage. Started by playing 5-10 with a full kill Omaha 8/B, was up a couple of bills for a while until I decided it was time to start playing bad, because that is what I do... so I cashed out even. Then I moved on to 4/8 Limit Hold-Em and played like donkey kong in that game and lost 15 big bets real quick, by trying to run over a 4-handed idiots who would never fold... but I unfortunately could never hit.

Next day, after work, I decided to go play the 1/2 PLO at the upstairs poker room at the Rio. I knew the game was going to play big already, so I bought in for 250 bb's, as there was no max. This actually was somewhat small in comparison to how large some people were playing behind, there was one guy that must have had a 5k stack.We had a 5 dollar button straddle being done by almost every player and an often re-raise of pot pre-flop that would get 3 callers on average.... so I was not joking when I am telling you the game was playing really big. I want to talk more about that game, and will on my next blog entry... as all the stories in regards to this game would make a already long blog just unbearably long. But I will say I made 3 bills, which is almost like a break even, since every pot was around 200 dollars or more.

Itching to play some more cards. I get two days off starting Tuesday and intend to play all day on both those days.

Random Facts

- I now have 3 guys to sweat over a Main Event Final Table, as they all told me they would reward me handsomely if they made it. One guy told me he'd buy me a camaro, I am not sure I want it.

- Everyone says Todd Brunson is not typically nice to dealers, but he was ultra nice to me.

- Most people do not enjoy dealing the non-traditional Hold 'Em Events, I love them.

- Saw a dealer ask for The Grinder's autograph while in the box. Smartest, and most professional move I have ever seen.

- I generally am not a fan of the elderly, but when it comes to a seniors event for poker, they are the best. Someone told me today, "It is like a big VFW Reunion, all they do is talk and limp"... I don't disagree. Only problem is getting them to leave the room on a break, they don't trust me with their chips.

- I am tired of waking up everyday at 3PM PST. I want to do something else besides sleep and work.

- I am thankful for the Employee Dining Room and the free snacks in the break room... but if I have to eat there one more time I am going to punch myself. Have you ever ate a Bobbie sandwich? well, they are delicious... it is like having thanksgiving left overs all combined into one... but I also don't want to have thanksgiving 50 times in two weeks.

- Two days off starting tomorrow. Going to play some golf, poker, eat real food. Cross your fingers that I stay away from the pit.

- As you can see he last couple of days have been boring, so I just wrote some random facts.

Cash Games vs Tournaments

I have had a handful of jobs in my lifetime and dealing the WSOP Events is nothing like any of them, but dealing WSOP cash games is a lot like them... only I tend to get paid a little bit better.

Let me explain why! With every job you seem to see a lot of blaming going around and hardly see any real owning of problems, that all happens in live. With every job there seems to be a lot of people you can enjoy the company of and some you just can't stand, also happens in live. And with every job there seems to be those days where you just can't wait until it is all over, and that also happens in live.

A lot of people complain about dealing cash, and I guess this is going to make me one of those... but to be honest I am more explaining the fact that I love dealing tournaments so much better than live. Cash is not so bad as to say I hate it or wouldn't do it, but it is just not the same.

This is a typical day for me if I am doing tournaments....

1. Start at 6:30, deal a handful of hands and then players go on dinner break

2. Do 2-3 tables while the players are still on break and get paid for it

3. Deal for most if not the rest of the day to clear cut guidelines and not to mention the same game.

See... simple and also to me, fun.

Here is my day in live....

1. Get my table assignment

2. First table

- Count my well, which is a process that you get yelled at if not done quick enough.

- My pitch is generally not come into full gear from the first push so I may flip over a card during the entire time I am there and may get yelled at for that ( from the players )

3. Second table

- Ask for a time rake, in which all the players want to take out of the first pot. At first we were not allowed to take out of the first pot, now apparently we are... so players are a lot more nice about it, but still like to say smart comments from time to time.

4. Deal many times over, generally with one break in btwn, to multiple games with players wanting to change or alter multiple policies you have come to know. And of course most alterations are allowed, since the players run the game, the house does not.

