From: "Hee, Nolan (NBCUniversal)" Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 17:55:48 +0000 Subject: [BARGE] EMBARGO Trip report, a joke, and some VP questions Thurs: plan to leave at 10am but it's already 11am when wifey tells me to g= o to Costco and get diapers for our 5mo girl. Bad beat. Shoulda left at 10 = like I planned. Diapers are purchased and I'm out the front door. Garage Door is about 1 fo= ot open. GDO is stuck. Bad beat I shoulda left at 10. Some neighbors and I finally got it open and I'm on the road at 1pm. Roll i= nto Vegas at 4:55. Can't figure out when to hold em and when to fold em. Bust out of first tou= rnament and jump into a rocking mixed game. Lots of straddles and capped po= ts. One very big pot erupts when I look down at 9642 sooooted. Hey, any 4 c= an win so I push out $20 pre-flop and hit three 9's on the bottom board of = a Juarez high low game. Surprisingly or not, there's 8 way $20 capped flop = action. I turn the gorgeous 6 and we somehow get a lot of chips in on the t= urn. I have no clue how much, but I believe this small canoe is the nuts. R= iver is a J when I bet on the bottom and no low on the top board either. On= e winner. My small canoe holds up and this pot of somewhere between 200 and= 500 is pushed in my direction. I can't tell how much because everyone keep= s knocking chips down in this game so we all have messy piles in front of u= s. I asked the dealer a couple days later and she says there must have been= a dozen stacks 40 high in there. I pushed her a stack as a tip :) Friday - Disc golf morning. Beautiful day. Maybe in the low 60's or somethi= ng. Perfect for a walk in the park with Ron and Joe. We had a blast and I t= hink I hit a birdie. Literally. I threw into a flock of pigeons. Didn't do much at Chowaha. Kept running into better hands. Funny how easy t= his game is when you're run over by the deck. Went to the live play area an= d there was no game going. I sat in on a 2-4 Limit HE game but it was a "mu= st tell a joke when you sit" table. Before I told my joke, I asked if anyon= e was easily offended. Since everyone gave me the ok, I went ahead with the= Zebra joke. # # # # Don't Read on if you're easily offended # # # # Zebra dies and goes to heaven. (offending atheists already) At the pearly g= ates, he sees St. Peter and asks, "St. Peter, are zebras white horses with = black stripes or black horses with white stripes?" St. Peter says, "No clue= , you better go ask God". Zebra walks a little further and asks God, "Hey God, are zebras white horse= s with black stripes or black horses with white stripes?" God replies "YOU = ARE WHAT YOU ARE" So, Zebra is still confused and comes back down to St. Peter. St. Peter ask= s "What did God say?". Zebra says, I don't know. Hard to tell. He just said= "YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE". St Peter says, "Oh well you're a white zebra with black stirpes". Zebra say= s how do you know from that? St Peter says, "If you were a black zebra with white stripes God woulda tol= d you "You is what you is" Not much better at H2O. IGHN. Mixed game was fun. Was this the Omaha only n= ight? Who doesn't love a mixed game with only Omaha variants? Saturday, I get kidnapped by Ellis to eat at Big Al's Oyster Bar at the Orl= eans. We were seated but I had to take a leak. I walk across the casino flo= or to the nearest bathroom and when I come out, decide I need a beer. I spo= t a row of VP machines, triple play quarters, and it pays 9K for being deal= t the royal. Each line has its own progressive also. I was playing a triple= pay VP machine that had a prize of 9k if you're dealt the royal, $2400 for= a royal on line A, $1400 on line B, and $1200 on line C. I sat, ordered my= beer, and hit quads a couple of times in the 10 minutes I was there. Up a = hundred bucks and get a text to come back to the oyster bar. The raw oysters were the bomb! Gumbo and Jumbalaya were ok. $100 for that a= nd a couple of coronas. Next time, I'll just get the oysters and opt out of= the other dishes. # # # # # # # NEED INPUT FROM VP EXPERTS # # # # # # # # I was dealt As 5h Qc Qs Js in this order. I am playing triple play so I opt= ed to keep the QQ. On line 2, I s*** myself when I see Ks Ts appear on line= 2. - Would I have hit a royal if I kept the AQJs? - Are the KsTs always in the first two positions on line 2? Like w= ould Ks have been under As thus making it impossible for the royal? - If Ks Ts came out in the first two positions, does that mean the= y are the first two cards that come out no matter what was held? - Does the timing of when I pushed the draw button have any factor= on this? Bummer . . . # # # # # # # NEED INPUT FROM VP EXPERTS # # # # # # # # 2nd random question that didn't happen at this session, but still curious a= nyway. I'm playing a bonus machine where 4 aces with a kicker pays 2000, 4 aces 80= 0, FH 45, and trips 15. I get dealt AAA66. Throw away the 6's? Played in the Omaha game at the Orleans for a bunch. Went back to the Fremo= nt at about 10pm. Took a nap and woke up at midnight and went down to see i= f anyone was still up. To my surprise, two rocking tables are going! Feels = like old times! I sit in the dealers choice, the other table is ROSE. When = our table breaks, we fill up the ROSE table. We end up playing until 5am. G= ood times!!! Got to see a few friends at the last minute and say good-byes.= It's these moments that give us something extra special to look forward to= right? Last good beat, next morning before I hit the road, I took the 10 quarters = from spare change that ended up on my desk and hit quad 9's on my 2nd game = of VP. Nice extra fitty bucks! Special notes: lost all my last longers to Dean. Nice job on my part pickin= g someone who final tables all the events. Carol, Patty, and Redbird are just too cute! Totally love you ladies! Dan disrespected my fireball. Tsk tsk. ;) He was knocking down my mountai= n of chips and a few of them fell in my drink. Cleanest chips on the floor. David Lawful and I were in the same exact seats for both Friday tournaments= . I knew this site was rigged! Kongrats Kubey. Make sure you sign all your posts as the "World Chowaha Cha= mpion 2016". Thanks especially to the organizers for their time and effort in making EMB= ARGO happen year after year. YOU truly are the nuts!