Building up 4 poker rolls (live + online).
08-17-2017
, 12:04 AM
8/15-8/16
Played a quick session on WSOP.com the first night 3-4 tabling 50 PLO and 50 NLHE. Play was very passive and people overfolded to cbets. had about +120 before I went to bed.
Next day, put in more volume at mixed stakes 50PLO/NLHE - 200 NLHE/PLO on WSOP again. Fired up about 9ish small tournaments on ACR as well. Came in 2nd in a small $3R field for $160. I think I got outplayed HU.
Putting in majority volume on WSOP.com for now as I want to finish up the remaining $240ish deposit bonus before it expires at the end of August.
Nothing too interesting came up in the cash session. I'll post 1 hand from PLO though.
QsQd4d3c
Limped 5 ways preflop. I lead out 7.5 into 9.5 on flop, folds to BTN who raises to 24. I have the option of repotting top set here but I think the better play is to just flat. I block middle and bottom set as well as top 2 pair. On brick turns, I plan to just chk/raise. Given my blockers, he's weighted mostly to hands like AcXc56 etc.
Turn comes Kc. He bets 44 into 55, I check fold. I'm blocking my own outs to the boat. He will almost never fire this turn with worse. I'm guessing I have 8 outs and if I hit, I don't think I get value by checking or leading river. Since I have no implied odds in this position, I think fold is the way to go.
Rolls
WSOP.com: 5463.5
ACR: 4602.36
Ignition: 2000.97
Live: 4000
Cash: +963.5
Tournaments: + 102.36
Upcoming week
-more volume on WSOP.com + mix in some tournies (clear that bonus)
-random tournies on ACR while OSS is going on
-study preflop PLO hand ranges
Played a quick session on WSOP.com the first night 3-4 tabling 50 PLO and 50 NLHE. Play was very passive and people overfolded to cbets. had about +120 before I went to bed.
Next day, put in more volume at mixed stakes 50PLO/NLHE - 200 NLHE/PLO on WSOP again. Fired up about 9ish small tournaments on ACR as well. Came in 2nd in a small $3R field for $160. I think I got outplayed HU.
Putting in majority volume on WSOP.com for now as I want to finish up the remaining $240ish deposit bonus before it expires at the end of August.
Nothing too interesting came up in the cash session. I'll post 1 hand from PLO though.
QsQd4d3c
Limped 5 ways preflop. I lead out 7.5 into 9.5 on flop, folds to BTN who raises to 24. I have the option of repotting top set here but I think the better play is to just flat. I block middle and bottom set as well as top 2 pair. On brick turns, I plan to just chk/raise. Given my blockers, he's weighted mostly to hands like AcXc56 etc.
Turn comes Kc. He bets 44 into 55, I check fold. I'm blocking my own outs to the boat. He will almost never fire this turn with worse. I'm guessing I have 8 outs and if I hit, I don't think I get value by checking or leading river. Since I have no implied odds in this position, I think fold is the way to go.
Rolls
WSOP.com: 5463.5
ACR: 4602.36
Ignition: 2000.97
Live: 4000
Cash: +963.5
Tournaments: + 102.36
Upcoming week
-more volume on WSOP.com + mix in some tournies (clear that bonus)
-random tournies on ACR while OSS is going on
-study preflop PLO hand ranges
08-21-2017
, 04:15 AM
8/17-8/20
Put in a decent session at 50 PLO on Ignition day 1 and 50-100 PLO/NLHE day 2. Ignition players are god awful but I kept breaking even so idk. Got frustrated with my results after about 1200 cash game hands and 6 hours and the software on ignition is pretty terrible so I went back to WSOP.com the next couple of days.
Started putting a bit more volume in NLHE on WSOP since PLO games are hard to find usually. Had a few interesting spots.
Hand #1: 100 NLHE on WSOP.com
Hero has T
T
in MP
Raise to 2.62, BTN calls, everyone folds.
FLOP: Q 9 4
Hero bets $3, BTN calls.
Turn: Q 9 4 K
Hero overbets $22 into $11 pot, BTN calls
RIver: Q 9 4 K 7
Hero shoves $72 into $55, BTN tank folds.
I think BTN is capped here. He will never have QQ, KK, and we block TJ. I also believe he will raise 99 and 44 on the flop usually.
When he calls flop, I think he's fairly weighted towards Qx and on the K turn, I don't believe we can win here with TT. But given how we're uncapped still and have all the nutty combos in our range and him being somewhat capped to KQ or Q9 I went with the over bet on the turn to polarize myself. On the river, the diamonds are a bit scary but we block the Td and there's not too many diamond combos he continues with on the flop. He seemed slightly reggy so I figured he could hero fold hands like KQ so I jammed river repping TJ, QQ, KK, 99, and backdoor diamonds.
Hand #2:
50 NLHE on WSOP.com
CO ($100) raises to 1.5, SB calls, Hero ($100) 3 bets his BB to $7 with AA. CO calls, SB calls.
Flop K
84
Hero bets $10, CO calls, SB folds
Turn: 5
Hero checks, CO bets $21 into $39, Hero calls.
River: T
Hero checks, CO bets $63 all in, Hero folds.
We started 200 BB deep and I should have a pretty strong range 3 betting OOP here.
K 8 4 rainbow will be a flop that hits me fairly hard as I have all the AK combos, KQs type hands and KK and AA. CO's range does include 44 and 88 which I will almost never have and CO may sometimes have KK in his range (since he might slow play it 200 BB deep).
