The 3K yesterday was amazing - I actually managed to go 0 VPIP for the first 90 minutes. Given I showed up a little late, it means I went into the first break able to say I was better off watching TV. I might be a nit, but c'mon, that's absurd. It didn't go anywhere after that, either - we started with 6K, and six hours later, I'd never gone under 4000 or over 6500 the entire time when I won a flip to put me at a whopping 11K at 300/600. Then I busted five hands later. In a perfect world, I think I'd have been better off dropping the buyin on one of those ice cream sundaes made out of real gold at Serendipity, but in a perfect world, they also wouldn't have shut that place down for health code violations, so it evens out. Either way, I think I yawned more times while folding yesterday than I sucked out two Sundays ago, and without even a funny Cardrunners vid to show for it.

To get over that atrocity, I didn't play today (well, that, and it's the seniors event/I'm not eligible for the AARP). Tomorrow is the 5K event; the goal is either to FT that or bust out of it in an hour and then win some random Sundayment the following day to make up for it.

Also, if I ever go the entire first hour of a donkament with a VPIP of 0 live again, I'm raising the next hand blind.

It turns out that scheduling a 1 hour, cross-airline layover is not a good idea when you're flying from NY through Minneapolis in bad weather. Not only did I miss my flight, I got stuck in Minneapolis for a night. Fun fact about American Airlines policy: if it's an airport problem and not a plane problem, they'll only give you half-off coupons for a hotel instead of comping it. It's as if they were competing to lose my business, especially when I *just* signed up for their frequent flier program, like, two weeks ago.

Anyway, I finally got to Vegas yesterday, watched Vivek (psyduck) bubble the 15K Venetian event (uuggggghh), then lasted 90 minutes in today's Bellagio $2500 tourney when QQ < KK. Standard, but whatever, lots more poker coming up soon.

On the plus side, I'm officially not going to Australia in January. This is good because it turns out the Aussie Millions conflicts with the Borgata WPT event, and since I've got comped rooms there and don't need to take 48 hours and two stops each way's worth of flying to make a single poker tournament, going to AC instead is a no brainer. I still want to visit Australia, but it'll have to wait for when I can make a real vacation out of it.

Meanwhile, at the moment, I'm just sitting in Vivek's apartment surfing the net and waiting around for the nightly tourneys to start - pretty much the same thing I do in NYC, but in a new and exciting time zone. The poker lifestyle is weird.

Short version: I went 1 for 6 today, but the 1 was a 7'th place in the UB 200K for 7,000. This one's bittersweet; I sucked out on the first hand of ITM (just like the FTPment) so it's another freeroll, but after surviving ~45 minutes of 11 handed play with a nice stack, finishing seventh is really annoying. The culprit was the only guy at the FT that I'd say was bad, who led into me on a JT5 board with A3 (making effective stacks a PSB at that point) and then hit a 3 outer (okay, 7 outer, turn gutshot ftw) when I decided to let him bluff. Doh...now *that* one hurts, because it's only a good play if he leads a river blank, but he didn't even have the decency to be good enough to lead the river ace. In other words, I might have played it bad vs. a bad player with lots of money on the line, which sucks. (oh yeah, and then I ran Ax with 8 BB into his jacks. lol donkaments etc.)

Still a good pair of Sundays, though, and sets me up nicely for Vegas, where I hopefully - cross my fingers re: the weather - arrive tomorrow.