What a long day.
Started in the 2pm tourney, I forgot my wallet. Luckily Adrian came over and lent me his cab fair so I could play. Went out fairly early. Couldn't win a race, opponents kept hitting their cards on turn and river, and I couldn't get cards as the blinds increased. The 7pm tourney went along in a similar fashion, bad run of cards. The 10pm tourney I finished fifth, and it paid four spots.
The last tourney of the evening was at 1AM at the Golden Nugget. It was a bit over two tables. I got some decent cards, made some good plays and hung in to the final table. It paid three spots and there were five of us left and after break blinds were going up... I had a mere 11k left and would need some incredible luck to make it to the money. Out of curiosity I calculated how much each person would get if it was split five ways. It was about 264$ each, or third place. After break I shrugged and mentioned that a five way split would give everyone third place money, and much to my surprise they all agreed that it sounded like a good idea! I was blown away, here I am with 5 big blinds in a five handed table, and they were willing to just split it up. So that covered the three binion's buy-ins.
Then I went over to Binions and lost more money in 2-4 limit. I could not catch a break, even when I caught a hand.
It was almost 5AM, and I went to check out the 1-2NL tables at Golden Nugget. I sat down to a table that had many many deep stacks. There was this crazy black curly haired guy who was bumping pots up into the 20's without hesitation. Straddles ran rampant, and I thought maybe I could sit through for a quick double or triple up. The first pot I get into, he raises a large amount pre-flop, and I have 33. I go all in and it isolates him and I head's up. He has AK. Unfortunately he hits and A on the flop and I never improve. 95$ go to his stack. I came back about 10 minutes later for more. I sit down with 200, and over the course of about 90 minutes tear his stack apart, and luck out against a tight player at the table. I left with over 700$ I was hitting random stuff that people couldn't put me on, and The last hand I played against the curly haired dude, I had A9, and the flop came 99J. He raised on the flop after I checked to him, and I went all-in. He tanked for a while and called. I tossed down my A9, and took the last of his money. He was not happy and will not soon forget me. Fun night!
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Binions and Golden Nugget
(Cash on hand: ~1100$. ATM: 500$, 200$ debt, so not up much for the past few days)
So, I have been playing, just not blogging.
I have had terrible luck in the past few tourneys, but before I left tonight, I shared first in the last tourney I played. Had a severe change of luck.
At one point in the tourney I told myself if I did not place in the cash, I had to retire for a while. At the time I had about 1/6th of the total chips.
I was dealt KK, KK, AJ, 99, and TT all in a row. And I had action on three of the four hands. That put me in a strong chip lead. The odds of getting running kings is less than 40000:1, wow. So I was tipping my dealers mid tourney. At the end Bill and I chopped for 626$ a piece. The third place guy was annoyed that I did not do a three-way split, but he didn't use the reload option, either.
With all this in mind, I'm still way down for the week. MY last success was last Saturday when I made 900$ and a Binion's victory T-shirt. But over the course of my next three sessions I lost around six tourney's. I almost placed in the money twice, but never seemed to get back there. Tomorrow is a deep stack tourney at 2:00, but I am not sure if I'll make it to that, if I do I will post the results.
--G
So, I have been playing, just not blogging.
I have had terrible luck in the past few tourneys, but before I left tonight, I shared first in the last tourney I played. Had a severe change of luck.
At one point in the tourney I told myself if I did not place in the cash, I had to retire for a while. At the time I had about 1/6th of the total chips.
I was dealt KK, KK, AJ, 99, and TT all in a row. And I had action on three of the four hands. That put me in a strong chip lead. The odds of getting running kings is less than 40000:1, wow. So I was tipping my dealers mid tourney. At the end Bill and I chopped for 626$ a piece. The third place guy was annoyed that I did not do a three-way split, but he didn't use the reload option, either.
With all this in mind, I'm still way down for the week. MY last success was last Saturday when I made 900$ and a Binion's victory T-shirt. But over the course of my next three sessions I lost around six tourney's. I almost placed in the money twice, but never seemed to get back there. Tomorrow is a deep stack tourney at 2:00, but I am not sure if I'll make it to that, if I do I will post the results.
--G
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Binions
Summary
Date: Feb 3rd to Feb 4th 4:20AM
Binion's 100 -> 63, 60 -> 366, 118 -> 0, 200+100 -> 0, 200 -> 263
Net: Down ~86
Cash-in-hand: ~1360
Binions:
Arrived around 9:30, played 2-4L waiting for tourney to start. Had A6, flop was AAT, paid out to river against someone who flopped full house. Luckily it was a limit game. I actually could have gotten away much sooner, as my kicker was junk, and the player was a super-tight old man. I had only seen three hands, but I still noticed that almost immediately, especially with the way the dealer was talking to him.