- Now, since the players run the show generally, when they get out of line on a rule and you try to fix it they get snappy because.... well, they normally make the rules around those parts and don't want you to have any say.

5. Cash in my money and have worked 50 times harder than i would have dealing tournaments and made typically less money.

On the other side of all this... you get to deal a ton of different games, and mixing it up is fun for me. I am not the guy that likes to do the same thing over and over again. Also, you do meet a lot of really great people that never complain and are a lot less stressed than in a tournament. And you get to have cash in your pocket right away instead of waiting and guessing how much you are getting paid for that day.

So all in all, you have those players you enjoy dealing to and those that you wish would let you do your job and not jump on you for silly little things. You also have so many types of games and types of limits that it is too hard to come up with stringent guidelines to follow, as some players or tables just like a different brand of whatever game they are playing. And, you wish there was overall less to worry about without people jumping on you for, but that is the way with any job really.

If anyone happens to read this next year as a first timer, take this as a possible means to enjoy yourself a little more at the tables.... Be one of those people that take their job too seriously. Be like one of those hall monitors from back in the days at school that are just way too uptight. Seriously, that sounds odd but that is what the players want, or at least it seems to me. They want a dealer that knows what he is doing, and will fix things when it goes wrong not just settle for some player at the table's answer to the right decision. I tend to be like a robot and as soon as a player does something wrong ( that is not debatable, of course ), I snap at them to fix it and don't take no for an answer... as soon as you are done doing that they know you got this and they don't have to worry about watching over you ( even if they maybe still do ).

I am going to go get ready for work now and hopefully have a relaxing day of doing tournaments, since I have done cash 4 out of the last 5 nights.

Nada

Let's see, not much to write about....

Had a couple days off and didn't do much with them. Watched Star Trek in IMAX at the Palms... it must have been the first time I went to the movie theaters in years.

Played the 11PM Daily at the Sahara again and got knocked out middle of the tournament with my aces versus a pair and flush-draw flop for my opponent, when he hit two pair on the turn. John got knocked 14th when it paid top 9 and last week he got 12th when it paid top 5... good to see he likes to waste time.

Went back to work yesterday and I will now work 7 days straight. Yesterday was the 5k PLO and that was the only event... so the room was pretty empty. I got put in the Brasilia to deal single table satellites. I had only done two of those thus far, but I did 4 alone yesterday. Pretty decent night, made about 260 in tokes. Saw some really great playing on my first $535 s-n-g... it always makes it less boring to deal NL Hold 'Em when there seems to some really interesting and creative playing. As for the other one's, they were uneventful and rather quick.

Today is some monstrosity NL Hold 'EM event and the 10k Stud 8/b, which the the one I hope to deal.... but I probably won't be so lucky. I do need the tournament downs bad this week though, as I only have 15 for the whole week... which will make my check pretty piss poor.

I get my check today and it will all be going away as soon as I get it to pay for other things... such is life.

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Asians Can Read my Soul

The last couple of days have been rather uneventful, in the terms of dealing, but a lot of fun otherwise.

The day after the half and half event I came into work and all 3 rooms seemed to be jam packed with players, due to the 1.5k NLHE and the 3k HORSE and other Day 2 or 3's from other on-going events.

Unfortunately, my day didn't parallel the day Harrah's was having. I got put into the 1.5k and dealt 3 hands before my table broke. When your table breaks you get a break right away and then are homeless and have to be re-assigned to a new location... and since this tournament was breaking so darn fast there was tons and tons of dealers with nowhere to go. So, I go see my Dealer Coordinator and he tells me that I go on break again and then come back to see him in a half hour.

I was feeling really crappy that day, the upstairs area of our town home is really hot, so I sleep with a portable fan right next to my damn face... and that had unfortunately given me a sore throat and uncontrollable coughing. Needless to say, 2 straight breaks was not helping, as I rather have my time occupied so I would not feel worse.

Finally, when I go back to see Dan the D.C. again, he tells me that I am going to deal the Mega-Satellite into the Main Event. Mega's are multi-table satellites that award seats to the main even for every 10k in the prize pool. I dealt that for two downs and then Dino comes to see me on my push to get my keys because he had been sent home early. I told him I felt like crap and if he wanted to say he could take my spot. After some deliberation, he decided he should, since he had already missed a couple of days, due to his own illness, and took my spot.

