Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Jon MW]

Play the limit and add it to the schedule imo.

IN.

I may be a little late but also IN.

If only you had been a little earlier.......

NOT in.

We busted embarrassingly early, details in the morning.

I assumed that was the case given how active you are on the forum currently.
I don't believe your multi-tasking is quite that good.

I have a multi tasking algorithm to do these things for me.

Jeeves is a robot!?!?!?!?!?   

[tikay]

Investors Update.

Played the LIMIT O8 @ Golden Nugget yesterday.

I was dismally ineffective & horribly card dead, & exited about 70th of 120.

Missed break, slowly away, soon tailed off

None of you had any financial interest, notwithstanding the offer & acceptances yesterday, I busted before 6pm I think. I was thinking of spite-charging Dylan, as he only fetched me 3 lattes yesterday, but being as he has got me around 30 so far, guess I ought to let him off too, albeit with bad grace.

I eventually sussed out the betting protocols, not that I needed to know, I barely played any hands throughout, I was getting unplayable stuff from start to finish.

Think I perhaps need to re-evaluate my starting hand criteria, everyone else was playing every hand, but I rarely enter a pot unless I think I have a chance to scoop.

I was far & away the youngest at my table. The Table chippie was an American chap, 80 years old if he was a day, with no "technical" nous whatsoever, or not that I could see, but he saw more hands than Albert Spiano, called every bet, every street, & just kept getting scoops. Incredible, but good luck to him.

My exit hand was a bit unfortunate - are'nt they all? - but it was my first decent hand in an hour, I had 20 Bets at 1,000-2,000 & I got it all in on a sort of raggity all over the place board with good aces after capping it pre. American Albert announced "straight" at showdown, & tabled 8-8-9-9. Scoopio.

Good fun though, & with a reasonable distribution of starting hands, we may have had a shot. Or not......

Onwards & upwards, today at 2pm it is the Binions PLO8, & I am meeting Marky at 1pm in Starbucks for latte & sticky buns. OOoohhh. Marky had a bad trip over, & was unwell yesterday, but feels a little better today.

Here we are, living the dream - playing O8 @ GN, fresh latte at hand, plasma screens showing live Baseball, what a life!

[tikay]

Am in the WSOP Media Centre, lovely & quiet, or was......

The place is run by a very good friend of many years, Seth Palansky, & he employs a bunch of youngsters each year for work experience.

Amongst them is a buxom young American lass, who is rather....loud, she projects her voice incredibly well, but her voice is extremely shrill & high, like so many Americn ladies.

I can handle all that, but her speech pattern is driving me nuts.

It was, like, amazing, &, like, I said to her, like, what you doing, like, I mean, she was like just being, like, silly. Like.

I suppose "like" has replaced "y'know" or "umm, err" in the vocab these days.

Not sure I like like.

[tikay]

Played a few hours Big O Cash at The Rio last night.

It was $1 $2, but it was a $5 bring in, & most pots were straddled to $10 pre.

After being card dead all day at GN, I had hands galore, I had managed to dust off $280 of my $500 pull-up very first hand, never good for confidence, but then ran amazingly well & hit several boats, & got paid every time. Neil Channing was sat behind me, we were just nattering, & he must have been amazed at how well I ran.

I managed to get off a nasty spot, too, though mybe a better player loses a lot more. The Flop was Q-4-4, & I held A-2-4-5-K, but Matey Boy, never got out of line previously, potted it, & it had been potted pre, so his bet was about $180. With 2 more streets to come, this would get painful if I continued, so I eventually found the fold, & he kindly showed me 4-Q for the flopped boat. I had various backdoors both ways, but I must have been quite a dog. 

Wimp.

[Karabiner]

That's an easy fold if you're deep Tony as I'm sure you know.

Q4 is his minimum if he's any good.

Anyway how much did WE win in the cash-game?

[tikay]

Joe Beevers was on the adjacent table, & John Kabbaj was a few tables along, playing Open Face Chinese (I think). Not seen John for years, I gather he lives in Austria or somesuch these days.

Greg Raymer joined my table briefly, but before we could chat, he was gone, he only played one hand.

Amazingly, a guy named Mark Bartlog was on the Table. Mark has been a pal for 10 years or more, he used to come over from Austria with Robert Binelli for the Blue Sq & early GUKPT's. Not seen Robert in ages.   

I first met Mark at the 2005 WSOP in the $1,000 NLH thing, but I had known him Online for several years before that.

He & I used to crush, & dominate (truly....) the biggest SNG's on 'Stars at the time, which were, originally, $25, then $50, then $100. It was a different world then, multi-tabling was not yet in vogue, & we rarely played more than 2 or 3 of these SNG's at a time. I had an arrangemnt with him, if we got heads up we always played it out but we chopped it afterwards, & would settle up by player transfer at the end of each day.

I somehow ran up a 'roll of $27,000 playing those beauties, & then, just as I became convinved I was The Special One & this poker lark was easy, I lost the lot in short order. I then ran it back up to $15,000, & it stayed at that level for a goodly while.

Soon, the largest SNG's increased to $250, then $500, then $1,000, & I just about held my own in all of those, but soon there were $5k & $10k ones, & the world of Online Poker changed forever. Then I got signed up by Sporting Bet, so I stopped playing on 'Stars. Not sure I can recall ever playing on 'Stars since, as I've always been tied to a room, first Sporting Bet, next was Wm Hill, where Phil Quayle signed me, then blonde cardroom of course, then next door.

What a journey. I used to know everything, now, with all that experience, I know nothing, & am all at sea.

[tikay]

That's an easy fold if you're deep Tony as I'm sure you know.

Q4 is his minimum if he's any good.