Binions tourney:
Was playing very tight, aggressive, and fairly smart. Didn't bother stealing the blinds so much when they were low during the first few levels, but I still ended up with a decent stack of greens. Mid-level in the tourney I kept an eye out for tight players who I could push out, and started buying blinds with decent bets if my hand had flop potential. Almost every pot I won in the middle-levels was without showdown. The blind started getting ridiculous, 800, 1600. There was one caller, and I was on the button. With the small blind and big blind in pot there was a total of 4000, my stack was about 11-12k, and I considered a move with (KQ)h, but realized, based on the blinds and amount in the pot, I would not be able to buy it. I simply called. Flop came ATh3. It was checked around to me. I thought for a while, and bet 4500. The blinds folded instantly, but the caller tanked for a minute, counted out his chips, and had 4500. I had not realized his stack was so low. He called with A7. I did not back-door to a flush, nor did I hit my gut-shot straight, losing a big pot. I proceeded to crawl ahead a bit, winning a pot here and there until I got almost stacked. Blinds were up to 3k, and I was at 4k. Folded to button, who pushed, I grinned and called the other 1k, regardless of my cards. He turned over AQoff, and I turned over 49off. I made a four on the flop, and then another on the river, winning the pot. Over the course of the next 30 minutes I won almost every show down and got a decent number of pushable hands. The player to my right shoved pre-flop in the small blind, I snap-called with AT. He had 28. I took his chips after a T hit the flop. A little while later it was down to three players. I looked around at the stacks and we were all within striking distance of each other. I asked the others if they wanted to chop the winnings 550, 330, and 220. I was middle stacked at 35k, big stack was 47k and short stack was 23k. They all agreed and we played a showdown to see who won the victory shirt. Appropriately it went to the big stack, who had 27 on the showdown and paired up.
I took a break for a while, trying to relax a bit, and talked with Frank. He mentioned that there was a 1AM tourney at the Golden Nugget and I offered to stake him (60$) and split his winnings. He was apparently down 10g for his Vegas trip. Unfortunately they had canceled their tourney.
Went back to Binion's and lost with AK three or four times. Sort of tilted/donk'ed off all my winnings for that evening, overplayed hands and didn't let them go when I knew I was beat. Tried to make plays that were not credible and lost a vast majority of my hands. Bleh.
Date: Feb 3rd to Feb 4th 4:20AM
Binion's 100 -> 63, 60 -> 366, 118 -> 0, 200+100 -> 0, 200 -> 263
Net: Down ~86
Cash-in-hand: ~1360
Binions:
Arrived around 9:30, played 2-4L waiting for tourney to start. Had A6, flop was AAT, paid out to river against someone who flopped full house. Luckily it was a limit game. I actually could have gotten away much sooner, as my kicker was junk, and the player was a super-tight old man. I had only seen three hands, but I still noticed that almost immediately, especially with the way the dealer was talking to him.
Binions tourney:
Was playing very tight, aggressive, and fairly smart. Didn't bother stealing the blinds so much when they were low during the first few levels, but I still ended up with a decent stack of greens. Mid-level in the tourney I kept an eye out for tight players who I could push out, and started buying blinds with decent bets if my hand had flop potential. Almost every pot I won in the middle-levels was without showdown. The blind started getting ridiculous, 800, 1600. There was one caller, and I was on the button. With the small blind and big blind in pot there was a total of 4000, my stack was about 11-12k, and I considered a move with (KQ)h, but realized, based on the blinds and amount in the pot, I would not be able to buy it. I simply called. Flop came ATh3. It was checked around to me. I thought for a while, and bet 4500. The blinds folded instantly, but the caller tanked for a minute, counted out his chips, and had 4500. I had not realized his stack was so low. He called with A7. I did not back-door to a flush, nor did I hit my gut-shot straight, losing a big pot. I proceeded to crawl ahead a bit, winning a pot here and there until I got almost stacked. Blinds were up to 3k, and I was at 4k. Folded to button, who pushed, I grinned and called the other 1k, regardless of my cards. He turned over AQoff, and I turned over 49off. I made a four on the flop, and then another on the river, winning the pot. Over the course of the next 30 minutes I won almost every show down and got a decent number of pushable hands. The player to my right shoved pre-flop in the small blind, I snap-called with AT. He had 28. I took his chips after a T hit the flop. A little while later it was down to three players. I looked around at the stacks and we were all within striking distance of each other. I asked the others if they wanted to chop the winnings 550, 330, and 220. I was middle stacked at 35k, big stack was 47k and short stack was 23k. They all agreed and we played a showdown to see who won the victory shirt. Appropriately it went to the big stack, who had 27 on the showdown and paired up.
