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Thanks for the report, a good read. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the 2/5 game has gotten tougher at times at the Bellagio. There were no fish at my table when I was there last month. Solid players or rocky tight locals. Still depends on your table though. The MGM's 1/2 game was much looser.

It'd be interested to see. I wish they'd add this feature to thepokerdb so you could see people's total outlays.

Such is the life of a tournament player

Nice work. Let us know how it goes in Feb.

BedardTotal Winnings: $11,876 Total Final Tables: 7Date Tournament/Event Place Entrants Winnings 10/25/2006 HORSE $20 11 272 $71 09/25/2006 Hold'em NL $20 23 459 $64 09/23/2006 Hold'em NL $50 6 496 $1,116 09/22/2006 Hold'em Limit $20 5 198 $218 09/14/2006 Hold'em Limit $10+Rebuys 12 117 $38 09/14/2006 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $20 18 126 $30 09/13/2006 Hold'em NL $5+Rebuys 165 1,617 $29 09/02/2006 Hold'em NL $0 60 2,235 $0 08/29/2006 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $20 16 162 $39 08/25/2006 Hold'em Limit $20 1 180 $990 08/23/2006 Hold'em NL $5+Rebuys 13 1,591 $281 08/08/2006 Hold'em NL $20 22 798 $96 08/03/2006 Hol

I was just there a couple weeks ago. I thought the Bellagio was pretty soft; one guy called my inside straight draw on the turn with a big bet and of course hit it. Bellagio now has $500 max buy in, was $200 previously. The venetian is solid. Slightly different game as it has a $1000 max buy in. The players were better there but there was still several donks. MGM does have good action.

That would be Veteran's day weekend. I believe Excalibur has some "deals" so that could be an option for the location you want.

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Accept the fact that donkeys will chase their draws. As for the preflop play, that's a bit tricky. If you reraise, u should probably push otherwise u are commiting 1/2 your stack for a normal reraise. By calling, you are controlling the pot and then putting your chips in with no A or K on flop. At that stage of the tourney with your stack size, I'd say push and take your chances he doesn't have AA or KK.

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Yeah, he goes MIA from time to time. His wife posted that something cool was in the works on the last blog entry. I see his site was updated recently and looked a lot like fcp's interface. Maybe something is in the works between Daniel & Josh?

I count four hands he could have beat you with (66, J6, KJ, AJ). His huge overbet could be a tell as a bluff but you were raising back all in no matter what. The worst part of his play was calling your all in reraise. Good luck 8)

Keep these updates coming. This appears to be the only place I can get updates that isn't blocked by my work computer :-)