I got in too late for a proper update last night, but I'll try to get you caught up now. I had a fun night.
After going to dinner with my mom, we came back and she hit the nickel slots in the casino. She's quite the high roller. Rather than watch her, I played some $50 BJ and broke even when all was said and done. I finally got bored in the casino and headed back to the poker room.
I spotted my friend Jet (the guy who used to run the home game where I live) playing 25/50 NL. You have to understand - Jet wasn't a bad player by any means, but he certainly wasn't the strongest in the game either. Well, looks like he's improved a LOT. He was playing better, and I could see his whole mental everything was much better. He had a nice psycho image at the table, was super talkative, etc. Victor Ramdin was to his right, and earlier (for about 2 hours) Hachem was to his left. BTW - there is also a $50/$100 game where Antonio was sitting with a good $200k, if I had to guess. Phil Laak was playing in it, along with durrr (this kid is SICK! Really, really talented), H@lling@ll or whatever his name is, and some other guys I didn't recognize. Big game.
Anyway, I'm standing there sweating Jet when I get tapped on the shoulder. It's Isabelle. "Mark, would you like to play in a $30 fun SNG with us?" she asks. Of course! This year (I named the event the "Second Annual Monique Michot Invitational" (that's Isabelle's mom)), we had Fabrice Soulier in the 1 seat, me in the 2 seat, Herbe the movie guy in he 3 seat, Isablle in the 4, Monique in the 5, two female French reporters in the 6 and 7, and then three Poker Stars people in Seats 8, 9 and 10. The reporter girls had NEVER played before, so it was pretty crazy trying to explain to them how to play. Fabrice was practicaly pulling his hair out. Naturally, they finished 1-2 in the event, exactly as I predicted when we started. Gutshots, 2 outers, dominated hands flopping monsters - it was really something. Live poker is totally rigged. It was kinda frustrating for Fabrice, Isabelle and I, but it was a good time. Oh, and we had a "French Only" rule at the table, but it wasn't strictly enforced.
Afterwards, we had a drink in the lobby, and then I called it a night. It wasn't was fun as last year's crazy tourney (the one with Gavin Smith falling asleep at the table), but it was still a good time. Oh, and I think I need to learn French for next year.
So that was last night. No poker for me today - going to do the pools/water slides/ocean, etc. thing today.