another vegas update
Didn't do any updates this past weekend while Missy was in town. We had a great time. Her mom was actually in town as well as her job as a part time flight attendant for this private jet happened to be staying for a few days in Vegas. So Friday night we get together with her mom and go to Blueman group at the Venetian, which was really fun. Hard to explain what they do, but the most accurate thing I can say is that it's a very visual show that plays on bright colors, percussion instruments, and non-verbal forms of comedy. I think just about everyone could find something in the show that they enjoyed.So saturday night we got together with her Mom and the two pilots who are in their late 20s/early 30s and drank a bunch of beer at their hotel's happy hour. Afterwards we hit NY NY for some pizza and more drinks and degenerate video poker gambling. Of course I don't really know much about good basic video poker strategy, but I figure my intuition has got to be pretty close. In any case, we prob dropped $30-40. Missy was getting real fast cranking out the hands... lol. Her ptbb/100 was probably something like -.50 ptbb/100 or so, taking after her fiancee ;-) So get this, Missy and I had been playing video poker for like 30 mins at the bar, and I was standing there with her the entire time -- ie both of us were playing the same machine. So she asks the bartender for 2 beers, and he gets them and makes some rude comment about how "he'll ONLY charge us for 1" wtf... since when are these clowns not supposed to comp both drinks? After paying $5.75 for a bottle of miller lite, we gave NYNY a bit eff you and decided to leave.
Sunday I tried my last shot at qualifying for the main event online when I played the FTP 100 seats guaranteed and the pokerstars 150 seat guaranteed. Needless to say it was standard donkament fare and I came up short on both despite Kyle's bring it skills. After that we went out for one last night together on the strip and ate at the planet hollywood buffet, which was really good (pre-cut crab legs FTW) and then hit up the Eifel Tower at Paris which was definitely fun and finished up by catching a couple Bellagio fountain shows and swinging by the poker room so Missy could see some "names". All and all, a fun weekend with the soon-to-be Mrs. (11 days... gulp ;-)
Ok so Monday I had my second chance at a WSOP bracelet and managed to last all of 67 minutes. lol...(but not really lol). I freaking hate tournaments. Anyway I lost 2 mediumish pots with AK which basically did me in. Here's my results-oriented analysis. effective stacks about 4500, 25/50 blinds. I open AKs from the CO. I had been opening a lot of pots. Flop A 9 8r, 350 in pot. Checks to me I bet 250, villain calls in sb. Turn 9. He checks I bet 600 into 850, he calls. River is a To. he bets 1200 i think into 2050. I call it, J9 off good. I dunno maybe I could get away on the river, putting him mostly on 67 or AT, but I have a hard time folding TPTK to live tourney donks with no read.
So that crippled me pretty well, but I soon after picked up QQ and value bet a station donk 3 streets on a Tc 9c Xo Ko Ko to get back to like 4k in chips or so.
Then I open a bunch of pots, fail a bluff that didn't get shown, take some down, crawl down to like 3500 in chips or so, still 25/50 blinds. Pick up AKc. New player just sat in the big blind last hand. He's got kind of messy hair and an 'alternative' look, FWIW. Not worth much at this point. I open AKc utg to 150, guy who has been getting sick of me raising (J9o guy from earlier) calls me on the button, messy hair makes it 650. I consider shoving but decide most people aren't going to try to pull some crazy squeeze their second hand in with no read, so I just call, nine-jackoff calls on button. Ks Qs Jo with about 2000 in the pot. messy hair stares right at me and checks, I check (figured i wasn't getting called by worse), nine-jackoff checks. Turn 6s, so board is Ks Qs Jo 6s, messy hair bets 1050, I call (? can i find a fold here? maybe... in hindsight it feels like he has scared AA -- but he can bet the As, or another AK and maybe AsQx here, maybe more), nine-jackoff folds. River 5s, putting a 4 flush on the board. Messy hair thinks forever and finally bets 1050 again, i fold. So that leaves me with like 2000 in chips or something.
A couple more preflop raises and failed cbets later, I'm at 1100 and the blinds just went up to 50/100. I get T8o in the big blind. Folds to solid guy who was getting sick of my preflop aggression in the sb who completes. I check. Flop T 7 6r, he checks, I bet 100, he makes it 300, i shove in my last bit, he calls. 98s good, no 9 to chop.
So I'm pretty bummed about my results in this tourney, since it was the 6max donkament and I really felt like I was going to do something in it. Alas I didn't. Perhaps I could have played those hands better. Everyone seemed so bad though, except for the solid guy who had 98s in the final hand. Oh well... I guess it wasn't "meant to be" or wahtever.
So for the rest of the day I played 5/10nl at Rio (wow what a terribly run poker room, but in their defense the place is a total zoo) and at Bellagio. I managed to put together a small profit (cpl hundo or so). I met up with some old friends of mine from Illinois who also happened to be in Vegas. Diane and Tom from my old programming contract back at AFNI in Bloomington IL and my Best Man's Dad, Scott from good ol' Macomb IL found me at the Bellagio poker room and said Hi. It was good to see everyone and they wished me the best. Kind of crazy how many people have just happened to be out here in the these two weeks in June...and equally crazy how we probably wouldn't have known if not for my blog.
Around 1am at Bellagio i was starting to get light headed and sick of seeing 72o for the 8th time in a row. I figured I was just overdosing on sugar-free redbull, but then I realized that I hadn't eaten anything since 11am before the tournament. Others at the table were talking about how good Noodles at Bellagio is, so i went over there to get some Phad Thai to go. I took it back to my room to eat, and unfortunately it was pretty terrible. Very little spiciness, even though i specifically ASKED if it was spicy... and only a few pieces of shrimp... and generally just not all that great. Who knew the best Thai food could only be found in Kansas City. A real bummer.
That's it for now... more cash games for me on Tuesday and hopefully I can pull myself out of the red. I'm still down a decent amount in live cash games since I got here. I think I can get it back before my trip ends though. There are so many donkeys, and I did a better job of staying patient today and not trying to get people to fold anything. That said, I won exactly 2 showdowns all day today (11.5 hours of play, including the tournament...) hard to put up big wins when you can't get to showdown with the best hand...
more later,
Aaron
posted by WiltOnTilt at 3:48 AM
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