Viva Las Vegas! A lone rangers blog!

[dwayne110]

Good luck pal, well jealous! Every credit for going out there alone too, enjoy it.

[BorntoBubble]

Good read Callum, im a snobby Westbrook lad from Warrington, now living in the Midlands, Run good mate.

You weren't one of the lads who used to beat me up every time I went the cinema at 15 years old where you?

I'm living in the midlands to in Nottingham still go back home a bit and have to go visit ikea west brooks biggest hit!!

I remember Friday nights being a right pain in the backside for us getting buses from culcheth to town the Westbrook we would spend more times on buses then in the cinema!

[celtic]

Really enjoying this, keep it going, please.

[BorntoBubble]

Day 5 - knocked straight back down to ground

Meh! What a crap day. I didn't sleep very well and was up at 6 after not being able to get back to sleep I went to the gym at 8 an stayed there till 9:30. I thought I better work off the buffet from the night before! My plan was to get the bus at 11 into town and go look at treasure island an the Wynn as I had not been there yet. When I got in after the gym and shower I fell straight to sleep and did not get up till 2:30. I ended up getting the 4pm bus into town. I went straight to the Venation for the $300 ante up comp. which I don't think ran as there was no body playing it when I got there. I figured I would play some cash then maybe play the 7pm $200 comp.

I sat on 1/2 Holdem while I waited for PLO. There was one 1/2 PLO game going which looked a good game and I was 2nd on the list. If my Holdem game was good I would stay there if not move to PLO. I sat for 30 mins with nothing until I pick up ajss in mid position I pop it up to 10 which I get two callers board comes 955 I continue and get 1 caller ( this guy is at a convention and has had a crazy time at the table 6 hands he sits with $100 busts it first hand he reload for another $100 an now is on about $500' what a life wish I took his seat... Anyway)  turn brings a jack. Bingo I figure he is going to have a 9 here a lot of the time and also a lot of junk. He may have a 5 but I have $100 and I ain't folding! When the jack came i checked and he bet 50 into like 50 and I had75 left I nearly passed but figured he could have literally any two he had turned over a lot of junk And got luck in his 6 hands so I get it in. The river brings an ace so I flip my aj and he slow rolls me with 99. Lovely!  During the hand my seat on the 1/2 PLO becomes free so I decide to switch tables.

I sat with $200 the table has 3 players I recognise from previous days. One maniac on good player and one weak tight player. The rest are unknown. After like 3 hands there is a lot of straddling going on and crazy play. Another great table! I sit tight for a few rounds my plan is purely to try and get in for cheap pre and then get it in when I flop big. Simples. I'm down to 175 when I pick up kkqj with the kj hearts its raised to 20 pre and I flat. I'm trying to take a low as possible variance route ( I know sitting short on PLO is quite high variance but you know what I mean!) board comes 1093 rainbow. We are three way s to the flop. Some young American makes it 40 then the maniac makes it 150. I ship and the American tank calls and the maniac has to call. No option to re pop and its like 10 more to call. Turn brings a 7 shit card for me when I have the high wrap as the low wrap just got there river brings a 3 to pair the board meh! The maniac had top 2 on the flop and the American had the low rap.

I reload for 200 and move seats. I moved to the right of two guys thy were straddling on the button I thought this was a good move as basically I had position to re pot all the time with a short stack. I had one pot which I made a bad call on. I had about 260 at this point. It's a limped pot and I have jd10d33 I call on the button and the flop comes 9d82 it's checked to me and I make it 25 . Two callers turn comes a qd checked to me where I bet 60 two callers now the river brings a 3rd dimond. First to act makes it 60 other guy snap calls and I call prginal raiser has nut flush and other guy has 2n nut flush... Meh should have saved myself $60.

After about 1 hour I get my spot. Straddled to 10 maniac makes it 30 3 callers I have akq10 double suited. I pot it ( allin) and get 2 callers. The flop comes 1098 rainbow with 1 of each of my suits the maniac pots and the other guy folds. He has 76 and It bricks and game over for me!

