[Carlson411]

Took a bus trip to Casesar's around 11am. Bus showed up late and it was the smallest bus ever. We finally get to Caesar's at 12:30pm and the bus terminal keeps us on the bus for like a half hour. I'm in a rush and a bit nice from drinking my Courvoisier and Redbull. So I push my girls family and run to the bathroom and than run to Wild Wild West where the tourny started a long time ago. I'm like whatever. I run to Caesar's for the tourny at 1pm and I reach at 1:10pm and the guy tells me no I can't join.

I normally play internet NL tournys and 2/4 limit cash games. I haven't played live poker since April this year. I sign up for 4/8, 5/10 limit and 1/2 and 2/5 NL. I look around Caesar's poker floor for 10mins. The cocktail waitresses are pretty beat. The dealers are chill, but no hot ones like Showboat. This ain't the Rio or the Wynn, but what can you do. So I sit down at the 1/2 NL table with a $120 stack. My table is filled with men in the 40-50 age range and 3 guys around my age. I forgot exactly how loose 1/2 NL actually is. I was counting 5-6 to a flop. Thought I was in heaven.

Guys I don't have the exact hands with everybodys position for a lot of hands. However, the third hand I played on the button was great. I'm on the button with AJs. I raise for $10 and the old man calls. The guy to my left in cutoff calls and one more player in MP2 calls and we go 4 way. Flop comes Q A A. The old man bets the MP2 folds and the kid to my left calls. I push the guy next to me in for $50. The old man calls. Turn is a Q. I push the old man in for another $10. The old man shows me Quad Queens! And he wins. I almost fell out my chair laughing hysterically. The old man caught my ass. Good for him. Now I'm caught with a shortstack and laughing and playing with everybody.

So to make a long story short after a couple of hours of play and figuring out these lucy goosee table I'm up $200. LOL. Everybody is pretty much cool. I started getting drunk. I stopped ordering Redbull Vodkas and ordering Vodka Martini's. I told the lady "Shaken not stired." She looked at me and smiled. She told me I look cute. To bad she wasn't younger and I'm not getting married in a couple of months. People started nit picking at me now. One of the old men that was at the table was upset that I actually came to a decision on a hand and told me I need to hurry up and that I took to long. Keep in mind I'm getting drunk and I busted him out of a hand a while ago for $100 with a set of 7s. I'm getting irritated and I was going to single him out again b/c I had a bigger stack than the entire table. However, I txt up my girl and she came by to watch me.

An Asian lady sat down on my right and she was fairly new to poker. She was nice to my girl and I. She came in on a hand with me when I was holding pocket KKs. She raise and I just called. I have position on this woman and shes like a calling station. She busted out 3x in like 15mins. Anyway flop comes A K 7. She bets hard. Around $25. I see whats left and I ask her for what she has left to reraise her all in. All of a sudden she pulls chips out of the drink holder and pocket book and her coat. I start laughing and i said, "wow where did this come from." Dealer saw and told her you can't do that. Anyway river I show her a set of Kings and she had to rebuy once more.

The time is getting close for me to bounce. This old man with a pink shirt sits in the Asian lady's seat because the Asian lady moved to my left. The new old man with a pink shirt sat down on a table that I was at for 5 hours straight and decides to coach me now. He told me that I take to long and that I need to hurry up with my decisions. Now i don't want to be a jerk, but no limit is not so easy to an intermediate player. I talked a lot for a reason. I'm trying to get reads on players, calculate draws in my head, see if I can push people off of hands, and so forth. I apologize to him and the table and swallowed my pride. Its now 6:35 and the bus leaves at 6:50. I turned around and my fiancee bounced. I tried to make nice with the old man and saw he had a Rolex Submariner. I said nice watch and didn't happen to see he was all in and lost with K 10o against somebody with aces. This guy got real nasty with me. He verbally abused me stating that who cares about my watch I just lost my money. Guys on 2 + 2 sorry, but $100 is not that much to me and it shouldn't be for a guy wearing a Rolex watch in his late 60s. Come on now! This guy tries to coach me again. At this point I knew he was being a jerk off so I straight out told him look buddy I play 7 times a week and if anybody needs coaching its you and I can give it to you. He slams his fist on the table and leaves. I said screw it and walked away with my $250+. I shook everybodys hand and I gave the dealer another $4 tip and I wasn't in the hand. I rushed to the bus, slid half way down the banister perfectly. I thought I heard an old man say wow and I turned around and gave him a nod b/c I knew he liked that slide. I run to the bus and just make it. Wrong bus and my girls family tells me come to the correct bus and tell me "Adrian you took long, but did you win?" I show them my knot of cash tied down by my Coach clip
and they say "oh ok we understand." I sit down next to my girl who hammers me out for being late and is upset b/c once again its due to poker,lol.