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Touched down yesterday, had the fun experience of taking the train with medium 5 figures in $ on me and through customs on both sides, but it was no fuss really - had to fill out some forms and hang around for a few minutes in a waiting room. No gunmen waiting for me at any point.

After going through some highly stressful personal issues in the last few months (cliffs: broke up with my long-term gf, still staying in the same bed as her), I've decided to take this month away from my personal issues and really work hard. So as well as the 4 MTTs I'm going to play as part of my package (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=61437.0), and possibly one or two more, I intend to grind ~ 120-150 hours of cash, probably at the Rio. Gonna head down for my first session in a couple of hours - really looking forward to it!

As I mentioned in that thread, I'm a marathon runner. I didn't do this year - even if I hadn't had a broken thumb, group A strep (nasty tonsillitis, essentially) and a tumultuous personal life leading up to my breakup, I wanted to leave this year 'fallow', partly because it's annoying as fuck to both me and the people I'm asking for sponsorship constantly, but also because I wanted to break - smash, even - the 4 hour target I've always had. First year I was just happy to finish, in 5'27, second year I'm sure I would have got ~ 4'30 were it not for horrendous cramp towards the end, but I sincerely believe I can break even 3'30 if I train hard enough. So that means three things: starting earlier, much earlier, than before; training harder, including weights; and living healthier.

To that end, basically before I'd even unpacked I was off to the supermarket to get some healthy ingredients. I'll be attempting to go mostly carb-free for dinner, no dessert, and little in the way of alcohol while I'm out here. I was pretty shattered after not sleeping before the flight so just had a light snack for dinner and conked out at 10, waking up at 8AM. Pretty happy with that - fully caught up on sleep and adjusted to new sleeping patterns straight away!

So I'll call today Day 1: Ran 7 miles = 11.2 KM @ no incline in 1 hour exactly; 1 set of 7 different abs exercises @ 15 reps; 1 minute of normal plank. Suffered what felt like heartburn or a tight chest or something which made the running quite uncomfortable bordering on painful, but other than that not a particularly difficult run - probably 65-70% effort. I wonder if that's to do with having just woken up.

Off to bank now, then gonna go for a swim, make lunch, and go for a 6-10 hour PLO session @ the Rio.

You might also enjoy this diary

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=39684.0

Gl with this, not been reading many diaries but feel like this one could be worth it

Subscribed provided you don't write too much about health and fitness. Bit of a touchy subject for fat lads like me :(

gl Mike

Def this. Good luck.

Thanks guys, what I'll do is bunch a few H&F entries together - say a weeks' worth at a time - but they'll all be short descriptions like the one above, my poker adventures will be longer and in more detail.

In the meantime, my investors have been exceptionally lucky in that I have a secret weapon:

(http://i44.tinypic.com/33de6j4.jpg)

(it means 'good luck soap')

Agreed with Stu about fitness !! Good luck in grinding PLO and  hope its a profitable trip . See you sometime in Dtd .
All the best dude .

Gl subbed

Boom in for the ride.

OK so I'm basically going to include next to no details about my workouts, just the odd 'good week at the gym' or something.

Played ~ 5 hours today, won small @ $5/5 PLO. Started off with two guys next to each other blind potting at the other end of the table. Wonderful. That lasted about 15 minutes, one of them bust, the other lost a medium-sized pot and got in a huff and left about $2k up. The table was pretty tight til the end, nothing and no-one exciting. The only pot of note: EP opens to $30 (button straddles pretty common), one caller, I pot to $140 with double-suited AAxx, button flashes an Ace by mistake when folding, EP folds, caller decides his kings are likely best now and repots, I obviously go all-in and he calls and my hand holds. The rest of the time I just went with the strategy of 'bet until you get raised', which worked quite well as I was mostly card-dead so all my aggressive actions got respect. Also the table was generally good enough to lay hands down but not so good that they could read me when I was weak.

Feel a little bit lame - staying in on my own in Vegas on my first saturday night, but oh well, that's what I'm here for!

bollocks to that I wanna read it

Ha let's see if we get any more votes!

Also, met TK today, good to meet you sir!

