Thursday, September 3, 2009

The Longest Day

So I left my house in Tahoe at 2 AM and got a ride to SF airport for my 7:40 flight. arrived to JFK at a little before 5 PM, then flew to Dublin, then to Barcelona, and everything went to plan. That is, until my bag didn't arrive in Barcelona! Having had my luggage not arrive before, I knew to just stay calm, carry on, and they'd deliver it to me. The problem was that I didn't have the address or phone number of my Hostel (stups). So I'm exhausted, but determined to play the first event of this European Poker Tour series, so I make my way to the casino, where the first thing they tell me is, "You need to wear pants and shoes to follow the dress code." She points me towards a mall and I go purchase both since I don't have my luggage. I get back and they say, "Tomorrow, please bring a different pair of pants."
I have really been modifying my game a ton, so I was excited to practice some new strategies in the live arena, especially after such a mortifying WSOP. So I was excited, but really regretted playing about an hour into the tournament, I was just so exhausted. I stuck it out anyway and ended up taking 9th out of 160. I made an embarrassingly bad fold on the money bubble: Dag Mikkelson opened cutoff to like ~20K at 1500/3k because BTN had 37k, I had 48k, and BB had 30k. I look down at ATs and obv fistpump...fold!? ZOMG WTF!?$%^&* Not really sure what happened, but I think it had something to do with being exhausted, having played all day and not wanting to have nothing to show for it, but regardless, this was the pussiest and maybe worst fold of my entire career. Ironically, the bubble boy called Dag's BTN shove from SB with ATo and lost to Dag's KTs LOL! Guess it was a good fold afterall!
I played event 1 of the WCOOP tonight and lost in level 3 after losing with AK to TT on AAT board and then to Q7 with QQ on a T36 board--he had a flush draw. I'm trying to accumulate chips as we speak in the Full Tilt $150, so maybe I can make something out of that.
Tomorrow I'm excited to actually partake in some of the more experiential portion of the trip. My plan is to go to the beach, maybe grab some tapas, and if I can manage, get on a bicycle for either a guided or self guided tour.