When I check turn, I think he will bet a lot of his Kx here so I call. I also don't believe he is floating very light at all here as the flop is so dry and I'm betting into 2 people.
When I check river and he jams, I don't believe he will ever take this line with KQ or worse. I don't necessarily believe he does this with AK either and we block AK pretty heavily. Felt like he had more combos of 44, 88, KK, KTs with this line than he would have AK so I went with a fold. Very questionable but just went with my gut this time.
Live + Tournaments
Played a quick session at the Flamingo to get my live roll going, was aiming for the 12 hour freeroll promo but got super bored after 2 hours of playing 1/2 so I went home. I stacked someone with 88 vs AJ on a 8 A 2 3 J runout.
I raise pre, bet flop and turn and he called. River he donk led and I jammed and he called.
Played a few small buy in tournaments on Sunday while grinding more cash on WSOP. Went deep in a $11 7.5k guarantee on ACR and ended up getting 2nd place for about $1k. Went deep in a $4 Ignition beginner tournament and got 3rd for $18 (LOL). Ignition tournaments are super super soft from what I saw but their software sucks a lot and the no sync breaks is awful. This is gonna be a hard roll to grow.
Rolls
WSOP.com: 7185.98
ACR: $5680.94
Ignition: $1983
Live: $4260
Upcoming goals
-put 10 more hours in at Flamingo for the freeroll promo
-keep grinding out WSOP bonus ($170 left to go)
-take another shot at ignition cash games to build roll
Put in a decent session at 50 PLO on Ignition day 1 and 50-100 PLO/NLHE day 2. Ignition players are god awful but I kept breaking even so idk. Got frustrated with my results after about 1200 cash game hands and 6 hours and the software on ignition is pretty terrible so I went back to WSOP.com the next couple of days.
Started putting a bit more volume in NLHE on WSOP since PLO games are hard to find usually. Had a few interesting spots.
Hand #1: 100 NLHE on WSOP.com
Hero has T
T in MPRaise to 2.62, BTN calls, everyone folds.
FLOP: Q
9 4Hero bets $3, BTN calls.
Turn: Q
9 4 KHero overbets $22 into $11 pot, BTN calls
RIver: Q
9 4 K 7Hero shoves $72 into $55, BTN tank folds.
I think BTN is capped here. He will never have QQ, KK, and we block TJ. I also believe he will raise 99 and 44 on the flop usually.
When he calls flop, I think he's fairly weighted towards Qx and on the K turn, I don't believe we can win here with TT. But given how we're uncapped still and have all the nutty combos in our range and him being somewhat capped to KQ or Q9 I went with the over bet on the turn to polarize myself. On the river, the diamonds are a bit scary but we block the Td and there's not too many diamond combos he continues with on the flop. He seemed slightly reggy so I figured he could hero fold hands like KQ so I jammed river repping TJ, QQ, KK, 99, and backdoor diamonds.
Hand #2:
50 NLHE on WSOP.com
CO ($100) raises to 1.5, SB calls, Hero ($100) 3 bets his BB to $7 with A
A. CO calls, SB calls.Flop K
84Hero bets $10, CO calls, SB folds
Turn: 5
Hero checks, CO bets $21 into $39, Hero calls.
River: T
Hero checks, CO bets $63 all in, Hero folds.
We started 200 BB deep and I should have a pretty strong range 3 betting OOP here.
K 8 4 rainbow will be a flop that hits me fairly hard as I have all the AK combos, KQs type hands and KK and AA. CO's range does include 44 and 88 which I will almost never have and CO may sometimes have KK in his range (since he might slow play it 200 BB deep).
When I check turn, I think he will bet a lot of his Kx here so I call. I also don't believe he is floating very light at all here as the flop is so dry and I'm betting into 2 people.
When I check river and he jams, I don't believe he will ever take this line with KQ or worse. I don't necessarily believe he does this with AK either and we block AK pretty heavily. Felt like he had more combos of 44, 88, KK, KTs with this line than he would have AK so I went with a fold. Very questionable but just went with my gut this time.
Live + Tournaments
Played a quick session at the Flamingo to get my live roll going, was aiming for the 12 hour freeroll promo but got super bored after 2 hours of playing 1/2 so I went home. I stacked someone with 88 vs AJ on a 8 A 2 3 J runout.
I raise pre, bet flop and turn and he called. River he donk led and I jammed and he called.
Played a few small buy in tournaments on Sunday while grinding more cash on WSOP. Went deep in a $11 7.5k guarantee on ACR and ended up getting 2nd place for about $1k. Went deep in a $4 Ignition beginner tournament and got 3rd for $18 (LOL). Ignition tournaments are super super soft from what I saw but their software sucks a lot and the no sync breaks is awful. This is gonna be a hard roll to grow.
Rolls
WSOP.com: 7185.98
ACR: $5680.94
Ignition: $1983
Live: $4260
Upcoming goals
-put 10 more hours in at Flamingo for the freeroll promo
-keep grinding out WSOP bonus ($170 left to go)
-take another shot at ignition cash games to build roll
08-25-2017
, 04:48 PM
8/21-8/25
Put in a bunch of volume on WSOP.com. Mostly PLO. Not going too hot. Long break even/downer. Lost a LOT of 4 bet pots at 1/2 PLO which kept bringing my BR back down.
Finished up the Flamingo 12 hour promo for the freeroll and cashed in the freeroll for $200.
On my last session at Flamingo, I ran the hottest I ever ran as far card distributionwise. Played 2/4 FLHE while waiting for a NLHE table and got a straight flush first orbit for $100 high hand.
