Had Earl of Sandwich for the first time in Disney last month, great stuff!

Great TR as well!

Thank you all, glad I can give something back to this forum.

Only downside is I have less reading time here this month

Just about to post next part.

Part 10

Thursday was the second to last day of the trip and it was Steve's last day so we traded some of our Aria comps for a buffet.

Few hours later we were both already sitting in good games at the Wynn. People at my table were bantering and joking like it was their homegame again, an atmosphere that I increasingly found in many games here. Another common aspect of the Wynn games is the deepness of people's stacks that look like star destroyers.

Not too soon I witnessed 3 of those huge ships collide and that had to be one of the biggest pots around since even the floormen plus people from other tables came over to look at this epic battle of boats:

3 people were all-in for a little more than 1k each on a 9 8 6 9:club board. My left neighbor who had just recently sat down held his cards face down while the two others slowly flipped their cards: Old guy turned over 9 6 expecting to hold the winner. Asian lady trumped this with her 8 8, only my neighbor still didn't want to flip.

Dealing river...Q...

...and my neighbor quickly flipped his QQ with a big smile.

The crowd was watching in disbelief while they got a staff member to help him collect the sea of chips on the felt and build the very first death star of this table.



While this hand was unfolding Steve had come over to watch what happened at my table and talked to me in German. The instance my neighbor's win was confirmed by the dealer he turned to us and said:

"Schmeckt, oder?"

...which is German casino slang for "tastes good, huh?".

We couldn't help but burst out in laughter about this situation which may have seemed quite inappropriate given that two people at the table had just been two-outered for a 3k+ pot.

In that same session I was lucky enough to also drag a bigger pot later on. I turned the nutflush against a flopped set in a big multiway pot, managed to get the rest of my stack in and held up.

Up next: The final post of my tripreport

Great TR, love the pics.

Awesome TR, thanks for sharing.

ty and ty

Last post coming up!

Part 12 - The Final Post

I had to wrap up my final Wynn session of the trip after my table broke. My German neighbor managed to clean out a total of 3 people in the process of his godlike run and in the end nobody wanted to play in that game anymore. Steve's table didn't look too good so we quickly checked Bravo and there it was again: Four 2/5 games at Caesars Palace - snapcall! We quickly grabbed our stuff, drove back to park our car at Flamingo and walked over the bridge straight into a packed poker room.

Another circuit event was running and the 2/5 tables looked really good. We got our seats at different tables and started to grind away on our last night of poker. My table was pretty awesome with lots of actionhungry players that had busted out of a tournament or were waiting for another one to start. I think the main issue with tournament players playing cashgames is they go on fancy spew intervals and your job is to catch them during one. They usually start off and can revert back to playing a mostly solid and very tight game like they would do in the first stages of a tournament. Then all of a sudden they may get tilted by something or their ego gets in their way and things get out of hand. Also, they sometimes disregard deeper effective stacksizes since they are not used to play them and may go into 3463426-betting mode preflop or blindly barrel away postflop.

I got into such a spot with a young tourney player where I had 3-bet his $30 open to $100 straight with black Kings with ~500 behind. He went into the tank, grabbed 3 black and 1 green chip from his collection like it was a mixed candy bag and threw them into the pot. I shoved my rest and after a while he called.

I already saw the dreaded A in the door and it was followed by his entourage that consisted of the Q and the J.

All I could do now was root for that tenball inside. After two more bricks hit the felt I was ready to muck my Kings but he started to shake his head, so I sheepishly turned my hand seeing a chance they might be good after all.

He said: "Would have needed one of those to beat you!" and mucked. Wow, I would not have expected him to 4-bet/call TT there but I was more than happy about my new and colorful candy stack:



On our final day of the trip we both decided to not play any more serious poker. We went shopping first and planned to take a tour up and down the strip later that day to take pics and stop at poker rooms we had never played in before. Went over to Bally's to play some 1/2 there first:



As you can see from my dwindling stack that didn't go too well. After about an hour we were both fed up with playing poker, so we agreed to just take an extended walk and hang out at nice places on our way. We walked down from Ballys to MGM visiting all the casinos along the way while Steve was taking his pics. Obligatory final pic of the walk:



We took the monorail back to Flamingo and went to sleep rather early since Steve's flight would leave at 8 AM on the next day. When we left the Flamingo garage at sunrise that very next morning I couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic and took one last pic:



After all, the sun is a rare beast right now in Germany. It even gets to a point where I start looking for flights out of pure weather frustration.