Maybe include gym reports, but don't dissect them like a poker hand?

In, and good luck with your WSOP!

gyms go driectly in spoilers and its all good.

Surely people who don't want to read it can skip it! Write what you want!

Good to meet you Mr Wazz, Sir. How did you recognize me, I don't recall having met you previously, but you spotted me?

You do not look anything LIKE I imagined you would. If I had to describe you, I'd say sort of AndrewT without the chronically bad dress sense.

Good luck with grinding the PLO cash, & the package, I'll pop & see you at the Tables & try to bring you some run good vibes.

Also, if you want a running companion on one of your 7 mile runs, let me know & we'll do it. I used to be a bit of an athlete, but I was a bit crap, so I took up professional photography.

I just sort of knew who you were from seeing you at DTD and seeing photos on live tournament updates I think?

How did you imagine I would look like, and who's AndrewT irl?

I imagined you'd be shorter, slightly more portly, eyebrows closer together, & much less good looking. Not as well spoken, either, you are posher than Tal Bloke.

AndrewT? Andrew Tracey. Just a badly-dressed random, posts on here as "AndrewT". Had a Diary for 17 hours once, too. 

This should be good, also dont mind on you posting about gym sesh. It's your blog do as you please, pretty sure the first response was a joke anyway

Good luck out there, already running bad having met Tikay then  ;whistle;

Met trigg and nicky evans as well. Seem like nice lads! Will be joining them in the gym most mornings I expect.

I think there's something about the air or the temperature that is preventing me from being able to run properly, I suspect it's the air as I've run in hot weather and been fine. Maybe it's the aridity but I wouldn't expect it to be that dry indoors. Anyway I had to abort my run after < 3 miles, pretty disappointing. At least I got some weights in - annoying they don't have free weights but I'll live.

Have spent ~ 2 hours poolside, reading and relaxing, had a shave, off to check out $5/10 PLO @ the aria now.

Had to wait aaaaaages for the $5/10 PLO to open and there weren't any seats anywhere else until like 10 minutes before it opened. Joined a $2/5 NLHE table and my 2nd hand there I saw the following from seat 9: limp, limped/folded round. Flop T87ccc, SB bets, UTG+1 (seat 9) calls, turn 3x, SB bets, UTG+1 raises small, SB calls, river 2x, SB bets ~ 1/3rd pot and UTG+1 instacalls. Turns over A4cc i.e. the nut flush. Claims he was worried about the straight flush. Lolled to myself.

Next hand I'm on the button, folded round to me, I raise black kings to $30, he calls from straddle, HU, flop 9c8s7c, he checks, I bet $40, he calls, turn 9c8s7c 9s, he checks, I bet $100, he calls, river 9c8s7c9s Qs, he leads out for $150 and I feel fairly confident in my instafold given what I saw the hand before.

Once I finally got to $5/10, I ran superhot. Turned into mandatory $5/10/20 off the button. I don't know how well or badly I played, but it feels like I played badly as I got my money in quite bad a couple of times and hit. Anyways, a LOT of stuff happened, way too much for me to remember. I check-called Q975ddhh on Qc8c3d, turned a 9o and check-called an all-in bet, river was another Q and I just turned my hand over. Could well have been behind all the way, don't know. Called a 3b with 2467ds ip, flop 992 with my fd, guy bet half-pot, I didn't think I could get him off aces but there was some chance he was just c-betting so I set him in, he did not fold AA77 but I thought 'screw it, I'll just hit my flush anyway'.

Got sneaky sneaky with AxKhTx5h, raised behind a poster to $100 (most of my preflop raises in PLO cash games are to full pot), BB covered me and 3b full pot, I called. Flop TsTh3h, he checks and I check back. Turn was a low H, he checks, I bet ~ 2/3rd pot, he calls. River low blank, he checks and I bet big again and he calls, my hand is good.

Older guy raises and I flat IP with A764sss. Flop Jc8s5c and he check-calls. Turn 5s and he check-calls again. River 4o and I bet fairly big and get another call, my hand is good.

