My Vegas trip is coming to an end. I just got back tomy hotel suite at the Rio, enjoying a cold beer before bedtime and thinking of today's events.

So, we were down to 35 players, 27 would walk home with money in their pocket, the best and luckiest of us all would cash a nice $81,000!

The 3rd hand of the day I am UTG. Blinds are $1,200-2,400, $300 ante, I raise to $7,000. A shorter stack to my immediate left reraises all-in for $38,000+, everyone folds to me and I obviously call with y pocket kings! He flips over 10 10, nohelp for him on the board, and I am almost at average - YES!! Just the start I needed.

From there I go up and down a bit, down again to $80,000, a big squeeze-play sends me back ovr the $100,000 mark, but we are still not on the bubble, the game is slow! Finally somebody busts and we re-draw for the last three tables.

I win some bi juicy pots with agressive play pre-flop, I squeeze some of the pros a couple of times and I build my stack to $326,000 when we are 17 players left, average at $226,000. I am feeling more and more confident and positive. I hit a bit of a card drought, and slowly fall to around $280,000.

When we come back from dinner break I am in the big blind. I have two big stacks to my right, those are the ones I plan to double up through! In the first hand it is folded to Canadian Paul in the SB. He completes, I check with 98o. A Q 2 on the flop, he bets I fold.

2nd hand it is again folded around to Paul. Blinds are $5,000-10,000,$1,000 ante. Paul raises on the button to $36,000. I look down and see

 

I shove for my entire stack, but the calm voice from the big blind is everything but soothing when he announces "I call".

Canadian Paul folds, and the Big Blind reveals his ugly

 

I am crushed and he doubles up through me, I am left with less than 1 big blind, and two hands later I am out in 14th place of the 272 player field.

Looking back on the week, my stats are nothing to be ashamed of. I have played 6 tournaments, cashed in 4 of them. In two of them I have chopped for first place heads-up and 3-way, and I have made it deep into the money in 2 out of 4 deep-stack tournaments with plenty of world class players around me.

Gotta start packing now, anxious to go home to Marian and the new 3 Kings Social Club. Looking forward to creating a great place to play with lots of value and action for my members.

hasta la proxima!