It was at nordstrom (sp?) it was $950 but they were having their anniversary sale so it was marked down to $625.

Are they having an "anniversary sale" too? Pretty much everything was 25% - 40% off at the store near me.

Going out with Rhound to play a live poker game again tonight - GG him.

Okay so last night I went to Viejas with Rhound to play some poker. We get there and they have a 5/10 game that had just started so I put my name on that list and get ready to play. I get called over and sit down and within the first orbit there had been about four 3bets preflop. This table was probably the most difficult table I've played against in a casino. I could certainly have stayed and been +EV but I didn't feel much like playing a ridiculously high variance game against good players so I put my name on the 1/3 list to play at Rhound's table and just have some fun.

Funny hand from the 5/10 table though. It folds to someone in LP who makes it $35, folds to one of the blinds who re-pops him to $120 or something and he calls. The flop is and the blind leads for $200, LP calls. Turn is the and the blind leads for $475. LP now shoves for about $600 more. The blind thinks for a while and says "I have too many outs to fold" and calls.

LP: "I have king high".
Blind: "You're good".

Turns out the blind had and the guy in MP has . River was a brick so ship the guy $2k with king high.

Anyway I got moved to the 1/3 table after basically breaking even at 5/10 and this table was so fucking horrible. I think my stats would've been about 55/40/10 or something. Maybe higher when the game got shorthanded towards the end.

So I sit down and within the first 10 hands or so I've lost AK to QJ all in preflop, KJ to QT all in preflop and T2 to J9 all in on a T82 flop (no, i wasn't in a blind). None were for full stacks but I lost about $300 combined.

From there on out I didn't really lose a big pot. My absolute favourite hand of the night: The only other decent player at the table raises UTG to $13, one caller, I call with and it folds around. The flop is and he bets $25 I think. I call. The turn is the and he bets $60, I call. The river is the and he bets $90. I push for $182 more and he sits there forever and eventually folds. I muck. A minute or so later he's going through what hands I could have talking to the guy next to him and just says with complete and total adamance "there is NO WAY on earth he had a flush". I told him I did and it took him about 2 hours of watching me play to eventually agree that i could have had one then.

Another hand. UTG raises to $20, one caller, I call OTB with . The flop is and he leads $40, guy folds, I make it $120. He calls. The turn is the and he leads $100, I push for about $200 more and he calls after not too long with jacks. River is a K and I'm goot. I hear a "you called $20 preflop with THAT?!"

I get UTG and have straddled. Folds around to the btn who calls, as does the bb. I check. The flop is and they check to me, I bet $10 and they both call. The turn was a 7 and the bb checks, I bet $30 and the bb calls. The river is an 8 and he checks, I bet $70 and he calls and mucks.

I had AJ and raised, got two callers and the flop was AJ5 with 2 clubs. We get all in 3way and my hand holds up. Neither of them had full stacks though.

There are probably a whole heap of hands that I'm missing here but oh well. Funny thing: The seat to my direct right had probably 9-12 people in it the time we were at the table (9hrs). People just kept either getting stacked or moving to another seat. I loved it.

I also had half the table comment about how much balls I had to play the way I did. Nice to hear.

Anyway, +$723 in 9 hours.

Thank you the lucksack has finally been passed on. I knew taking you to play live would pay off.