{"id":2478,"date":"2018-11-23T09:53:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2018-11-23T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:57:12","slug":"clearing-the-decks-vegas-trip-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the Decks: Vegas Trip Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote this back in June and never put it up, Figured I’d better get it posted before\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6you know.<\/em><\/p>\n

Something the Sat Dragged In<\/h2>\n

I made a quick trip down to Vegas over the weekend that may be my last for the summer, since it didn’t go so smoothly.<\/p>\n

I headed down with one of my co-workers, Ben, who was seeing the WSOP for his first time.<\/p>\n

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We got a room at the Rio, since we just had a couple of days, getting into town at 7pm on Friday. We got a Lyft to the hotel, got checked into a room \u00a0in Masquerade with Trump\u2019s hotel in the middle of our view, then headed down to the floor, where we immediately ran into\u00a0Kevmath<\/strong>. After a brief chat I hustled over to the cage to buy into the evening’s\u00a0$585 Mega Satellite<\/strong>, I made it all of 40 minutes until I bet my pocket tens that were good to the river when A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> made a backdoor flush.<\/p>\n

Ben and I headed over to the Strip, starting off at Planet Hollywood, where I introduced him to the Mutant Poker Original Friend of the Blog Brad Press<\/strong> who was enjoying some cash game action.\"\"<\/p>\n

We walked up the Strip checking out the Friday night crowd, as Ben displayed for me his strategy for winning at\u00a0video roulette<\/strong>, then headed back to the Rio.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning we headed down for the 9am WSOP $185 Mega Satellite<\/strong>, where Ben made it about halfway through and I busted 17th, with 8 places paying $100 cash and three $500 tournament buyin lammers. The single-table satellites were going off all around for the\u00a0Millionaire Maker<\/strong>, but they also ran a satellite for that afternoon\u2019s\u00a0Eight-Game Six Handed<\/strong> bracelet event, and eager to play some games I don’t get a chance at at home, I jumped in. Amazingly enough, I was (a distant) second in chips by the time we were down to three players, but I ended up going out third.<\/p>\n

Ben headed out on his own adventures most of Saturday, ending up in a small tournament at Treasure Island where he chopped for what would be the only cash of our combined weekend. I headed to the\u00a0Venetian Deepstack Poker Championship $40K GTD NLHE Survivor<\/strong> hoping to pick up one of the $3400 payouts. I wasn’t the only one, as my table had a couple of pros I recognized. Over at another table was\u00a0Carlos Welch<\/strong>. When I came back from break, I had the scare of my life, as another famous name walked past my table, I thought he was looking for his seat, but he was on his way out.<\/p>\n

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OMG Kassouf just walked past my table looking like he was looking for seat #unlucky<\/a>?<\/p>\n

— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) June 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n