Jeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

This is my home (actually i dont like the bellagio, but the picture is baller so i posted it), well this but in a house, on the internet ever since i quit playing live. Moving on quickly past my anti social pathetic life in las vegas.....
Despite not being friends with many locals at all, i do have friends that come visit me from time time. Annnnnnnd generally if a friend happens to be in town i will go out and have a night out playing poker with them or getting some dinner if they arent poker players. Though tbh if they arent poker players chances are high "something comes up"
This weekend a buddy of mine came to town as he does pretty often, and seeing as ive been having troubles with my internet it seemed like a perfect time to go out and play some live poker again.
Its funny the perspective playing online and learning the variance of poker has given me vs when i was mostly a live player and thought i understood variance. I used to think 20buy ins was ok for a level of play and would take shots at 5/10 and even 10/20 when i was at 15k or so. Now with 10k poker roll i still think "ok i guess ill take a small shot at 1/2 while a friend is in town" I would/will still play 2/5 live occasionally, but only cuz i have such a large sample of beating it. Either way it doesnt matter cuz my buddy wanted to play 1/2 anyway. Its been a few days but basically i ran good, he ran bad, all total i dont think either of us was more than +/- 3buy ins.
We played one significant pot together that ill post here for ur viewing pleasure so u can see how great i play. 200nl, my buddy opens every hand he plays in or out of position, which we talked about and i think is a bit of a leak given the ranges he opens with, but he opens to 13 from utg +1, i call with 99 from utg +2, and a fishy live dude calls from the sb. Flop 9 10 10, and sb leads into both of us for 20 cuz....well hes a fish, while my anonymous buddy *cough* abarone68 aka mega fish *cough* raises to 80, i tank for a few seconds and call. I call because i dont want to take just my friends money, but i want the fish to stick in the hand. The fish obliges and calls. Turn is a 3 and the fish checks while barone fires another barrel for like 115, i call a bit quicker this time for the same reason i called the flop, and the fish again calls, leaving himself 40dollars. The river is a K and the fish cks barone then smartens up and bets just 40, i move in cuz the fish is either calling or missed like a 7 8 and isnt calling but i dont want it to look like im playing together with my friend. The fish calls and barone folds J 10 face up.
Barone had been getting a bit of a cold deck so he got up and i played a few more hands b4 announcing that i guess drinks were on me and i exited as well. All in all it was a fun trip and barone and i have a group of mutual friends coming in july where the trip report will be much more exciting im sure.....

Just in case i have any blog readers who arent members of the forum i post on, if youre in las vegas june 16-21 for the wsop and see an ahhhhhsht hat feel free to come have a shot at the champ. Im sure ill be at least partially drunk and ur chances are still slim to none.

Gl at the tables