Tilting LAG opens, I flat IP with KKT9, flop K74r, he bets and I flat (with another guy behind but I wasn't flatting to trap him, to trap the original raiser). Other guy folds. Turn As, quite a good card as he's going to have improved to AK more than he's going to slow down with K7, it's a great card for him to rep, and while AK is in my range I usually have 567x hands and the like, he bets big and I set him in and he snaps with 777 and I hold.

Only hand of significance that I lost was 689Tds, raise, call a 3b, flop J73 with my fd, we get it in, his bare AAxx holds. Almost called a pot-sized 5b with 4567ds, if I could have nailed the 5bettor on AAxx I may have called but there were sidepot issues and he seemed gambly enough that he might have my sidecards dominated from time to time. Flop came 35J with my flush draw, I obv would have stacked off, hit the 7 on the turn and had the 5bettor scoop the pot with his rivered nut flush.

Overall a very swingy day but ended up winning well.

Gonna get back on the grind today and take a day off poker tomorrow before I play the first event of my package on wednesday.

This^^^^

One of the things I love doing in Vegas is hitting the gym in the morning, just don't get time irl

Gl wazza

All the best today Wazz.

Thanks guys!

I didn't go to the gym yesterday.... was feeling a little melancholy, but I got that fixed. A friend of mine in London wanted me to meet one of his friends, a girl. She has a boyfriend but that didn't end up mattering. I do like me a bad girl from time to time. We went to Mortons and she randomly blurted out that it was our 5th anniversary so they gave us free cheesecake. Pretty good night.

This is more like it! Proper Vegas diary. Risky brag tho.

Little disappointed with myself today... gave myself food poisoning and didn't feel right all day, should have at least considered unregging the $3k PLO, but I felt well enough in the end so no harm done. Just busted though. Played pretty well, softish table, I really don't get why 'good' players play preflop so passively in PLO mtts, I find it really easy to take advantage of. They're limping too much and not 3betting pre and it ends up resembling the way loose-passive fish play preflop except they don't chase as much postflop. It means I can raise a wider range, but as opposed to cash games against fish I can actually get some folds preflop. Yes, PLO is a high-variance game and one of the skills in MTTs is mitigating variance but you can't do that if it comes at the cost of lots of missed EV.

No particularly interesting hands. Got it in pre with kings against aces twice and won both times. Won with 4689ds AIPF against aces once as well. In one hand EP raises, the only guy with a stack similar to mine calls (I have > 100bbs), I see AKQJds and spaff on my cards before 3betting the pot, one cold-caller and the other guys call as well. Flop K84r, the cold-caller jams for ~ 1/8th pot, original raiser rejams for about the same, big stack folds, I obv call and am up against 3457ds and 8TJQds, turn is a T and I brick the river. I raised KJ99ss in EP @ 150-300 to 800, two callers including one in the blinds, I have ~ 23k, he has about 19k to start the hand. Flop Q93 with a flush draw that I don't have, I bet 1900, he check-raises to 6, I set him in and he snaps with KKJT with a flush draw, I'm just less than 60% favourite but he gets there and I don't redraw. Left with a bowl, folded a couple of hands to my BB when the entire population of asia limps, I find AAQ2r and pot for about half my stack, Humberto Brenes gets it in with 4689ds and has me drawing dead on the flop I think.

Hard luck.  Thanks for tournie report.

You don't just think skybet had him as 250/1 to win the main for no reason do you? Charrrke es ambreeeee!!!!

GL fishcake, win mad dimes etc etc.

Back on the fitness horse today. Did just over 3 miles in half an hour, waaaay worse than what I'm used to but I still can't seem to get over whatever it is in the air. Oh well, will keep on with it even if I can't do very far/fast.

Skipped the pool and headed straight to aria coz I saw they had $5/10 running even at midday, must have been from the day before. Ended up being in for ~ $6k with about that in my stack when the following happened. I don't have much in the way of reads on UTG other than that we've been talking a lot, not really about poker strategy so much as a little about game theory, the fact that at the age of 21 he's been varying degrees of pro at poker for 7 years, and in general he's a very good player. I doubt he's either particularly loose or tight in his general style but will adapt his play according to the table and is probably quite good at it.

