Thursday June 19th:
Imperial Palace Tourney $65 buy-in, $3,000 starting chips, 15 minute rounds
After my fight got in I took a cab to the Imperial Palace where I had a lovely roll-away awaiting for when I decided to go go to sleep. It's about 11:00am so I have an hour to kill before the tourney starts. I sign up and hand over my $65 and get my receipt with my seat assignment. Since I don't feel like trying to find a coffee shop in the flea-ridden dump I decide to sit at a video poker machine and play "Deuces Wild". I turn $20 into $140 in about 5 minutes...I am now "free-rollin" for the tourney and more. I wander around and decide to go back to the same machine to play another $20..I turn that into $60 in about 10 minutes. I get bored and just hang out at the poker "room" until they finally start seating players.
The game: I start out in the BB and get junk cards for the first 2 rounds. I play tight and enter only few pots with marginally good hands because I'm bored. Finally I get pocket Tens so I raise in middle position and everyone folds. I get the blinds which are at 75-150...oh well that was something.
I am getting low on chips (~$1500) and the blinds are going up. I get K-Q suited UTG and I end up heads up with this aggressive player who keeps stealing pots with over bets. He looks confused by the raggedy board he makes a bet of $500 into a $800 on the river after checking the flop and the turn. I want to see what this guy has so I call and he has Q-J...I win.
So after the break with the blinds at 200-400 with about $2,500 in chips I have pocket threes in the BB so I raise the limpers 3X to $1,200. Everyone else folds but Aggro guy calls. He must still be steaming from my call from 5 hands before the break. The flop comes Q-J-10 rainbow. He checks so I am thinking he is holding middle pair like 8-8 or 9-9. I move all in for my remaining $1,300 and he insta-calls with 10-4 offsuit. I am befuddled and felted. As i am leaving I say "Please tell me when and where you'll be playing a cash game."
I am happy with my play and the fact that I am still free-rollin'. I then go off to lunch and a cash game at the Venetian.
Cash game (The Venetian): My friends and I meet at the Venetian and have lunch in the food court that is in the main floor casino. I had an "Italian Stallion" sandwich...yum.
Next we are off to the $1-$2 NL cash game in the Venetian Poker Room. This place is nice and the wait for the packed room is a mere 10 minutes. The tables are great there's no smoking and the chairs are comfortable and adjustable.
Like I mentioned the wait is short so I am at a table in minutes and right after I sit down I am dealt pocket Jacks and I still haven't gotten my checks. Everyone limps and I am on the button so I raise 3x ($6) without chips and tell dealer I have $100 behind. Everyone calls and the flop comes 4-10-6 rainbow. Check around to this kid named Reed raises to $25...I am thinking he has A-10...I re raise to $50...he moves all in and I say "oh well, either I double up or re-load" I call with all my freshly tabled chips and he shows A-10 just as I suspected. The turn and river bring nothing to help either of us and I am instantly doubled up. Wahoo!!!! Still free-rollin'.
I hover around $140-$200 for the next couple of hours or so when I am dealt "American Airlines" in the cutoff position. After a bunch of limping I raise to $35 to weed out as many as possible but the button calls me instantly. The flop is 4-6-6. I look at the board and sheepishly say "Gee, I think I better go all in." I make the move for all ~$150 of my chips and the guy on the button calls but does not show his hand...I flash my Aces and he is disgusted...turn and river are meaningless. And he asks if I would be pissed off if he slow rolled his pocket sixes...I say no just disappointed that I wouldn't have his money. I win. He mucks what I assume is pocket kings. I am up to about $350.
The weirdest hand of the day and my good Karma.
I have 9-10 suited on the button. UTG raises to $12 and there are three callers I call with position and big stack of chips. The flop comes 4-9-10. Nice!!! The raisers bets another $45 and she gets one caller. I move all-in...and the raiser folds with a disappointed look on her face. The last guy thinks for about a minute then calls. He doesn't show his hand for the turn another 4 and the river a 6 or something. I show 9-10 and say "two pair" he flashes his pocket Jacks then throws his hand into the muck face down. The lady who raised in the first place says she had pocket Jacks too...
