DAY SIXGrinding 14 hours of a tournament and failing to make day two usually results in the following day being a day of CASH (or a day off...) and that was the plan yesterday. Stato and I got a taxi (actually it was a limo because there was no taxi's about, and is only $25 compared to $10 or $15 and feels way more boss ldo) to the Venetian, he was to play the 1100 deepstack, I was going to go on to the Wynn to play cash.
Poor Stato was gonna be lonely and wanted some company during the breaks / a sweat so just as we were about to split up he said "I'll buy 10% at 2.0 and buy you breakfast if you play the tournament". I was like rofl go on then. Then busted in half an hour and went to the Wynn to play cash anyway
Obviously I didn't bust on purpose and still lost $900 of my own money, but it was pretty funny how it worked out.
Lost two big hands, neither particularly interesting, got bluffed off
on
, I bet flop he called, I bet turn, he raised big, I called and check/folded the river. He showed QJ as well sigh.
So it was going to be a cash day after all! Am playing 5/10 now, dabbled with 5/10 in the past, but definitely consider it a step-up from my usual stakes, and it's probably the first time I've moved up stakes since the MC bink in 2011!
The Wynn session went really well, I won $1700, did one really sexy bluff which I would have written about, but I did a really unsexy bluff in a later session which I don't want to write about so seems fair to just spare the details
Was pretty fkn excited doing both to be honest, both were $1k ish, and ironically I thought the first one was less likely to work than the second one and was way more nervous during the first one.
During the second one I wasn't nervous at all, really thought it would work, but the longer villain took the more worried I got (especailly since I thought he had Qhigh and would fold instantly
). The moment he grabbed his wad of hundred dollar bills (which was about $6k) and realised it was only a few hundred more to call, that's when I knew I was doomed!
Anyway, so I won at the Wynn, then decided to walk to the Bellagio to see Mitch and Keith, get some dinner then play a session there. This was at 7pm so I thought walking would be fine, it's only 15 minutes away. The heat was unbearable. It was 45 degrees yesterday, and is getting hotter over the next few days. Really quite staggering heat. Even at 4am it was unpleasant to be outside. It made me so tired and my lack of sleep generally this trip is catching up on me - I had to go home and have a sleep.
Slept till 1130pm then went back and grinded the night shift until 430.
Went very badly, 3bet KK to $100 and got peeled by 76o, we got in $1600 on the flop of 865r and ran it twice and he made a straight on the first one, and a third six on the second one. Ouch.
Then got in QQ vs AK for $1k and wasn't going to run it twice and the dealer was just about to deal the flop, then the guy asked me if I would and he was english and I was just like yeh ok, reduce variance etc, obv I win the first and lose the second, bit tilted.
Got in $500 with JJ vs KK vs a short stacker, which was annoying, and then bluffed off a grand as mentioned earlier.
Lost 2.7k - pretty disappointed. Probs back down to 2/5 today or maybe play a comp. There's a $125 OFC comp at 5pm today! Quite fancy that or the Rio deepstack again. Would play the $1500 WS again as I love them, but feels a bit too gambley to punt it again, could sell but also don't feel my best, and again have had only 3/4 hours sleep grrrr.
Sorry the blog is slightly boring at the moment. It's grind grind grind here though. Quick update on the others: Min-cash Mitch is playing his first tournament of the trip today - he's been grinding cash everyday and won every session, is definitely catching me up profit wise for the trip. Keith is the opposite, lost every session, and will not be playing a tournament for the foreseeable future it seems. Was playing 10/20/40 yesterday like a boss. Stato is still crushing the OFC, might go 50/50 with him on some higher stakes $25/point stuff as he's vgood and the regs are all worse apparently...
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