LAG’s TRs w/ pics: Cash Games, DSE, Road Trips, WSOP
05-30-2013
, 06:01 PM
05/29/2013
Slept two hours only. Had to get to Treasure Island, because I needed/wanted to sort out the rental car situation (namely influencing choice of car for Friday by using the 20 USD trick).
Since I was already at Treasure Island, I used the opportunity to check out the poker room:
Room location is now better than a year ago, though the entrance is right next to a burger joint. Still not optimal location to get random walk-ins IMO.
We got a game started at 4.45pm, most of the players waiting for the game were regs grinding the promo structure there I guess. Got sucked out once, flopped the nut straight, raising war on the flop, reg ships it, I call, reg has trips and rivers full house. Still managed to clock out after one hour with 88 USD profit though.
Off to the Venetian, the best poker room in town IMO. Plenty of tables, diverse player pool and you can table select like crazy. Always loved this place, always will. If they allowed a button straddle there, then this would be the ultimate poker heaven for me.
Re session: Got coolered once again, AK vs AK 5bet all-in on the flop, villain wins with runner runner flush...
After two hours of play time for dinner break. Meeting a good friend and a group of his friends for dinner at "The Cut" @ Palazzo. I highly recommend the Wagyu beef tasting menu there.
Had a great time: Tasty dinner in great company, you cannot beat that...
Back to the Venetian again after that. Grinded 1-2 NL for another 5 hours and clocked out at 4.00am with exactly 700 USD profit.
Cash game results up to and including 5/29/2013:
Slept two hours only. Had to get to Treasure Island, because I needed/wanted to sort out the rental car situation (namely influencing choice of car for Friday by using the 20 USD trick).
Since I was already at Treasure Island, I used the opportunity to check out the poker room:
Room location is now better than a year ago, though the entrance is right next to a burger joint. Still not optimal location to get random walk-ins IMO.
We got a game started at 4.45pm, most of the players waiting for the game were regs grinding the promo structure there I guess. Got sucked out once, flopped the nut straight, raising war on the flop, reg ships it, I call, reg has trips and rivers full house. Still managed to clock out after one hour with 88 USD profit though.
Off to the Venetian, the best poker room in town IMO. Plenty of tables, diverse player pool and you can table select like crazy. Always loved this place, always will. If they allowed a button straddle there, then this would be the ultimate poker heaven for me.
Re session: Got coolered once again, AK vs AK 5bet all-in on the flop, villain wins with runner runner flush...
After two hours of play time for dinner break. Meeting a good friend and a group of his friends for dinner at "The Cut" @ Palazzo. I highly recommend the Wagyu beef tasting menu there.
Had a great time: Tasty dinner in great company, you cannot beat that...
Back to the Venetian again after that. Grinded 1-2 NL for another 5 hours and clocked out at 4.00am with exactly 700 USD profit.
Cash game results up to and including 5/29/2013:
Nice game!
05-31-2013
, 11:46 AM
05-31-2013
, 11:59 PM
05/30/2013
Woke up at noon. Mrs LAG was supposed to land at LAS at 2.45pm, so no other option than to join the Aria 1-3 NL game and wait for her arrival.
As she arrived at the hotel she signalled that she needed to rest and gave me the thumbs up to grind until dinner.
Uneventful session while playing my A-game: 416 USD profit, 5.5 hours played.
Up to the room, but Mrs LAG bailed on our dinner plans since jet lag was catching up with her.
This gave me the opportunity to check out the properties on the North strip, namely Circus Circus and Riviera.
Since there was no NL game going at Circus Circus (I checked out the poker room on arrival and left my number with the staff since there was a list of 3 players who wanted to play NL - at that time they only spread 3-6 Limit), I headed to the Riviera:
To be honest, I experienced one of the most depressing sessions of my entire poker life there:
Only one table was open when I arrived, filled half with some young Euros, who were obviously taking advantage of the poker room rate there.
The lack of a shuffling machine made the game incredibly slow and the lack of dead money made it -EV.
From my point of view the most depressing part was actually the place itself. The whole casino had the feeling of a place past it's time. It literally felt like being in a time warp if you know what I mean. Also, the outside area is quite run down as well - I didn't feel safe in front of the casino (weird people walking around there at that time of the evening - haven't seen one tourist)
Session report: I managed to drop 300 USD in standard situations and decided to leave after 1.5 hours. I shall never return.
