Vegas.

Just got back after a week in Vegas. A whole week without online poker, that must be some sort of record. In Vegas I was mostly there to do other things than play poker: I looked at 20+ houses for rental investments, I played other board games with 20+ friends from the internet, and visited a good friend of mine who lives there. Here is a summary of the ~10 hours of poker over 4 sessions in Vegas.

1-3 NL at the Palms, small win, no action.
1-3 NL at the Rio, small win, no action.
1-2 NL at the Flamingo, small win (flopped 3 sets in 1 hour), no action. Tried to meet vizer02 here unsuccessfully.
2-5 NL at the Venetian, small loss, massive action. The players here were worse than in all of the smaller limit games, however there was huge variance with almost every pot being raised and having multiple callers to the flops. I bought in for $500 even though it is a $200-$1,000 buyin, because that is the stack size I am most familiar with. Here are the 2 interesting hands:

I doubled up for ~$500 with A9s v QTo with the following line. We had a rare limped pot with 5 callers, and I am in late postion and flop an ace with a backdoor diamond flush draw on AJx board with 2 hearts. I bet some small half pot or something bet and it goes heads-up because I have a real tight image at this point. Turn comes a king of diamonds and the other guy leads into me for like half pot, and I just call suspicious of 2 pair or a straight because that is how they play. I river the nuts with a 4 of diamonds, and he bets again, I raise 3x, and he shoves for like $300 more like an idiot and I stack him.

Then I get stacked for ~$600 with KK v 95o with the following line. Some guy straddles to $10, 2 callers including 1 of the 2 "super-fish" that I am eyeballing, I reraise to $55 out of the small blind and I go heads-up to the flop with the super-fish. Flop comes 59Q with 2 clubs, I bet $80 and he raises to $180 and I just shove putting him allin due to the super-drawy nature of that board. The turn is an exciting Jack of clubs giving me 19 outs, but the river bricks. So I went from a 5-1 favorite, to a 7-3 dog, to a 11-9 dog. I left after one more orbit kind of pissed off. I take losses like this almost every hour I am playing online, but the higher stakes and the way slower pace of the game made me want to quit the session, and that was the last I played for the trip. Ended about even over the 4 sessions.