Almost everyone at the table is straddling, I straddle for $20. He opens to $70 and picks up one caller IP and both the blinds call. I dwell for about 30 seconds and make it look like I'm considering 3betting with Js9s8x7x and just call. The fact that I remember my exact hole cards I consider important. The flop comes 7s8sKh, two checks to me, I lead $300 into $350. I figure the most likely hand in my range here is top set, so even if one of them has it they're not raising. UTG calls and SB (a french guy, fairly splashy) calls along. The turn is the Ts, I resist the temptation to recheck my cards and put faith in myself and lead out $600 into $1250. UTG now raises to $1500, SB folds. I decide to call, thinking that all I have to do is dodge some board pairs and I'm golden, that he's probably good enough to play the bare ace this way and that if I call and check every river I maximize my payoff rather than jamming now and having him fold his bluffs. The question about whether it's better to flat the turn or jam I guess is dependent on his image of me (likely good, he's seen me generally play tight, get paid off postflop a couple of times, bluff and get called once in a medium pot), how tight he is and how likely he is to make the bare ace play if he has it (very likely, IMO).
 
The river comes a 3h, I check, he jams, I check my cards just to make sure and call.

Very next hand I have AAK4 with 3 spades in my hand, MP (who I played last year, he was on an epic drinking session and paid me off with the nut low in high-only when I had a boat for a $3k pot at $5/5), raises, I 3bet, he 4bets and I jam and he calls. I make a flush and he also has aces.

In general, I run very sick.

Oh, and it turns out the girl doesn't have a boyfriend, she was just referring to him as her boyfriend out of habit and they broke up a couple of months ago so all good.

Good to see the run good! Hope it continues, enjoying the diary.

I'm also a PLO player but hated the PLO games in Vegas and Macau. Maybe it's just me and not adapting well enough from 6-max and short handed but I hate the full ring games. Do you ever find this? It often feels like just nut peddling is best.

Interested about the poker chat with the young guy also. Don't you think it's bad to talk about that stuff at the table?

ALL I CAN SAY IS #WHENWILLITEND #LIFEOFWAZZ

Did you put a buy-back clause in your staking thread??? :D

I can't see how it is ever good to talk strategy at the table. Don't get the fish thinking about getting better and that there is more to the game than playing their cards faceup. Thankyouplease

live ldo ofc it's nut peddling. gl getting short handed action :(


also talking about GT I mean really come on......


BRING BACK THE TASCHE

CASH FOR TASCHE

I only have half of a half a clue about GT/GTO and what it is and how to apply it, but all the pros/people mentioning it here and there recently has meant it is something that I feel I should learn about properly.

Not the same but a similar example; I remember when I very first started playing poker I didn't know what an "out" was but heard it mentioned a couple of times and went round tables on ladbrokes asking until someone told me

We talked next to no actual strategy, but were talking theoretically about whether it's possible to build a perfect GTO bot.

Game theory thinking infuses the strategic thinking of the best of the best - particularly the maths guys who play HU high stakes NLHE - but it's basically useless outside of that realm. I agree that it's generally a bad thing still to be discussing at the table but we did stop and we were (at least I was) trying to talk relatively quietly. It does sorta put a mark on my head as a guy that knows what he's doing and that means I'm sometimes going to lose action but a lot of the time I'll only lose action against guys who game select well i.e. guys who don't provide me with particularly good value. When we're actually at the table I want people to fear me.

think it's just utterly pointless to discuss something so high level infront of a table full of people.


it's live, we don't want GTO we want super animal exploitation mode.

Last night I ate lots of steak, drank lots of whiskey and had lots of sex. So far today I've hung out at the pool and been to the gym. I feel incredible. Time to hit the tables.

lol, we more people being honest about when they ship in Vegas  ;D

Somehow despite feeling invincible I lost today! My god, the table was ridiculous - never seen so many arguments between the table and the dealers / floor staff - one heinous woman, Karen, brought security round twice to make sure we paid our time charges on time! I mean... wow, the Rio, huh.

Caught a couple of hours sleep, off to play $5/10 @ the Aria for a few hours, back home ~ 9AM to sleep a healthy 7 hours before the $5k 6max PLO tomorrow.