So I'm down $500 and been out like 4 hours I had a shit cheese sandwich with chips and I didn't know what to do. I ended up waking back to the aria. I had $45 in aria chips from the night before and figured if the evening comp had 60+ runners I would play. It had 65 so I took a shot! We got down to 40 players. Blinds 200/400 middle position makes it 1k and gets 4 callers I'm bb an ship 12k with 88. The 2nd caller who has 15k finds a call with a10dd and he binks an ace. Gg. Now I'm on the bus home where I need a good sleep gym tomorrow and then I'm going to cash a comp one time as so far they have gone crap! Mum and dad arrive Thursday where we are planning to go to the cirque Beatles show Sunday and helicopter ride Monday. Also have the six nations to watch on Saturday morning. Tomorrow will be a better day with better results and more pictures. Today was crap!

Also was going to write this tomorrow morning but figured I'd get it out of the way now. I have like 5 coronas so sorry if some of it don't make sense! I didn't want to depress myself tomorrow having to write about today.

[smashedagain]

Can we get a picture of the hookers in your hotel? Tells us a lot about where you are staying cheers

[tonytats]

Can we get a picture of the hookers in your hotel? Tells us a lot about where you are staying cheers

They don't like u takin photos ,they are usually black negotiations start at 500$ after a couple of sambucas u can get em down to 200/250$ for an hour in your room ,oops no that's in the nugget !
Good read this makes us all wish we were there gl Callum there will always be a losing day speshully at Omaha
Suggest the cirque de soleil show at the bellagio o to your parents as well that's pretty spectacular too
If u go downtown try the mob museum dinner at the triple George grill ,1/2 cash in the nugget is ok as well

[smashedagain]

Can we get a picture of the hookers in your hotel? Tells us a lot about where you are staying cheers

They don't like u takin photos ,they are usually black negotiations start at 500$ after a couple of sambucas u can get em down to 200/250$ for an hour in your room ,oops no that's in the nugget !
Good read this makes us all wish we were there gl Callum there will always be a losing day speshully at Omaha
Suggest the cirque de soleil show at the bellagio o to your parents as well that's pretty spectacular too
If u go downtown try the mob museum dinner at the triple George grill ,1/2 cash in the nugget is ok as well

lol. I was gonna say be careful taking photos but then I thought it might be fun if he walked str8 up to a couple and went click

[flushthemout]

Good read Callum, im a snobby Westbrook lad from Warrington, now living in the Midlands, Run good mate.

You weren't one of the lads who used to beat me up every time I went the cinema at 15 years old where you?

I'm living in the midlands to in Nottingham still go back home a bit and have to go visit ikea west brooks biggest hit!!

I remember Friday nights being a right pain in the backside for us getting buses from culcheth to town the Westbrook we would spend more times on buses then in the cinema!

Not me Callum, was in Dave Plucks bookies in Westbrook doing all my wages 15yrs ago lol

[BorntoBubble]

Today has started poorly also! I got to the Venetian at about 4 and played some 1/2 Holdem. I bought into the 7pm $200 comp and sat with $100. After about 30 mins the table looked pretty weak tight no major pots. I pulled up another $200 as the table seemed a pretty straight forward one. I've not seen many hands when at 6:30 I decide it would be a great idea to run a bluff. I'm sat with $260 and leaving for the comp in 30 mins the table are not aware of this though. ( I had not planned to bluff the situation just arose!)

I raise to $10 utg with 89 suited ( must have only been the 4th raise I'd done and certainly the 1st from utg!!

I get 3 callers including the small and big.

Flop is k83 rainbow. The bb leads for $25 we are playing similar stack sizes and I have him noted a weak loose he has played a lot of hands pre and got to the turn many times but given up when the betting go bigger. Everyone else folds so now there's $90 in the pot with effective $225 behind . Turn brings an a. Which I think is a gin card for me ak is a big part of my range here also sometimes kk and aa and also lots of kx's and ax's. he now leads for $20 at this point I smell fear. In my opinion he has like KQ kj and k10 here like 90% of the time and a lot of other random hands. So I make it $55 he tanks and then calls. River is a 6. He checks and I make it 150 effectively putting him all in. He tanks goes to fold goes to all looks at his chips all the usual moves and then. Calls. Bugger. I say you got me and he flips kj

This is like the first proper bluf I have ran here and believe I played it well. Any comments?