The dealer starts shoving chips over to me and someone says, "hey wait he has a better two pair 'jacks and fours'"...uh oh. He quickly grabs his cards and turns them over and the dealer pushes the board back out to show his better hand. I say "Oh, shit,..you did win,...ok let's count it out for you I had you covered."
Everyone else at the table is saying no way he mucked, it's your hand, he mucked, he mucked.
I am so high from all the winning I could really care less if I lost it or not...They called a pit boss over to make a ruling and he says if he mucked them it's my pot but it's up to me to make the decision. Since I am already willing to give the guy his win I decide to let him pull back his all in and we split the pot. I am still up and he survives his really bad mistake. I guess purists would say I am a fool for rewarding him for his stupid mistake but I feel like the good Karma will he handy for the rest of the weekend. For my "good deed" another player gets up and shakes my hand for being so cool about it. He says he's never seen someone be so cool about that kind of thing ever. I must jut too nice or just used to our "friendly games"
Feeling a bit light-headed after all the drama I play two more hands (mucked actually) and I get up from the table to take a breather after about 4 hours of play.
With my new bankroll I decide to play in a Venetian Big Stack single table Satellite for $130. It pays top 2 players 1 Lammer for entry into $500 Big Stack Tourney on Saturday and $70 for your trouble. I donk my way to 5th place...d'oh!!! It's nearly 8:30 pm tired and hungry it's time to eat dinner...we ate Chinese noodles and then headed off to Treasure Island 10 pm tourney.
Stay tuned for Thursday night and Friday reports.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Thursday June 19th:
Imperial Palace Tourney $65 buy-in, $3,000 starting chips, 15 minute rounds
After my fight got in I took a cab to the Imperial Palace where I had a lovely roll-away awaiting for when I decided to go go to sleep. It's about 11:00am so I have an hour to kill before the tourney starts. I sign up and hand over my $65 and get my receipt with my seat assignment. Since I don't feel like trying to find a coffee shop in the flea-ridden dump I decide to sit at a video poker machine and play "Deuces Wild". I turn $20 into $140 in about 5 minutes...I am now "free-rollin" for the tourney and more. I wander around and decide to go back to the same machine to play another $20..I turn that into $60 in about 10 minutes. I get bored and just hang out at the poker "room" until they finally start seating players.
The game: I start out in the BB and get junk cards for the first 2 rounds. I play tight and enter only few pots with marginally good hands because I'm bored. Finally I get pocket Tens so I raise in middle position and everyone folds. I get the blinds which are at 75-150...oh well that was something.
I am getting low on chips (~$1500) and the blinds are going up. I get K-Q suited UTG and I end up heads up with this aggressive player who keeps stealing pots with over bets. He looks confused by the raggedy board he makes a bet of $500 into a $800 on the river after checking the flop and the turn. I want to see what this guy has so I call and he has Q-J...I win.
So after the break with the blinds at 200-400 with about $2,500 in chips I have pocket threes in the BB so I raise the limpers 3X to $1,200. Everyone else folds but Aggro guy calls. He must still be steaming from my call from 5 hands before the break. The flop comes Q-J-10 rainbow. He checks so I am thinking he is holding middle pair like 8-8 or 9-9. I move all in for my remaining $1,300 and he insta-calls with 10-4 offsuit. I am befuddled and felted. As i am leaving I say "Please tell me when and where you'll be playing a cash game."
I am happy with my play and the fact that I am still free-rollin'. I then go off to lunch and a cash game at the Venetian.
Cash game (The Venetian): My friends and I meet at the Venetian and have lunch in the food court that is in the main floor casino. I had an "Italian Stallion" sandwich...yum.
Next we are off to the $1-$2 NL cash game in the Venetian Poker Room. This place is nice and the wait for the packed room is a mere 10 minutes. The tables are great there's no smoking and the chairs are comfortable and adjustable.
Like I mentioned the wait is short so I am at a table in minutes and right after I sit down I am dealt pocket Jacks and I still haven't gotten my checks. Everyone limps and I am on the button so I raise 3x ($6) without chips and tell dealer I have $100 behind. Everyone calls and the flop comes 4-10-6 rainbow. Check around to this kid named Reed raises to $25...I am thinking he has A-10...I re raise to $50...he moves all in and I say "oh well, either I double up or re-load" I call with all my freshly tabled chips and he shows A-10 just as I suspected. The turn and river bring nothing to help either of us and I am instantly doubled up. Wahoo!!!! Still free-rollin'.