In the next 5 hours at NLHE, I hit 6 sets, got deal AA, KKx3, QQx2, JJ, TTx2, AK, AQx2, AJx2.
Table was not super loose so I actually didn't get paid off on most of my sets but still had a very good session finishing up the last 12 hours.
Here's a NLHE hand history.
Hero has ~$700 (everyone's covered.)
Hero is dealt A8 UTG +1 and limps in for $2. Few other limpers, BTN limps, SB and BB check. Go 6 way to the flop.
Flop: A87
Hero checks, and checks around.
Turn: K
Hero bets $8 into $12, MP calls $12, younger player on BTN raises to $30, Hero reraises to $100, MP folds BTN calls. BTN has 175ish behind.
River: 8 (POT: 220)
Hero bets $65, BTN calls and mucks.
To start things off, I don't have a raising strategy for the first 2-3 positions in a full ring table. Balance like this is probably not necessary for a live game. I really want to be seeing flops with hands like 22 and AXs which I typically would open fold from the earlier positions full ring. So I decided to go with a full limp my entire range strat from EP (Limped KK earlier this session and got a limp reraise in and took down a pretty sizeable pot so the table was aware of me having a limp reraise strat).
Flop: I decided to go for a check raise. I believe anyone here is going to bet the A for me, and I felt like 50% chance certain players at the table would stab their draws. If I bet OOP here, draws and Ax will continue anyways. and if it checks through, I'm willing to play this hand cautiously if straight or clubs comes and action takes place.
Turn: I now bet for value to get value vs Kx, Ax, and protect/value vs draws. When the BTN raises I have a decision to flat or reraise. I think flatting is bad because MP will have a lot of draws so we want to kick him out. I also believe we will have the best hand here near 100%. BTN would not limp behind KK AA AK with all the limpers. We block 88. And even if he did have a set, he shouldn't be checking behind closing the action on a fairly drawy board (especially with 77 since the A is out there). I think the top of his range at this point should be K8 or K7 and I don't think he will fold those to a reraise.
River: 3 options, check to induce, bet all in, bet small to induce/value.
Checking will possibly induce from missed club combo (but its very possible they just give up entirely and check back air).
Betting all in will sometimes get hero called by Ax, but Kx and K7 (which now counterfeited) will fold.
Betting small on the river may induce a bluff shove (still very unlikely imo) but I believe I will get looked up by Kx here given sizing as well as Ax always. If he has K8 or 77 or 8x, the money's going all in regardless. I think betting smallish for value here is the way to go given how our actual hand blocks the board.
Transferred $500 from my live BR to WSOP.com to take advantage of another $500 reload bonus. I got $90 left to clear on my current one before it expires at the end of August and 60 days to clear this new $500 bonus. I might try to get Diamond status on WSOP.com by month's end. I need about 1600 more VPPs (Diamond req. 3500 total).
Been studying a ton of PLO. Gonna go through a bunch of Galfond videos again. Usually fall asleep watching them but I have started to actively take notes while I watch the videos. I'll try to immerse myself in them instead of just something that plays on the background before I sleep.
Rolls
WSOP.com: 6769.22+500 =$7269.22 (Took a $500 deposit for new bonus)
ACR: $5680.94
Ignition: $1983
Live: 5177-500 = $4677 (After transfer $500 to WSOP roll for reload)
Upcoming
-clear $90 WSOP bonus by end of month
-get diamond status on WSOP
-Ignition volume... maybe
-solve PLO
-Toss in a few more ACR tournies here and there
Put in a bunch of volume on WSOP.com. Mostly PLO. Not going too hot. Long break even/downer. Lost a LOT of 4 bet pots at 1/2 PLO which kept bringing my BR back down.
Finished up the Flamingo 12 hour promo for the freeroll and cashed in the freeroll for $200.
On my last session at Flamingo, I ran the hottest I ever ran as far card distributionwise. Played 2/4 FLHE while waiting for a NLHE table and got a straight flush first orbit for $100 high hand.
In the next 5 hours at NLHE, I hit 6 sets, got deal AA, KKx3, QQx2, JJ, TTx2, AK, AQx2, AJx2.
Table was not super loose so I actually didn't get paid off on most of my sets but still had a very good session finishing up the last 12 hours.
Here's a NLHE hand history.
Hero has ~$700 (everyone's covered.)
Hero is dealt A
8 UTG +1 and limps in for $2. Few other limpers, BTN limps, SB and BB check. Go 6 way to the flop.Flop: A
87Hero checks, and checks around.
Turn: K
Hero bets $8 into $12, MP calls $12, younger player on BTN raises to $30, Hero reraises to $100, MP folds BTN calls. BTN has 175ish behind.
River: 8
(POT: 220)Hero bets $65, BTN calls and mucks.
To start things off, I don't have a raising strategy for the first 2-3 positions in a full ring table. Balance like this is probably not necessary for a live game. I really want to be seeing flops with hands like 22 and AXs which I typically would open fold from the earlier positions full ring. So I decided to go with a full limp my entire range strat from EP (Limped KK earlier this session and got a limp reraise in and took down a pretty sizeable pot so the table was aware of me having a limp reraise strat).
Flop: I decided to go for a check raise. I believe anyone here is going to bet the A for me, and I felt like 50% chance certain players at the table would stab their draws. If I bet OOP here, draws and Ax will continue anyways. and if it checks through, I'm willing to play this hand cautiously if straight or clubs comes and action takes place.