From there, I had to go to the Gold Coast, which is right next to The Rio, to cash my check. Great thing about cashing your check here is that they not only do it for free but they usually comp you something too... because they obviously want you to come in and put your paycheck in play. Well, that is excatly what I did. I had been so darn good about not gambling but as soon as I got my money from the cashier's cage they called out open seats or 1/2 NLHE in the poker room.... so naturally I could not resist.

The room itself is tiny as it fits only four tables, but the dealers were really good and friendly and the players the same. The game was playing pretty loosey goosey pre-flop, but people were making big lay downs after the flop... so this seemed like my sort of game. I pounced on weakness and was taking down tons of pots with bluffs, semi-bluffs, and of course made hands. I ran over the table for a while until this Asian guy decided to read my soul and make one of the sickest reads I have ever seen, on me or otherwise. Here is how the hand played out...

I had Js-6s and raised from the button after two limpers to 8 bucks. I was often raising my button as I was just trying to establish the lead from position since people were playing their hands so weak-tight after the flop. Anyhow, the small blind and both limpers call.

Flop Qc-9s-9c

Check around to me and I naturally checked on a four handed flop with the texture of that board.

Turn 8s

Check around to me. Now, I did something where I was trying to establish a play for later... I checked, but some time before I did it, trying to establish like I had a hand and was deciding whether or not to bet... because I planned on betting the river if it got checked to me on the river.

River 7d

So it all went according to plan and it got checked to me again and I fired 15. I figured I may get called with pocket pair here, but thought everything else was folding, and thought it was a good spot to bluff. I thought the bet sizing was not poor, since it was half the pot and taking a line of 2/3 or 3/4 would seem like a bluff and 1/2 seemed like either a value bet with a pocket pair or a big hand trying to get another pair to pay me off.

Well, the unthinkable happened the small blind check-raised me to 30. Everyone in between folded and when it got back to me I just kept thinking of what hand would he check-raise me with here. I figured any full house or straight would probably lead the river since the 7 seemed like a non-action card and the flop and turn had been checked already.... a queen would have either lead or check-called and a pocket pair the same. I thought maybe he had a blank 9 and thought he was ahead.... but the more I thought about it the more I thought he would lead the turn for info.

So my instinct was overall telling me he was putting me on a steal, and was re-steal bluffing... but if I was wrong I may have fold equity to a queen, some against a 9 and very little but still something against a straight. So I decided to pounce and I re-raised to 90. He thought about it for what seemed like forever... I concentrated on a spot and did not move my eyes from there. He finally called and said "I have an Ace". He had Ah-5h. I was in utter shock. I mean the guy made an absolute soul read on me. That is just purely nutty.

Obviously that kind of took the wind out my sails, and I played a lot more straight up from there. I still ended the night 140 up, but I was not having as much fun.

After cashing out I went back to the Rio to pick up John and Dino and we went back there again, but this time just to have a good time with some other dealers playing 2/4 limit hold'em. We met the fastest dealer in history, named Coco and really had some fun with her on the table. I cashed out 5 dollars up at 7AM and went to bed so I could make it into work the next day.

Half and Half Split

Last night was the night I dealt to what seemed like an endless slew of well-known pro's, in the Omaha Hi-Low/Stud Hi-Low 8/b tournament. It all started with Amnon Fillipi, who thankfully helped me out by letting me know exactly what the levels were for both games as I could not find my structure sheet anywhere. Thankfully, soon after a Floor Supervisor came over and gave me one where I placed on my open 8 seat... later when the levels would change again I again could not find my sheet; this time it was because Brandon Cantu was sitting on it, as he occupied the 8 seat.

From there I went on to deal to Daniel Negreanu, Gavin Smith, Chris Ferguson, David Slansky, Chino Rheem, Jennifer Harman, Bart Hanson, Bryan Devonshire, The Grinder, John Cernuto and others.

The highlights from that were...

