Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Tal]

Enjoy the ball game too, can you still remember the words to the song?

Frank and Jean should help if not:



Just realised that's my 15,000th post. My 10,000th was the chess sketch in Bottom.

Proper cultured, me.

[Longy]

I will help him out if he forgets!

[doncht]

Posts: 15000

Hi new guy here. That's a lot of posts.

[RED-DOG]

Posts: 15000

Hi new guy here. That's a lot of posts.

Anyone with that many posts obv talks a lot of bollocks.

[verndog158]

Posts: 15000

Hi new guy here. That's a lot of posts.

Anyone with that many posts obv talks a lot of bollocks.

 

[Geo the Sarge]

Enjoy the ball game too, can you still remember the words to the song?

Frank and Gene should help if not:



Just realised that's my 15,000th post. My 10,000th was the chess sketch in Bottom.

Proper cultured, me.

FYP

Geo

[Simon Galloway]

Here it is...

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[Longy]

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[Simon Galloway]

Is that the before and after photo of Tony looking down at AA23ds ?

[BigAdz]

Replies soonest, am currently at McCarron Airport, aircraft spotting, important to get priorities right.

My next scheduled poker, as per the stakers schedule, is Wednesday, the Venetian $600 PLO.

Tomorrow and Tuesday I will be exploring Nevada in a hire car, and going to watch a Baseball game match thingie.

Please tell me this is some form of joke rub. Surely the man, who by my estimates must live no more than 5 miles from Heathrow, is not spending time in the Holy Land, plane spotting??

[tikay]

Replies soonest, am currently at McCarron Airport, aircraft spotting, important to get priorities right.

My next scheduled poker, as per the stakers schedule, is Wednesday, the Venetian $600 PLO.

Tomorrow and Tuesday I will be exploring Nevada in a hire car, and going to watch a Baseball game match thingie.

Please tell me this is some form of joke rub. Surely the man, who by my estimates must live no more than 5 miles from Heathrow, is not spending time in the Holy Land, plane spotting??

Joke? No way!

100% true.

And yesterday, I spent several hours out in the desert, watching drones take off, at this place.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creech_Air_Force_Base


http://www.creech.af.mil/


http://www.dreamlandresort.com/info/creech.html

[tikay]

Had an amazingly good few days doing the tourist thing, & will write it all up on here, &/or on a Bloggy, soonest.

Did the dumbest thing ever yesterday, more on which later......

For now, I need to do some Tourney Reports for my stakers, I've played these so far......


27th May – Binions $200 PLO

28th May – WSOP $1,000 PLO

29th May – Orleans $225 PLO

30th May – Venetian $600 PLO8

[tikay]

27th May – Binions $200 PLO

This was the first Tourney on this years stake.

Ran well, got good cards, played OK (I think), & made the Final 3rd in chips.

A year ago, in this spot, I am GUARANTEED to cash, as I just lock up to the money.

But I've changed my game & bit, or tried to, & I really was trying to win it.

10 player final, with 7 paid, & I busted in 8th place. Bugger. (Official).

We played the Final on the same Binions "Feature Table" that Phil Quayle (bobby1) Jen Mason & I payed on about 10 years ago, what a memory.
 
Two hands of note in the final, both against the same player, Steve Chanthabouasy, who was runner up to Flushy in the WSOP PLH when Flushy won his bracelet in 2010.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=307657

I'm not saying Steve is a world beater, but in this class of field ($200 @ Binions) he was clearly the class act, & pick of the field.

He was chippie, I was chip 3rd, & I had no designs on clashing with him, but it just fell that way.  

The first hand was, I thought, an interesting spot.

In short, we saw this flop.....

 

We were 4 way, & I had (in the Blinds)....

 

I was first to act, & for whatever reason, I did not fancy leading out.

Steve bet 30,000, from 300,000. I was playing about 180,000.

He had two players behind him, still to act.

They both folded, back to me.

I tanked for a goodly while, & eventually, folded.

Kid to my left insta says "don't tell me you folded a queen there?!", followed by much eye-rolling & smirking from the kids.

I never debated it, but admitted I'd folded a queen. Much hilarity ensued, though Steve said nothing.

I'm sure you can all work out WHY I folded, even though you may disagree. I don't think he bluffs in this spot, & I have a dreadful queen, which is very difficult to improve.

I bumped into Steve the next day. He struck me as a decent kid, well-mannered, & still on good terms with Flushy, so Flushy may hear a different version, but he told me he had 4-4 in his hand, & bet to protect it.

I believed him, fwiw, but I think the fold was correct, anyway, albeit a tad nitty.  

Bad fold, trivial fold?

Seemed a marginal spot to me, but I did not like it, & decided to let it go.

Views welcome.

The next spot arose an hour later, with 8 of us left, on the bubble.....

[tikay]

My exit hand......

I have, something like (may not be exact cards, but pretty much this).....

 

So, Aces, DS. If only it were PLO8......

Not the worst aces ever, but deffo not great, we have 2 suits, & Aces, but really it neeeds to flop 4 to the flush, or to set up.

3 players at this point have less than 10 Bigs.

There was a min-raise, called in two spots, including Steve, & it gets to me.

I bet 75% of the pot. Think (or thought) I had to, though my hand is now face up, & can ONLY be Aces, or a squeeze.

Folded round to Steve, who, for the first time all day, goes into a very long dwell.

I'm really not sure what sort of hand to put him on, but I discounted big pairs, & decided he had some sort of rundown. Maybe.....

9-10-J-Q

9-10-10-J

9-10-J-J.

Those sort of hands. But a pure guess of course. I did not really know what to think, in truth.

Anyway, he eventually calls me.

We see this flop......

 


...which does nothing for my hand. If my read is right, & as long as he has 9-10-J-Q, & not a spot lower, I can continue. I assume he would not lead with Q-Q-Q. Pretty sure he knows I have Aces.

He bet.

What now?

For better or worse, I don't think he is ahead, though he could have some sort of 8-9-10-J sort of rundown. He still has to hit it, though.

Anyway, we get the lot in, I was thinking he might fold once I came over the top, but his chips were in the middle in a heartbeat.

His hand?

5-7-8-9.

Hard to flop better, short of flopping the nuts, & he got there on the turn.

GG.

I thought long & hard about this hand afterwards.

His play? Love it, tremendously gutsy. No complaints here, & it just reinforced the view I've formed that I need to find a way to motor with a bigger stack, so that I can make these plays.

My play?

Well I honestly don't know what I could do different really. I suppose I could take a flop & then dump it, but once we got Heads Up on a Q-6-7 flop, I thought I had to go for it.

Again, I'm here to learn, so all views welcome.

Anyway, we put ourselves in a position to win it, but we blanked out - Bubbled - & did our dough.

Next case.

[tikay]

Bad news from The Venetian $600 PLO, it is capped at 50 runners (plus Alternates) due to the Seniors taking place today, which attracted 431 runners. Old people suck, they ruin it for everyone.

Amongst those in (well now out.....) of The Seniors is Slow-Mo, aka Simon Hawksworth.