Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino, Eagle Pass, Texas.

August 22nd (Friday)

Played in a $3-6 limit game when we arrived Friday night(late) . Several unremarkable hands and I am up for a while before crashing and buring with QQ, 99 and A-K.
So instead of ending the night up $60, I end up down about $60.

August 23rd (Saturday)

Played in the $100 +25 3PM tourney. Additional $10 for an extra 1K tourney chips. 15 players total. Managed to play very conservative and watch people bust out. Won a big pot at the final table to put me into contention, 8-8 raised to 3200, All-in for 5200 on the ugly K-10-X after it was checked to me.

Got down to final 4 with Dub (my co-worker Jerry's son), an older gentleman with glasses and a nice guy about my age wearing a dewrag. Win a nice pot with a semi-bluff of all-in on a A-6-5 flop while holding 4-3. Dub gets busted out in 4th and get the consolation price of a nice windbreaker-type jacket. I'm getting short-stacked and get put into a bad all-in situation where I have 8s-3h, old guy calls with Q-J(?) and I flop a flush draw and it comes on the river for a double up.

Old guy gets all-in with Q-7 against dewrag's Q-Q and it's down to the final two.

He has about a 3-1 chip advantage so I need to get something going quickly. We get it all-in with me having Ad-3d and him having 8-8. Flop comes X-X-8. So I need lots of help. Turn is a blank, so I'm dead and then the river is another 8 giving him Quads. Can't do anything but say "very nice hand".

Payouts were $750 - $450 - $250

So I made $315 playing for about 2 1/2 hours. Not too shabby.