Alright well as has become the norm, the blog has been neglected yet again. After my royal flush, I worked 13 out of 15 days and basically hated life...went to Vegas for a week, came back and worked for a couple days, and now here I am.
Vegas was alright poker wise. I started off $700 in the hole the first night and spent the rest of the trip digging myself out of it. I ended the trip with almost all of it paid for (I think the trip cost me $200 overall...definitely cool for a five day trip).
I played at Capitol last night and started off awful, but proceeded to rebound and go on a monster heater. My lowest point was down $160, my highest point being about +$340. I ended up cashing out $300, couple that with food and drinks I paid with from my chipstack throughout the night...I had a pretty good score.
Maybe I'll play tomorrow during the day before work, but I'm not entirely sure about that. I'm gonna be a dork today and go play Rockband at my buddy's house (I can sing and play most songs I know on Medium lol)...if I don't know the songs, I usually just play guitar on medium. Fun stuff hehe :-)
Look for me to update this thing ~soon...within a week or so. I definitely want to talk about a lot of different sessions, especially the 8/16 game at Bellagio where I finally ran well/played well and a few different Omaha h/l sessions where I *gasp* was probably the best player at the table. These players were simply awful throughout the trip.
Anyway, check back soon. Thanks for reading.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
JV Session Six: Mirage O8 and 10/20...see a pattern?
5/10 O8: +$115
10/20: +$60
I think I woke up around 6pm or so Friday after playing all night at Mirage and then winning some money at Harrah's 1/2NL game. I felt awful, was still running kinda shitty, so I decided to play some O8 with Shabba. I ran pretty well at O8 this trip, and think I came up about a hundo again after I rivered quads against this asian girl (not cute, but would def get a grudge hump from me) named Rose who I ended up playing alot of O8, 10/20, and even 8/16 at Bellagio with. Too bad she wasn't all that cute, because she commented on my game (poker) a few different times throughout the trip...the first time I thought it was a bit back-handed "you play omaha a lot better than you play 10/20" but she explained herself and said she meant I play Omaha better than she's seen around Mirage. Cool...whatever. I just know basic concepts and have good pre-flop card selection...but then again, everyone there is so awful it's easy to see why she'd say that.
Moving on, the 10/20 table that night was a lot of fun. Some cute thick girl with a gwen stefani hat was playing out of the one seat, a few different guys would occupy the two, deuce in three, tommy in four, me in five, pika in the seven, drunk/loud Canadian/Scot in the eight, older botox fake *****/lips (meh...not hot, sorry pika) asian chick in the nine and eventually Rose (grudge hump) moved to the 10 seat.
I ran a lot better at 10/20 this night than most of the others, as I had Kings hold a few different times, mostly against Rose. It was funny, her and Tommy kept talking a lot of shit back and forth, both obv hated each other. At one point he leaned over and thanked me for steamrolling her with the few hands I played against her so far...
I can't remember exactly how much I made, it wasn't anything significant, but Deuce crushed the game again for at least $700+. The table quieted up considerably after the Canadian guy's red bull vodkas made him too drunk to continue the obnoxious trash talk...him and I had a pretty good Mexico vs Canada shit-talk fest going which was pretty fun for all involved. I think we finally broke the game when we dropped down to five-handed (me, deuce, pika, canadian guy, and someone else)...there was basically no money to be made off the table anymore. I called it an earlier night/morning than I did the night before and tried to focus on getting enough sleep for Saturday.
10/20: +$60
I think I woke up around 6pm or so Friday after playing all night at Mirage and then winning some money at Harrah's 1/2NL game. I felt awful, was still running kinda shitty, so I decided to play some O8 with Shabba. I ran pretty well at O8 this trip, and think I came up about a hundo again after I rivered quads against this asian girl (not cute, but would def get a grudge hump from me) named Rose who I ended up playing alot of O8, 10/20, and even 8/16 at Bellagio with. Too bad she wasn't all that cute, because she commented on my game (poker) a few different times throughout the trip...the first time I thought it was a bit back-handed "you play omaha a lot better than you play 10/20" but she explained herself and said she meant I play Omaha better than she's seen around Mirage. Cool...whatever. I just know basic concepts and have good pre-flop card selection...but then again, everyone there is so awful it's easy to see why she'd say that.
Moving on, the 10/20 table that night was a lot of fun. Some cute thick girl with a gwen stefani hat was playing out of the one seat, a few different guys would occupy the two, deuce in three, tommy in four, me in five, pika in the seven, drunk/loud Canadian/Scot in the eight, older botox fake *****/lips (meh...not hot, sorry pika) asian chick in the nine and eventually Rose (grudge hump) moved to the 10 seat.