I hover around $140-$200 for the next couple of hours or so when I am dealt "American Airlines" in the cutoff position. After a bunch of limping I raise to $35 to weed out as many as possible but the button calls me instantly. The flop is 4-6-6. I look at the board and sheepishly say "Gee, I think I better go all in." I make the move for all ~$150 of my chips and the guy on the button calls but does not show his hand...I flash my Aces and he is disgusted...turn and river are meaningless. And he asks if I would be pissed off if he slow rolled his pocket sixes...I say no just disappointed that I wouldn't have his money. I win. He mucks what I assume is pocket kings. I am up to about $350.
The weirdest hand of the day and my good Karma.
I have 9-10 suited on the button. UTG raises to $12 and there are three callers I call with position and big stack of chips. The flop comes 4-9-10. Nice!!! The raisers bets another $45 and she gets one caller. I move all-in...and the raiser folds with a disappointed look on her face. The last guy thinks for about a minute then calls. He doesn't show his hand for the turn another 4 and the river a 6 or something. I show 9-10 and say "two pair" he flashes his pocket Jacks then throws his hand into the muck face down. The lady who raised in the first place says she had pocket Jacks too...
The dealer starts shoving chips over to me and someone says, "hey wait he has a better two pair 'jacks and fours'"...uh oh. He quickly grabs his cards and turns them over and the dealer pushes the board back out to show his better hand. I say "Oh, shit,..you did win,...ok let's count it out for you I had you covered."
Everyone else at the table is saying no way he mucked, it's your hand, he mucked, he mucked.
I am so high from all the winning I could really care less if I lost it or not...They called a pit boss over to make a ruling and he says if he mucked them it's my pot but it's up to me to make the decision. Since I am already willing to give the guy his win I decide to let him pull back his all in and we split the pot. I am still up and he survives his really bad mistake. I guess purists would say I am a fool for rewarding him for his stupid mistake but I feel like the good Karma will he handy for the rest of the weekend. For my "good deed" another player gets up and shakes my hand for being so cool about it. He says he's never seen someone be so cool about that kind of thing ever. I must jut too nice or just used to our "friendly games"
Feeling a bit light-headed after all the drama I play two more hands (mucked actually) and I get up from the table to take a breather after about 4 hours of play.
With my new bankroll I decide to play in a Venetian Big Stack single table Satellite for $130. It pays top 2 players 1 Lammer for entry into $500 Big Stack Tourney on Saturday and $70 for your trouble. I donk my way to 5th place...d'oh!!! It's nearly 8:30 pm tired and hungry it's time to eat dinner...we ate Chinese noodles and then headed off to Treasure Island 10 pm tourney.
Stay tuned for Thursday night and Friday reports.
Imperial Palace Tourney $65 buy-in, $3,000 starting chips, 15 minute rounds
After my fight got in I took a cab to the Imperial Palace where I had a lovely roll-away awaiting for when I decided to go go to sleep. It's about 11:00am so I have an hour to kill before the tourney starts. I sign up and hand over my $65 and get my receipt with my seat assignment. Since I don't feel like trying to find a coffee shop in the flea-ridden dump I decide to sit at a video poker machine and play "Deuces Wild". I turn $20 into $140 in about 5 minutes...I am now "free-rollin" for the tourney and more. I wander around and decide to go back to the same machine to play another $20..I turn that into $60 in about 10 minutes. I get bored and just hang out at the poker "room" until they finally start seating players.
The game: I start out in the BB and get junk cards for the first 2 rounds. I play tight and enter only few pots with marginally good hands because I'm bored. Finally I get pocket Tens so I raise in middle position and everyone folds. I get the blinds which are at 75-150...oh well that was something.
I am getting low on chips (~$1500) and the blinds are going up. I get K-Q suited UTG and I end up heads up with this aggressive player who keeps stealing pots with over bets. He looks confused by the raggedy board he makes a bet of $500 into a $800 on the river after checking the flop and the turn. I want to see what this guy has so I call and he has Q-J...I win.
