I’m taking a day off of poker to go golfing instead. In yesterday’s Venetian $550, an event that I got a 35 big blind stack all-in in level 8 drawing dead, I was seated next to an old acquaintance, Leif Force. I have an interesting history with Leif and I think we get along pretty well since we’re both pretty much willing to bet on anything. For example, he was telling me that he and his friend have bets on how long it will take their buddy’s girlfriend to cheat on him… with one of them! Yea. Total degenerates.

No doubt part of the reason why I bluffed off my whole stack, which is something I rarely do, was a result of being distracted with betting on random crap with Leif, such as how many players at our table some random guy thinks would self identify as being a “pro”. I took under three in a flash, but the guy’s answer was seven! Another sick bet was when Detroit went up 3-0 in game five of the NHL Finals, Leif said he’d lay 100:1 against Pittsburgh coming back to win the game. I don’t follow hockey enough to know for sure, but I’m pretty positive that’s a sick bet. Sure enough, as soon as I handed Leif $20 for it, Detroit scored goals 4 and 5 in rapid fashion.

When I told Leif that a friend and I were going to a par three golf course today, he was all ears. With his presence, I suspect Dave and I’s standard prop-betting action at Angel Park will be taken up a few notches.

Tomorrow I’m playing the $2,500 six-handed WSOP event. I finished 18th in the same event last year. This will be my last tournament on this particular stay in Vegas.