In Vegas Once More
Just touched down last night around midnight, and made our way over to the Bellagio in style in a stretch Escalade limo.
We got settled in our room and then made our way down to the Poker room. I met up with my good friend Costa who is also from Ottawa. Costa and my cousin Steve ended up playing $2/$5 NL with a $200 max buy-in, and they both killed the game. Steve made over $700 and Costa had a massive stack of over $1700 by the time we ended up leaving.
I bought in for $8000 at the $10/$20 NL table. First hand I sit down, I post the BB in the cut-off, its folded around to me, and I look down to see J9 suited. I make it $60 to go, button calls, BB calls.
Flop comes T99, no flush draw. BB checks, I bet $140, button makes it $600. BB folds, and I notice that the button only has around $500 left, so I announce 'raise' and throw in my $5000 stack of $100 bills. He folds instantly. I figured he would have called having already comitted more than half of his stack, but I was content with winning over $700 on the very first hand.
There was one crazy player at our table right across from me. He must have been all in 7 or 8 times out of the 50 hands I sat through. He would always check-min-raise on the turn, and then push the river, and nobody ever called him. He had around $2000 in front of him, and he made it $80 to go in early position. Its folded around to me and I call with T9 suited on the button.
Flop comes J93 rainbow. He checks, I feel a check-raise coming, so I check behind. Turn is another 9. He checks, I bet $140, he min-raises to $280. I flat call. River is a T. He pushes for around $1600. I call. He must have had absolutely nothing because he just threw his cards into the muck. I would have definately called him even without the T on the river.
I finished the session up $2860. End of Day 1.
Tomorrow is the fight between De La Hoya-Mayorga at the MGM. I'm not sure if we'll have any time to play any poker but if we do I'll be sure to post some updates.
We got settled in our room and then made our way down to the Poker room. I met up with my good friend Costa who is also from Ottawa. Costa and my cousin Steve ended up playing $2/$5 NL with a $200 max buy-in, and they both killed the game. Steve made over $700 and Costa had a massive stack of over $1700 by the time we ended up leaving.
I bought in for $8000 at the $10/$20 NL table. First hand I sit down, I post the BB in the cut-off, its folded around to me, and I look down to see J9 suited. I make it $60 to go, button calls, BB calls.
Flop comes T99, no flush draw. BB checks, I bet $140, button makes it $600. BB folds, and I notice that the button only has around $500 left, so I announce 'raise' and throw in my $5000 stack of $100 bills. He folds instantly. I figured he would have called having already comitted more than half of his stack, but I was content with winning over $700 on the very first hand.
There was one crazy player at our table right across from me. He must have been all in 7 or 8 times out of the 50 hands I sat through. He would always check-min-raise on the turn, and then push the river, and nobody ever called him. He had around $2000 in front of him, and he made it $80 to go in early position. Its folded around to me and I call with T9 suited on the button.
Flop comes J93 rainbow. He checks, I feel a check-raise coming, so I check behind. Turn is another 9. He checks, I bet $140, he min-raises to $280. I flat call. River is a T. He pushes for around $1600. I call. He must have had absolutely nothing because he just threw his cards into the muck. I would have definately called him even without the T on the river.
I finished the session up $2860. End of Day 1.
Tomorrow is the fight between De La Hoya-Mayorga at the MGM. I'm not sure if we'll have any time to play any poker but if we do I'll be sure to post some updates.
posted by myst @ 3:15 PM
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