I arrived in Vegas on Monday and played my first Venetian Deepstack on Tuesday….. I was feeling pretty jetlagged on the Monday (flight from Australia) and wasn't sure if I was gonna play or not, but woke up fairly early on the Tuesday and registered in the $350 tourney…..

For those that aren't aware, you can claim a 'free' gift with your tourney entry either a DSE T-shirt, hat or card protector….. I grabbed the card protector pretty cool as I was gonna look for one while I was in Vegas.

There were approx 719 runners in the tourney. This was my first live tourney since joining TPE and I gotta say I felt super sharp with my reads, shove spots, stack size awareness (this is super important to keep a track of espeically live, as online the work is done for you) to give you an example the big stack at my table was 3x his PFR @ 800/1600 level from MP and got shoved on from a guy directly on his left for a total of around 10K stack, the action folded back around to the big stack who then proceeded to tank/fold….. This big stack was the sort of guy who plays bad but runs like god, constantly calling OOP and then donk betting around 80-90% of the time…..  Also saw alot of guys leaking chips with less the a 20BB stack i.e. PFR 3x or even 4x in size then folding to a shove and when I say less the 20BB stack, I mean probably closer to 10-15BB stack at times, some really obvious bad plays to be taken advantage of over some of these fields.

Overall I think I played really well….. Managed to double up to around 24K @ around level 3 or 4 with KK vs AK (my KK held)…. then lost a flip with AK vs QQ after I flopped a K but he flopped a set. Then for the majority of the rest of the tourney a was nursing/hovering around 20K, bleeding chips then picking shove spots as they popped up with with 15xBB stack as the levels were increasing. Made it to dinner with 19K, then after dinner @ the 1K/2K level lost a flip for approx 35K pot with AK vs 99 (his 9's held) which crippled me down to 4.5K (2xBB) and busted shortly after with J8 vs AQ I was out in around 120th place @ around 21:30.

I'll be playing Thursday's $350 and probably Sunday's $350 DSE if any TPE guys want to say hi, just let me know PM me or reply here. I probably register for Thursday's tourney sometime today (to avoid the lineup queue tomorrow) and will post my table/seat details then.

Cheers

Southpaw