I haven't been up to Commerce in months but found a couple days free from working on DC and internet pokers so I went up with mike l. for a couple days and got a bunch of hours of live poker in for a nice change of pace. I'm on full-on vampire schedule so we drove up Monday night at like 10 pm and I wound up playing 60/120 all night. Started out in full boring games and slowly siphoned off 5k or so before getting to a 5 handed game at like 4 am with Newhizzle and a few randoms. Mark and I convinced everyone to make the game must-straddle and I proceeded to fluctuate wildly up and down 2 racks, ending down 6k, so probably slightly down after instituting straddles but not exactly an ideal start to the trip.

I crashed and avoided the sun, woke up around 6 pm Tuesday and we went to Gabe's for a homegame, where I donated many dollars but it was all worthwhile because we went to Pink's at 1 am and had fun eating bacon chili cheese dogs and people watching the crazies who go to Pink's at 1 am on a Wednesday morning (crazier than us!).

We headed back to Commerce and I played 100/200 the rest of the night into the morning with the same two guys who were in the must-straddle 60/120 and thought I was an absolute retard gambling addict, but I played good at 100/200 and built up a nice stack after starting off a bit rough, then dumped some back in the morning and was starting to get frustrated so I called it a session up almost 5k. That session featured me getting AA cracked the 3rd hand at the table, but my own fault for playing it poorly – it gets capped 5 ways with the BB capping it and leading a K66 flop, folded to me and I just call and the sb calls too. Turn is a 9, they check to me, I bet, sb now checkraises and I call down to pay off her 99. Still, this was better than how I started the 60/120 the previous day getting AA cracked my VERY FIRST hand! (sorry just remembered this) when the sb in that game flopped a set. Also in the 100/200 I made a royal flush using both my holecards and got to show it down which I've never done live before.

Woke up Wednesday evening and got ready to go to dinner but found a half hour to kill so I attempted to hit and run a 100/200 game (featuring 3 of the same players that were still in the game from my morning session and were going on 40 hours of wakefulness I'd guess). I succeeded in my hit and run winning $50 before I had to go, almost entirely by 3 outering PokerBob when he correctly called my bluff on the turn with QT high when I had JT high and I rivered a Jack and he called me – yay luck. We went to dinner at Sona where mike convinced us to get the 9 course tasting menu, which was…interesting. Sona was sort of standard fine dining fare with a bit of post-modern cuisine I guess is how I'd describe it. Among other things there was a cool plastic tube in the shape of a fish filled with ponzu sauce that you drip on tuna tartare. We also had great duck, squab, bacon wrapped venison, and real kobe beef, and some awesome desserts. Super pricy though but definitely a unique place.

After dinner back at Commerce I jumped into a 200/400 game that was just getting started and it was a fantastic game. I didn't last 3 orbits before I had to go upstairs and get more money, but I turned it around a little and was winning for awhile. The game got short with me, Hansu, and a couple fish but I lost mostly getting 3 bet by Hansu every hand preflop (tough having that dude on my left) and ended down 4kish, which is basically even (10 bb yippy). I broke the game because I had to drive home before morning traffic and they don't continue gambling without the DeathDonkey fish in the game

All in all a fun Commerce trip but didn't quite have the desired poker results, though every game I sat in was fantastic and I played really well in the 2/4 game which I was happy about. Hopefully I get back up there before another few months go by.