So after the break with the blinds at 200-400 with about $2,500 in chips I have pocket threes in the BB so I raise the limpers 3X to $1,200. Everyone else folds but Aggro guy calls. He must still be steaming from my call from 5 hands before the break. The flop comes Q-J-10 rainbow. He checks so I am thinking he is holding middle pair like 8-8 or 9-9. I move all in for my remaining $1,300 and he insta-calls with 10-4 offsuit. I am befuddled and felted. As i am leaving I say "Please tell me when and where you'll be playing a cash game."
I am happy with my play and the fact that I am still free-rollin'. I then go off to lunch and a cash game at the Venetian.
Cash game (The Venetian): My friends and I meet at the Venetian and have lunch in the food court that is in the main floor casino. I had an "Italian Stallion" sandwich...yum.
Next we are off to the $1-$2 NL cash game in the Venetian Poker Room. This place is nice and the wait for the packed room is a mere 10 minutes. The tables are great there's no smoking and the chairs are comfortable and adjustable.
Like I mentioned the wait is short so I am at a table in minutes and right after I sit down I am dealt pocket Jacks and I still haven't gotten my checks. Everyone limps and I am on the button so I raise 3x ($6) without chips and tell dealer I have $100 behind. Everyone calls and the flop comes 4-10-6 rainbow. Check around to this kid named Reed raises to $25...I am thinking he has A-10...I re raise to $50...he moves all in and I say "oh well, either I double up or re-load" I call with all my freshly tabled chips and he shows A-10 just as I suspected. The turn and river bring nothing to help either of us and I am instantly doubled up. Wahoo!!!! Still free-rollin'.
I hover around $140-$200 for the next couple of hours or so when I am dealt "American Airlines" in the cutoff position. After a bunch of limping I raise to $35 to weed out as many as possible but the button calls me instantly. The flop is 4-6-6. I look at the board and sheepishly say "Gee, I think I better go all in." I make the move for all ~$150 of my chips and the guy on the button calls but does not show his hand...I flash my Aces and he is disgusted...turn and river are meaningless. And he asks if I would be pissed off if he slow rolled his pocket sixes...I say no just disappointed that I wouldn't have his money. I win. He mucks what I assume is pocket kings. I am up to about $350.
The weirdest hand of the day and my good Karma.
I have 9-10 suited on the button. UTG raises to $12 and there are three callers I call with position and big stack of chips. The flop comes 4-9-10. Nice!!! The raisers bets another $45 and she gets one caller. I move all-in...and the raiser folds with a disappointed look on her face. The last guy thinks for about a minute then calls. He doesn't show his hand for the turn another 4 and the river a 6 or something. I show 9-10 and say "two pair" he flashes his pocket Jacks then throws his hand into the muck face down. The lady who raised in the first place says she had pocket Jacks too...
The dealer starts shoving chips over to me and someone says, "hey wait he has a better two pair 'jacks and fours'"...uh oh. He quickly grabs his cards and turns them over and the dealer pushes the board back out to show his better hand. I say "Oh, shit,..you did win,...ok let's count it out for you I had you covered."
Everyone else at the table is saying no way he mucked, it's your hand, he mucked, he mucked.
I am so high from all the winning I could really care less if I lost it or not...They called a pit boss over to make a ruling and he says if he mucked them it's my pot but it's up to me to make the decision. Since I am already willing to give the guy his win I decide to let him pull back his all in and we split the pot. I am still up and he survives his really bad mistake. I guess purists would say I am a fool for rewarding him for his stupid mistake but I feel like the good Karma will he handy for the rest of the weekend. For my "good deed" another player gets up and shakes my hand for being so cool about it. He says he's never seen someone be so cool about that kind of thing ever. I must jut too nice or just used to our "friendly games"
Feeling a bit light-headed after all the drama I play two more hands (mucked actually) and I get up from the table to take a breather after about 4 hours of play.
With my new bankroll I decide to play in a Venetian Big Stack single table Satellite for $130. It pays top 2 players 1 Lammer for entry into $500 Big Stack Tourney on Saturday and $70 for your trouble. I donk my way to 5th place...d'oh!!! It's nearly 8:30 pm tired and hungry it's time to eat dinner...we ate Chinese noodles and then headed off to Treasure Island 10 pm tourney.
Stay tuned for Thursday night and Friday reports.
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