$5/10 PLO became $10/20/40, that was fun. Broke even and then lost a little when I moved back to $5/10.

Woke up at ~ 3.30 for the 5pm start in the PLO $5k 6-max. Happy with my sleep timings. Made day 2 with 33k, average is i believe 48k, blinds coming back at 400/800. Gonna get a good sleep and a workout in tomorrow morning before we restart.

Loving the PLO stories, sounds like u playing good gl 4 the rest of the series.

Busto the $5k 6-max, 6 off the money, sigh, there were probably a couple of spots where I made small mistakes but I made a couple of great plays (imo) and overall played pretty well. Bustout hand was 9865hh vs AK72cc allin on a 742cc flop, hit the turn but a club came on the river.

WTF is this place? Felt fine after busting the 6-max - realized later that I'd made a mistake on my bustout hand but nonetheless felt ok. Have not left my hotel room since I got back. There's just a sense of despondency that this place can give you... I'm still up on the trip but I feel.... so very isolated.

Do you have friends out there you can go and see?

hookers and blow yo!

But seriously, just go roam a poker room there will be loads of people yo uknow and coax someone for food/drink  (then hookers and blow obv)

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Feel like there is something missing from my name to be qualified to read this thread :)

Chin up Michael. Can't be all that bad, being in Vegas and all. First world problems etc.

Good luck in the cash games, and please bink me something in the tournaments!

Y don't u drink lots of whiskey and have lots of more sex?

Hey we can have a dinner somewhere if you like? In similar situation.

Thought I'd just have a good winning session @ $5/10 PLO instead.

Fun hands of the day:

$10k pot with turned 2nd nut flush. I raised pre with AQ75ds, flop A24 with A4 diamonds, I bet and get 1 caller, turn makes the flush and he leads out pot, I call, river blank and he bets pot again, I call and he has bare K blocker.

$5.7k pot AIPF with AAQ3ds < KKQTss. Out of the 30-something times I've seen AA go up against KK all-in pre it has won literally no times.

Won a $5k pot yesterday perhaps spewing  a little. Tight guy raises, I call from the SB with KK98ss, straddle calls. Flop 362r, I check, straddler pots and first raiser calls, I decide I could easily have the best hand vs straddler and have the tight guy fold hands that beat me if I overcall, which could look strong. Turn a K, I check, straddler pots again and first raiser calls all-in. Huh. Maybe I do need to hit. I call, river fills a flush and goes check-check, my hand is best as they both have sets.

Off to LA now for the weekend.

nice, enjoy. Got any plans in particular? If you need any LA tips just ask

Hahahaha. Wow. Timing was perfect. Went to 'teddys' (the roosevelt hotel, in Hollywood) and 'partied' 'with' Paris Hilton. More truthfully, she was at the same place as me. No pics unfortunately, didn't even see her!

Met up with a schoolfriend and some of his friends and went hard at it yesterday as well. Started with bushmills by the pool at about 2 or 3. Don't really remember how it ended.

Today I've been hiking. Going back in a few hours. Wow, what a weekend.

Back yesterday. Wanted to play the $1k PLO @ venetian but I was pretty tired after driving back from LA on relatively little sleep.

Played the $1k NLHE @ venetian today, no good. Starting stacks 15k, was down to 3k and then went on a crazy rush to about 24k @ 150/300/25 before getting it all-in pre AK vs AA. Had a very active image, in the last round I'd 3b T6o and had it go to SD, and 4b and 5b once each and had them get through, so I felt relatively comfortable getting it in, oh well.

Gonna hit the gym after 3 days off, make some dinner then go grind somewhere.

Great gym session. Unfortunately had what I believe to be my biggest ever loss in a cash game. Played really well as well. Meh, next day.

Why am I so splashy when I play NLHE? Surely if I'm going to be splashy in any game it should be the one I'm best at, yet I seem to take every spot when I sit down for this two card game.

Had a 'big one' for the 4th yesterday so took a while to recover. Gonna do some more socialising, gymming and tanning next couple of days before I hit up the main.

