Vegas trip report - Big day yest

So I went out to vegas for about 5 days to play some poker and have a vacation with the gf......we stayed at the Venetian which is easily the best place Ive ever stayed at - each room is a suite so while one person can be on the bed watching tv, theres a living room area with another flatscreen which is awesome....I could of stayed there for a month and it was around 100/night for the poker rate.....definitely where Ill be staying in the future.....anyways in regards to poker, I played 1 550 Venetian and 2/5 NL while I was out there.....first off live poker is hilarious - I'd probably rank the 550 skill level as that of a 50 dollar freezout online - the level of play early on especially is atrocious.......the structure is great though - 15k starting 25/50, 40 minute levels I believe.......I was very aggressive early on - played my normal online game, opened alot in position pretty wide, a couple 3 bets......got lucky with my 3 betting actually - a guy in later position opens at like 100/200 with about 14k effective.....hes been opening alot, looks like a younger guy, so I decide to 3 bet A7.......he flats and the flop comes 77x.......he checks, I cbet, I think he c/rs and I flat....turn comes another blank - he leads I shove he folds......says he had JJ (wp sir)...A couple hands later I open A3 from sb into bb who calls....flop is 338 - i bet he calls....turn comes a queen - i bet again he calls.....river is an 8 - i decide to valuebet/blockbet into him with intent on folding to a raise - i bet like 35% pot he folds......

So at dinner break I have about 160k and go into the 1500/3k level shortly after......I lose AK to QQ for a flip then my final hand comes up.....I got about 85k at 1500/3k when MP opens to 7500, CO flats, Im in BB with JJ and jam it.......MP calls and i lose a race to AQ....Overall I was very happy with how I played - I didnt feel like I made any glaring mistakes, although its definitely easier to play 100% on your game when your 1 tabling against retards.

So yest was a pretty good day to snap me out of a funk - I won the 20r 6 max Tilt and Cake 162 to get me some wins on the month, along with a couple 7-800 dollar cashes.....Ive also been staking someone recently whos real good and he won the 30k sniper on ap for 8k....while the month still isnt that great, its nice to get some confidence back and get that feeling again of winning.

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As far as poker its been slow this month.....Im up 4k while getting raped deep in tournaments....The worst part about this is alot of these FTs Ive made with 5 figures+ to first have a bunch of droolers that are pretty terrible.....last week I ft'ed the 40k ftp with 10k to first and busted in like 6th after losing QQ to QT....tonight I came into the 75k FTP 2/9 but got my money in with an open ender for about 40 bbs....I couldnt hit and obv busted like 7th - it was sad too as the two bigstacks I had played with for about 50 hands and were pretty bad.....you could tell this money was big to them and their play reflected it....one was super tight while the other was super spewy, so it coud of been a cakewalk if I picked up a big stack.....oh well cant win them all I guess....on a positive note Ive gotten in 180 MTTs only 11 days into the month which is great - as long as I get my volume in Im happy.