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Originally Posted by LordRiverRat
Played at Aria Friday night and Bellagio last night. Things I've noticed...slightly tighter than 1/2. And because of that 4x opens instead of 5x seem to be standard. $15 pre no limpers is a big raise even if it's juts 5x. Maybe I've just been at the wrong tables but there seemed to be fewer obvious fish (50+ VPIP). Still soft, and I've yet to come across a player I consider a threat, but a tiny bit tougher than 1/2.
I put in a 25 hour session at Bellagio 1/3 Saturday night to Sunday night. Games were good as always and typical raises were in the $12-$16 range first in. I was making my normal $15 raise first in and $20 with 2 limpers and was getting plenty of 3-4 way pots. Just to illustrate how the games were good.....$13 raise from HJ, CO and BTN call, and I 3b in the SB to $58 with AA......all 3 call so about $230 in the pot. Flop is Ks Js 7c. I shove the flop with the 3 callers all having about $125-$250 behind. I get 2 snap calls and one fold. Main pot of $675 and side pot of $200. Turn is a blank and river is an A. Villain 1 shows KJo (he had me on the flop but I sucked out on the river), and villain 2 shows As 7s for bottom pair and nut flush draw. I get lucky and scoop the $875 pot but villains should have easily folded 2 my 3b PF. I win another nice $650 pot when I run my AA up against KK and AQ on an A23xK runout. I do lose a $575 pot with KK against AK when all the money goes in PF. I was in to the game for $800 and cashed out $2280 so a nice $1480 profit for the session.
I played at about 6 different tables during my 25 hour session and on average there was probably 2 small winning players at the table, 3 fish playing ATC, and 3 other players that were probably small losers. I had one table where a couple sat down and they had to be told every single hand what their options were. The lady even asked during a hand she was in if 3 of a kind beat 2 pair. They each bought in for $100 and were busto in about 30 minutes. One hand villain bets in to her on the river and she just calls with the nuts instead of raising.
One of my tables had Paul "Quack Quack" Mcgriels on it. He was c-betting flops for a single quack quack of $22 and several times he bet 2 and a half quacks of $55.
I also didn't know this but I was told by one player/dealer that you get pearl status at 75 hours of poker played for the year and gold at 150 hours....good to know if you're looking to get to pearl status so you can get free parking