Scandis in Vegas - a March Madness TR (03/25 - 04/05)
03-28-2019
, 09:23 AM
Vegas is such an amazing place full of absolutely insane, crazy people. Still at Aria, an irish guy and a Canadian lady are crazy drunk and keep ordering double Long Island ice teas every 10 minutes. Just absolutely insane, I love this city so much 
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03-28-2019
, 10:16 AM
This is heartwarming...
But - seriously - it reminds of the two biggest reasons I also love Vegas:- people from all over.. different countries/religions/etc... making connections.. laughing... good for the soul
- drunken/crazy/bad poker players
03-28-2019
, 03:59 PM
Quick and boring update from this mornings session. Played at a really good game at Aria that was built around two drunk guys with big stacks. Unfortunately I got nothing of it, frustrating... Got it in second nuts vs nuts 3 times.
Buyin: $1100
Cashout: $460
Overall result including tourney:
Currently shopping like crazy, and tonight it is FINALLY Kabuto time. Super excited about that, will update later.
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Buyin: $1100
Cashout: $460
Overall result including tourney:
Currently shopping like crazy, and tonight it is FINALLY Kabuto time. Super excited about that, will update later.
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03-28-2019
, 10:12 PM
Just another day in Paradise.
... which is actually a very correct description of our location, as most of the Las Vegas Strip actually is not in the actual city limits, but in Paradise - "an incorporated town adjacent to the city of Las Vegas":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise,_Nevada
I was super tired after the 8-game tomorrow, so slept until 9:15am or so. Had to get up then though, as me and Enhanced had plans to head to TopGolf at 10pm. When staying at the Signature, it's obviously just a short stroll down.
Enhanced have already posted a picture of the 'Driving Range', but they obviously offer refreshments in the form of food and drink as well:
Overall it was a great start to the day, the air was crisp, I actually hit some semi-decent (for me) golf shots, and it felt good to get all the tilt from yesterday out of the system.
After golf I took a quick shower and headed out to find a game. Decided on Venetian, and took the Monorail over to Harrah's before walking the rest of the way.
Almost there:
Got seated immediately in a game, and buy in for $300. While basically still waiting for my chips I get the welcome sight of QQ from UTG. I make it $10 to go in this $1-$3 game, and get three callers. Flop comes A-J-2. Not ideal, so I check it, and the rest of the players follow suit. Turn is another A, which seems like a good card. I bet $20 after the BB has checked, and the two players behind fold, before BB check-min-raises to $40. Seems a bit weird to me, but I guess it's an Ace most of the time. Maybe I should just have folded, but for some reason I didn't think he was super strong and wanted to see the river.
It comes a Q, and he leads for $40. He only has a $100 behind, and although I can be behind some full houses I also think I can get max value from any A. So I move all-in, and opponent thinks for 3-4 seconds before calling. I told him I got lucky on the river, but it turns out I didn't as he shows A2 for a better full house. He celebrates loudly, walks away from the table for a few moments, and cashes out 10 minutes later..
Oh well, not much I can do there. I reload for another $100, and a few hands later I get QQ again from early position. It folds to me, and I make it $10. An older player in Small Blind is the only caller. Although I haven't been at the table for too long, I see him make some strange plays, such as opening A9o UTG for a min-raise. Anyway, flop comes K-J-6 and he leads $15 in front. I make the call, and another K lands on the turn. This time he bets $75, which actually feels more defensive than strong to me. Would he really blast a King that hard? I don't think so, and I make the call again.
Very standard river, as a Q lands once again. He bets $100, I move all-in for $18 more, and he calls with QJo. That's obviously no good and I am back to even (slight profit). Obviously the river made it easy to call down, but I still think I would have done it even without it.
I do however lose a bit more when I raise 9Tdd to $15 over two limps, and c-bet a Q-7-2 flop with two hearts. Probably too thin of a bet as I have no backdoors though. Anyway, one caller, turn goes check check after the T lands, and river comes a 6. He leads for $50, and I talk myself into a call after what looked like hesitation on his part on flop before calling. It might have been hesitation, but he was likely thinking about raising instead, as he shows AQ for the winner. Definitely $50 bucks I could have saved there I think.
