Table draw is very important in any tournament and the Main Event is no exception. I think I can contribute much, if not most of the success I had in last year’s tournament to having pretty sick table draws for the most part (except day four when I had Eastgate, Demidov, ocrowe, and a few other solid players at my table… that was brutal). Anyway, my day two table draw for this year doesn’t look awful or anything, but it could be a lot better:

Mason, Christopher 33825 BR207 1
Hayward, Tracee 52900 BR207 2
Alaei, Daniel 14975 BR207 3
Dyke, Dan 64075 BR207 4
Moussa, Jean-Claude 33550 BR207 5
Le Baron, DJ 9350 BR207 6
Albertson, Cory 44025 BR207 7
Slater, Glenn 59000 BR207 8
McCowan, Randall 72500 BR207 9
Rollo, Justin 36525 BR207 10

I emboldened the concerning spots. Most people have heard of Alaei, a bracelet-holder with tenacious cash game skills. Thankfully he’s fairly short-stacked. Hopefully some donk knocks him out on a coin flip in the early going.

Jean-Claude Moussa is jcmoussa online, a good high-stakes cash game baller that I’m told has lots of tattoos and dresses to show them off in hopes that he comes across as some punk that doesn’t know what he’s doing. Glad I got tipped off about this beforehand!

Justin Rollo is jurollo online, an experienced MTTer and figurehead on the 2p2 forums. He’s the type of guy I’m expecting to play very solid but also not go out of his way to tangle or anything, which is fine. For the most part, I play the same way.

I mostly laid low today. Went to Callaway golf course just south of the strip with Leif Force. For a few reasons, I wasn’t pleased with the experience and probably won’t go back there. First of all, their entire course consists of 9 par-3 holes. However, this doesn’t stop them from charging $55 a person to play (including cart plus we had to rent clubs I guess, but still…) which is just absurd in my opinion. Angel Park has a 12 hole par-3 course called ‘Cloud Nine’ that is awesome and only runs like $30 a person with clubs and a cart.

Callaway just had this air of pretentiousness that was really annoying. For example, there was a guy positioned at the start of the fifth tee box who asked to see our receipt. It’s like… really? Do they think we stole the carts and clubs from the pro shop and are now rolling around the course like cowboys having the time of our lives without having paid the greens fees? It’s incredible to me that they’d pay this guy to check our receipts. Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that we really did sneak onto the course without paying. So what? Golf courses are all up front costs. Whether no one plays or hundreds of people play, they still have nearly the same costs. Why spend money hiring some guy to annoy us by checking our receipts at the fifth tee?

I have very, very thin patience when it comes to the incompetence of businesses. Even if this place was the perfect golf experience, I’d still probably never go back. $55 for a round of golf that takes 60 minutes is ridiculous, especially during a recession. Get a clue, Callaway. What do you say you fire the guy on the fifth tee box and charge me a little less to play your mediocre course?

I guess I kind of got off on a little rant there, but that will happen sometimes, especially in Vegas, a city that can “get to you” pretty easily. Thankfully I’ve got about 8 gigabites of new trance music to groove to in tomorrow’s tournament.