oh the irony

the kiss of death

Tomark wish i relaized you were out in Vegas and playing Aria I was just out there myself playing Aria often. I have seen you previously comment on some of my previous HHs and what not. I would have come and said what up.

OP was honest man, cannot post as there is no internet in the sun

Another TR , another RIP

So I take it this guy busted his 13k Vegas roll trying to get people to fold top pair against his bottom pair + inside straight draw...who saw that coming?

Haha i totally forgot i made this, people werent really posting on it and i was getting killed

I think I bottomed out at -$3960 or so at cash before going on a tear. Lost all my tourneys ($1615) but ended +$2k in cash and +600 in degen, so overall ended the trip +$1k.

I pretty much kept playing like I had been playing, just started to run the table over, and occasionally hit a hand and got paid off. So all yall haters can gtfo lol.





Memorable hands...

Hit quads 3 times and a K high straight flush. But only got AA/KK a combined 6 times in 50 hours (including tourney hours). One of the quads, i stacked a guy (KK vs 99 on a 99Q flop), and 5 hands later I got stacked in nearly identical fashion (AK vs 99 on a K99 flop)

Got all in with a set vs FD about 1800 deep and lost. Back jammed preflop with 99 into AK which tank called me about 1400 deep and lost. Bluffed all in with complete air and runner runnered a flush against a set (lol). Got all in with aces on a monotone flop and he had the flopped flush.

Got my deepest stack, about $5800 deep at the 5/10/1500 at bellagio the final day I was there (was in the table for about 4300).

Despite hitting a few massive hands, i dont think i ran very well at all. The 5/T players at the bellagio sucked except for the appx 1 per table good pros. Predictable regs and splashy euros as far as the eye can see.

Saw a bunch of rando poker celebrities. Dwan and Antonius were in the high stakes room at bellagio, saw Brunson twice playing right next to the cashier in the main room at bellagio. Funniest one was Hellmuth walking thru the WSOP hallway with his big goofy headphones and some of those people manning the sales tables trying to sell him a pair of $50 headphones.

a few 10/25 and tourney pros sat down at my 2/5 table at the aria after having a few drinks and splashed around, they seemed like pretty cool guys, that was a fun night.



Grainy as hell photo of Paul Pierce getting escorted out of the Aria after almost getting into a fight in the high stakes room.

All in all a very fun trip.

Nice finish to the story; glad you came out ahead in the end. So you went runner runner quads to beat his flopped quads? Of did you mean it was 99K board instead of 99Q?

first hand I had 99 vs KK on 99Q board (he did not runner runner K-K) 5 hands later I had AK vs 99 on 99K board (I did not runner runner K-K either haha, although I did turn a useless A). So quad 9s hit twice in about a 5 hand period, and I was on both ends of it.

okay; thanks for clarification.

sounds like a fun trip.

you ever play any PLO at MD live? I am not a big fan of 5 card PLO; so I dont play often anymore.

I have played PLO once in my life, and it was at PARX. I am thinking of playing 1/2 PLO occasionally just because sometimes my friends want to play with me, and I get extremely bored and donk money away at 1/2 or 1/3 NLH, but i really have no idea what im doing at PLO. Would be curious if there are any good books on it, I read one but didnt find it particularly insightful. Seems sort of like a nut peddler game which is not my play style at all haha.

I am not very good either so I couldn't recommend any books, but I only play poker recreationally, and I find PLO infinitely more enjoyable that no limit.

well damn. op must be RA

Bonus session for TR. headed back to MGM, tried the 5/T, main table was running with a table agreed upon 25 straddle so I decided yolo ill take a 2k shot. Won 11k. Lolz. Probably my biggest win by 3x. I hit a ton of sets and also won a big hand where I got 4 bet holding KK.



Holdem graph since 3/4:



Biggest hand (hero covers) :

V2 (~5k deep) maybe good maybe not but either way he seems extremely tilted, he got all in vs maniac with some hand that lost to bottom 2 pair. My read was that he seems to massively overplay strong but non nut hands.

V3 (2500 deep) seems like total maniac.

I raised to $75 pre with 77, 3 callers.
Flop ($300) JJ9r, V1 check V2 check, i bet $125, V3 call, V2 calls

Turn ($675) bink a 7. Check, i check figuring maniac was trying some ****ty float, maniac checks, boo.

River ($675) 4, check, i bet $500, maniac thinks for a bit and folds, V2 goes $3100 (so still another ~1500 behind). Hero calls based on reads although I dont know that I couldve folded even to a bet this big fearing a super slowplayed J9/99.

V shows T8(??? I feel like it would make more sense to have air here than T8. Am i really bluffcatching with Jx here? Maybe I call with AJ... haha maybe its some range merging play thats over my head!) hero takes it down.

Also since i was already on an upswing, last 33 hrs is pretty hilarious stats.


Icarus climbs higher, making my eventual fall all the more epic.

Congratulations! Nice to go on a rush at big stakes!

pretty sick session; if thats 3x more than your previous high; what is your biggest losing session if you dont mind me asking; just curious?

Single session -2k. The once or twice i lost 2 BIs at 2/5 I walked away, and havent played 5/T enough to lose 2 full buyins in 1 session yet. I actually dont think ive ever had a downswing >~4k (like i had this most recent trip).

Toughest downswing I had was right when I first started playing 2/5, i lost 4k in about 4 hours and figured I was outmatched, but then ive crushed the game ever since.

Damn OP $11K $5/$10, well quit my job and move to Maryland.

Oh wait I suck, never mind.

Did you think about shoving for the last $1500? What's the argument for just calling (I know, non-nuts), but if you had a read, and he's already pot committed...

I thought about it, but I didnt think he was committed necessarily because some % of his raises were bluffs, and i wasnt sure I beat >50% of what he would call with. Wouldve been pretty thin i think, and maybe the numbers got to me as well.