Meh just lost an $11k pot... Top pair + gs + fd + live kickers vs a bare overpair, oh well.

Sigh :(

How are you getting on so far, i dont want figures just winning or losing

Hope its going well for you, Are you playing the Main?

Er it's complicated. I guess I'm winning.

Playing the main tomorrow.

Whooooosh. Was on a fairly huge downswong, but won a $10k pot to lift myself out of it.

$10/20 PLO @ the wynn with a button straddle (not ultimate last action, utg acts first pre and then if there's no raise the action passes over the button to the blinds first), utg opens to $140, utg+1 calls (pretty awful, $5k, I cover), I overcall with Ac 4c 4s 5s , either 2 or 3 callers behind. Flop Ad Tc 5c , checked to me, I decide that checking is best as my hand doesn't benefit that much from protection, I don't want to fold out lower flush draws and everyone expects me to bet the nfd in this spot. Turn bink the 8c, UTG+1 leads $500, I raise to $1500 and he calls. River 7c, he instachecks, I basically instajam and he calls quickly enough that I'm very worried he rivered the straight flush but MHIG as he has the k-high flush.

Whoooooooooooooooooooooosh!

Bustoed the main in level 1. Pretty impressive. AA allin pre losing to KK. GG.

Back to $10/20 PLO. Historically my best cash game results have been while the Main has been going on. Let's see what we can do.

50p?

But seriously, gl win some cheese... When are you back?

Wow thats sickening, hope you can earn some dollar @ the cash game :) Enjoy the rest of your time

Why? Are you staked for the cash games also ?

Newsflash: high stakes poker can be very, very stressful! Started off down ~$5k straight away, fought back to up $8.5k after about 4 hours, then back to even, then finished the session up $4.5k. High variance stuff.


Yup

Jeeeeesus, this game is high-variance sometimes.

Raised AQT6ds behind a limper, flop came AQ7 with two bdfds, I bet and get raised big by the limper who was pretty aggro and bad. I call. Turned a nut flush draw. He jammed, I called, he had top set. Meh. Ran it twice. Hit the nut flush on both.

History: I called a raise completing the action with 2345ds OOP 6-ways. Flop A47, I bet out rather big, EP limp-caller calls. Turn 6, I bet over halfpot, he calls. River 5, I bet tiny, he raises huge, I fold, he shows TT8Kr.

Raised KK32ds from the sb. Same UTG limper repopped for like 10% of his stack. I call. Flop AK5r. I c/c a small bet, turn 2, I check-call all-in and he has top set. I brick. Meh, was never really that good at making big folds. Other people at the same table said they wouldn't have made the fold either so I guess I'm happy with it. Later the guy made a big raise on an unpaired river with 3 clubs on it and a straight flush possible. Other guy showed his nut flush and tank-folded. He only showed the key Tc.

Got it all-in pre with 3678ds for a 5-way preflop all-in. Against their actual hands I was 33%! As far as I can tell from running sims I'm crushing, looks like between 23 and 25%. Flopped Q65 with 2 bdfds but bricked turn and river against AA, AA, 789J and 78TJ. $14k pot.

Raised AKT6 with nut spades. Flop Q92r, I bet and apparent good player c-cals. Turn 3 giving me bdfd, I check behind. River 2s giving me nut flush and villain bets $1700 into $2.1k. I tank thinking he would very often check-call the flop with a set, wouldn't be v-betting many worse flushes this sizing if any, and wouldn't be bluffing very often when it's so easy for me to have a flush and I obviously don't have a good made hand when I check back the turn, but end up making the call anyway and he has the 2nf.

Limp-call QT86s multiway. Flop KJ9r, I decide to go for a deep check-raise 4th out of 5 for slinkiness and balance (so I can rep it next time if I have the blockers) expecting the preflop raiser to be betting any of his KKQ/KKTx/JJQx type hands and maybe sometimes bare sets. He has AQJT with two bdfds but somehow it bricks off.

Call a raise with KJT7ss from the blinds. Flop 689hh (no hearts for me). I again decide to go for a c/r rather than lead out which is what I've been doing with tons of my value hands. Not sure it makes a big difference either way but a checker behind me jammed, the better called, obviously I call, it bricks off and I scoop. The big stack behind me who jammed later tells me he had a set and the nut flush draw. Whoop.

