Monday Done...and So Am I

At least I remained undefeated in my sports betting in Las Vegas.
I bet the Wings-Dallas game OVER 5 and the final was Wings 5, Dallas 2.

That moves me to 9 - o in sports betting in Las Vegas!

But 1 win in 12 races in another run of horse bets puts my Las Vegas record at 2 wins in 137,768 horse races.

Needless to say, I'm down a little betting the horses. A sane man might think of concentrating on betting only sports and leave the horseys alone. I said a sane man.

You might have noticed that I am delaying explaining my Monday night tourney night. I'm trying to delay having to re-live the pain.

I'm starting to feel these poker tournaments are about as much fun as rubbing aluminum foil over your fillings or repeatedly banging your funny bone on an iron post.

I went back to the Paris as the boys (Bronco and JW) wanted me to wait for them and we would leave for the Caesars tourney together. I got a call late that they were still at the New York - New York. They asked if we could move the Caesars tourney to tomorrow and I said fine. So I went back to the Paris because of the payout structure - not the tourney itself.

As I stated this is a turbo SNG. Thirty-six players in this one.

I stole two pots with junk to stay ahead of the blinds for the first two rounds. But the table went crazy! Some drunk from Boston got moved to the table and was going all-in every hand! He lost his first two hands to lesser stacks and had exactly 400 in chips left with the blinds at 200 - 400.

I had 3200 in chips at this moment. But he keeps going all-in - with both decent and awful hands and wins seven straight all-ins! He now is the monster at the table. I know all-in is my only option and my cards are all big spacers. Another huge stack joins the table and that stops the insanity.

I get blinded down to 1600 just before I become the BB. I am moved to the other table (only 2 tables left), where I am still the big blind. Two UTG limpers and then one player goes all-in for 1600 and I also go all-in for the same amount with (QQ). Maybe here is where I can get back into the tourney. I just need the same good luck JW had at basically the exact same time in the tourney.

Both UTG limpers call our all-in and four of us see the board as the two UTG's check it down.

I hit trip Queens on the flop of [KQ2]. A [6] on the turn and an [A] on the river. Everyone mucks when they see my trips except for the second UTG who is holding [JT].

As I said, this is getting very old. No hands or flops, but when I get them -I lose.

I will be ready to do battle tomorrow none the less. They can't beat you unless you quit.