My thinking is I picked the player an the hand and some how he found the call.

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Guy with his hand on his mouth to the right shoulder of the dealer
Don't try to bluff this man

[BorntoBubble]

For those of you that have not been to the Venetian here is what the card room looks like

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It's been super busy all week and the chairs are super comfortable. The waitress's are hot, not quite Dtd hot, but close enough!

[ShipItHollaBallaaa]

Pretty sick trip report man, look forward to reading it start to finish tomorrow without the skimming.

Not gonna lie I'm pretty jealous right now

Glgl out there

[BorntoBubble]

Day 6 - I've wrote this twice!

What an idiot I have written this blog post twice and deleted it both times when I go to post what an idiot. Hating life right about now!

Anyway... Carrying on from my post yesterday after finishing playing cash I went and grabbed some food. I had a panini and it was pants . I arrived at the comp 10 mins late ($200 Venetian deep stack) I was the 6th player at the table. In The venetian your stack does not go live until you sit down and also your seat is held for you which is wierd as it can mean the play can end up very short handed at the start of the comp where everyone else is playing full ring. I was playing well and felt good I had a young kid to my right who seemed competent the rest of the table seemed quite passive. Lots of raising big with big hands raising small with middle hands and limping weak hands. I played quite a few pots with the young lad to my right we were the two most active plays at the table I had 3 bet him 3 times and he folded all 3. The 4 th time he opened and I 3 bet the button with k7 he put up some resistance and flatted. The kind of resistance I like... Not much! The flop came qj7 i continued he flatted turn k I bet he flatted river 9 I bet about half pot an he folded. Felt pretty confident I was winning all the way though I think he had a plan to play back if I showed weakness but none was forthcoming.

I had got myself up to about 18k from 10k and was chip leader on my table. I then had an interesting hand that was pivotal to my tournament.

Utg raises small blind flats I flat the bb with qj.
Flop q94 two spades I have the j of spades. Utg checks his cards then continues for half the pot. Sb ( young lad) now clicks it back to him. The utg player now looked ultra weak and looked happy for this hand to be over with I felt confident the the young lad was drawing or bluffing or a set of 9/4's obviously there are a lot more combos of the first two than the last one. I clicked it back again. Utg folds and the young guy ships it in. I was happy with this outcome he only had about 8k, utg had 15k an I would have passed to his ship. I called unfortunately he had 99 and I was drawing to runner runner! I was left with about 8k now. Blinds just went up to 200/400. 2 hands later I pick up Jj on the button. Mid position limps and young guy makes it 1500 I ship it in he calls and has aa I didn't catch up and I was packing my bags back to my hotel! It seems I won a lot of the battles but he won the war in the end

After this I headed back home for some dice games and beers! I got some snaps of the hotel and south point next door also

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My hotel block I'm on floor 19

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View from my room

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The rest of my hotel next to south point. My hotel on left southpoint on the right.

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South point casino

[BorntoBubble]

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Just to clear my name I have never owned or driven or been in this car.

I was in bed at 4:30am.

[BorntoBubble]

Mum and dad have arrived and there I a shooting on the strip! All action day! Just had a Mexican next for (south point) an I played 2 hours of pole in there while mum and dad went for a sleep. The game was good, loads of limping loads of straddling better than the Holdem games I've played on the strip!! I ended up a small winner ... $5 woop. I'm about $150 down on the trip so far. That's including all food travel gambling and poker. Not great but could be worse. Hopefully play some 2/5 before the end of the week. That should get me into profit!

[gouty]

Nice report. Cheers.

If you ever feel a bit down over there just sit at the bar in the Grand Lux at the Pallazzo and have the Chicken soup and a Bloody Mary. Holy shit those pictures of the Ven card room are really making me wanna get on Virgin.com.

Do a win.