Yesterday/last night

After my post yesterday (I was on about 2 hours sleep when i posted, wasn't feeling great) I ended up being awake for the rest of the day bar a 1 hour nap mid afternoon. Turns out the sandwiches we bought on Saturday night did really not agree with me, it was horrible. By about 5pm i was feeling a little better and we decided to go to the Red Rock Casino which is a 2-3 min drive from our house to play their $50 nightly tournament. Rich had read that the steakhouse there was really good, and we had an hour or so before the tournament began so we went and checked it out. I was really not feeling to sharp again so just had some soup (which to be fair was amazingly good!) whilst Owe and Rich both went for the fillet mignion. I tried a little slither of both, and oh my god it was good! Definately going back there.

So we end up sitting down about half an hour late for the tournament because of dinner, and turns out we're all at the same table! Lol. We get a ton of abuse from some old woman nit for being late which was pretty funny, as the rest of the table all know each other and just tell us she moans the whole tournament every tournament. Turns out the americans love to talk at the table, every hand is analysed, alot of the time whilst its being played which if you did at an english casino you would probably get a warning from the floorman. In general though everyone was really friendly and because its a casino off the strip most of them are locals so having tourists is fun for them. I knocked out one guy just before the break (A10 > K3o) who then promptly bought us a round!
Me and Jeal both final tabled, with top 5 being paid. We both started with around 15k from our starting stacks of 6k, in the bottom half of the chip counts. We swapped an extra 10% (we all had 10% of one another before the tournament started) so I had 60% of myself. Jeal busted 7th with about 5 bbs shipping the cutoff and running into the sbs AA, gg. I knocked out 8th place A10 vs A7 putting me upto about 25k then 6th place 1010 vs 99 to put me around 50k. 5 handed, the incredibly drunk guy to my right raises to 7k at 1.5k 3k utg. I have AA and make it 19k total, folded to him and he flats. Board comes 878, he open ships for 35k so has me covered and I obviously snap. He has A9 for air, so needs running cards. J turn gave him outs for a 10, but the 4 river shipped me the 100k pot for 1/3rd of the chips in play 4 handed. The decent aggro guy to my right has about 80k, with the other two having 50k or so each. Blinds are 2k 4k 400a and 3k 6k 500a, so i'm open shoving the button a fair amount, and work my way up to 160k w/o showdown. Next thing were 3 handed, 160k 70k 50k. Button folds, agrro sb limps, i raise with KQ, he reraises and im really confused, he has 30k back and there is about 60k in the pot. Its a pot where if I win I ship the comp for $1500, and if i lose it leave me with 100k, him 130k and other guy 50k. I take along time and eventually ship as his hand looks like 22-AA and given the pot size im good, plus he did this to a guy earlier with 62o and showed the table. It was a cry-ship though so im not sure how much I like it, and im not sure I liked it when he rolled over AA and I was dead on the turn! Oh well. He then busted out the 3rd place guy and I was heads up. First got $1500 and Second $600 (weird). He offered me a deal of $1300 $800, so I would get $200 more, but blinds were 4k 8k and stacks 100k me 180k him so one double and i'm good + im sure i'd win more than one in four times so i turned it down. He started open shipping every sb, so all i could do was the same back. With 90k i shipped J10 diamonds, he snapped with KQ diamonds, oh dear. The flop came Jack high with 2 diamonds so its 50:50. Turn was a brick, but river came the Qh to give him the win, gg. Still pleased with how I played though, and after the dealer tip + paying out the 40% I owed the boys I had $300 profit. Ship! I also got a little card protector for cashing but lost it in the casino! :'(

Got back here around 12.30, ate some food and felt sick again so went straight to bed whilst Jeal and Owe went for a late night jacuzzi session together!

I woke up around 6am and haven't been back to sleep since, my stomach feels really weird but i'm not sure if its because there isn't much in it or if im still sick. I guess i'll have a bagel and see.
Today we're going to go to an outlet center and do some shopping i think, then will probably try another cardroom tonight.

Will update tomorrow no doubt, hope everyone back home is well!

-Adam