I ran a lot better at 10/20 this night than most of the others, as I had Kings hold a few different times, mostly against Rose. It was funny, her and Tommy kept talking a lot of shit back and forth, both obv hated each other. At one point he leaned over and thanked me for steamrolling her with the few hands I played against her so far...
I can't remember exactly how much I made, it wasn't anything significant, but Deuce crushed the game again for at least $700+. The table quieted up considerably after the Canadian guy's red bull vodkas made him too drunk to continue the obnoxious trash talk...him and I had a pretty good Mexico vs Canada shit-talk fest going which was pretty fun for all involved. I think we finally broke the game when we dropped down to five-handed (me, deuce, pika, canadian guy, and someone else)...there was basically no money to be made off the table anymore. I called it an earlier night/morning than I did the night before and tried to focus on getting enough sleep for Saturday.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
JV Session Five: Mirage O8 and 10/20; Harrah's 1/2 NL
5/10 O8: +$130
10/20: -$20
1/2 NL: +$140
The O8 was so good Thurs night because this doofus sat down with $600 and live-straddled for about an hour until he was out of money. Some really awesome things doofus did:
- Jammed up a 245 flop with a naked 3...about 20 minutes later I heard him say "oh you have to use two cards in Omaha. K got it...no problem, I got this game now."
- Looks at his first two cards and hear him say "wow, I got to raise, even just by looking at two cards." Turns out the first two cards was a pair of nines
- Watch him jam up a pot where he has a King-high flush draw and gutty...both for the high hand, he has no low draw...guy to my direct left has the nut flush draw to go with his nut low draw and proceeds to cornhole the doofus for an easy ~$200+ pot.
- One of the last hands doofus raises (completely standard) I call with some double suited junk out of the BB and we're heads up. The flop comes Q-high and I have a diamond flush...9-high I believe. I check, he checks behind. Turn is a blank and I now have a low draw, I bet, he raises...I think "**** I just got hollywooded by the d-bag at the table" I call. River is a blank, no low got there, I check, he bets, I call and he says with extreme confidence, "THREE QUEENS." I quickly blurt out "yeah that's not good" and show my 9-high flush with pride, which causes the four other players (we're playing 6-handed) to start laughing pretty hard...I felt bad everyone was laughing at the guy...but not really.
I ended up playing with one of the guys next day, and he told me that he had told all of his friends about the guy spewing $600, but his favorite part of the night was the fact that some guy (me) could snap-call him with a 9-high flush with such confidence and be correct in doing so, that and my "yeah that's not good" line was hilarious.
10/20 was more of the same breaking even bullshit while Deuce destroyed the table for at least $700. I think we played against a really drunk guy five handed, and I kept getting my monsters cracked by him...oh well, can't fleece the donks everytime. This table broke up around 6am, so me and Deuce parted ways and I rolled back into Harrah's still itching to play a little bit.
Harrah's was my first winning NL session of the trip. My one big hand was where I get it all-in on the turn against tens with Kings on an all-unders board. The guy was kinda short, so I think I may have won $150 or so off that hand. It was a bit of a nitfest toward the end of the night (morning), so I hung around til about 930am or so and finally called it a day.
10/20: -$20
1/2 NL: +$140
The O8 was so good Thurs night because this doofus sat down with $600 and live-straddled for about an hour until he was out of money. Some really awesome things doofus did:
- Jammed up a 245 flop with a naked 3...about 20 minutes later I heard him say "oh you have to use two cards in Omaha. K got it...no problem, I got this game now."
- Looks at his first two cards and hear him say "wow, I got to raise, even just by looking at two cards." Turns out the first two cards was a pair of nines
- Watch him jam up a pot where he has a King-high flush draw and gutty...both for the high hand, he has no low draw...guy to my direct left has the nut flush draw to go with his nut low draw and proceeds to cornhole the doofus for an easy ~$200+ pot.
- One of the last hands doofus raises (completely standard) I call with some double suited junk out of the BB and we're heads up. The flop comes Q-high and I have a diamond flush...9-high I believe. I check, he checks behind. Turn is a blank and I now have a low draw, I bet, he raises...I think "**** I just got hollywooded by the d-bag at the table" I call. River is a blank, no low got there, I check, he bets, I call and he says with extreme confidence, "THREE QUEENS." I quickly blurt out "yeah that's not good" and show my 9-high flush with pride, which causes the four other players (we're playing 6-handed) to start laughing pretty hard...I felt bad everyone was laughing at the guy...but not really.
I ended up playing with one of the guys next day, and he told me that he had told all of his friends about the guy spewing $600, but his favorite part of the night was the fact that some guy (me) could snap-call him with a 9-high flush with such confidence and be correct in doing so, that and my "yeah that's not good" line was hilarious.
10/20 was more of the same breaking even bullshit while Deuce destroyed the table for at least $700. I think we played against a really drunk guy five handed, and I kept getting my monsters cracked by him...oh well, can't fleece the donks everytime. This table broke up around 6am, so me and Deuce parted ways and I rolled back into Harrah's still itching to play a little bit.