I managed to cripple and knock out Daniel Negreanu on consecutive hands, and his commentary during the hand in which he was crippled was hilarious. As soon as I did knock him out, during Omaha 8 a giant crowd railing him behind the ropes left. I had Gavin Smith stick around and help me do my race off and bet Dutch Boyd 1k on who would get the higher card. Talked about being a non-believer of God with Chris Ferguson, David Slansky and Ralph Perry... and heard them discuss a prop bet on percentage of people polled having no religious affiliation at 30% over/under. Heard David Singer and Gavin Smith get into a verbal war with each other over Gavin Smith calling David a "Rule Monger" on PokerRoad Radio. Dealt some sick sick hands to The Grinder as he nearly doubled while I was there. Heard Bryan Devonshire feel real uncomfortable when Bart Hanson ask him what happened Ali Nejad, the previous host to PokerRoad Radio. Heard Daniel Negreanu and Chris Redlock discuss a 5k last longer bet, as both were short stacked at the time ( Daniel lost that obviously ). And when Chris Ferguson criticized our little signs, on the table, that indicate which game we are on... I jokingly criticized him back when I said " Well, are you not on the Advisory Board for the WSOP? You should probably do something bout that!".

I was so excited to finally deal something besides Hold 'Em, it just bores me. Stud 8 and Omaha 8, there is always something to do and it is more exciting as there is generally always action until showdown. Today is the Pot-Limit Omaha 8/B, that may be the most complex game to deal overall, so I hope I can get in the box and deal a couple of those downs.

I got my check yesterday and I was very surprised with the amount, on the negative side not positive. It was not a bad check, is that I was foolish enough to listen to the rumors from other dealers that we were going to be paid a ridiculous more per down than it really was.... oh well, that is life.

Losing and Winning a New Car in PLO is Fun!

The day finally came yesterday, I dealt in the Nosebleed Stakes Pot Limit Omaha... 50/100 with a 200 dollar straddle. I have never seen that much cash surrounding me in my life, just brick after brick of cash. Nutty Stuff!

So when I first sit down I notice that the guy in seat 9 has two-hundred in cash in front of him, so I imagined it must have been from the last pot he did not stack yet... so naturally I deal and then I see seat 1 putting in 200 and so forth, and then it hits me that they put a straddle in middle position, in which at the WSOP is not allowed. I ask the table what we are doing and of course I get yelled at to just deal that the floor has allowed it, and I oblige.

Second hand I deal of course we have a straddle and five limpers before it gets pumped to six-hundred. All six limpers and both blinds call, an 8-handed raised pot at the nosebleeds nice.

We have a $4800 pot before we even see a flop.

Flop Ad-Qc-10s

UTG a fiery Hispanic man comes out betting 3k. Now I don't know much about Omaha, but I would imagine on a board with with that kind of texture with 8 people seeing that board we may see a big pot brewing, and thankfully it did not disappoint. Middle-Aged man in seat 5 (MP) asks me what is in he pot dealer, and I reply " 78 hundred, sir". He thinks it over and smooth-calls for the 3k. We get one more player in there, the button, and then we see the turn...

Turn 10d

The turn seemed as though that may make for a whole lot of drama or at least some long deliberations, but nothing doing as it went check around. So here comes the river...

River 4s

Now here comes that little old Hispanic man firing at it again for a wrapped 5k and 2 more spread out, making it 7,000 total. Middle-Aged man thinks it over for a long time and kept muttering something to himself, before finally calling off what he had behind... which was 6500. Sure enough the player on the button quickly calls.

The Puerto Rican man flips his hand for the side-pot and shows A-10-K-J, for a full house and a flopped straight and I figured that the guy on the button was going to flip over a winner... and no doing, he mucks. Middle-Aged man flips over A-10-Q-J for the same hand for the massive 33,300 main.

At this point my head is spinning, because I had been previously warned to not touch their cash when it came time to split, that a player would do it... but no one was man-ing up and the pot just stood there for a handful of seconds. I decide that I should just go ahead and open up the guys 5k brick and start splitting all of the cash... instantly I get a ear-full from like 5 players telling me that I should pass over the chips to one of the winners and the cash to the other and they will split it themselves. I actually felt relieved by that response and moved on the next hand.