I made my way straight across the street to Circus Circus...
...only to learn that the poker room was now totally empty.
Pic of poker room when I left my phone number with staff:
Pic of poker room 1.5 hours later (10.30pm):
In reference to my task list, I hereby announce that the task "playing at Circus Circus" is officially completed with 0 hours played and 0 profit, since I have no intention to return to this area of the strip.
Because I still had some time to spare without Mrs LAG getting pissed off, I decided to head for the Wynn.
The Wynn poker room is located a bit off the main casino area in a hallway, but still gets enough traffic. It is not uncommon that random guests of the Wynn (read: wealthy) to try this poker thing. However there are already sufficient regs picking them up, but the reg to fish ratio is still healthy IMO.
I like the room: friendly staff, very good dealers, good games. And: the fastest free internet of any poker room on the strip (we are talking 24 Mbit+ compared to 256kb at the Aria for example).
Stopped playing at the Wynn after 2.5 hours with 698 USD profit.
Cash game results up to and including 5/30/2013:
Woke up at noon. Mrs LAG was supposed to land at LAS at 2.45pm, so no other option than to join the Aria 1-3 NL game and wait for her arrival.
As she arrived at the hotel she signalled that she needed to rest and gave me the thumbs up to grind until dinner.
Uneventful session while playing my A-game: 416 USD profit, 5.5 hours played.
Up to the room, but Mrs LAG bailed on our dinner plans since jet lag was catching up with her.
This gave me the opportunity to check out the properties on the North strip, namely Circus Circus and Riviera.
Since there was no NL game going at Circus Circus (I checked out the poker room on arrival and left my number with the staff since there was a list of 3 players who wanted to play NL - at that time they only spread 3-6 Limit), I headed to the Riviera:
To be honest, I experienced one of the most depressing sessions of my entire poker life there:
Only one table was open when I arrived, filled half with some young Euros, who were obviously taking advantage of the poker room rate there.
The lack of a shuffling machine made the game incredibly slow and the lack of dead money made it -EV.
From my point of view the most depressing part was actually the place itself. The whole casino had the feeling of a place past it's time. It literally felt like being in a time warp if you know what I mean. Also, the outside area is quite run down as well - I didn't feel safe in front of the casino (weird people walking around there at that time of the evening - haven't seen one tourist)
Session report: I managed to drop 300 USD in standard situations and decided to leave after 1.5 hours. I shall never return.
I made my way straight across the street to Circus Circus...
...only to learn that the poker room was now totally empty.
Pic of poker room when I left my phone number with staff:
Pic of poker room 1.5 hours later (10.30pm):
In reference to my task list, I hereby announce that the task "playing at Circus Circus" is officially completed with 0 hours played and 0 profit, since I have no intention to return to this area of the strip.
Because I still had some time to spare without Mrs LAG getting pissed off, I decided to head for the Wynn.
The Wynn poker room is located a bit off the main casino area in a hallway, but still gets enough traffic. It is not uncommon that random guests of the Wynn (read: wealthy) to try this poker thing. However there are already sufficient regs picking them up, but the reg to fish ratio is still healthy IMO.
I like the room: friendly staff, very good dealers, good games. And: the fastest free internet of any poker room on the strip (we are talking 24 Mbit+ compared to 256kb at the Aria for example).
Stopped playing at the Wynn after 2.5 hours with 698 USD profit.
Cash game results up to and including 5/30/2013:
06-01-2013
, 12:09 AM
I'm an idiot
06-01-2013
, 12:36 AM
06-01-2013
, 07:02 AM
05/31/2013
As I returned from the Wynn, Mrs LAG was just waking up and decided to unpack and to do some stuff on her laptop. Due to that I had a hard time falling asleep. Managed to sleep three hours only. It is 5am when Mrs LAG tells me I should go and play some poker under the condition that I pick her up at 7am to get some breakfast. I snap called her on that offer. Played two hours, dropped 301 USD. Table was horrible, my game was sub-par as well.
After breakfast I contacted my "20 dollar trick buddy" at the car rental agency to see if he was able to accommodate my request for a black Jeep Grand Cherokee. Mission was successful, he shuffled some cars against the car pool at LAS, hence I was able to pick up our ride for the next 18 days one hour later.