Also lose a hand with T9hh where board is 6-4-2-8 on turn with two hearts, but I miss the river against a very tight older Asian woman. So I'm suddenly stuck over $100 again.
Then it's a limp for $3 from a tilted player, an older guy makes it $14 and the woman calls, and I look down at black KK. I make it $50, and to my delight see the limper push all-in for around $150. The other two folds, and I obviously call. 7-7-K-A-3 is the final bord, but he did not have pocket Aces as he just mucks after seeing my hand. Unfortunately he did not reload.
One more interesting hand as well; there is 3-4 limps to me in SB and I look down at JJ. I make it $20 to go, only to see first limper re-raise to $50. Really stinks like Aces, but I had seen this guy do the same move once before (no showdown), so could theoretically be part of his strategy. I do call, and T-J-T hits the flop. Nice! I check, but he quickly checks back. Turn is a 5, and I decide to check again. Not entirely sure how strong he is, but want to give him the chance to bet. He again checks back. River comes a 7, and I don't think I can wait any longer. I bet $100, and he thinks for 15-20 seconds before calling and turning over AA.
He obviously seemed very proud of himself afterwards for 'losing the minimum', but that is such a passive way to play Aces.
So yeah, many big pots and a decent looking stack:
Only played for 2 hours, and cashed out $600 for a profit of +$200. Feels like it should have been more with all those big pots, but regardless a good confidence booster for upcoming sessions.
Now I'm gonna hit the gym for a quick one, and then head out for a few hours of evening grind.
Cash games:
Hours played: 11h 45min
Won/lost: - $525.00 USD
Hourly rate: -$44.68 USD
Tournaments:
Won/lost: - $225.00 USD (2 played)
/O
... which is actually a very correct description of our location, as most of the Las Vegas Strip actually is not in the actual city limits, but in Paradise - "an incorporated town adjacent to the city of Las Vegas":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise,_Nevada
I was super tired after the 8-game tomorrow, so slept until 9:15am or so. Had to get up then though, as me and Enhanced had plans to head to TopGolf at 10pm. When staying at the Signature, it's obviously just a short stroll down.
Enhanced have already posted a picture of the 'Driving Range', but they obviously offer refreshments in the form of food and drink as well:
Overall it was a great start to the day, the air was crisp, I actually hit some semi-decent (for me) golf shots, and it felt good to get all the tilt from yesterday out of the system.
After golf I took a quick shower and headed out to find a game. Decided on Venetian, and took the Monorail over to Harrah's before walking the rest of the way.
Almost there:
Got seated immediately in a game, and buy in for $300. While basically still waiting for my chips I get the welcome sight of QQ from UTG. I make it $10 to go in this $1-$3 game, and get three callers. Flop comes A-J-2. Not ideal, so I check it, and the rest of the players follow suit. Turn is another A, which seems like a good card. I bet $20 after the BB has checked, and the two players behind fold, before BB check-min-raises to $40. Seems a bit weird to me, but I guess it's an Ace most of the time. Maybe I should just have folded, but for some reason I didn't think he was super strong and wanted to see the river.
It comes a Q, and he leads for $40. He only has a $100 behind, and although I can be behind some full houses I also think I can get max value from any A. So I move all-in, and opponent thinks for 3-4 seconds before calling. I told him I got lucky on the river, but it turns out I didn't as he shows A2 for a better full house. He celebrates loudly, walks away from the table for a few moments, and cashes out 10 minutes later..
Oh well, not much I can do there. I reload for another $100, and a few hands later I get QQ again from early position. It folds to me, and I make it $10. An older player in Small Blind is the only caller. Although I haven't been at the table for too long, I see him make some strange plays, such as opening A9o UTG for a min-raise. Anyway, flop comes K-J-6 and he leads $15 in front. I make the call, and another K lands on the turn. This time he bets $75, which actually feels more defensive than strong to me. Would he really blast a King that hard? I don't think so, and I make the call again.