From there, I dealt a handful of other massive pots... none of which got to showdown though. But the whole time I could not stop wondering that the guy from the button over-called with. He didn't raise the flop, he checked the turn and OVER-CALLED the river. I honestly have no clue... maybe a K-J-x-x with no re-draws and just did not want to play for all his chips, but then why in the world would he overcall the river.

Like I said before, I don't know much about PLO but the game just seemed really soft to me. A ton of limping, a ridiculous amount small ball type of action... I mean I never had a pot-sized bet, but there was so much marginally loose action that every pot got to be a decent size. I couldn't believe I did not see one big name at that table ripping it apart. There was one young kid, who was playing the best by far of anyone there, but I am really not sure who he was.

Overall in tips I had a pretty bad night but i did get in 5 tournament downs, so that kind of makes up for it. Again in my tables I dealt I did not recognize one player, though again I saw plenty of them in the big fields. Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu are having great WSOP's thus far... Phil Ivey has 3 cashes and a bracelet and Daniel I believe has 4 cashes, a second, and still in the Omaha 8/B with 15 left. Hopefully, I will deal to some of these guys soon as I have 6 straight days of work coming up.

Three days off in a row and the only thing I manage to do in this city with endless things to do, is go to the best voted location for hot dogs in Vegas. I guess as a fat man that is exciting. For 1.99 I got an enormous hot dog with some chili and onions, yum!

After delving into deliciousness at the Slots-of-Fun dive casino, I saw that they were offering 1 dollar roulette. Now when I see "$1 Wheel" written on the slot that indicates the min/max sign I would figure you can bet one dollar on any of the inside or outside bets... well apparently not! It was a 4 dollar min for the inside and outside. I guess I could have walked out at this time but what true degenerate could do that. I lost the 20 I put in within two spins and walked out.

Went back into work yesterday and I was told to go into the Ladies Hold'Em Event. I was thrilled to be surrounded by "ladies" for a whole half hour until my table broke and I was told to go back into the live games. I am shocked that after 3 full days of dealing cash I have yet to do deal a PLO game in live. I hear those players are absolutely crazy at times, in terms of the action and how they re-act to the dealers.

I did however deal to probably the best dude today, Teddy "Iceman" Monroe. I dealt to him at a 3-handed 100-200 limit hold-em game. He was friendly as can be to all the railbirds, the chip runners, the floor staff, and most of all the dealers. He kept on trying to convince people on the rail to join in the fun and the way he would go about it was hilarious... I did not stop laughing at the table. At one point he threw some really hot looking chick a $500 dollar chip and told her to buy herself something nice, I wish I had that kind of cash. The best part of dealing to him was when he kept telling me I needed a fill when I really did not... but I was not about to argue with the best tipper in the house, thus far. So, I call for a fill and immediately after he throws me 2 green chips ($25) and tells me to break it into reds ($5) and then throws me two red birds back and says "See you needed a fill, I needed more chips to tip you".

I also dealt to the reverse of the Iceman. I pushed a guy five straight kill pots in Omaha 8/B at 100-200 for over $1600 a piece and he managed to not tip me one dollar the entire time. These guys will make prop-bets on who will curse first for 10k, but they can't tip me even 1 dollar a hand? BS!

Besides for all that, I watched the Limit Hold'Em Final Table... and Daniel Negreanu came into heads-up with a pretty good chip lead, but you can tell his opponent was a heads-up specialist as he honestly schooled Daniel and took down the bracelet.

Another day another dollar today. I am hoping to get plenty of tournament downs today, as they are valued a lot higher per hour than the tips we have been getting... though last nights $148 dollars, mainly thanks to Iceman, was not a bad night.

Ass-Girl on Rail

The other day was very dull... no yelling, no screw ups, no pros. Dealt in the live games strictly, but my new assertive demeanor really lead me to no problems from players or anyone else. I did deal in the 75-150 Omaha 8/b with a half kill ( sort of ) for the first time... that may be my favorite game to deal, probably my worst game as a player but favorite as a dealer, funny how that works.

