Tuesday 16th June.

Played the $300 at the Venetian again, got off to a flyer in the first half an hour and then this occurred against the only opponent who had showed any aggression. It folded around to me on the button and I raised with 99 and the aggressive player in the big blind called me. Flop came down a beautiful 1093, he bet out 400 and i raised to 1200, he then bet 1000 on the 3 turn and I thought I'd play trappy and just call his bet and look like I'm making a move on him on the river.
River was a 7 and he bet out 2000 and I took my time before shoving all in hoping to make it look like a bluff only to hear him call straight away and show 1010. Didn't put him on that at all as felt he would of re-raised pre-flop with 10's therefore only hand I could loose to was quad 3's but that would be so unlikely. Spoke to some top online players later in the day at the Rio and they said they would play it the same way. I had 1800 chips left this hand and managed to stay in for another two hours before i had to stat shoving and eventually came unstuck trying to steal the blinds and ante's with 23off suit and ran into AK and didn't win, sigh.

Went to the Rio after this and watched the final table of the Pot Limit Omaha event which had two brits battling for the bracelet, Jeff Kimber and Ross (the bloke from London's Burning) Boatman. Also on another final table over the way was John Duthie playing in the $10k heads up tournament for $600k+ first prize. Saw loads of well known players today and spoke briefly to Andy Black. The English players came a creditable 2nd and 4th and John Duthie also came runner-up however it was a very good performance by all of them.