Day 7 part 1
The day was mainly about poker.
Breakfast was Starbucks, lunch was Noodles again (using the comps from Bellagio poker) and dinner was 4 cookies as too busy with the poker.
The poker was pretty weird. I was dealt pocket aces 7 times, starting with my morning session at Caesar's:
I'm in the BB with AsAd, $133 stack (in for $160).
UTG limps, MP (middle aged male, a bit loose) raises to $10, LP calls $10.
I raise to $31 and MP calls.
Flop is 942 with two spades.
I bet $60 into the $75 pot.
MP calls.
Turn is Js.
I put my remaining $42 in and MP calls.
River is brick and MP shows KsQs
Not sure what I could have done differently. Even if I know he has spades, flop bet means he doesn't have the odds to hit the turn and he has to call the remainder to see the river; and if he does hit the turn at least I have a re-draw. Plus I can't know he has spades - if anything I could bet smaller or check to induce some kind of bluff?
I have the feeling people will say the standard "bet more pre", "all in on flop".
Either way, not exactly a bad beat story - I wasn't too bothered.
After this $160 loss I reload for $200 and manage to claw my way back to record a $60 loss for the session. Part of my way back was two more pairs of aces - one a small pot won pre-flop and another a small pot won on the flop (possibly examples of why betting more isn't necessarily the perfect answer!).
After lunch at Noodles I came back to Caesar's.
There was a fairly clueless player on my right, which was great until he called my pre-flop open of $12 with K4o and hits two pair when I have AK. Manage to escape losing only about $50-$60 from that pot. I topped up with another $30 (high roller, lol) and continued to lose small pots for a while until things gradually turn round and over the course of 3 hours I turned things into a $50 profit:
At this stage my concentration is going but I want to get to +$60 to cancel out the morning session. Predictably terrible strategy!
A new player sits two to my right - young, with headphones and sunglasses and immediately plays quite aggressively.
A couple of hands later, it's folded to him on the button, he makes a small raise. I have QJo in the BB and decide to make the call.
Long story short I call him down with second pair since I have convinced myself he's FOS.
Instead he has TPGK and I donk off $100 of my stack to him.
I was pretty frustrated, having been so patient for the rest of the week and then doing that after hanging around when I wasn't playing well.
TL;DR - I got a bit unlucky and then played bad, cashing out a $52 loss.
After this I finally find one of those 100 hand video poker machines... and do nothing exciting - now down a whopping $38 in video poker for the trip.
No 2p2 VP rungood for me.
(This picture was played at very low level as I tried to understand what I was doing before playing more hands for more $.
In part 2... evening session at Planet Hollywood, where I am dealt AA four times in less than an hour!