Macau trip report Part 1

Starting off from the last post.

Macau

Set off for an aurdous (cant be spelt right) journey to macau which involved, a taxi to chesterfield train station, 3 trains to stansted and a 14 hour non stop flight to hong kong airport. When there a ferry to macau. My good mate Booder who won a seat through minimal fpp points brought his sister trace.
When the ferry aproached macau the first thing i remember seeing was the sands casino with bright red neon lights and i already had a buzz in my stomach anticipating the next week of fun and poker.
We arrived at the grand waldo casino and it looked beautiful, just what i imagined a big vegas hotel to look like. We knew stars were holding a welcoming party in one of the bars in the hotel so were very eager to dump our things, get a quick shower and head off to the party and consume a lot of free alcohol.

Booder and trace checked in without a problem whilst i had a major problem. My name wasnt down on the list. I immedieatly started to monkey tilt, knowing everyone would be up in the bar enjoying the music and free beer. I panicked and demanded answers. Someone gave me the name of a stars rep and told me to go see her about the room, "she will be in the party" i bet she will was my tiltish reply.

I decided the best course of action was to take my suitcase in booders room, slip into a shirt, have a quick spray of lynx and aftershave and head to the party.
I did this but before i could relax i needed to find this broad to sort my room out.
We entered the monkey bar and i tracked down this lass. She appologised, tolt me to enjoy the party and she would sort it out in the next hour. This wasnt something i liked to hear but managed to keep my composure, after all a few bevvies would calm the clam down a tad.

Right up to the bar, booder and trace order a calsberg, (sigh) my explanation of whats the best value to order from a free bar fell on deaf ears as i proceeded to order 2 tequila sunrises, one for my non existent buddy who was in the khazi. We sat on the bar stools and enjoyed the scantily clad dancers while getting smashed. By now i had consumed various concoxions of alcohol and was heading for the dancefloor. Booder and trace meanwhile were ready for some kip and decided not to take advantage of the free bar.

Not a big problem for me as i had made a few drinking buddies and news that my room was sorted gave a welcome boost and soon my dancing shoes were in full motion, dancing with a certain miss mercier was cool until bill Chen saw my advances as untoward and proceeded to do anything in his living power to stop me acheiving my aim of seduction. Mercier continued dancing and called me a dance donk which was funny. I think me and isabelle were the last 2 in the bar. Unfortunately she rejected my proposal of a room party and i headed up to the room to get a few hours, sleep temporariy forgetting that the main event $2500 buyin was starting in about 6 hours UPS.

Pab met me and booder at the casino in the morning and managed to get on the alternate list as me and booder drew the same table. The competition started very bad for me and i didnt play well at all. I had raised a lot in the first level and couldn't connect to a flop for love nor money.

I raised it up with AT and got flatted from the bb from an aussie who seemed like he knew the game from how he was talking. The flop was a good one for me AT2 and was happy for the aussie to donk lead 300 into the 325 pot. I decided to play this straight forwardly and make it 1025. The aussie then flat called. The turn brought a queen and he checked to me. I didnt like this card one bit and maybe should have checked behind on the turn and possibly called a bet on the river. I however bet 1800 only for aussie to jam in for 7k total. I tanked for an eternity. I still had 6k left at 50/100 and couldnt see anything that i beat apart from QTs but even that didnt make sense to me. I decided to lay it down. The next two levels passed without a single playable hand and i ended up getting 4k in at 100/200 with KTs on a KQx vs QK and that ended my disappointing tournament. Booder started really well, hitting a few hands and getting paid and was upto 24k when i retired to my room to get some kip. Unfortunately a few hours later Booder knocked on my door with the inevitable bad beat which cost him his chips.

We were both out of the tournament but we still had 6 days left in macau and we werent going to squander it..