Binion's was spreading a $6/$12 mixed game -- of Omaha Hi/Lo, Stud Hi/Lo, and RAZZ. I played this game all afternoon, and into the night. At one point, I was up $250 on the game, but ended down $98 before the game broke up at 10:00 PM.

I went from Binion's to the Wynn and put my name on the list for $10/20 Omaha Hi/Lo and a $10/20 mixed game. While waiting for those games, I played a little $4/8 limit Holdem. After initially donking off some money in the first few hands, I left the table 15 minutes later with $25 profit -- and I sat down at the $10/20 Omaha Hi/Lo.

I won a few nice pots here, made some good calls, and was up on the table about $150 when they called the players to start the $10/20 mixed game (the game wasn't going yet). I immediately left the $10/20 Omaha HI/Lo and went to the mixed game table.

When I arrived at the mixed game table, only two other players were sitting there. Between us, we chose all of the games in the mixed game, and we chose their order. We all agreed on Omaha Hi/Lo, Stud Hi/Lo, and Triple Draw, but the other two wanted to play Badugi, and I wanted to play Razz; so we ended up choosing both of them as a compromise. So now our game is set, the order was (chosen at random by us): Razz, Omaha Hi/Lo, Badugi, Stud Hi/Lo, and Triple Draw.

Now we only had one problem: nobody else was at the table. We coaxed a few other players onto our table, and began playing Razz 4-handed at 11:00 PM. It was clear from the beginning, that this was going to be a loose game -- when the very first Razz hand, the guy with the lowest card showing raised, forcing everybody to fold, and he turns over rolled-up 4's for the bluff.

Nonetheless, as we started to play, we managed to get a full table very quickly. It didn't seem to matter which poker game I was playing, I was winning -- and I was winning the big pots, not the small pots.

One "High Roller" type of guy sat down at the table with about $4,000 behind him -- and he put about $1000 of it in play. This guy had the fancy clothes, watch, rings -- everything that he needed to give you the impression that he was a high roller. He played like a high roller too; he tried to raise you off of your hands, no matter what game we were playing. I wasn't paying attention to see how the other players were reacting, but when he tried to do it to me, I wasn't the slightest bit intimidated, and he had very unsuccessful results. The first time he tried to "outplay me," we were playing Badugi (a game I've never played before). I was standing pat with a made 10-6 Badugi, and he was trying to raise me off of it or force me to break. I didn't budge -- and it forced him to draw one last time. When I saw that he was drawing, I bet the river, and he mucked his hand. He tried the pressure tactic on a 2-7 Triple Draw hand too. I had just made a 76432 low on the first draw, an he and another guy started raising each other -- with me just smooth calling in the middle (with another girl also in the middle with no chance whatsoever). The high roller guy took a one-card draw, the next guy stood pat, and the only reason anybody noticed I stood pat, was because the dealer kept asking me for my draw cards. Even standing pat didn't stop the two guys from betting the next street. When I put in the raise, they might have realised that they had been trapped, but neither one wanted to get away from their hands. I got paid 3-ways on the river, and took down a very nice pot (probably over $200).

By 2:00 AM, I decided I had played enough (3 hours). I was up $1100 on the game, and decided to call it quits. I had busted the girl to my left at least three times, and for whatever reason, the high-roller left the table about $500 lighter. Of course a bunch of people started grumbling when I announced I was leaving the game, just as I expected them to do. After all, they wanted to have a chance to win back their money. Instead, I simply said goodnight, and that I'd be willing to come back the following day and play all day with them...if the game was still going.