Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[booder]

Nice report,run well on Sunday Gramps

Thanks David.

Two questions for you....

1) Slot. Agree or disagree with his dismissal?

2) How happy on a scale of 1 to 10 (assume 10 is World Class, someone of Arteta's standard) are you with your new Manager?

1. Agree, our play was so poor something had to change.
2.Probably 8 .Theres a lot to like about the guy. We can only dream about having a manager so talented and charismatic as Arteta.

[tikay]

No point in trying to ladder today.....

[bagel]

shred dem

[animalpoker]

Nice one Tony, I hope to join you tomorrow.  2 bullets no joy yesterday.
Down to 7k (from 25k) after 5 hands today but somehow on 1st bullet with 55k first break.  Crazy game .
Good luck tomorrow if I don’t see you - which hotel did you move to ?

Morning Rob.

I had a peruse of the WSOP App but never saw your name there, no good? What's today's plan?

Hotel palaver - I never changed Hotels, I changed Rooms. There's some obscure Nevada State Law that says you are not allowed to book more than 10 or 12 days at a time & Boyd Gaming, who own The Orleans, enforce it. So I had 2 bookings, back to back. Checked out at 11am, went & did some shopping, came back an hour later & checked back in.

Yeh no joy in big O, lasted to level 10.  Then had many many corona .
Early bath today in plo at V too.
Just went through extending my stay until next Tuesday which despite being diamond plus was still a hassle.
In my app it says all comped but host in diamond room insists I pay a paltry $30 a night for 3 nights - so little I’m not sure why they don’t just comp it all lol .  She also tells me I have to go the old fashioned go to front desk tomorrow evening to see if they can keep me in the same room the next day and avoid “moving rooms” like yourself.  Sometimes I do wonder if it’s 2026, some things are still way behind the ball for modern times.

[tikay]

Nice one Tony, I hope to join you tomorrow.  2 bullets no joy yesterday.
Down to 7k (from 25k) after 5 hands today but somehow on 1st bullet with 55k first break.  Crazy game .
Good luck tomorrow if I don’t see you - which hotel did you move to ?

Morning Rob.

I had a peruse of the WSOP App but never saw your name there, no good? What's today's plan?

Hotel palaver - I never changed Hotels, I changed Rooms. There's some obscure Nevada State Law that says you are not allowed to book more than 10 or 12 days at a time & Boyd Gaming, who own The Orleans, enforce it. So I had 2 bookings, back to back. Checked out at 11am, went & did some shopping, came back an hour later & checked back in.

Yeh no joy in big O, lasted to level 10.  Then had many many corona .
Early bath today in plo at V too.
Just went through extending my stay until next Tuesday which despite being diamond plus was still a hassle.
In my app it says all comped but host in diamond room insists I pay a paltry $30 a night for 3 nights - so little I’m not sure why they don’t just comp it all lol .  She also tells me I have to go the old fashioned go to front desk tomorrow evening to see if they can keep me in the same room the next day and avoid “moving rooms” like yourself.  Sometimes I do wonder if it’s 2026, some things are still way behind the ball for modern times.

This "having to switch rooms" malarky makes no sense, but I guess they are just staying the right side of the Nevada rule thing.

Mr google states....




There is no Nevada law specifically preventing hotel or motel stays longer than 11 days. In fact, under state law, stays that go beyond 30 consecutive days trigger Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 118A, which governs landlord-tenant relationships. Because of this 30-day threshold, many hotels and resorts in Nevada limit stays to 14, 21, or 28 days to prevent guests from legally establishing permanent "residency rights". If a guest attains tenant status under state law, the hotel must pursue a formal, lengthy court eviction process to remove them.To get around this and avoid establishing legal tenancy, many extended-stay properties or hotels require long-term guests to either:Temporarily check outMove into a different roomFor stays expected to last longer than the 11-to-30-day threshold, extended-stay properties operate under different licensing rules than standard, transient resorts

[tikay]

So, Day 2 of the $1,500 WSOP Big O.

Un-bagging on Day 2 of a WSOP is as good as (poker) gets imo, & I was really revved up for it.

I tend to be a bit hesitant to get my stack in in late stages, but I had a good talk to myself & resolved to take any or all spots that arose.

[tikay]

Nathan was on hand & we swapped fashion tips.

[tikay]

Off we go, starting with, I think, 114k. (The solo chip on the left, that looks like a Yellow 5,000 is actually a green 25k).

[tikay]

A quite remarkable start, as I find Aces - good Aces - the first three hands on the spin. Raise each time, attract a caller or two each time, but take it down on the flop each time. They were all good flops for my hand.

So suddenly, my 114k is 215k.

[tikay]

Aces again! No takers this time.

Win 2 more small ones uncontested & now I'm above average.

[tikay]

Several small pots take me to 312k, then in a big pot fella jams on me. I have nothing yet, but both nut draws so easy call. Brick-brick and I'm down to 160k, = 20BB

[tikay]

Cards go cold & I dribble down to 100k so decided to go for it with anything marginal, rather than get too low.


Two callers, half decent flop, ALL-IN, both call....

[tikay]

...and we SCOOP

[tikay]

2nd Break, we have ~300k, just below average.


129 players have departed already & I've had 2 mini-ladders.

[tikay]

We return from the break & I take another pot.

And then a very weird pot goes off.

I raise with A-2-6-Q-K. (I forget the suits but it's not relevant).

It comes.....


 



Ooh, lovely.

POT

Then I may have audibly gasped when he 3 bet me.

I suppose he CAN have 2-2 in his hand, but more likely we have the same 6-2.

In a flash, all the chips go in & cards are otb.

And yes, he has the same boat....


A-2-6-8-9 v my A-2-6-Q-K.

We just have to hold now, for the chop, but we have better (bigger) danglers.

To my horror, the Dealer Turns the 9, & then for rubs, Rivers another 9.

GG.

FWIW, the odds on that flop are 50% chop, 27.5% me 22.5% him.

So it's not a huge outdraw really, but it's certainly not an ideal time for it.

A good example of how every street in 5 Card can change things. He flopped sixes full of deuces, turned sixes full of nines, & rivered nines full of sixes.

It could just as easily flipped my way, or chopped. Welcome to 5 Big O.

PS - it was for a 600,000 pot with average at around 320k, & Blinds 5k-10k. Pretty sure I could have gone a long way with a 600,000 stack.