Harrah's was my first winning NL session of the trip. My one big hand was where I get it all-in on the turn against tens with Kings on an all-unders board. The guy was kinda short, so I think I may have won $150 or so off that hand. It was a bit of a nitfest toward the end of the night (morning), so I hung around til about 930am or so and finally called it a day.
JV Session Four: Treasure Island Donkament
After woofing down a Pastrami sandwich during Game 1 of the Lakers/Celtics Finals in the Mirage Sportsbook...
Shabba talked all of us into participating in a Treasure Island donkament for like $60. We all said what the hell and decided to meet at TI around 11pm and sign up for the donkament. I felt kinda dingy, so decided to go back to the room and grab a shower and change my clothes for a long night of cards. After getting out of my shower, I noticed a text from the guys saying the donkament started at 10pm, so I took my time getting changed. Of course ten minutes later I got another text saying they'd allow late sign ups until 11pm. Grrrrrrrrreat...I power walked my way from Harrahs to TI and got there with about five minutes to spare. Everyone seemed to be having fun, so I bought in with about 8BBs in my stack and proceeded to finish third out of the five us (maybe 20th out of 50 people altogether). I ran A7 sooooooooted into Kings after the guy limped them UTG (gg squeezeplay) and was out. Deuce was the bubble boy as he finished fifth (four paid). He ran his TPGK into Ace-high (d-bag CR'd all-in with ace-high and no fold equity) and rivered the ace. GG donkament lol.
After that I headed back to Mirage to play some more O8 and 10/20...
Shabba talked all of us into participating in a Treasure Island donkament for like $60. We all said what the hell and decided to meet at TI around 11pm and sign up for the donkament. I felt kinda dingy, so decided to go back to the room and grab a shower and change my clothes for a long night of cards. After getting out of my shower, I noticed a text from the guys saying the donkament started at 10pm, so I took my time getting changed. Of course ten minutes later I got another text saying they'd allow late sign ups until 11pm. Grrrrrrrrreat...I power walked my way from Harrahs to TI and got there with about five minutes to spare. Everyone seemed to be having fun, so I bought in with about 8BBs in my stack and proceeded to finish third out of the five us (maybe 20th out of 50 people altogether). I ran A7 sooooooooted into Kings after the guy limped them UTG (gg squeezeplay) and was out. Deuce was the bubble boy as he finished fifth (four paid). He ran his TPGK into Ace-high (d-bag CR'd all-in with ace-high and no fold equity) and rivered the ace. GG donkament lol.
After that I headed back to Mirage to play some more O8 and 10/20...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
JV Session Three: Mirage O8 and more 10/20
5/10 Omaha h/l: +$110
10/20: +$100
After getting re-charged with an In 'N Out run...
I made my way back to the Mirage poker room and decided to play some Omaha h/l with a full-kill to mix it up a little bit. LHE and hold 'em in general I guess had been ripping me a new asshole, so maybe using four cards instead of two could help me get back into gear.
I sat down and immediately recognized a dealer from the Mirage sitting to my right. His name is Barry (I think) and I actually remembered him from a summer ago. Solid player, and if he was playing in this game, it had to be "good." Anyway, I fold some shitty cards for about an orbit and spectate...everyone aside from Barry and this guy down on the other side of the table were pretty awful (from what I could judge via their pre-flop hand selection alone). I watched Barry get runner-runnered for half the pot (he flopped the nut flush) by this guy who called two bets cold on the flop to catch his running low draw. "Nice flop" was all I remember hearing lol...don't tap the glass Barry.
The first hand I actually played I raised in LP after a couple limpers. I had A278 double suited (ace-high clubs and the other diamonds), and got called in one spot behind me and the limpers called as well.
Flop came something like 346 with two spades and a club. Checks to me and I bet, guy to my direct left raises, one caller, and I call. At this point and even right now my O8 is a little hazy, but I think the correct play is to just call. I have no real clue how the guy to my left plays, but I currently have the nut low with no protection, and my only draw to the high is a gutshot straight draw with a flush draw on board.
The turn is a great card for me, a red nine. I'm now open-ended and still have the nut low. Check, I check, bet, call, and I call.
The river is a five not completing the flush...so the board is now 34569 and I have both the nut-low and nut-high. I donk-bet because I'm pretty sure it's getting checked through unless someone else has one of the same hands, both villains call, and then both muck when I show "nut-nut" for the scoop. "Weeeeeeeeeee"
Omaha guys feel free to comment on my play in that hand if it's completely off lol
Anyway, the game was a must-move, so after a little while it broke down and I ended up playing 10/20 for a few hours and making back a stack over there. I was about even on the day (I lost $200 at B earlier that day), so I was semi-relieved that I could have a winning session again and was only down $700 for the trip.