On the way back to the Aria I stopped at the Verizon shop to sort out our mobile data communication needs. 90 USD for 10GB data on the 4G LTE network is a good deal.
Proudly presenting "the internet":
Back tot he Aria after that, since I had to clock a couple more hours of play in order to qualify for the poker room rate for this night, Mrs LAG went shopping. 3 hours played, 197 USD profit. Was already up over 500 USD that session, but misplayed one hand big time. Not happy with my game.
Went through my to-do list and decided to check out the Mirage, since I still had a bit time until our dinner reservation.
I was positively surprised, the Mirage has a really nice and spacious poker room and at least my table was super soft and could play my style without any resistance. Will certainly come back here if time allows. 2 hours played, 385 USD profit.
After dinner with Mrs LAG, I once again took advantage of her jet lag situation (= she being asleep not caring if I play or not) and put in a 4 hour session at my usual 1-3 NL game at Aria, in which I dropped 262 USD, mainly due to a very questionable 4bet-shove on the flop from my side against an obvious squeeze play from the button (he snap call and obv wins with bottom pair-wtf?).
And this shall end the poker part for now. The cash grind will continue on June 5th. Tomorrow the first leg of our road trip is going to start. Mrs LAG and I are very excited. Hope you are as well.
Cash game results up to and including 5/31/2013:
Marta-Style
Day 1: 11 hours +581 USD Total 11 hours + 581 USD
Day 2: 8 hours -490 USD Total 19 hours +91 USD
Day 3: 17.5 hours +1964 USD Total 36.5 hours +2055 USD
Day 4: 8.5 hours +788 USD Total 45 hours + 2843 USD
Day 5: 9.5 hours +814 USD Total 54.5 hours +3657 USD
Day 6: 12 hours +19 USD Total 66.5 hours +3676 USD
My Style
As I returned from the Wynn, Mrs LAG was just waking up and decided to unpack and to do some stuff on her laptop. Due to that I had a hard time falling asleep. Managed to sleep three hours only. It is 5am when Mrs LAG tells me I should go and play some poker under the condition that I pick her up at 7am to get some breakfast. I snap called her on that offer. Played two hours, dropped 301 USD. Table was horrible, my game was sub-par as well.
After breakfast I contacted my "20 dollar trick buddy" at the car rental agency to see if he was able to accommodate my request for a black Jeep Grand Cherokee. Mission was successful, he shuffled some cars against the car pool at LAS, hence I was able to pick up our ride for the next 18 days one hour later.
On the way back to the Aria I stopped at the Verizon shop to sort out our mobile data communication needs. 90 USD for 10GB data on the 4G LTE network is a good deal.
Proudly presenting "the internet":
Back tot he Aria after that, since I had to clock a couple more hours of play in order to qualify for the poker room rate for this night, Mrs LAG went shopping. 3 hours played, 197 USD profit. Was already up over 500 USD that session, but misplayed one hand big time. Not happy with my game.
Went through my to-do list and decided to check out the Mirage, since I still had a bit time until our dinner reservation.
I was positively surprised, the Mirage has a really nice and spacious poker room and at least my table was super soft and could play my style without any resistance. Will certainly come back here if time allows. 2 hours played, 385 USD profit.
After dinner with Mrs LAG, I once again took advantage of her jet lag situation (= she being asleep not caring if I play or not) and put in a 4 hour session at my usual 1-3 NL game at Aria, in which I dropped 262 USD, mainly due to a very questionable 4bet-shove on the flop from my side against an obvious squeeze play from the button (he snap call and obv wins with bottom pair-wtf?).
And this shall end the poker part for now. The cash grind will continue on June 5th. Tomorrow the first leg of our road trip is going to start. Mrs LAG and I are very excited. Hope you are as well.
Cash game results up to and including 5/31/2013:
Marta-Style
Day 1: 11 hours +581 USD Total 11 hours + 581 USD
Day 2: 8 hours -490 USD Total 19 hours +91 USD
Day 3: 17.5 hours +1964 USD Total 36.5 hours +2055 USD
Day 4: 8.5 hours +788 USD Total 45 hours + 2843 USD
Day 5: 9.5 hours +814 USD Total 54.5 hours +3657 USD
Day 6: 12 hours +19 USD Total 66.5 hours +3676 USD
My Style