We got up normal time, had the normal buffet breakfast and then grinded online for about4 hours.

In the arvo we hit the gym, and chatted with the trainer in there who does nothing all day, after our gym sess we went out into the pool which was freezing and then got in the spa. The pool was cold, but it had a great view out over the city. We rocked out in the spa for a bit then went back, had dinner and then headed to the Wynn for the purpose of drinking and playing live.

We got to the Wynn about 8pm and put our name on the 14-person long waiting list. The guy said it would be about half an hour, so we went and got dinner. We hit one of the chinese restaurants in the Wynn and ordered Roasted Goose and Suckling Pig. We drank 2 “Macau Beers” which were pretty good, they tasted like pure blonde. After 40 min at dinner we rocked back to the poker room where we had missed our seat at the table.

This worked out great in the end, because we thought we would try out our luck with the waitresses and try and get some free drinks while we waited for the tables. To our suprise they were happy to serve us vodka and red bulls (x3) while we were waiting, but they said once we were inside the poker room sitting at a table they would charge us for the drinks. So while we were outside the room standing around, we would get drinks for free, but once we were inside actually playing the tables, we would be charged…..wat ever. After we had 3 very strong redbulls we sat down at the $10/$25 game which had opened on a new table for us. I had a brilliant idea to scam us free drinks, which was to get up from the table and leave the poker room and pretend I was still on the waiting list, and then get free drinks and then walk back in. It worked once before the waitress wouldnt give me any more. Oh well. I went and sat back down and we paid for the next round.

We were seated next to a white guy who I originally thought was a Pom, but after a guessing game he told us he was from Randwick who is living in Macau training horses. It was good with 3 Aussies sitting next to each other at the table. After a few orbits and a couple of drinks, Andy pointed out a bloke at the cashier who really, really looked like the Tv Star Poker pro, Phil Laak, Turned out it was. He had a lot of people watching him from the rail playing the high limit game. We sat out a few hands and went and introduced ourselves. We had a good 10-15 minute chat to him about a couple of hands we had seen him play and a couple of TV shows he had been on. It was cool to chat to him and he is a very friendly guy. Eventually we let him get back to his table and we got back to ours.

Back at our table over the next hour or two it was the best live game we each had ever played in. Lots of drinking and table chat, bluffing, and playing monster hands against each other. We had my AK vs Andys QQ, My QQ vs Andys JJ, Flush over flush, and eventually my top pair vs Andys pair plus flush Draw. (For more details on all of the hands visit andys blog - www.eurekakid.com). We were not at all concerned about the hands against each other as we are splitting our action anyway. It was a very quick and very fun 4 hours, where despite us both being quite drunk ended up having a great session with heaps of good hands. Eventually as we were about to leave I ran into Phil Laak again who was Cashing out of his game. I had another chat to him about what he was doing, what we were doing, and his new poker club in Hong Kong. During that 20 minutes he was running back to his table and playing hands in between chatting to me. In one of them he lost around $100,000 Hong Kong Dollars ($15,000 USD), but it didnt seem to bother him too much and he came straight back over to yarn to me. He said he may catch us again this thursday when we are in Hong Kong at his Club. It was a very fun night, and tommorow we have plans with our new Aussie friend James who is going to take us out for our last night in Macau.