And a fair few more sick spots and sick coolers and sick outdraws to leave me down relatively small (~$2k) at the end of that session. Very fun, but incredible variance to this game sometimes. Made one play towards the end that I think was pretty bad - can't remember the exact spot but I barrelled the turn with blockers and a gutshot where I can expect to get jammed on pretty often and he did jam. Had actually decided around 10-11 that I was feeling pretty tired and even though the game was great it would still be here tomorrow but the game got better and I managed to wake up and stayed until the game broke at 3.

Oh, and the night before, I was up ~$3k before the final hand when I made what has to have been the craziest calldown of my life. KK62ds all black on the button straddle (@ the wynn the action passes over the button straddle if no-one raises), two limpers, sb folds, bb pots (I have him on AAxx ~ 90% of the time here), limpers call, I call. Pot is $900. Flop is 8d6h2h, bb leads $540, both limpers call. I'm getting ~ 5-1 which seems a fair price to call to boat up up or hit the Kd . This is a fairly questionable call ofc but I had the following reasons: bet-sizing, timing tells and the preflop raise told me that the bb has AA+nfd here 95%+ of the time, and he had the biggest stack out of anyone left. First limp-caller I felt was somewhat straightforward and only had $1300 left after his call, so I felt he would be jamming any made hand here. The next caller had shown a tendency to want to get all the money in at any point with any hand so for him to overcall (again with not much money behind, I think around the $1k mark) said to me that he had absolute bupkes as well. Pot is now ~ $3k. Turn is Jo and bb now instapots all-in. First limper calls fairly quickly. Second limper folds. I tank. For fucks sake, my hand is bottom two pair. What am I still doing in this pot? Why do I still have cards in front of me? I should have been gone on the flop! Fold your hand already! But I start thinking and thinking and working this through. What if I'm wrong about bb having AA+nfd and has a hand like AQJ8 with nut hearts? Would he play it the same way? If he turned so strong wouldn't he even consider the possibility of trapping me by having one of the callers jam for him? Can he have AA+fd and two pair? Again, he'd at least consider something different surely. What if he has AA+nfd and a straight draw? Then I just have to fade more outs. What about the first limper? Have I got him bang-on about having a draw? If he has a draw it's likely a wrap and a flush draw. Which could be amazing - they're sharing outs! Could he have called the flop with a hand like 789J with a flush draw? Wouldn't he likely jam those hands on the flop? AAGGGHHH I'M UP $5K AND THINKING OF PISSING $3K OF IT AWAY ON THE VERY LAST HAND I HAVE TO BE RIGHT AND THEN FADE 2/3 OF THE DECK but I didn't come to play this game and not listen to reason and not follow through when I think I've got the best of it so I end up calling after about 5 minutes.

BB has AA98 with nut hearts. Limper has 579T with no hearts (surprising). Fairly big pot so I decide to run it twice. First river is a 2 (bink!) and second is an offsuit T giving me the entire sidepot and half the main.

Wow. I've been churning the hand over in my mind the last 30 hours and I'm still unsure whether it's the best call I've ever made, absolutely horrible or just perhaps a little optimistic. All I know is these guys think I'm crazy.

Swingy couple of sessions. Made some ridic good plays. Just pulled some crazy bluffs out of the bag. Guy decided to bet the river (presumably with AA for thin value) on Q23ss5c2h and I checkraised his face off 2/3 to speak with air. Bet a J62r flop with AA, got 1 call, BB raised and I 3b and he folded mid set. Did make one bad bluff later on though.

Final results for vegas: up bundles, but still not quite as good as last year! Tomorrow I'm gonna be drinking with the girl I've been seeing out here, taking her to the Greek restaurant at Cosmos and then to O. Flying home sunday. What a month.

Where's this? ;whistle;

Happy you've had a great month, make sure the rest of the year is just as good.

O is the Cirque Du Soleil show @ Bellagio. Supposed to be the best but I didn't like it as much as Totem which is a touring show.

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