First night in the bag
Flight landed around 8pm Vegas time and was the smoothest through the airport I have ever had. No queue at security and my bags were the first out on the carousel.
4 of us shared a taxi to the Cromwell and we were given our room keys. 7th floor out the lift, turned right and I was hit in the face with the stink of weed! The room itself is not great either but it will do as a base for the week. Personally I would have not picked this hotel but it is what it is. To top this off it's 1:25am as I am writing this and I can already hear th TV in the adjacent room.
We decided to shower, change and set out on the strip looking for a drink. I however wanted to play cash so we all went to the horseshoe. The wait list for 1/3 was long but it moved quickly and within 30 mins I was sat down with 3 stacks of high society and a dream.
It only took 5 hands until we got into a big pot.
UTG (a middle eastern guy) limps.
CO limps
We look down at AA on the button and make it 20 knowing full well we are getting a caller here regardless. It seems once Mr middle eastern guy puts a chip in the pot preflop he is going to the flop regardless of the bet.
He does indeed call and the CO moves out the way
Flop J34
UTG leads out for 15
There is no way he leads out here without a J so I am charging him for a turn.
Raise to 45
UTG calls
Turn 8
Now UTG checks and with what I thought was 100 behind I go ahead and chuck that amount in.
He angrily slams his 100 stack in for a call and I then notice 5 white $1 chips which he was hiding.
River 7
Checks again and I bet the last 5 he calls and I roll over the aces to be good for the pot.
Nice we are over 150 up right away. After then we got a greyhound in and just hung around on that stack for a good hour or two. I would lose small pots with plenty of pocket pairs where we were getting 3-4 to the pot because of the 200 high hand bonus every 30 mins and missing the board completely. Example raising 66 on the button. Blinds would call and we see flops like KQT and the blinds proceed to bet into each other.
Then the small ones we won were steals from the button after I got sick of seeing all the limpers.
We finish 146 up so am in profit for the trip so far.
Next as top the $400 epicstack event at the Venetian. Although at time of writing this I am pretty tired and not sure if a tournament is for me.
We will see
Day 1
+$146