Anyway how much did WE win in the cash-game?

Yes, "trivial fold" as the kids say, but it took me some time to find the fold. Don't know if it was because Neil was sat behind me, & may have seen my cards, but I felt sort of embarrassedly nittish to fold it with Neil watching, & I very nearly continued, before eventually seeing sense.

If it is "we" in the cash game, you owe me a few bob, as we ended up $200 down, thanks to a dreadful play in one hand.

There is usually a "dynamic" which causes these things, in this case, a loud, brash, Stockbroker from Washington. I heard the word "bragadacious" yesterday, referring to a mouthy player, & if so, this was a bragadacious chap. And yes, I cannot deny, he was getting under my skin a bit.

He had around $900 in front of him, of which $500 was in stacks of 20 x $5, & he had $400 in $25 denom chips. So he asked everyone at the table to change his $25's into $5's, so as to build impressive chip towers. Yuk.

Anyway, he successfully got under my skin.

And he was VERY aggro, & hitting everything.

Then this hand arose, where I flopped 8's full on a flop of 9-9-8. To paraphrase another blonde, he never has the 9 here.......

Anyway, he got me well & truly, all 3 streets, & triumphantly turned over 9-9-x-x for flopped quads.

In the cold light of day, it was getoffable, but I think my head was in the wrong place. Like, up my, like, arse, like.

So all our profit & a but more disappeared in that one hand.

I fely pretty daft about it afterwards, to be honest, so I slinked off & got me a sticky bun & took it to bed. Very messy.

[Karabiner]

^^

Presumably the "sticky bun" came from the  Glitter Gulch area.

Looking forward rather eagerly to Jeeves' version of the evening.

[Tal]

Good luck in the O8 today. I've had a chance of plans done for me, so I'll have to catch up in the week (8-game on Wednesday?). Likely going to play the Rio 235 instead.

Win stuff.

[tikay]

Good luck in the O8 today. I've had a chance of plans done for me, so I'll have to catch up in the week (8-game on Wednesday?). Likely going to play the Rio 235 instead.

Win stuff.

OK Simon.

If you get some time spare, doobsy is in today's WSOp thing, Table 148. Don't forget Ryan is deep in the $1,500, too, so once I have finished Downtown, I'll come back to the Rio & rail/update on him all the way to the Final, so may see you then. Chompy plans to join the blonde BritRail, too, ditto Dylan.

[celtic]

Choppy will prob be hanging around the final two tables trying to swap 10% with soeone.

[Tal]

Good luck in the O8 today. I've had a chance of plans done for me, so I'll have to catch up in the week (8-game on Wednesday?). Likely going to play the Rio 235 instead.

Win stuff.

OK Simon.

If you get some time spare, doobsy is in today's WSOp thing, Table 148. Don't forget Ryan is deep in the $1,500, too, so once I have finished Downtown, I'll come back to the Rio & rail/update on him all the way to the Final, so may see you then. Chompy plans to join the blonde BritRail, too, ditto Dylan.

Cool. Four of us having a go today, so 400/1 that one of us wins 50k today. I like those odds.

Mr Sweetman absolutely crushed the comp we played yesterday at Binion's. Was just a $130 holdem jobbie but he got huge chips by playing more hands and more aggressively than the rest of his table combined, then rinsing and repeating at each table change. Made the final with double average chipsand never looked back. Won without business and now has a new piece of head attire.

In the comp yesterday was a man in a ten gallon hat, a monogrammed shell suit and a lot of jewellery - sorry, jewelry - including a bracelet. Oklahoma Johnny Hale. One of our group was on his table. He won the 1980 WSOP overall vote. My friend's comment was "he still has the same game"

Good fun but the casino was filthy. Does annoy me, that.

[Tal]

Ate at the steakhouse at the top of Binion's last night.

Steak was big. Dessert was nice.

[Karabiner]

Good luck in the O8 today. I've had a chance of plans done for me, so I'll have to catch up in the week (8-game on Wednesday?). Likely going to play the Rio 235 instead.

Win stuff.

You used to be able to tell that you were in Binion's in the old days even if blindfolded as you could hear your shoes disengaging from the sticky stuff (no doubt on tikay's favourite Glitter Gulch buns) that was on the carpet.

They did used to have a very good deli-counter with salt-beef/pastrami etc. and the chili/burger bar which i very much miss as I knew most of the hardy annuals who worked there by name.

OK Simon.

If you get some time spare, doobsy is in today's WSOp thing, Table 148. Don't forget Ryan is deep in the $1,500, too, so once I have finished Downtown, I'll come back to the Rio & rail/update on him all the way to the Final, so may see you then. Chompy plans to join the blonde BritRail, too, ditto Dylan.

Cool. Four of us having a go today, so 400/1 that one of us wins 50k today. I like those odds.

Mr Sweetman absolutely crushed the comp we played yesterday at Binion's. Was just a $130 holdem jobbie but he got huge chips by playing more hands and more aggressively than the rest of his table combined, then rinsing and repeating at each table change. Made the final with double average chipsand never looked back. Won without business and now has a new piece of head attire.

In the comp yesterday was a man in a ten gallon hat, a monogrammed shell suit and a lot of jewellery - sorry, jewelry - including a bracelet. Oklahoma Johnny Hale. One of our group was on his table. He won the 1980 WSOP overall vote. My friend's comment was "he still has the same game"

Good fun but the casino was filthy. Does annoy me, that.

[titaniumbean]

Ate at the steakhouse at the top of Binion's last night.

Steak was big. Dessert was nice.

eat at La Cave Wynncore, the tapas place in cosmo, yellowtail at bellagio. cut for steak. nom nom nom (cut is expensive the rest aren't neccessarily).