There is one thing about Vegas that holds a special place in my heart, the women. It is honestly out of control. Take International Mall, the Rays games, and USF and put it all together and you get Vegas at night. Well, some of these girls ( honestly most ) are gold diggers who think they are the next Sharon Stone in Casino... so naturally that leads them to the WSOP and their players. I left picture here as a remembrance... this girl took her pants off in the middle of the Brasilia room and next thing you know the media swarmed her and took pictures of her ass, I don't blame them.

Phil Ivey won the 2,500 NL 2-7 single draw today, his sixth bracelet. I wish he would give me like 5 percent of his net worth and I would be set right now... and then maybe i could enjoy myself in Vegas, especially since I have the next two days off.

BTW... this picture along with many other hot attractive females railbiriding can be found at http://wickedchopspoker.com/girls-on-the-rail-and-floor-photo-dump/

Time Is Relative

I really could have done without Sunday!

Sunday was the first day I got put into the live games. First table I deal at... 50-100 Stud 8 or better with a time rake. I have never collected or seen a dealer collect a time rake before... granted I know how it works, but the way the players want to do it is not always the same.

To start off the "table captain" throws me 75 dollars when the time rake was 64. The tell me not to worry about making change now and deal, so I do as they ask. After the hand is over they start throwing chips around to each other and making their own change and prop bets and god knows what else. Finally I am asked to throw the 25 dollar chip to the player who won the last pot and he threw me 3 reds and then I again had to break change for one of the 5's. I know what they wanted to get accomplished was to take the money out of the first pot and to speed up the game... but to be honest I am not sure it was much faster that way.

Next table is 25-50 NLHE, man that game played so insanely big. I mean the game was as loose as one can imagine and everyone seemed to be at least 300 bb's deep. I kept dealing giant pot after giant pot, and it was kind of exciting to deal it.

From there I dealt another handful of mix games tables on my way to the lower stakes area, where I dealt strictly 2-5 NLHE. The tips are obviously a lot better at those tables, as the players are just having a good time... but I essentially lost 1/4 of the tips I got from those guys when I miscounted my well on one of my tables, and when it broke two hands into my push the floor told me I owed 15 dollars to complete it. After that you can believe I double checked it always and was less worried about the players thinking poorly of how much time it took me to count.

Overall it was not a horrible day, it was just mentally draining because it was relatively new to me and I managed to get only one break during my 7 1/2 hours there. If you count the 20 dollars I lost overall from my miscounted wells I made $113 in tips... which is not a great night but I was not unhappy either.

The next day, Monday, was a good change of pace. I got there and was told to deal live again, but thankfully this girl sought me out and told me she was scared to deal in the Pot-Limit Omaha tournament, I told her we could switch if she liked, and that is exactly what we did. I dealt that for most of the day, and it went off without a single mistake... which I am really proud off, since PLO is one of the harder games to deal. Towards the end of the day, I got pushed into the nightly tournament, and that went relatively well also.

That whole night I did not deal to one well-known pro, granted I saw plenty... most of them were playing the 10k Stud World Championship Event. Despite that I had a really great night, 13 tournament downs. My second paycheck should be pretty darn good, since I have logged in 29 tournament downs for the week thus far ( work week ends on Thursday ), and I was told that the tournament down average for this week is around 39 dollars per down.

I go back in tonight, after having the day off yesterday. Dino, John and I played a Multi at the Sahara last night... real cheap one, since I am still broke. The field was really soft, I thought... but the structure was pretty piss poor ( granted good for how cheap it was ). I got knocked out in the 1k-2k blind levels and the average was 14k... I called a 5k all-in and the big blind also called, who coincidentally had 5k, as well called. It was 10's, A-5 against my Ad-Qd.... A-5 hit a club flush with four of them out there and him having the only club. That left me with only 2k behind and I went in very next hand with A-8 versus only the big blind with J-6.... six on the flop and I didn't catch up after.

Hoping to make some good money tonight, so I can end this brokenness ( if that is even a word ) and maybe play some more down the line.