short form vegas trip report
Jun. 29th, 2005 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmdi cashed in the $1000 ladies' no limit hold'em tournament of the world series of poker! (event 26, the one jennifer tilly won. she was at my table for a while, but i neither conversed with her nor played a pot with her, so there's not much exciting there).
there were 601 entrants, and the top 54 finishers got paid. i finished 49th at the end of round 8, ahead of kathy liebert, who was to my right for much of my time on my last table.
there were only one or two things i did during the whole tournament that felt like mistakes, and in general, i felt like i had my "a" game for the whole tournament.
apparently, i used up all my "a" game on sunday during the tournament because i played like a donkey (or at least an unlucky player -- probably a combination of both) for much of the rest of my trip. but still. I CASHED AT A WORLD SERIES OF POKER EVENT! (the buy-in was $1000, and i won $1360, so ... not a huge profit, but still, i made the money and outlasted something like 550 other women, some of them very good players).
jennifer tilly totally doesn't look 46. and i cannot believe she's dating phil "unabomber" laak
there were 601 entrants, and the top 54 finishers got paid. i finished 49th at the end of round 8, ahead of kathy liebert, who was to my right for much of my time on my last table.
there were only one or two things i did during the whole tournament that felt like mistakes, and in general, i felt like i had my "a" game for the whole tournament.
apparently, i used up all my "a" game on sunday during the tournament because i played like a donkey (or at least an unlucky player -- probably a combination of both) for much of the rest of my trip. but still. I CASHED AT A WORLD SERIES OF POKER EVENT! (the buy-in was $1000, and i won $1360, so ... not a huge profit, but still, i made the money and outlasted something like 550 other women, some of them very good players).
jennifer tilly totally doesn't look 46. and i cannot believe she's dating phil "unabomber" laak
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Date: 2005-06-29 12:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-29 12:23 pm (UTC)so i at least had a chance to keep my concentration.
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Date: 2005-06-29 01:42 pm (UTC)i'm impressed. outlasting 550 other players is pretty damn good!
*hugs*
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Date: 2005-06-29 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-29 02:22 pm (UTC)Okay. That's pretty freaky.
But then again, the poker luminaries are just another crowd who happen to all know each other, with some crossover into other crowds. I remember when Avi was giving me updates on Annie Duke's marital status.
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Date: 2005-06-29 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-29 05:43 pm (UTC)Legend has it that to even brush against Jennifer's mystical chest adds 5 years to the life of a mortal, so to actually possess them may just be the fountain of eternal youth.
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Date: 2005-06-30 12:08 am (UTC)So what, no chance to cop a feel?? DAMMIT!