$10k Limit

I finally got a bunch of sleep last night since I busted early in the $1500, woke up around 2 pm Vegas time and turned on the US Open just in time to see Tiger already lost the lead. I had to leave right after he donked his second shot on the par 5 14th I think into some nasty stuff. I get over to the Rio and I'm watching it before the tourney starts but then the tourney starts and I have no tv view from where I'm sitting. There is a big tv real close but it has the tourney clock on it, but there is a hanging tv with the same thing on it so I go over to a floorman and see if he could change it to the Open, he says he wishes he could but can't since it has the clock on it and that tv is tied into the same system as the hanging tv. I go back to my seat and Bill Edler sits down across from me and he goes over to the floorman and asks the same thing and still no dice. So I'm getting up between every hand and trying to get a view of a tv that is so far away that I can't really tell what is going on. Phil Ivey then sits on my left which is not too great but sort of cool since I've never played with him and I'm sure it will be somewhat interesting. I ask him if he could get the open on for us since I know he'll be wanting to watch the Lakers/Celtics game anyway later since he has a million dollar bet on the series. He textes someone and a couple minutes later I see a Rio suit walking through the tourney area, a guy I saw doing something for Phil the other day, this guy goes to the tv and puts it on the Open, Phil looks over to me and says "you happy?" ha

Phil and Bill were doing a few prop bets on golf, like if this guy would get up and down, if the putt would make it to the hole or not, I wanted to get in on it, but couldn't find anytihng I really liked and didn't really want to take the worst of it on any bets. Doyle joined our table a bit later, Ivey won $185k off of Doyle before Ivey finally busted on flop props. 185 thousand on frickin props in a couple hours, pretty sick.

Onto the tourney I hung around 20k for a while until I picked up Aces and got into a 4 way 3 bet pot and managed to not get it to hold, that and a couple other random hands got me down to around 13k when I picked up AK twice in about 5 hands and won big pots off of Phil Ivey, the second one basically busting him. I got up to about 30k when I picked up Aces again and once again had some action preflop as it went 3 ways for 3 bets. I then managed to lose with Aces again, not the way to win limit tourneys or any tourney for that matter. I went on a terror after that though winning about every pot I was involved in including flopping a boat with 22 vs Bill Edler on a KK2 flop and flopping a double gutter plus flush draw with JTs vs Brandon Adams and getting there on the turn for a big pot. So besides those 2 aces hands I ran pretty well. I finished the day with 74k in chips which is good for top 10 with 98 left. 218 started, $500k to win. GL to me tomorrow.