This must be the part where I run goot, right?
After the Bellagio we played some 10-20 at Venetian. There was quite a bit of cash on the table- I had $4K, and one of the local pros had about $75K! One older tourist had about $10K, and he was everyone's target. I got my chance with KK and after someone had opened for $80 I made it $260 from one of the blinds. I get called by the tourist. Flop comes T-8-4, two hearts and I get real squirrelly and decide to just check-raise and take it down. He co-operates by putting two stacks in the middle. Now, I get confused and have my second "live misclick" of the trip when I announce my raise as "a thousand straight" Ooops. Devo quickly says- "wait- you can't do that- he made it $800" Oh shit. Yeah, he did. I thought it was $400 (in my defense I had been playing mostly the $5-$10 game with $10 chips) Fortunately I snap-switched to "No- I raise one thousand-- $1800 to go" and that was enough to take it down. Leading would probably have been better, but I am very aware that I lose most of my money in the first hour of sitting at a new table and simplifying things when I have less information seems to work.
Dinner at Capo's was excellent, and I got a free Benjamin when the poker worlds favorite runner-up decides to prop bet me on where Keller is playing in Tahoe. (Nobody plays the Cal-Neva) 5 games of bowling later I'm up $500, despite my best efforts to throw left handed and into the gutter. Oh well, when you bring your own cue-stick to the pool hall you are supposed to win I guess. I then picked up a massive one dollar thirty cents on the head-up ebay machine making me ridiculously ahead on the nights props. Finally, I make a gross suckout in a very fun 1-2 game where we lag it up real nicely. Devo does everything exactly perfect to get my money in when he's holding KK to my AJ on a whiffed flop-- only to have me make runner runner str8 to take it down.
Looking forward to next time
Monday, November 10, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008
More from Vegas
After busting the tourney, I played $1-$2 with turkey's wild on election night. Pretty fun.
The next day I play the $540 2 PM tourney at Bellagio. The first 20 minutes were just amazing. We start with 6K in chips. About the 10th hand I get QQ, raise and get a caller and flop K-Q-8. Nice. Check-check. Turn 9. Not as good. I bet out, get raised, and call. Hmmmm. River is another K. So I check and villain bets about 2/3 pot. I don't know why I got so nitty here- I have to be good, right? I just wondered if he played K9 like this. I ponder a bit, just call and he has a str8. Nice pot.
Two hands later I get red TT and flop a set on an all spade flop. I take it down.
About 3 hands after that I get AA and raise to 150. A MP player makes it 400 and I make it 1800. He tanks a long time. Finally he shoves into me with KK and I hold up.
Next hand I get JJ and everyone folds. Nice start I think!
I get up to 14K or so and then donk off 5K on a hand where I raise a limper with AQ and he calls. I miss the K high flop and try to represent AK. The guy check-calls both my flop barrel and then my turn shot to put him all in and he's the one with the AK. Oops.
From there not much happened. We get down to 11 people and they are paying only 3, so getting some chips would be a good idea. I make a button raise with KQo and this spewtard in the SB pushes. I'm getting about 1.6-1 to call, and it s a healthy stack if I win and crippled if I lose and I should be decent against his range here. I call and he tables A5s and he holds. Blech.
I go back to Bellagio the next day for the same tourney. Paul Phoc Nguyen is there--I played a long time with him a couple years ago. At 100-200 the short stack to my left pushes for his last 1400, Paul calls with his huge stack and I instashove about 7K with pocket deuces. Paul has to fold (99 his told me later) , I hold up over QT and get rewarded for my sick play. I'm up and down, but play well and then double up with QQ>TT. As I'm stacking my chips I look down at KQo in the SB. It gets folded to Paul on the CO and he raises to 1000. I call. Flop K-Q-T and I just check while I stack chips. Paul then shoves. OK, well, he might have something here, but he wouldn't shove with it. I call, he has AA and I'm drawing to a chop after he turns an Ace. Crap a smack a ding dong. I get it in way good for the chip lead with 9 people left and it doesn't happen. Pokah.
The next day I play the $540 2 PM tourney at Bellagio. The first 20 minutes were just amazing. We start with 6K in chips. About the 10th hand I get QQ, raise and get a caller and flop K-Q-8. Nice. Check-check. Turn 9. Not as good. I bet out, get raised, and call. Hmmmm. River is another K. So I check and villain bets about 2/3 pot. I don't know why I got so nitty here- I have to be good, right? I just wondered if he played K9 like this. I ponder a bit, just call and he has a str8. Nice pot.