I dropped off Steve at the airport and said goodbye to him. Had some more time to kill until my flight left so I went to Wholefoods, had an extended breakfast and started to get back into business stuff again. It was a great trip after all and I truly enjoyed every moment of it. Even though it was just a short period of 10 days total I feel like the shorter the stay the more I actually value the time I am able to spend here as a pokerplayer. Pokerwise I ran really well which is always sweet, but more importantly I also learned a lot again about live poker, about myself and about my poker psyche.

I will be back in town for the WSOP so I probably have to switch back to read-only mode until then, but I might continue to update this thread on my next trip, maybe even as a live TR.

Thank you all for reading and maybe see some of you at the tables soon!

Hope it's gonna be a long one

Great Trip report! Thanks for sharing.

Bravo and thank you.

Perhaps a final post detailing what your favorite poker room/restaurant/activity was? Maybe some general impressions? Can't help but ask for more after everything you've given has been so good.

Staying for about 2 weeks, but we will see

Thanks!

Thanks again. I can def try and keep this thread alive by answering questions.

Favorite room:

Tough to decide really, but I definitely stick with the big ones. I play a lot at the B for the capped games are soft, but I also enjoy the atmosphere and the deeper stacks at the Wynn or the Aria. I usually avoid V cause I could never really connect to the gameflow there - don't know why, maybe its the atmosphere and the perfume in the air.

Favorite restaurant:

Need to loosen up my range here. I'm such a nit that I am easy to please with comped food or a visit to the Cheesecake Factory. I always plan to try out all the other places I read about on here but when I return home I find that all I've done was go to EoS, InNOut and Cheesecake Factory lol.

Favorite activity:

Again, don't have a wide range here either. Definitely shopping first (lol european nits). I also wanted to go explore red rock canyon some more, I really liked that last year. But Steve declined this time so I will go for some hiking there next time again.

Very nice TR man, good work.

Cool, thanks for the answers.

I feel pretty much the same way about the V. I don't know what it is about the place, I just never quite feel comfortable playing there. Much prefer Aria/Wynn/Bellagio for the big rooms.

Thx!

For me personally it also has to do with the fact I somehow feel outnitted in 10-handed games lol, but whenever I read cushlash's motivating blog about grinding it out at the V I feel like I might ne missing out on something.

In the end I think it comes down to personal preferences and comfort zones. If you just don't feel home in a room or get a good feel for how the average ppl play there you probably shouldn't be playin it. After all, there's so many options for good game selection in Vegas for anyone.

Great TR! Finally one that had mostly to do with poker. When are you coming down for the WSOP? I'd like to buy you a beer or 9

Awesome TR! Great pictures and updates. The guy you played against, Mars Callahan has a pretty interesting story. He was a film maker and actor before he lost his right kidney to cancer. His movie Poolhall Junkies was a favorite of mine when I was in school. Independent flick about a pool hustler that he got Christopher Walken, Rod Steiger, Chazz Palmentieri to star in with him. I'm not surprised you found him interesting to play with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Callahan

Excellent TR! How much did you end up winning playing poker on this trip?

Safe travels. +1 here for MOAR on your next trip.

That's exactly my experience with many tournament players. A lot of fps in cash games.

Thx man, will be in town right at the beginning of June. And yay, free drinks always warm nit hearts.

Thx! I haven't seen the movie yet but I will def soon. He was so much fun to play with even though I bet that 2/5 is not gonna be his takes.

Ty! Managed to cover for expenses this time and replenish BR for my upcoming trip in the summer. Would love to take some 5/10 shots too some time again. My last one dates back 2 years and didn't end too well^^

Thx, will try!

True. I have become a little more cautious though cause sometimes they do have their solid phases and I level myself into giving them not enough credit in general - especially when I am on my iPad too much and not paying attention to what happened at the table.

Great TR, Flixxx. Thanks for writing! Now I'm super amped for my Vegas trip in July.

So how did the asian lady trump old dude's 9-6 with her 8's?

Ty sir! Don't forget to write a TR

Yeah, I got the board wrong but can't edit the original post. Should have been the 6 instead of the 9.

Thanks for writing the TR. I haven't been to Vegas for a few years and miss it so this helps a little bit but also makes it worse at the same time

Oh snap son, I work like two blocks from that place. I'll have to check it out for lunch some time next week.