Turn: I now bet for value to get value vs Kx, Ax, and protect/value vs draws. When the BTN raises I have a decision to flat or reraise. I think flatting is bad because MP will have a lot of draws so we want to kick him out. I also believe we will have the best hand here near 100%. BTN would not limp behind KK AA AK with all the limpers. We block 88. And even if he did have a set, he shouldn't be checking behind closing the action on a fairly drawy board (especially with 77 since the A is out there). I think the top of his range at this point should be K8 or K7 and I don't think he will fold those to a reraise.
River: 3 options, check to induce, bet all in, bet small to induce/value.
Checking will possibly induce from missed club combo (but its very possible they just give up entirely and check back air).
Betting all in will sometimes get hero called by Ax, but Kx and K7 (which now counterfeited) will fold.
Betting small on the river may induce a bluff shove (still very unlikely imo) but I believe I will get looked up by Kx here given sizing as well as Ax always. If he has K8 or 77 or 8x, the money's going all in regardless. I think betting smallish for value here is the way to go given how our actual hand blocks the board.
Transferred $500 from my live BR to WSOP.com to take advantage of another $500 reload bonus. I got $90 left to clear on my current one before it expires at the end of August and 60 days to clear this new $500 bonus. I might try to get Diamond status on WSOP.com by month's end. I need about 1600 more VPPs (Diamond req. 3500 total).
Been studying a ton of PLO. Gonna go through a bunch of Galfond videos again. Usually fall asleep watching them but I have started to actively take notes while I watch the videos. I'll try to immerse myself in them instead of just something that plays on the background before I sleep.
Rolls
WSOP.com: 6769.22+500 =$7269.22 (Took a $500 deposit for new bonus)
ACR: $5680.94
Ignition: $1983
Live: 5177-500 = $4677 (After transfer $500 to WSOP roll for reload)
Upcoming
-clear $90 WSOP bonus by end of month
-get diamond status on WSOP
-Ignition volume... maybe
-solve PLO
-Toss in a few more ACR tournies here and there
08-31-2017
, 09:45 AM
8/26-8/30
Finished up Diamond status + first reload bonus on WSOP.com. Put in enough volume to get some extra money from their weekly cash game volume leaderboard (which I didn't even know existed). Had to put in some heavy volume at NL as there weren't too many PLO games running.
Also put in some more volume at ignition cash games. Mostly at 100 PLO. I'd like to grow this roll to about 5k before starting shots at 200 PLO.
Ignition - $1 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
Hero (BB): 100 BB
SB: 252.66 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 2)
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 4 4
SB calls 0.5 BB, Hero checks
Flop: (2 BB, 2 players) 2 4 3
Hero checks, SB bets 2 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, SB raises to 29 BB, Hero raises to 89 BB, SB raises to 251.66 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 10 BB and is all-in
Turn: (200 BB, 2 players) 9
River: (200 BB, 2 players) K
Hero shows 4 4 (Three of a Kind, Fours)
(Pre 50%, Flop 35%, Turn 23%)
SB shows 5 6 (Straight, Six High)
(Pre 50%, Flop 65%, Turn 77%)
SB wins 199 BB
I tried to get some NLHE volume in on Ignition. I sit down HU first hand and get this. Then the guy plays 1 more hand then hit and runs me and quits. Put me on NLHE tilt. Losing at about -5000bb/100 HU NLHE.
Ignition graph so far. Doesn't include a pretty big session from last night that I did since it takes 24hrs for ignition to provide hand histories. +~700 on ignition so far.
Rolls
WSOP.com: 8646.64
ACR: $5680.94
Ignition: $2743.78
Live: $4677
Upcoming
-Toying with the idea of doing the Southpoint casino grind again. It's a 100 hour grind over 3 months that enters you into a 185k freeroll with 35k up top. I've done it twice already and bricked the tourney twice. Its got about 400 entrants and a super soft tourney field. Unfortunately, because of the nature of the promotion, its a bunch of OMCs and pretty bad games overall. The highest game they run is 1/2 NLHE. I think I average about $13/hr at southpoint. I'd like to grow my live roll to ~10k before taking a few shots at 2/5 NLHE.
-ACR roll needs a little love. Might try to grind out some mass volume starting Friday to take a shot at the beast leaderboards. Will probably do this if I can get a decent study session for PLO in before friday night.
-Taking a break from WSOP.com for the upcoming week
Finished up Diamond status + first reload bonus on WSOP.com. Put in enough volume to get some extra money from their weekly cash game volume leaderboard (which I didn't even know existed). Had to put in some heavy volume at NL as there weren't too many PLO games running.
Also put in some more volume at ignition cash games. Mostly at 100 PLO. I'd like to grow this roll to about 5k before starting shots at 200 PLO.
Ignition - $1 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
Hero (BB): 100 BB
SB: 252.66 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 2)
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 4
4 SB calls 0.5 BB, Hero checks
Flop: (2 BB, 2 players) 2
4 3 Hero checks, SB bets 2 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, SB raises to 29 BB, Hero raises to 89 BB, SB raises to 251.66 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 10 BB and is all-in
Turn: (200 BB, 2 players) 9
River: (200 BB, 2 players) K
Hero shows 4
4 (Three of a Kind, Fours)(Pre 50%, Flop 35%, Turn 23%)
SB shows 5
6 (Straight, Six High)(Pre 50%, Flop 65%, Turn 77%)
SB wins 199 BB
I tried to get some NLHE volume in on Ignition. I sit down HU first hand and get this. Then the guy plays 1 more hand then hit and runs me and quits. Put me on NLHE tilt. Losing at about -5000bb/100 HU NLHE.