Two hands later I get red TT and flop a set on an all spade flop. I take it down.
About 3 hands after that I get AA and raise to 150. A MP player makes it 400 and I make it 1800. He tanks a long time. Finally he shoves into me with KK and I hold up.
Next hand I get JJ and everyone folds. Nice start I think!
I get up to 14K or so and then donk off 5K on a hand where I raise a limper with AQ and he calls. I miss the K high flop and try to represent AK. The guy check-calls both my flop barrel and then my turn shot to put him all in and he's the one with the AK. Oops.
From there not much happened. We get down to 11 people and they are paying only 3, so getting some chips would be a good idea. I make a button raise with KQo and this spewtard in the SB pushes. I'm getting about 1.6-1 to call, and it s a healthy stack if I win and crippled if I lose and I should be decent against his range here. I call and he tables A5s and he holds. Blech.
I go back to Bellagio the next day for the same tourney. Paul Phoc Nguyen is there--I played a long time with him a couple years ago. At 100-200 the short stack to my left pushes for his last 1400, Paul calls with his huge stack and I instashove about 7K with pocket deuces. Paul has to fold (99 his told me later) , I hold up over QT and get rewarded for my sick play. I'm up and down, but play well and then double up with QQ>TT. As I'm stacking my chips I look down at KQo in the SB. It gets folded to Paul on the CO and he raises to 1000. I call. Flop K-Q-T and I just check while I stack chips. Paul then shoves. OK, well, he might have something here, but he wouldn't shove with it. I call, he has AA and I'm drawing to a chop after he turns an Ace. Crap a smack a ding dong. I get it in way good for the chip lead with 9 people left and it doesn't happen. Pokah.
Friday, November 7, 2008
The pre-AAO Vegas Boondoggle and How goot I run vs Devo
I think it is pretty standard that if I have a meeting in Las Vegas that I should bounce from Reno a day or two early to hit the felt.
Fortunately, I'm blessed by a very understanding woman, who gets it that in some strange way, sitting on my ass for hours trying to outplay the range of fools out there is good for me. In moderation of course. So-- thanks Rina. Much appreciated.
So my BIG plan (woot) is to play the $330 Venetian deep stack on election day. I have meetings on Thursday, so I can't really play a two-day tourney that starts on Wednesday, obv. So i get one shot.
Having to warm up, I sit down in a very wild $2-$5 cash game, where everyone has like $2K on the table, and people are maximum lagtards. Good things happen, and I get up several hundo. Then this: I get KK in MP and make it $20. The most laggy, VPiP=99%, (plays every pot) raises everytime guy, then makes it $120 from the button. At this point I have about $2K and he covers. Next to him in the SB is a more nitty player who then shoves for $400. Back to me. Decisions: 1)Shove for value and to isolate. 2) Call to induce a squeeze from the button 3) Do some FPS min raise crapola. I go through these pretty quickly and decide to call. Back to lagbutton. He tanks a little, asks me my stack size, and then makes it $1000 straight. So it is now only $600 to call, and the pot is $1800. OK, well just calling here seems retarded, cause I'm then out of position on the flop and I'm basically shoving everything. Maybe I dump i if an Ace flops. Shoving seems super standard. I mean, I have frickin Kings!!!!
But Kings aren't the nuts, and I've been in this spot at least twice in the last 3 months playing for stacks and both times I stacked off to AA. And the 4th raise means Aces. I tank forever, and feel like my cards must be face-up. His bet size screams for a call. No. Not this time. I muck. He immediately tells me I made a great fold and laments that he screwed up the hand (he is supposed to stack me there 80% of the time) Sick read, ftw.
Then the $330 election day special at the V. I donk off from $12,500 to about 8000. Yuck. Nothing is happening. At 50-100 I call a raise in the SB with 97o and three see a flop of 8-J-Q rainbow. Its only a gutter, but obv I haven't had much. I check, MP checks, and the LP raiser fires out 600. I make it 2000. I'm not sure how, but I am going to convince myself that my cards are T9 and I'm going to convince the LP also. No worries though, as I turn the T for the str8. Sweetness. I lead 2500 and he calls. He's got two pair or a set I guess. River bricks and I shove for another 3200 or so-- and he tanks, calls, mucks, and I DBL UP. Woot.