Very standard river, as a Q lands once again. He bets $100, I move all-in for $18 more, and he calls with QJo. That's obviously no good and I am back to even (slight profit). Obviously the river made it easy to call down, but I still think I would have done it even without it.
I do however lose a bit more when I raise 9Tdd to $15 over two limps, and c-bet a Q-7-2 flop with two hearts. Probably too thin of a bet as I have no backdoors though. Anyway, one caller, turn goes check check after the T lands, and river comes a 6. He leads for $50, and I talk myself into a call after what looked like hesitation on his part on flop before calling. It might have been hesitation, but he was likely thinking about raising instead, as he shows AQ for the winner. Definitely $50 bucks I could have saved there I think.
Also lose a hand with T9hh where board is 6-4-2-8 on turn with two hearts, but I miss the river against a very tight older Asian woman. So I'm suddenly stuck over $100 again.
Then it's a limp for $3 from a tilted player, an older guy makes it $14 and the woman calls, and I look down at black KK. I make it $50, and to my delight see the limper push all-in for around $150. The other two folds, and I obviously call. 7-7-K-A-3 is the final bord, but he did not have pocket Aces as he just mucks after seeing my hand. Unfortunately he did not reload.
One more interesting hand as well; there is 3-4 limps to me in SB and I look down at JJ. I make it $20 to go, only to see first limper re-raise to $50. Really stinks like Aces, but I had seen this guy do the same move once before (no showdown), so could theoretically be part of his strategy. I do call, and T-J-T hits the flop. Nice! I check, but he quickly checks back. Turn is a 5, and I decide to check again. Not entirely sure how strong he is, but want to give him the chance to bet. He again checks back. River comes a 7, and I don't think I can wait any longer. I bet $100, and he thinks for 15-20 seconds before calling and turning over AA.
He obviously seemed very proud of himself afterwards for 'losing the minimum', but that is such a passive way to play Aces.
So yeah, many big pots and a decent looking stack:
Only played for 2 hours, and cashed out $600 for a profit of +$200. Feels like it should have been more with all those big pots, but regardless a good confidence booster for upcoming sessions.
Now I'm gonna hit the gym for a quick one, and then head out for a few hours of evening grind.
Cash games:
Hours played: 11h 45min
Won/lost: - $525.00 USD
Hourly rate: -$44.68 USD
Tournaments:
Won/lost: - $225.00 USD (2 played)
/O
03-29-2019
, 10:19 AM
Last night we finally managed to try Kabuto with J (who is still due to update this thread...) and it was epic. It was as good as expected and would only give it 9/10 because they didn’t have o-toro which I had been expecting and looking forward to.
Some pics, although phone died midway:
Pro tip for first timers like me: go when you are starving. I had the big Kabuto special and couldn’t finish it, gave up when they started to bring the hand rolls.
Plan for today is to find a cash game somewhere and then we have a booking at Hell’s Kitchen which will be interesting. Will be expecting lots of:
Also, sick brag: I’m out of jet lag!
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Some pics, although phone died midway:
Pro tip for first timers like me: go when you are starving. I had the big Kabuto special and couldn’t finish it, gave up when they started to bring the hand rolls.
Plan for today is to find a cash game somewhere and then we have a booking at Hell’s Kitchen which will be interesting. Will be expecting lots of:
Also, sick brag: I’m out of jet lag!
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03-29-2019
, 12:23 PM
It might be because we are staying such a long time, but the days really just flow together in Vegas. And as always when I'm here, I am struggling between wanting to relax (pool time etc.) and the 'need' to grind hours.
That said, I have relaxed much more this trip than previous ones, which is good. After Venetian yesterday I met up with Enhanced for some In & Out (always good), then went back to Signature and hit up the gym for a bit.