Ignition graph so far. Doesn't include a pretty big session from last night that I did since it takes 24hrs for ignition to provide hand histories. +~700 on ignition so far.
Rolls
WSOP.com: 8646.64
ACR: $5680.94
Ignition: $2743.78
Live: $4677
Upcoming
-Toying with the idea of doing the Southpoint casino grind again. It's a 100 hour grind over 3 months that enters you into a 185k freeroll with 35k up top. I've done it twice already and bricked the tourney twice. Its got about 400 entrants and a super soft tourney field. Unfortunately, because of the nature of the promotion, its a bunch of OMCs and pretty bad games overall. The highest game they run is 1/2 NLHE. I think I average about $13/hr at southpoint. I'd like to grow my live roll to ~10k before taking a few shots at 2/5 NLHE.
-ACR roll needs a little love. Might try to grind out some mass volume starting Friday to take a shot at the beast leaderboards. Will probably do this if I can get a decent study session for PLO in before friday night.
-Taking a break from WSOP.com for the upcoming week
09-29-2017
, 02:52 AM
Treasure Island
Ended up doing Treasure Island's weekly get paid to play promo ($600 for 60 hours) in under 5 days.
The poker room opens at noon and the weekly promo period begins on Sunday. They also have a bonus hour where you get 2x hour from noon to 1 pm so you get one bonus hour a day.
I began the grind Sunday right at noon and the table immediately filled up with 8 9 regs and 1 recreational player. The recreational player quit the game fairly quickly probably noticing how little action there was and it was quickly filled up by another promo hour grinder.
I would say the TI game that begins at noon is one of the nittiest 1/2 or 1/3 games I've played in Vegas (although the Harrah's morning promo and Southpoint morning hours come pretty close). The game stayed very stale every day I played it but got better at night (9PM+). After 9 pm, it played a bit more similar to a typical on strip 1/2 NLHE game with random stragglers/recs/tourists wandering in to splash around.
Day 1
About 2nd orbit, a couple of limps to me on the button and I bump it to $20 with KK. I don't know anything about these players as this is the first hour I've ever played here and UTG who limped bumps it to $100 with a $250 starting stack. Folds to me and I tank and try to get a read. He's an older asian man who wears a hat and has headphones and is watching his phone for most of the session. I decide that in a vacuum I just need to get it in here without reads and its only for $250 and TI is a 500 max buy in so I jam and he has AA. As I play through the week, I learn that his range here is only AA and this is a snap fold. He never 3 bets QQ or AK and the only 2 hands in his 3 betting range is KK and AA. I will safely assume his only hands in a limp reraise range is AA.
I put in roughly a 15 hour session on Day 1 and towards the end of the night, a few reggy looking players who seem decent and probably play a bit higher stakes wander into TI looking to splash around and drink a bit. I'd guess they might be 2/5 regs at the Wynn or something. I'm in the game for 750 and leave around 3am with ~$1200ish after winning a few big pots from them.
Day 2
Was super tired from the session prior and I play a "short" session this day for about 9.5 hours. I barely remember hands from this session and nothing really interesting came up.
Day 3
I get buried in this session for about $1500 in buy ins as people keep hitting sets on me or getting super coolered (having 8t vs KT on 9QJ). I also ran a bluff that didn't work towards the end of the night.
I raise JT in MP to $8, BTN calls.
BTN is a player I haven't seen before so I have no reads but he bought in for $350 and he looks like he might be an ok player. My raise is a bit loose but I'm stuck and I open up my range a little when I'm stuck.
Flop: Q94 (POT: $18)
I bet $12 BTN calls $12
Turn: Q94J (POT: $40)
I check, BTN bets $20, I check raise to $85 BTN calls.
River: Q94JA (POT: $210)
I shove a little over pot size effective and BTN tanks and tanks and tanks and ends up calling with 8hTh.
I like my play here overall despite the results. I think combowise my hand is ideal to be playing it this way. I block the Ts and I block turn 2 pair with a J. When he bets turn, I don't believe I actually have the best hand anymore but I should still have decent equity and I want to be applying pressure to Qx type hands which I think I can blow off. The river As seems like a scary card for me and him but having the Ts in my hand makes this a pretty standard jam bluff in my spot.
Anyways, the guy ends up not being a very strong player at all as the night progresses and he turns out to be sort of a station. My bluffy image also pays me off as eventually I get back all of my chips from him. A few other weak players come in and out and the game gets good and I can't leave the table. I play til 1 am and cash out a nice $1750 stack.
Day 4/5
Start off the session stuck (4th day in a row) getting super coolered and running very poorly in equity. Top 2 vs bottom set, missing pair + flush draw vs AA. I'm also half delirious this day as I'm on about 3 hours of sleep per night and I'm straddling and splashing around too much. I have the button straddle to $6 and a lot of people come in and I decide not to bump it up with A7.
Flop comes AT7
I get check raised on the flop by the BB who is a TI decent reg. I call the check raise, he bets a 4 turn, and bets a J river for about $120 and I make the call and he ends up having AT. Feels like I lost the minimum.
So now I'm already in for about 1k by the time night time rolls around. I'm clawing my way back and girl from Ukraine sits to my left. She seems fairly solid and tightish. She is folding her BB to smallish raises, she doesn't limp very often, in fact she comes in for raises more than I'd expect and she folded quickly to a small 3 bet pre from another player. Her game seems respectable.