I'm hovering around 35K when I open raise to 2000 from the CO at 300-600/50. BB is a nitty old guy. (Its funny for me to write that, because I AM that NOG sometimes) He min-raises me to 4000, and he has another 7200 or so behind. Blech. So the battle between the part of me that senses he's got TT+ and crushing me is winning out over the much more logical side who looks at the pot, looks at the odds, and demands a call. Well, that ain't exactly right either since I can't really win enough when I spike the 7 to make it long term worthwhile. Whatever. I guess I should have shipped it right here, cause barring some disaster flop its all going in then. I call. Flop comes 8-high babies, rainbow, and the n.o.g. puts in 5K of his remaining 7200. Blech. I just shove, he snaps with JJ and I lose 1/3 of my stack.
Shortly after that, a young kid who hasn't done much opens in the CO and I decide to defend my SB with pocket 6's I repop to 4500 and then he shoves. Yuck a doodle. Pot is about 18,000 and its 9000 roughly to call so I don't have a choice. He shows me AQ, bricks the flop, but turns the Ace and now I'm down to 9000 chips or so with blinds at 400-800/75. I end up open shoving when it gets folded to me in the SB and the BB has AQ. My 93o doesn't look so promising and its gg me.
More later, as I must sleep now.
Fortunately, I'm blessed by a very understanding woman, who gets it that in some strange way, sitting on my ass for hours trying to outplay the range of fools out there is good for me. In moderation of course. So-- thanks Rina. Much appreciated.
So my BIG plan (woot) is to play the $330 Venetian deep stack on election day. I have meetings on Thursday, so I can't really play a two-day tourney that starts on Wednesday, obv. So i get one shot.
Having to warm up, I sit down in a very wild $2-$5 cash game, where everyone has like $2K on the table, and people are maximum lagtards. Good things happen, and I get up several hundo. Then this: I get KK in MP and make it $20. The most laggy, VPiP=99%, (plays every pot) raises everytime guy, then makes it $120 from the button. At this point I have about $2K and he covers. Next to him in the SB is a more nitty player who then shoves for $400. Back to me. Decisions: 1)Shove for value and to isolate. 2) Call to induce a squeeze from the button 3) Do some FPS min raise crapola. I go through these pretty quickly and decide to call. Back to lagbutton. He tanks a little, asks me my stack size, and then makes it $1000 straight. So it is now only $600 to call, and the pot is $1800. OK, well just calling here seems retarded, cause I'm then out of position on the flop and I'm basically shoving everything. Maybe I dump i if an Ace flops. Shoving seems super standard. I mean, I have frickin Kings!!!!
But Kings aren't the nuts, and I've been in this spot at least twice in the last 3 months playing for stacks and both times I stacked off to AA. And the 4th raise means Aces. I tank forever, and feel like my cards must be face-up. His bet size screams for a call. No. Not this time. I muck. He immediately tells me I made a great fold and laments that he screwed up the hand (he is supposed to stack me there 80% of the time) Sick read, ftw.
Then the $330 election day special at the V. I donk off from $12,500 to about 8000. Yuck. Nothing is happening. At 50-100 I call a raise in the SB with 97o and three see a flop of 8-J-Q rainbow. Its only a gutter, but obv I haven't had much. I check, MP checks, and the LP raiser fires out 600. I make it 2000. I'm not sure how, but I am going to convince myself that my cards are T9 and I'm going to convince the LP also. No worries though, as I turn the T for the str8. Sweetness. I lead 2500 and he calls. He's got two pair or a set I guess. River bricks and I shove for another 3200 or so-- and he tanks, calls, mucks, and I DBL UP. Woot.
I'm hovering around 35K when I open raise to 2000 from the CO at 300-600/50. BB is a nitty old guy. (Its funny for me to write that, because I AM that NOG sometimes) He min-raises me to 4000, and he has another 7200 or so behind. Blech. So the battle between the part of me that senses he's got TT+ and crushing me is winning out over the much more logical side who looks at the pot, looks at the odds, and demands a call. Well, that ain't exactly right either since I can't really win enough when I spike the 7 to make it long term worthwhile. Whatever. I guess I should have shipped it right here, cause barring some disaster flop its all going in then. I call. Flop comes 8-high babies, rainbow, and the n.o.g. puts in 5K of his remaining 7200. Blech. I just shove, he snaps with JJ and I lose 1/3 of my stack.
Shortly after that, a young kid who hasn't done much opens in the CO and I decide to defend my SB with pocket 6's I repop to 4500 and then he shoves. Yuck a doodle. Pot is about 18,000 and its 9000 roughly to call so I don't have a choice. He shows me AQ, bricks the flop, but turns the Ace and now I'm down to 9000 chips or so with blinds at 400-800/75. I end up open shoving when it gets folded to me in the SB and the BB has AQ. My 93o doesn't look so promising and its gg me.
More later, as I must sleep now.
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