Treasure Hunt

The treasure hunting is paying off! For two weeks in a row now, I have been lucky and had chopped for first in the TI Ladies tournament, and both times with the same lady! She works at TI, so she isn’t eligible for the spa gift certificate that comes with first place, so I get that by default—which of course I don’t complain about!

On Tuesday I played in the Caesar’s Ladies tournament, got 3rd out of 15 players, and got lucky again – only two places paid, but we agreed on giving 3rd her money back, so at least I got that!
Also, I have met some really nice and interesting ladies, the bad thing about meeting nice people in Vegas, is that they are always leaving town soon!!!

I am experimenting with changing my game a little, I need to be able to change gears, play position and more aggressive in the right situations. I have a long way to go and need to learn a lot more about this, but I have decided to embark on this journey and take it slow and see where it takes me. It’s something I have to get used to, I still have to get over my “I don’t want to lose”- mentality and learn to take more risks. I still find myself backing down to other more aggressive players. Working on that!!!

Last Sunday Richard and I both played in the Venetian noon tournament. I doubled up early, but after the first break I went card AND flop dead and couldn’t catch a hand even with a baseball glove! I managed to stay alive until two tables left and finally went out 17th out of 93 players.
Richard on the other hand, was on a roll and accumulating chips like it’s going out of style. He made the final table with decent stack and things were looking good. Then this hand came up - somebody in late position raised, the lady on the button immediately pushed – Richard is in the BB and looked down at KK. Original raiser has him covered, but not by much. He’ll probably describe his thought process behind this more in detail in his blog, but eventually he just called. Flop came all low cards, he’s first to act and push. Original raiser folded (AJ, if I remember correctly) and the lady turned over pocket 99’s. GREAT. She called for a miracle 9 and whaddayouknow – turn is a 9!!! Unfortunately the poker gods didn’t play along and no K came and Richard was short stack. He finally went all in with a medium pocket pair, got called by A-10 and got knocked out in 8th place. At least he got in the money!

Last night I tried the tournament at Orleans – but I have to admit – those people scare and intimidate me. First of all, somebody is always yelling at the floor or complaining about their hours, I allowed the old guys to push me around and before I knew it, I was short-stacked and out. Duh.

I also decided to put some of my spa gift certificates to good use, so I tried out the TI spa yesterday. What bliss!!! It helps when you're not really used to the luxuries of life, it makes the experience so much more enjoyable. I love the whole spa-idea --where we all walked around in our bathrobes, eating snacks, drinking fizzy water and listening to soothing music.

It that’s the treasure of Treasure Island, I’ll be there every Monday --hunting for more!!!