There's always cash games!

Last night, the Renaiisance Man ...

came up short in his 1st 2009 WSOP tourney, but managed to help teach a drunkard an important lesson.

From the man himself:

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So I got knocked out of the $1500 stud tourney after only a little more than 2 hours. Pretty brutal beats. The one that really crippled me was where I brought in with split 2s, hit a 2 on fourth to make a set, and got called down by a guy with ace high, no draw. He backed into a wheel. Good thing is that I think I generally played okay and was definitely better than the field.  
Also got to play with John Juanda for a second tournament.
 
Met up with John Chou (my cousin) and for dinner and poker at Caesar's Palace. I was stuck about $550 in the cash games as well and not playing very well when a maniac sat down (probably drunk). Came into the 2/5 NL with over $30,000 in chips (from another casino which didn't play because they didn't have enough chips in the poker room cage and he didn't want to goto the main cage) and close to $10,000 in cash. Lost all the cash in an hour or so. I ended up $2000 for the night. Had to make some pretty sick calls to do it though ($1000 river bet with A3 on a K939Q board comes to mind).
I must say for a portion of the game when I was down a little, it was one of the most FUN tables I had ever played. Everyone having a good time, up or down.
 
Next tourny is $3000 Horse 5PM on Tuesday. Plan on relaxing. Hit the pool or gym, maybe take in a show, play some cash games until then.