Vegas.. We have take off...

Day 1.

Landed at 2pm (Vegas time), At the Gold Coast by 4pm and at the Rio playing poker by 5pm. This goes against every rule I have... never play tired, and boy was I tired. Even a 10 hour flight just kills me!!

I'd promised myself that control (in a poker sense... this is Vegas after all!!) would be the order of the day this year in Vegas, and playing within hours of landing didn't really fit with that. The Rio was busy as always during the series, but I landed a seat on a $2-$5 NLH table pretty much straight away and sat down with $500. The fact I was so wiped out might have actually worked in my favour, as rather that play the loose aggressive style i sometimes adopt when forcing the action I instead played pretty tight.

The first hand I played was from the cut off. One raiser in early position (the action had been pretty loose) and 2 callers. I called for $20 with 44 and the blinds folded. The flop came K42 rainbow. Sweet. Early position bet out $50 and the next player raised to $150. Really I should have just called, but I thought if I push it might be seen as a weaker play. I move all in and get called by KQ. One hand played and already i'm up to over $1250. I play for another hour or so and leave with roughly $1450. $950 profit from my first session really perked up.

After that little foray I wander back to my hotel room and try to get some shut eye. One too many diet cokes meant I couldn't sleep so i popped downstairs to get some food and play a little more poker. Sadly at the GC there was only limit tables going... God I hate playing limit, but for anything else i'd have to go out and that wasn't an option.

I sat down with $100 which had everyone covered at the table. I'm not going to run through every hand, but in the space of the hour I played I hit Quads (for a $100 house bonus), two Full houses, 3 flushes and several other winning hands. I don't think i lost a hand i entered. I left the table with $300.

I after that I slept, and god I needed it.

+$1150. A good first few hours.