H1:
I raise AA and she flats and BB calls and we go to a flop. QQ9ccx flop checks through and I bet 1/2 pot on an 8 turn and she min raises me and I call. River is another 9 and it checks through and she shows 88.
H2:
A player limps, I bump it to 12 on the BTN with QQ and she 3 bets (first time this session) to 25 in the SB and first guy flats and I flat.
Flop: 8T4 rainbow. She bets 50, I call
Turn: 8T46. She bets 100, I tank fold and show her only. She doesn't say anything
H3:
A play who likes to limp a lot but opens fairly tight opens UTG to 13 and I elect to flat BTN with QQ. Girl 3 bets from the SB to 50, UTG calls and I flat.
Flop: A66.
Checks through.
Turn: A668
She bets 60, UTG fold, I call
River: A668A
She checks I check behind and she wins with KK.
I think its possible to be turning QQ into a bluff here on the river to specifically fold out KK. I imagine her to be having a very tight range here and its very unlikely that she takes this line with AK. I believe by the river and after she checks, her range is specifically KK QQ and JJ. I think she will respect my game enough to put me on an A here given and will fold to a bet of 100 or so. This is also exactly how I would play any Ax.
I get stuck even more running kind of bad here and she racks up to cash out and I ask her what she had on H2 and she tells me she had JJ. Dammit. Oh well.
As the night is wrapping up, I consider giving up on the 60 hours and just doing 50 hours but a super fish walks in and begins to play. From the get go, it is pretty clear he has no idea whats really going on and needs the dealer to tell him what kind of options he has (to bet or check or raise etc). We are 4 handed and the other two players notice how bad he is so we keep the game going. He goes on an absolute insane run and runs his stack up to $650.
He goes all in on the turn with T7 on K427 and the other player called him with a K and the river is a T. This player doesn't even notice the T and says he has a 7 and his facial expression reads that he actually thinks he has the best hand. He turns over his cards, the dealer tells him he has T7 and he wins with 2 pair.
He also cracks AA vs one of the morning regs with QT in a 3 bet pot preflop on a KJ9 board.
Fortunately for me, this hand comes up.
Fish limps button, I pop it to $20 with KK in the SB, BB folds, and fish calls.
Flop: TT9
Fish starts to bet out of turn, dealer has to remind him its not his turn, and I decide to cbet $20 despite him betting for me because he had a very consistent tendency of always raising people's bets. He raises to $60. When he raises, he tends to barrel the next street at a near 100% frequency from what I've noticed so I elect to just call as I don't know what would happen if I 4 bet him on the flop.
Turn: TT97 (POT: 160)
I check, He bets $480 all in, I snap call and when I snap call, the reg on my left audibly yells "****" because he realizes all the fishes money is likely going my way.
Hands get shown down and fish has 55. He actually rebuys for $200 but the other reg ends up getting it and the game breaks at 4:30 am. Now I only have 2 hours left to do so I sleep another 3 hours and finish up my session in the morning. I get insta stuck again for $300 in bad spots and make it mostly back. Even though my results at TI were decent, I'd say I ran fairly bad overall throughout the week.
Overall the game is pretty horrendous in the morning and afternoon, and its fine deep into the night. I only slept a grand total of probably 15 hours since Sunday so I'm probably going to lay off the poker for a few days.
Final results: +$776 Treasure Island NLHE + $599 bonus hour rewards
Ended up doing Treasure Island's weekly get paid to play promo ($600 for 60 hours) in under 5 days.
The poker room opens at noon and the weekly promo period begins on Sunday. They also have a bonus hour where you get 2x hour from noon to 1 pm so you get one bonus hour a day.
I began the grind Sunday right at noon and the table immediately filled up with 8 9 regs and 1 recreational player. The recreational player quit the game fairly quickly probably noticing how little action there was and it was quickly filled up by another promo hour grinder.
I would say the TI game that begins at noon is one of the nittiest 1/2 or 1/3 games I've played in Vegas (although the Harrah's morning promo and Southpoint morning hours come pretty close). The game stayed very stale every day I played it but got better at night (9PM+). After 9 pm, it played a bit more similar to a typical on strip 1/2 NLHE game with random stragglers/recs/tourists wandering in to splash around.
Day 1
About 2nd orbit, a couple of limps to me on the button and I bump it to $20 with KK. I don't know anything about these players as this is the first hour I've ever played here and UTG who limped bumps it to $100 with a $250 starting stack. Folds to me and I tank and try to get a read. He's an older asian man who wears a hat and has headphones and is watching his phone for most of the session. I decide that in a vacuum I just need to get it in here without reads and its only for $250 and TI is a 500 max buy in so I jam and he has AA. As I play through the week, I learn that his range here is only AA and this is a snap fold. He never 3 bets QQ or AK and the only 2 hands in his 3 betting range is KK and AA. I will safely assume his only hands in a limp reraise range is AA.
I put in roughly a 15 hour session on Day 1 and towards the end of the night, a few reggy looking players who seem decent and probably play a bit higher stakes wander into TI looking to splash around and drink a bit. I'd guess they might be 2/5 regs at the Wynn or something. I'm in the game for 750 and leave around 3am with ~$1200ish after winning a few big pots from them.
Day 2
Was super tired from the session prior and I play a "short" session this day for about 9.5 hours. I barely remember hands from this session and nothing really interesting came up.
Day 3
I get buried in this session for about $1500 in buy ins as people keep hitting sets on me or getting super coolered (having 8t vs KT on 9QJ). I also ran a bluff that didn't work towards the end of the night.