I took a break for a while, trying to relax a bit, and talked with Frank. He mentioned that there was a 1AM tourney at the Golden Nugget and I offered to stake him (60$) and split his winnings. He was apparently down 10g for his Vegas trip. Unfortunately they had canceled their tourney.
Went back to Binion's and lost with AK three or four times. Sort of tilted/donk'ed off all my winnings for that evening, overplayed hands and didn't let them go when I knew I was beat. Tried to make plays that were not credible and lost a vast majority of my hands. Bleh.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Binions to Aria
Summary
Date: Feb 3rd to Feb 4th 6:20AM
Binion's 100 -> 116 (11PM to ~Midnight)
Aria 100 -> 0, 120 -> 0, 300 -> 600 (~12:20 to 6:00AM)
Net: Up ~100
Cash-in-hand: ~1460
Binion's 1-2NL:
Played fairly solid stable poker, was settling in for the long haul once I was finally seated. Saw Frank Wiese again. Called his 2$ raise pre-flop with a 27off, asked if he wanted me to call, or if he wanted his red bull, since I owed him one from last time we played. Recognition dawned on him and he said he wanted a call. I called and said he could have both. Flop gave me a gutshot with my 7, would have needed a 9. He bet, I folded face up, much to the pleasure of the table. Bought him a red bull when we finally got a waitress. We were chatting a bit across the table, and he mentioned that he wanted to go to Aria, and that they had a few tables open. I said it sounded like fun. Last hand before I left the table had a bit of action pre-flop, I had KJo, so I called the 10. Flop came rags, two clubs, I made a small bet, the guy called. On the turn he pushed in a 20$ bet, I went all in for 63$ I figured I wouldn't have to cash out if I lost, and it was a fun move to leave the table with. I had two overs and a board that seemed ripe for bluffing. Opponent tanked, then folded. So I left there ahead instead of behind.
Aria 1-3NL:
Overall, I set in for a long grind, played very tight but aggressive. My bluffs were successful 80% of the time or more, and I never had to show a total bluff..
First buy-in (100):
Worked it up to 140, stealing small pots, avoiding going all in unnecessarily, and trying to play smart and tight to gather intel. However I got caught with a decent hand against a set. I had top pair with a decent kicker and some decent draws. Player was playing weak/passive. I did not detect the trap, by the river the board looked harmless, any kind of draw he might have had would have missed, so I shoved about 50$ into a 180$ pot. He called with a set of 5's.
Second buy-in (120):
KK pre-flop. Someone bet 15 pre-flop. I was in middle position. I pondering isolating, but instead decided to call, ended up being head's up anyway. Flop came three diamonds, A7T(?). He slow checked, so I bet 15. He was not the type to trap, and always seemed to either fold weak hands, or bet strong hands, so I knew he either had zero or one diamond. I had Kd, so I figured I'd out-flush him with one more diamond. He pondered a moment and pushed in 45, I snap-called. River was a blank and he checked again. I shoved with little delay, figuring he might have paired an ace, but I might scare him out with the diamonds. He called, river was not a diamond, I said ace is good, and he showed his ace. Pot was ~270-300
Third buy-in (300):
Was playing fairly stable and tight, and I figured I'd make every effort to get my money in good, was not playing with the "must double-up to get even" mentality. Tried to keep my game stable.
AKs pre-flop straddle raised to 20$ by tricky player, I re-raised to 40, since he had a wide range of hands and only Frank was left to act. Frank pushed all in for another 77 on top. Middle guy folded, I called, thinking there was a decent chance Frank was making a move, and worst case was coin flip, best case domination. Flop came three diamonds, turn fourth diamond, river a blank. Frank had AdQo. He made nut flush even though I had him dominated. Pot was around 275$.
99 from middle position. Yellow-shirt was a fairly chasy player, and I flopped middle set on a board with two clubs. Not wanting to risk being drawn out on, but knowing I could extract value, I bet a little over half pot, putting pot up to about 100, he called. Turn was a blank, so I put 100 in, which was almost his entire stack. He said something along the lines of "Well, I'm getting 2:1 on my money..." and pushed all-in. I called, and he apologized as he made a straight on the river. Lost a 360$ pot to a gut-shot.
My stack drifted down to about 150$ at its low point, but I was playing hands solidly and slowly rebuilding.
45 clubs. Got stack back up to around 280$, a few of the looser players put some money in, so I called 7$. Four or so players in pot. I figure I can easily escape if I miss the flop, and suited connectors can be sneaky. Flop comes J(45)s. Indian big-stack bets 20$, I re-raise to 60$. This isolates him as he calls. Turn is a blank (10d? 3d?). I'm doing my best to not feign weakness too strongly, I'm also unsure of what he has. I doubt the set very much, because he's not playing like he made a set. Possible flush draw, but if so I have that beat. He looks at my stack, goes all in, and I snap-call. River is a third card to a flush draw, I frown and show my two pair. He flashed a KQo and folds. Doubling me up, I leave a few hands later with 600. I thought the turn was 3d, but it makes more sense for it to be 10d, giving him an open-ended to semi-bluff with.
