Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[booder]

Good work again Tony.

Confidently expecting the early heater tomorrow.

Good work again Tony.

Confidently expecting the early heater tomorrow.

+1

Ditto

[tonytats]

Excellent we love reading about your exploits ,esp after the ha . Pleased to see u back on the horse 🐴 gl gl

[Marky147]

Tit!

[hhyftrftdr]

Think you should swing by Hooters before day 2, just to remind yourself what not to be.

All the best and great updates.

[Marky_Crash]

Forgot you were playing this last night so I got the afternoon coffee sweat instead of the morning breakfast sweat.

Good work and GL for day 2.

I think with the AAAQX hand you can do pretty much anything. Tricky but not the worst hand to raise with a shortish stack and hopefully get 1 caller with the case ace chasing a low.

How are you finding the Big O MTT tables? Seems like there are plenty customers when you have hands.

With the 20-30 BB stack is there room to widen the range and open limp or open minibet in position and then take 1/2-1/3 pot size stabs at pots or would your table not be very receptive to that?

Enjoyed the updates!

[tikay]

Morning all.

Here are the overnight chip counts & the payouts.

You will find my name in it's usual place, down amongst the mini stacks. Think I am to poker what Sauber are to F1.

[tikay]

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[tikay]

Forgot you were playing this last night so I got the afternoon coffee sweat instead of the morning breakfast sweat.

Good work and GL for day 2.

I think with the AAAQX hand you can do pretty much anything. Tricky but not the worst hand to raise with a shortish stack and hopefully get 1 caller with the case ace chasing a low.

How are you finding the Big O MTT tables? Seems like there are plenty customers when you have hands.

With the 20-30 BB stack is there room to widen the range and open limp or open minibet in position and then take 1/2-1/3 pot size stabs at pots or would your table not be very receptive to that?

Enjoyed the updates!

The A-A-A hand was quite a dilemma, as a caller and an all low flop would have been messy, but I think I raise & C-bet & got it through on a safe flop.

Yes, we can widen the ranges, limp even, but remember, opponents can & should call or raise wider. With 5 cards in our hand, that's a LOT of potential combos.  

My big problem yesterday was repeatedly raising into Aces, think I did so on at least 6 occasions.

Anyway, must press on, school is out early today & the kids are having some sport.

[Marky_Crash]

Forgot you were playing this last night so I got the afternoon coffee sweat instead of the morning breakfast sweat.

Good work and GL for day 2.

I think with the AAAQX hand you can do pretty much anything. Tricky but not the worst hand to raise with a shortish stack and hopefully get 1 caller with the case ace chasing a low.

How are you finding the Big O MTT tables? Seems like there are plenty customers when you have hands.

With the 20-30 BB stack is there room to widen the range and open limp or open minibet in position and then take 1/2-1/3 pot size stabs at pots or would your table not be very receptive to that?

Enjoyed the updates!

Yes, we can widen the ranges, limp even, but remember, opponents can & should call or raise wider. With 5 cards in our hand, that's a LOT of potential combos.  

Yeah I was just thinking in terms of pot control for extra mileage out of the stack. Have hardly played any live Big O but played quite a lot online so was curious if that strategy would transition over to live Big O for that kind of stack size or if the tables just played completely different. I imagine it would be very table dependent.

[Doobs]

Forgot you were playing this last night so I got the afternoon coffee sweat instead of the morning breakfast sweat.

Good work and GL for day 2.

I think with the AAAQX hand you can do pretty much anything. Tricky but not the worst hand to raise with a shortish stack and hopefully get 1 caller with the case ace chasing a low.

How are you finding the Big O MTT tables? Seems like there are plenty customers when you have hands.

With the 20-30 BB stack is there room to widen the range and open limp or open minibet in position and then take 1/2-1/3 pot size stabs at pots or would your table not be very receptive to that?

Enjoyed the updates!

The A-A-A hand was quite a dilemma, as a caller and an all low flop would have been messy, but I think I raise & C-bet & got it through on a safe flop.

Yes, we can widen the ranges, limp even, but remember, opponents can & should call or raise wider. With 5 cards in our hand, that's a LOT of potential combos.  

My big problem yesterday was repeatedly raising into Aces, think I did so on at least 6 occasions.

Anyway, must press on, school is out early today & the kids are having some sport.

Really do think AAAQT is a fold in a pot limit 5 card game.  I play a lot of nlo8, so you see a lot of equities.  AAA with a high card is a dog to a lot of A2 hands.   

Just checked and AAAQT is 44/55 vs A2*** (whole range of a2 hands including the very worst) and we know which hand is easier to play post flop.  Would play a whole load of hands full of "spanners" than that. 

Of course if the fella is going nuts with qqjt4 or 99967 then you have to play.

[strak33]

Oi oi Leif force spotted in those counts. A yearly staple of the vegas updates.

[tikay]

Oi oi Leif force spotted in those counts. A yearly staple of the vegas updates.

Even better, he has less chips than me. oioi

I chatted with him on Monday, but we have yet to share tables this trip.

He was a Late Reg yesterday, though he usually is. He presumably played the WSOP $1,000 PLO & busted then dashed across to Venetian.

Joe Beevers did the same thing, & then was moved to my table, to my immediate left. As he sat down, my A-A-2-2-3 DS was quartered in an 80,000 pot, & the very next hand Joe flopped a set of Aces, rivered Aces full, & was bust by quad nines. Big O is a wonderfully brutal affair.  

[Marky_Crash]

Forgot you were playing this last night so I got the afternoon coffee sweat instead of the morning breakfast sweat.

Good work and GL for day 2.

I think with the AAAQX hand you can do pretty much anything. Tricky but not the worst hand to raise with a shortish stack and hopefully get 1 caller with the case ace chasing a low.

How are you finding the Big O MTT tables? Seems like there are plenty customers when you have hands.

With the 20-30 BB stack is there room to widen the range and open limp or open minibet in position and then take 1/2-1/3 pot size stabs at pots or would your table not be very receptive to that?

Enjoyed the updates!

The A-A-A hand was quite a dilemma, as a caller and an all low flop would have been messy, but I think I raise & C-bet & got it through on a safe flop.

Yes, we can widen the ranges, limp even, but remember, opponents can & should call or raise wider. With 5 cards in our hand, that's a LOT of potential combos.  

My big problem yesterday was repeatedly raising into Aces, think I did so on at least 6 occasions.

Anyway, must press on, school is out early today & the kids are having some sport.

Really do think AAAQT is a fold in a pot limit 5 card game.  I play a lot of nlo8, so you see a lot of equities.  AAA with a high card is a dog to a lot of A2 hands.  

Just checked and AAAQT is 44/55 vs A2*** (whole range of a2 hands including the very worst) and we know which hand is easier to play post flop.  Would play a whole load of hands full of "spanners" than that.  

Of course if the fella is going nuts with qqjt4 or 99967 then you have to play.

Very valid point and I wouldn't say a fold is wrong or a raise is correct but I think the raise is completely fine with a shortish stack. Although the equity set up will possibly be on the wrong side of 'close', by taking the initiative with the preflop raise a lot of our opponents hands won't get to realise their equity due to the pressure being put on them.

I think limping it would be the worst option.

[FUN4FRASER]

Good Luck over their Tony..& All Brits

[tikay]

All set.

The chip leader is to my immediate right, and has 10 times my stack.

Which is a good thing. For one of us.