Tomorrow I head home from a rather disappointing trip out here to WSOP. I really wanted to play the ME but a run of bad cards and bad beats kept that from happening. I guess will have to wait for another year.
I moved on Friday from the Rio over to the Venetian just because the Rio was dying now that all of the events other than the ME have finished. Plus the Rio basically sucks with shitty food choices and out of the way location. The Ventian is the Bomb with huge suites and a great poker room and food selections. Not sure why i stay anywhere else actually.
I did play another tournament at Venetian on Thursday and found another beauty. I had chipped up from our starting 12k stack to about 20k in chips. There was a rather retarded player 2 to my left who was calling and betting basically any hands and was impossible to read. So at 300/600/75 it was folded around to me on the button and I raised to 1600 with AQ. Mr. "I don't fold" called and we took a flop of QJJ. He led at the pot for 1500 and I decided to just call pretty sure I was ahead. This guy played like a lot of bad players in that he tried to "trap" with his big hands and bet when he was unsure or bluffing. So my expectation was that he would have checked if he held a J. Turn was a 2 and he checks now. I am 95% sure I am good, perhaps up against another Q. So I bet 4k, he min raises to 8k and I shove my remaining stack. He calls and tables KQ and the river is....K. So that left me like 2k and the next hand I had A6 and shoved and was called by KT and lost. Out again with nothing but a bad beat story.
Thankfully the cash games have offset the losses to some extent and last night I chopped a $200 daily HORSE tournament at Binions. That was a nice little event though I have to say Binions is slightly stuck in the 1950s. Binions is down in old Downtown Vegas far from the glitz of the Strip. Stuff is generally less expensive and a bit seedier than the Strip. Well this obviously means that the customer base is a little, shall we say, less sophisticated than the Strip. I would equate these people to the crowds on a Saturday night on the Ocean City, MD boardwalk. That is to say a hell of a lot of tatoos and body piercings, an apparent lack of interest in personal hygiene and a need to get shitfaced drunk. The casino itself is pretty gross with cheap tables and an odd stench that permeates the area. The poker area is pretty funny and basically looks like a poker room in someones basement. But whatever HORSE is fun and with abt 100 players and only a $200 buy-in it was a nice break from grinding out another NLHE tournament. At one point I was down to 4k in chips (started with 15k) at 400/800 limits. But I won a Holdem hand with KJ and then went on a pretty nice heater up to like 50k. We got to the bubble and I was the shortstack with 40k or so. I then won a triple up hand in the Stud 8 or better round with (26)624A(K) when my 2 pair held. Few minutes later I was suddenly up to 160k when I won another Stud 8 hand. The game then switched to Holdem and a beauty came up. I raised the button with JJ when a well known and successful pro 3 bet me. I called and the flop came Jxx. he led and I knew he had AA or KK. So I reraised, he 3 bet, I 4 bet, he 5 bet and I set him in (limits were 8k on the flop). He tabled AA and I held to get up over 200k. Few hands later we were at the final table and I was raising a lot of hands as the 2nd chip leader. The chip leader was an aggressive internet player who I expected to spew off chips somewhere which is just what he did. We got 3 handed pretty much even though I was slightly ahead. A deal was struck since the blinds were stupid high and the tournament effectively became bingo. I got about $300 more than I should based on the chip counts so I took the deal and locked up the profit.
Today I decided not to play any tournaments as I just woke up too late and didn't want to rush down to the poker room without chilling out for a bit.
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