Date: Feb 3rd to Feb 4th 6:20AM
Binion's 100 -> 116 (11PM to ~Midnight)
Aria 100 -> 0, 120 -> 0, 300 -> 600 (~12:20 to 6:00AM)
Net: Up ~100
Cash-in-hand: ~1460
Binion's 1-2NL:
Played fairly solid stable poker, was settling in for the long haul once I was finally seated. Saw Frank Wiese again. Called his 2$ raise pre-flop with a 27off, asked if he wanted me to call, or if he wanted his red bull, since I owed him one from last time we played. Recognition dawned on him and he said he wanted a call. I called and said he could have both. Flop gave me a gutshot with my 7, would have needed a 9. He bet, I folded face up, much to the pleasure of the table. Bought him a red bull when we finally got a waitress. We were chatting a bit across the table, and he mentioned that he wanted to go to Aria, and that they had a few tables open. I said it sounded like fun. Last hand before I left the table had a bit of action pre-flop, I had KJo, so I called the 10. Flop came rags, two clubs, I made a small bet, the guy called. On the turn he pushed in a 20$ bet, I went all in for 63$ I figured I wouldn't have to cash out if I lost, and it was a fun move to leave the table with. I had two overs and a board that seemed ripe for bluffing. Opponent tanked, then folded. So I left there ahead instead of behind.
Aria 1-3NL:
Overall, I set in for a long grind, played very tight but aggressive. My bluffs were successful 80% of the time or more, and I never had to show a total bluff..
First buy-in (100):
Worked it up to 140, stealing small pots, avoiding going all in unnecessarily, and trying to play smart and tight to gather intel. However I got caught with a decent hand against a set. I had top pair with a decent kicker and some decent draws. Player was playing weak/passive. I did not detect the trap, by the river the board looked harmless, any kind of draw he might have had would have missed, so I shoved about 50$ into a 180$ pot. He called with a set of 5's.
Second buy-in (120):
KK pre-flop. Someone bet 15 pre-flop. I was in middle position. I pondering isolating, but instead decided to call, ended up being head's up anyway. Flop came three diamonds, A7T(?). He slow checked, so I bet 15. He was not the type to trap, and always seemed to either fold weak hands, or bet strong hands, so I knew he either had zero or one diamond. I had Kd, so I figured I'd out-flush him with one more diamond. He pondered a moment and pushed in 45, I snap-called. River was a blank and he checked again. I shoved with little delay, figuring he might have paired an ace, but I might scare him out with the diamonds. He called, river was not a diamond, I said ace is good, and he showed his ace. Pot was ~270-300
Third buy-in (300):
Was playing fairly stable and tight, and I figured I'd make every effort to get my money in good, was not playing with the "must double-up to get even" mentality. Tried to keep my game stable.
AKs pre-flop straddle raised to 20$ by tricky player, I re-raised to 40, since he had a wide range of hands and only Frank was left to act. Frank pushed all in for another 77 on top. Middle guy folded, I called, thinking there was a decent chance Frank was making a move, and worst case was coin flip, best case domination. Flop came three diamonds, turn fourth diamond, river a blank. Frank had AdQo. He made nut flush even though I had him dominated. Pot was around 275$.
99 from middle position. Yellow-shirt was a fairly chasy player, and I flopped middle set on a board with two clubs. Not wanting to risk being drawn out on, but knowing I could extract value, I bet a little over half pot, putting pot up to about 100, he called. Turn was a blank, so I put 100 in, which was almost his entire stack. He said something along the lines of "Well, I'm getting 2:1 on my money..." and pushed all-in. I called, and he apologized as he made a straight on the river. Lost a 360$ pot to a gut-shot.
My stack drifted down to about 150$ at its low point, but I was playing hands solidly and slowly rebuilding.
45 clubs. Got stack back up to around 280$, a few of the looser players put some money in, so I called 7$. Four or so players in pot. I figure I can easily escape if I miss the flop, and suited connectors can be sneaky. Flop comes J(45)s. Indian big-stack bets 20$, I re-raise to 60$. This isolates him as he calls. Turn is a blank (10d? 3d?). I'm doing my best to not feign weakness too strongly, I'm also unsure of what he has. I doubt the set very much, because he's not playing like he made a set. Possible flush draw, but if so I have that beat. He looks at my stack, goes all in, and I snap-call. River is a third card to a flush draw, I frown and show my two pair. He flashed a KQo and folds. Doubling me up, I leave a few hands later with 600. I thought the turn was 3d, but it makes more sense for it to be 10d, giving him an open-ended to semi-bluff with.
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