10/20: +$100
After getting re-charged with an In 'N Out run...
I made my way back to the Mirage poker room and decided to play some Omaha h/l with a full-kill to mix it up a little bit. LHE and hold 'em in general I guess had been ripping me a new asshole, so maybe using four cards instead of two could help me get back into gear.
I sat down and immediately recognized a dealer from the Mirage sitting to my right. His name is Barry (I think) and I actually remembered him from a summer ago. Solid player, and if he was playing in this game, it had to be "good." Anyway, I fold some shitty cards for about an orbit and spectate...everyone aside from Barry and this guy down on the other side of the table were pretty awful (from what I could judge via their pre-flop hand selection alone). I watched Barry get runner-runnered for half the pot (he flopped the nut flush) by this guy who called two bets cold on the flop to catch his running low draw. "Nice flop" was all I remember hearing lol...don't tap the glass Barry.
The first hand I actually played I raised in LP after a couple limpers. I had A278 double suited (ace-high clubs and the other diamonds), and got called in one spot behind me and the limpers called as well.
Flop came something like 346 with two spades and a club. Checks to me and I bet, guy to my direct left raises, one caller, and I call. At this point and even right now my O8 is a little hazy, but I think the correct play is to just call. I have no real clue how the guy to my left plays, but I currently have the nut low with no protection, and my only draw to the high is a gutshot straight draw with a flush draw on board.
The turn is a great card for me, a red nine. I'm now open-ended and still have the nut low. Check, I check, bet, call, and I call.
The river is a five not completing the flush...so the board is now 34569 and I have both the nut-low and nut-high. I donk-bet because I'm pretty sure it's getting checked through unless someone else has one of the same hands, both villains call, and then both muck when I show "nut-nut" for the scoop. "Weeeeeeeeeee"
Omaha guys feel free to comment on my play in that hand if it's completely off lol
Anyway, the game was a must-move, so after a little while it broke down and I ended up playing 10/20 for a few hours and making back a stack over there. I was about even on the day (I lost $200 at B earlier that day), so I was semi-relieved that I could have a winning session again and was only down $700 for the trip.
JV Session Two: Bellagio 4/8
4/8: -$200
Things didn't go much better at Bellagio's 4/8 game. I started off pretty well, but eventually I found my myself cold-decked and card dead down a couple racks. Overall it was pretty fun as I hung out with my friends Tony, Jason, and Deuce throughout most of the session, but getting even more stuck in Vegas wasn't good.
I can't remember any hands of interest (suprise suprise), so instead I'll just post some pics from the table.
Here's a shot of a beautiful Swedish girl playing in seat one and Jason raking in a monster pot in seat two...and you are correct in assuming the blonde had no idea we were taking the pic ;-)
Deuce coming straight from the 15/30 game to donk it up at 4/8 with us. $1k buy-in haha
Things didn't go much better at Bellagio's 4/8 game. I started off pretty well, but eventually I found my myself cold-decked and card dead down a couple racks. Overall it was pretty fun as I hung out with my friends Tony, Jason, and Deuce throughout most of the session, but getting even more stuck in Vegas wasn't good.
I can't remember any hands of interest (suprise suprise), so instead I'll just post some pics from the table.
Here's a shot of a beautiful Swedish girl playing in seat one and Jason raking in a monster pot in seat two...and you are correct in assuming the blonde had no idea we were taking the pic ;-)
Deuce coming straight from the 15/30 game to donk it up at 4/8 with us. $1k buy-in haha
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
JV Session One: Mirage NL and 10/20
NL: -$400
10/20: -$300
Third hand in Vegas I end up running Kings into Aces AI pre-flop...gg $200 right away. Oh well...not that big of a deal. After hanging out with Deuce and Eusebio for a couple more hours, I headed over to 10/20 and proceeded to lose another few stacks of red.
I was in Vegas for one night, and already I was stuck $700. Not a good start to the trip, especially since I "forgot" to go to the bank before I left Cali and only brought $1200 with me (I usually bring about $2k).
Pic of me (seat five looking like I'm singing a death metal song) and Eusebio (looks like he's either crininging or laughing at my death metal song) lol
10/20: -$300
Third hand in Vegas I end up running Kings into Aces AI pre-flop...gg $200 right away. Oh well...not that big of a deal. After hanging out with Deuce and Eusebio for a couple more hours, I headed over to 10/20 and proceeded to lose another few stacks of red.
I was in Vegas for one night, and already I was stuck $700. Not a good start to the trip, especially since I "forgot" to go to the bank before I left Cali and only brought $1200 with me (I usually bring about $2k).
Pic of me (seat five looking like I'm singing a death metal song) and Eusebio (looks like he's either crininging or laughing at my death metal song) lol
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