Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[booder]

Good morning squeezage,keep going old boy.

[tikay]

Raise with 9-9, Mr Tight calls again, lol.

Flop 10-9-5dd, wiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

He bets 2k. I make it 5k. He jams. I call. I have a set of 9's, he has A-10.

And we see this runout.....

[tikay]

I'm not in the habit of taking "hand" 'photos at the table, it's a bit naff imo, but I think this was a reasonable exception, nobody would believe me otherwise.

He was a lovely fella & was all apologies afterwards. I went & shook his hand & wandered away tail between legs & a bit shell-shocked that the party was over so quickly & in such weird fashion.

Surprisingly, the beat never bothered me THAT much, it's poker, it happens, but departing in Level 3 of a WSOP certainly was a big disappointment, I love WSOP days so much.

If I misplayed the hand I'd be cross with myself, but I played it correctly (imo).

Those who have managed to grind their way through these reports may recall I exited the WSOP Big O in similar fashion, when two of us flopped the same boat but his (inferior) danglers got there. That was a 5 card game of course so it's not that terrible.

Anyway, that's that, and the 2026 Vegas hole just got deeper.

Tomorrow I go again, bullet 2 in the $1,000 WSOP Seniors.  It'll be first rebuy/re-entry of the trip, so there's that I suppose.

Not sure it's wise to revisit the scene of the crime, but there you are.

[tikay]

Good morning squeezage,keep going old boy.

Meh...

[booder]

Good morning squeezage,keep going old boy.

Meh...

+1

[tikay]

Incoming WhatsApp from a pal who can't see the 'photos, so in case he's not alone....


Me; 

Him; 


Flop;

 

Turn;

 

River;

 




when I pinged the 10 turn I did a mental fist-pump, but before I could compute the extra outs he gained (3 x A, 3 x 5 & 1 x 10) the Dealer had rolled off the river & I heard a sort of collective "ooooh".

[Karabiner]

That was seriously ugly Tony.

Hope you have a deep run to make up for it tomorrow.

[Enut]

Raise with 9-9, Mr Tight calls again, lol.

Flop 10-9-5dd, wiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

He bets 2k. I make it 5k. He jams. I call. I have a set of 9's, he has A-10.

And we see this runout.....

Eurgh, very, very unlucky. The only thing you can do is laugh, you know that loud hysterical laugh as you rock backwards and forwards waiting for matron to bring you one of those nice injections.

[Elliot]

Imagine Phil Hellmuth being the guy with the 99 instead of Tikay... I can hear it in my head now      

[Knottikay]

Enjoying reading your Vegas exploits Tikay. Not enjoying reading all this bad run/crap variance you are going through though. Hopefully, it changes for the good soon. I have still got my WSOP ap from last year, so I am following players on there and sometimes staying up late to watch the action on you tube too. Loving it/missing it.

What you need to do to improve your luck is two simple steps....
1) Get Jeeves to assist you
2) Change your name on that ap to Foxen/Mateos/Glazer etc etc.

VBOL for the rest of your 'holiday' , and please keep up the reporting for us back in blighty.

[animalpoker]

Pleasure bumping into you today one last time for that brief 10 seconds.  Hope my run bad the last week didn’t rub off to you in the seniors.
That’s me boarding soon, but I’ve left anything in excess in my WSOP a/c for use next year so, all being well, I’ll see you at a similar point next year, unless I search out some plo in the uk before that.  Fun trip but hindsight extending a week was a mistake but felt right at the time. 2-2.5 weeks is probably my sweet spot.

Highlight
Biggest cash in 17 years covered the trip and a bit
and very confident I’ve lost weight with all the walking

Lowlight
Wanted to go home 2-3 days ago

Observations
Definitely more angrier % of people at the poker table in my sample
Saw an almost fight couple tables down from me as well as a couple of very heated arguments

Also saw a woman going mental and put in cuffs in linq , as well as a Latino at flamingo taunting 5 security guards after being chucked out, kept coming back in and trying to bait them into trying to cuff him
Free vegas shows are wild !