Day Three

To keep these a bit shorter and not bore quite so many of you, I will stick to the basics of what happened on Saturday. After waking up around 11:00, we decided to travel to the north end of the Strip. This portion contains such greats like Treasure Island and The Mirage. It is at The Mirage where we spent most of the day.
Clint, Chad and Bart found a new game they think is glorious. It's called Spanish 21. I'm not quite sure how you lose money at this game. It is an alternate version of blackjack. However, this is where it gets crazy. There are no tens in the deck (but face cards still count as ten) and if you don't like the looks of your double down odds, you can pull it back. Clint fell in love with the game (until the second day he played it).
James and I decided to try poker (the Mirage poker room is the center of the poker world according to the film Rounders). We were put at the same table, right next to each other. By the end of the first two hours, James had mucked a full house and I was on tilt. James had 5's over J's and was called by a guy with the nut flush. James didn't flip his hand over to show what he had. He didn't realize he had the full house until I told him three hands later. James now flips his cards every hand. A tough lesson learned.
I became angry at a hand where I was beat by three Q's and I had three J's. Something you need to know about me is that I get very angry at bad beats and take it personally. I went on tilt and couldn't shake it for the rest of the game. I lost $100 at The Mirage.
Luckily I had another poker tournament at Sam's Town that night. Chad and I were the only two who played in it from our group. The others went back to the hotel room and watched The Girl Next Door. The shameful twins and their mom were in the tournament again. I was at the final table with two of them. When I took one of them out, I leaned over to shake her hand and she would have none of it. How rude is that. She wouldn't even shake my hand.
Chad did much better in the second tournament. His goal was to make it through ten hands. He finished 8th. Good job Chad.
I, however, did not do quite as well as the previous night. I only finished 3rd and won $550. I did prove all you need is a chip and a chair though. I went all-in against a guy and lost. It left we with $1,000 and the blinds were $1,000-2,000. Unfortunately, I was also the small blind. With six people in the game, I tripled up to $3,000, tripled up to $9,000 and then doubled up to $18,000. I then worked my way to the chip leader, but a bad bet cost me a lot of chips. I put $15,000 in the pot and put a guy all-in on a bluff. If I had known that was all he had, I would have only bet about $5,000. This cost me the chip lead and I then finished 3rd.
Afterwards, Chad and I met up with the others at Bellagio and we had a good night wandering the town. After a few hours, we went home and prepared for our last full day in Las Vegas.