The Las Vegas Sunshine

Well today the forecast is to hit the 80s for the first time since we have been here. I have been hearing about all the storms back home and I must say I havent missed it one little bit. Im not a fan of the cold and rain and I must say the weather we have had so far has been near perfect for me. Im not sure how comfortable ill be when the weather hits 120 but for now all is good.

We sleep with the blinds open in the bedroom and its so good waking up every morning to natural sunlight. Im up at 8am every morning at time which I used to go to bed at when back in England. I get up feed the cat open the patio doors and have my breakfast outside on the patio.

The Red Rock is holding a $500,000 freeroll in April all you have to do is play 75 hours in any cash game to qualify during the first 3 months of the year. The winner gets $70,000 and you get $100 just for qualifying so this on top of the $150,000 bad beat jackpot it really is a great value room to play in.

I was playing the Red Rock yesterday trying to up my hours. I have logged nearly 40 hours in there now and need to get to 75 by the end of the month. I have been playing short sessions in there so far and need a couple of long ones before the end of the month.

I had planned to have a long session there yesterday but it was going so well that I decided to bank a good win a leave early. Bankroll management v Hours played kinda battle. So I sat down with $1k and I was up to $2800 I had sent Nancy a text to come pick me up when this hand occurd. Im utg and i find KK. I decide to limp as we had a lively table i was expecting a raise from round the back I could reraise and take it down there and then. Of course the raise doesnt come and we have 7 people seeing the flop. The flop comes down KhQcJc now what do I do. The sb leads out for $30 the bb calls. I make it $100. They pass around to the button who makes it $400 to play with $300 behind. The sb now moves all for $1022 total, bb mucks and action is on me. I have $922 to call and assuming that the button is going to call there is a pot of about $1800. Im about 2-1 against to house up so im getting my odds to make the call. Im a bit worried that not all of my outs are there though. Then Nancy walks in, ok well im leaving just swallow the $100 in the pot if it pairs so be it oh well. Im stood up and the 3 guys to my left all see my cards so they are stood up away from the table discussing what I should do. Then as im about to fold I here the button and the small blind say well we have the same hand then. Ok so my outs are good and i guess i can claim backdoor clubs for an extra 4%. If I call an miss its still an $800 profit if I hit then im at the cashdesk cashing out nearly $5000. Ok I call. Of course I miss but its the right call knowing my outs are good. I ran it on a poker calculator when I got home and it turns out im 41% to win the pot. With hindsight I wish I had mucked forget the fact that I missed. I was $1800 in front and about to leave in an unraised pot I shouldnt of gone broke in this hand but anyway we live and learn. The suprising thing about the hand is I assumed hey both had A10 it turns out they both had 9 10. Its shocking really that the sb moves in for $1022 with 910 considering all the action that went on but thats the standard im up against. So its back to the Red Rock today to book more hours.

Ill be watching the Liverpool - Inter Milan game first and then go to the casino after Lunch. Ill play all afternoon, Nancy will pick me up sometime in the evening I think we are out for dinner tonight and then home watch some tv see whats been happening in the internet world and then bed before midnight. I thought this was supposed to be sin city the city that never sleeps, well why am i in bed before midnight every night.

Not that im complaining, getting a full nights sleep everynight is doing wonders for me, im sleeping the same times every night I eat at the right times of the day and im in the warmth and sunshine of Las Vegas. I def feel more healthy since being out here. Ok im not running marathons but I have shed a couple of pounds and feel better than when back home.

Talking of health I guess I should give an update on my sister. In a way I have forgotten all about her health scare. To see or speak to her you wouldnt know anything had happened. She is back to 100% and she is prob in better shape than she was before. The docs have given her a clean bill of health and touch wood we can put it all behind us.

I got an email from my removals company just over a week ago informing me that my container was to be returned to the UK upon arrival this Friday at customs in the states. The first thing I spoke to my removal company about before taking them on was what paperwork did I require to get all our belongings over to the states. I filled in all the paperwork they told me I needed and the container was on its way. So why the email, whats going on? why will it be returned? I choose to ignore my people in the UK and decide to get in contact with my people in the US. After a lot of phone calls and emails all my paperwork is now in order and my container arrives in the states on Friday. Im told it should go through, but im not counting my chickens. Its 90% plus to go through so fingers crossed. The next problem will be when it all arrives. The container will be unloaded, most of it will stay wrapped and in the garage and we will just move it on again when we buy our new house.

Thanks for all the feedback I have been getting I have a counter at the bottom of the blog and it just hit 1000 hits. I only put the counter on the blog when I got to Vegas so 1000 hits in 3 weeks sounds pretty good to me. If anyone has any tips to help the techno parts of the blog let me know.