Main Event, Here I Come!

The past few days have been pretty awesome, especially last night.

Since my last update, I've successfully completed all of the required jumps with my skydiving instructor Kevin, and I have now been cleared for truly solo jumps. I can't even begin to describe how awesome the sensation is when you spot everything on a skydive by yourself and are entirely in control of your own jump. I learned how to "track" in the air too (which is positioning your body in such a way to significantly reduce drag, thus making you fly a LOT faster), and it's a freaking blast. I can't wait to jump again!

I've been running a lot better live recently too (aside from a bad 10/20 session a few days ago where I dropped about 5-6k), including winning one really nice $6k pot vs a really bad player to end my session at the Wynn on Tuesday morning.

Anyway, I decided to do some laundry and play a few tourneys online yesterday morning + afternoon instead of going skydiving or heading back to the strip, and I'm glad I did. I bubbled the $50+Rebuy+Addon on Stars in an unavoidable situation, but I got pretty deep in the afternoon $50 freezeout. Here are a few screenshots I took:
- Final Table About to Start
- New Chipleader!
- Start of HU
- A Winnar is Me!

Big thanks to Nath, Meyvis, and Ben for helping me out when I had questions. When I was in good shape with about 18 left in the tournament, I told Nath that I'd play the Main Event if I won. Hopefully I can be the next Jamie Gold, minus the douchebaggery and bad play overall. Oh and because this house is full of sick tournament players, Nath just had to show me up last night by taking 2nd in the Full Tilt $100+Rebuy tourney for ~$15k. Sick stuff.

So to celebrate my win, I met up with some CardRunners friends at Tao in the Venetian. Derric (SixPeppers) and Lyric were both really cool guys, and a few random CR members were there as well. The upstairs pool area is freaking gorgeous, and we had a table to hang out at where we each consumed our fair share of tasty beverages. As I was scoping out the pool area for some girls, I noticed that Andrew (from CR) and his crew were there as well. Our two groups merged and we had a blast drinking and hanging out all night (and occasionally trying to get Stinger to do something crazy).

Kush and Aaron showed up a few hours later to hang out, and after the party died down I left with them to try and hit up Ghost Bar at the Palms. Unfortunately it closed like 15min before we got there, and we ran similarly bad trying to get into the Voodoo Lounge at the top of the Rio. So sick to have such a cooler after the nasty beat the Palms dished out on us. I crashed at Kush and Aaron's place for the night -- their condo is pretty sweet and is right next to the strip. Vegas is so awesome.

There's apparently a CR / Bluff Magazine party tonight at the Stratosphere that should be fun, so I'm gonna go meet the whole CR crew at their booth at the Rio in a few minutes and see what happens from there. Should be fun!