I raise J
T in MP to $8, BTN calls.BTN is a player I haven't seen before so I have no reads but he bought in for $350 and he looks like he might be an ok player. My raise is a bit loose but I'm stuck and I open up my range a little when I'm stuck.
Flop: Q
94 (POT: $18)I bet $12 BTN calls $12
Turn: Q
94J (POT: $40)I check, BTN bets $20, I check raise to $85 BTN calls.
River: Q
94JA (POT: $210)I shove a little over pot size effective and BTN tanks and tanks and tanks and ends up calling with 8hTh.
I like my play here overall despite the results. I think combowise my hand is ideal to be playing it this way. I block the Ts and I block turn 2 pair with a J. When he bets turn, I don't believe I actually have the best hand anymore but I should still have decent equity and I want to be applying pressure to Qx type hands which I think I can blow off. The river As seems like a scary card for me and him but having the Ts in my hand makes this a pretty standard jam bluff in my spot.
Anyways, the guy ends up not being a very strong player at all as the night progresses and he turns out to be sort of a station. My bluffy image also pays me off as eventually I get back all of my chips from him. A few other weak players come in and out and the game gets good and I can't leave the table. I play til 1 am and cash out a nice $1750 stack.
Day 4/5
Start off the session stuck (4th day in a row) getting super coolered and running very poorly in equity. Top 2 vs bottom set, missing pair + flush draw vs AA. I'm also half delirious this day as I'm on about 3 hours of sleep per night and I'm straddling and splashing around too much. I have the button straddle to $6 and a lot of people come in and I decide not to bump it up with A
7.Flop comes A
T7I get check raised on the flop by the BB who is a TI decent reg. I call the check raise, he bets a 4
turn, and bets a J river for about $120 and I make the call and he ends up having AT. Feels like I lost the minimum.So now I'm already in for about 1k by the time night time rolls around. I'm clawing my way back and girl from Ukraine sits to my left. She seems fairly solid and tightish. She is folding her BB to smallish raises, she doesn't limp very often, in fact she comes in for raises more than I'd expect and she folded quickly to a small 3 bet pre from another player. Her game seems respectable.
H1:
I raise AA and she flats and BB calls and we go to a flop. QQ9ccx flop checks through and I bet 1/2 pot on an 8 turn and she min raises me and I call. River is another 9 and it checks through and she shows 88.
H2:
A player limps, I bump it to 12 on the BTN with QQ and she 3 bets (first time this session) to 25 in the SB and first guy flats and I flat.
Flop: 8T4 rainbow. She bets 50, I call
Turn: 8T46. She bets 100, I tank fold and show her only. She doesn't say anything
H3:
A play who likes to limp a lot but opens fairly tight opens UTG to 13 and I elect to flat BTN with QQ. Girl 3 bets from the SB to 50, UTG calls and I flat.
Flop: A66.
Checks through.
Turn: A668
She bets 60, UTG fold, I call
River: A668A
She checks I check behind and she wins with KK.
I think its possible to be turning QQ into a bluff here on the river to specifically fold out KK. I imagine her to be having a very tight range here and its very unlikely that she takes this line with AK. I believe by the river and after she checks, her range is specifically KK QQ and JJ. I think she will respect my game enough to put me on an A here given and will fold to a bet of 100 or so. This is also exactly how I would play any Ax.
I get stuck even more running kind of bad here and she racks up to cash out and I ask her what she had on H2 and she tells me she had JJ. Dammit. Oh well.
As the night is wrapping up, I consider giving up on the 60 hours and just doing 50 hours but a super fish walks in and begins to play. From the get go, it is pretty clear he has no idea whats really going on and needs the dealer to tell him what kind of options he has (to bet or check or raise etc). We are 4 handed and the other two players notice how bad he is so we keep the game going. He goes on an absolute insane run and runs his stack up to $650.
He goes all in on the turn with T7 on K427 and the other player called him with a K and the river is a T. This player doesn't even notice the T and says he has a 7 and his facial expression reads that he actually thinks he has the best hand. He turns over his cards, the dealer tells him he has T7 and he wins with 2 pair.
He also cracks AA vs one of the morning regs with QT in a 3 bet pot preflop on a KJ9 board.
Fortunately for me, this hand comes up.
Fish limps button, I pop it to $20 with KK in the SB, BB folds, and fish calls.
Flop: T
T9Fish starts to bet out of turn, dealer has to remind him its not his turn, and I decide to cbet $20 despite him betting for me because he had a very consistent tendency of always raising people's bets. He raises to $60. When he raises, he tends to barrel the next street at a near 100% frequency from what I've noticed so I elect to just call as I don't know what would happen if I 4 bet him on the flop.
Turn: T
T97 (POT: 160)I check, He bets $480 all in, I snap call and when I snap call, the reg on my left audibly yells "****" because he realizes all the fishes money is likely going my way.
Hands get shown down and fish has 55. He actually rebuys for $200 but the other reg ends up getting it and the game breaks at 4:30 am. Now I only have 2 hours left to do so I sleep another 3 hours and finish up my session in the morning. I get insta stuck again for $300 in bad spots and make it mostly back. Even though my results at TI were decent, I'd say I ran fairly bad overall throughout the week.
Overall the game is pretty horrendous in the morning and afternoon, and its fine deep into the night. I only slept a grand total of probably 15 hours since Sunday so I'm probably going to lay off the poker for a few days.