After gym I went out for an evening session (while Enhanced crushed UX as always). Las Vegas evenings are always a great sight, although this looks more like a starry New York night:
I didn't bother venturing very far, but made my way over to an old favorite location of mine:
That's right, The Excalibur. I got seated immediately in a $1-$2 game that looked somewhat lively at least, although the eye-candy woman at the table unfortunately racked up soon after I left. And the use of the word 'rack' was not accidental
Unfortunately have no picture of the above, rather a random stack picture from early in the session:
To be honest, not too much happened in the 2 hours I played. But in a place of Medieval times, it seemed fitting that I got KK twice! Once I busted a short stack ($50 or so) on J-5-5 when he had AJ, but the other time the flop came A high in a 3-bet pot. Opponent immediately led out after I checked to him OOP, so decided to just let it go.
Also had AA once, and value bet flop and turn on (4-2-T-J), but river landed a fourth spade (I did not have one) and went check-check. Opponent only had 88, which is a shame as that is a hand I could have otherwise taken to value town if no spade.
Apart from that it was the usual - won some small ones with aggression pre + bet on flop, but also lost a few small ones. In the end cashed out for +$58, which at least means a small profit + that my Excalibur-'curse' is broken.
Not quite sure yet what the plan is for today. Me and Enhanced are likely playing the $70 tourney at Stratosphere tonight 7pm. That is the one which 'PokerKraut' are promoting - and usually plays - in his vlogs. It has a decent structure for a while, and likely a lot of bad players.
Tomorrow I will also be doing my 'Play minimum 7 hour'-session. Should be interesting, although I can't inform you guys about which casino I will do it at. Otherwise the wait list would be 50 deep with crushers looking to take my money
Cash games:
Hours played: 13h 45min
Won/lost: - $467.00 USD
Hourly rate: - $33.96 USD
Tournaments:
Won/lost: - $225.00 USD (2 played)
/O
That said, I have relaxed much more this trip than previous ones, which is good. After Venetian yesterday I met up with Enhanced for some In & Out (always good), then went back to Signature and hit up the gym for a bit.
After gym I went out for an evening session (while Enhanced crushed UX as always). Las Vegas evenings are always a great sight, although this looks more like a starry New York night:
I didn't bother venturing very far, but made my way over to an old favorite location of mine:
That's right, The Excalibur. I got seated immediately in a $1-$2 game that looked somewhat lively at least, although the eye-candy woman at the table unfortunately racked up soon after I left. And the use of the word 'rack' was not accidental
Unfortunately have no picture of the above, rather a random stack picture from early in the session:
To be honest, not too much happened in the 2 hours I played. But in a place of Medieval times, it seemed fitting that I got KK twice! Once I busted a short stack ($50 or so) on J-5-5 when he had AJ, but the other time the flop came A high in a 3-bet pot. Opponent immediately led out after I checked to him OOP, so decided to just let it go.
Also had AA once, and value bet flop and turn on (4-2-T-J), but river landed a fourth spade (I did not have one) and went check-check. Opponent only had 88, which is a shame as that is a hand I could have otherwise taken to value town if no spade.
Apart from that it was the usual - won some small ones with aggression pre + bet on flop, but also lost a few small ones. In the end cashed out for +$58, which at least means a small profit + that my Excalibur-'curse' is broken.
Not quite sure yet what the plan is for today. Me and Enhanced are likely playing the $70 tourney at Stratosphere tonight 7pm. That is the one which 'PokerKraut' are promoting - and usually plays - in his vlogs. It has a decent structure for a while, and likely a lot of bad players.
Tomorrow I will also be doing my 'Play minimum 7 hour'-session. Should be interesting, although I can't inform you guys about which casino I will do it at. Otherwise the wait list would be 50 deep with crushers looking to take my money
Cash games:
Hours played: 13h 45min
Won/lost: - $467.00 USD
Hourly rate: - $33.96 USD
Tournaments:
Won/lost: - $225.00 USD (2 played)
/O