Final results: +$776 Treasure Island NLHE + $599 bonus hour rewards
10-06-2017
, 01:52 PM
9/29-10/6
After TI, I actually went back for one more day and got a few hours in. I dropped off a roommate who needed to finish his hours there and I wanted to spend some of my comps so I sat in the game for a bit.
Played Binion's saturday $175 NLHE tournament and chopped it HU for 2.4k.
Played some MTTs on sunday on Ignition and ACR and bricked quite a bit.
Put in a couple days at Southpoint to do their 120 hour promotion. Its going to be a painful grind and I have until the end of November to get the hours.
The summary of the promotion is in 3 months, if you log 120 hours at their poker tables, you qualify for a 185k freeroll that pays 35k to 1st. They have roughly 4 hours a day of double hours and the promo runs from sept 1 to nov 30 with the tournament being in December. The games are very nitty and not much action (similar to Treasure Island) although they seem to pick up a little bit towards the night time.
Also put a little bit of volume on Global PLO games to try to get some momentum going on the roll there. Played on WSOP.com as well but have been on a breakeven stretch there.
Binions
Binion's saturday $175 is a 10k guarantee. When I played it, it had 62 runners. The average age of the players was pretty old and they play for the most part, a very passive limp style. Of course the field was very soft. Most people would like Binions' structure, 30 min levels, smaller incremental blind levels, and eventually it would go to 40 min levels, and then 60 min levels.
I was massive chip leader with about 23 left (suckout AQ>AK for a big one vs a seemingly decent player), but down towards 11 people left I lost a significant amount of chips running a big bluff.
Hero has J8 on the BTN and raises to 6k at 1k/2k. SB calls.
Flop: 9A3
Hero bets 6.5k, SB calls.
Turn: 9 A 3 T
SB leads for 12k, Hero calls.
River: 9 A 3 T K
SB checks, Hero jams 60k effective putting SB all in, he tank calls with 9T
I fell to about 4th in chips after that one. FT was pretty straightforward. I was very card dead but found ok steal spots in late position. Lost a massive flip 6 handed AQs vs JJ for about 40% of the chips in play and began playing the short stack. Luckily I had my push fold strategy down for 6-20BB stacks and got some chips coming my way as the blinds seemed to be over folding.
Eventually got to HU @ 5k/10k (60 min levels) with me at about 440k vs his 780k and we decided on an ICM chop. It was midnight and I really didn't feel like playing longer as I hate slow structures and am more of a turbo MTT grinder online.
ICM chop numbers
1st: 3200 => 2750ish
2nd: 2000 => 2450ish
My roommate also made the FT but ended up busting in 6th. We had swapped 10% so I shipped him 240 and he shipped me 40.
Rolls
WSOP: 10059.95
ACR: 5692.41
Ignition: 4379.93
Global Poker: 2365.09
Live: 8429
Upcoming
A slow painful southpoint grind
shots at live 2/5?
After TI, I actually went back for one more day and got a few hours in. I dropped off a roommate who needed to finish his hours there and I wanted to spend some of my comps so I sat in the game for a bit.
Played Binion's saturday $175 NLHE tournament and chopped it HU for 2.4k.
Played some MTTs on sunday on Ignition and ACR and bricked quite a bit.
Put in a couple days at Southpoint to do their 120 hour promotion. Its going to be a painful grind and I have until the end of November to get the hours.
The summary of the promotion is in 3 months, if you log 120 hours at their poker tables, you qualify for a 185k freeroll that pays 35k to 1st. They have roughly 4 hours a day of double hours and the promo runs from sept 1 to nov 30 with the tournament being in December. The games are very nitty and not much action (similar to Treasure Island) although they seem to pick up a little bit towards the night time.
Also put a little bit of volume on Global PLO games to try to get some momentum going on the roll there. Played on WSOP.com as well but have been on a breakeven stretch there.
Binions
Binion's saturday $175 is a 10k guarantee. When I played it, it had 62 runners. The average age of the players was pretty old and they play for the most part, a very passive limp style. Of course the field was very soft. Most people would like Binions' structure, 30 min levels, smaller incremental blind levels, and eventually it would go to 40 min levels, and then 60 min levels.
I was massive chip leader with about 23 left (suckout AQ>AK for a big one vs a seemingly decent player), but down towards 11 people left I lost a significant amount of chips running a big bluff.
Hero has J
8 on the BTN and raises to 6k at 1k/2k. SB calls.Flop: 9
A3Hero bets 6.5k, SB calls.
Turn: 9
A 3 TSB leads for 12k, Hero calls.
River: 9
A 3 T KSB checks, Hero jams 60k effective putting SB all in, he tank calls with 9
TI fell to about 4th in chips after that one. FT was pretty straightforward. I was very card dead but found ok steal spots in late position. Lost a massive flip 6 handed AQs vs JJ for about 40% of the chips in play and began playing the short stack. Luckily I had my push fold strategy down for 6-20BB stacks and got some chips coming my way as the blinds seemed to be over folding.
Eventually got to HU @ 5k/10k (60 min levels) with me at about 440k vs his 780k and we decided on an ICM chop. It was midnight and I really didn't feel like playing longer as I hate slow structures and am more of a turbo MTT grinder online.
ICM chop numbers
1st: 3200 => 2750ish
2nd: 2000 => 2450ish
My roommate also made the FT but ended up busting in 6th. We had swapped 10% so I shipped him 240 and he shipped me 40.
Rolls
WSOP: 10059.95
ACR: 5692.41
Ignition: 4379.93
Global Poker: 2365.09
Live: 8429
Upcoming
A slow painful southpoint grind
shots at live 2/5?