Scandis in Vegas - a March Madness TR (03/25 - 04/05)
03-31-2019
, 09:58 AM
Pig4bill: BigWhale and Enhanced leave Thursday, me and J leave Friday afternoon.
And with that another morning started! Some random picks during the walk over to Bellagio as the sun comes up:
Plan for today is very similar to yesterday. Get breakfast here at the B and then crush cash games for 8 hours. And by crushing I obviously mean losing several buyins, so if anyone is short on cash just drop over
It will be the last full session btw, from tomorrow I am moving from Mirage to the Bellagio again (fully comped yay!) and will just chill and play random small tourneys the last 4 days.
Also just bumped into this random dude in the lobby:
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And with that another morning started! Some random picks during the walk over to Bellagio as the sun comes up:
Plan for today is very similar to yesterday. Get breakfast here at the B and then crush cash games for 8 hours. And by crushing I obviously mean losing several buyins, so if anyone is short on cash just drop over
It will be the last full session btw, from tomorrow I am moving from Mirage to the Bellagio again (fully comped yay!) and will just chill and play random small tourneys the last 4 days.
Also just bumped into this random dude in the lobby:
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03-31-2019
, 10:43 AM
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How does the pot get to $800 on the flop? Sounds like you had a $15 pot or pre so it must have been $15, $45, $135, ship or similar?
I think I would have been concerned about a set at some point in that. Still might have shipped. And obviously your range was great against his. The Q being of flush suit helped too.
I think I would have been concerned about a set at some point in that. Still might have shipped. And obviously your range was great against his. The Q being of flush suit helped too.
I c-r flop for $85 and he just piles it in for $400. Obviously can’t fold in that spot...
Edit: he only completed the straddle so he cannot have QQ. If he has 55 we still have 40% equity but that’s worst case scenario:
Last edited by MuckPls; 03-31-2019 at 10:55 AM.
03-31-2019
, 01:35 PM
Bigwhale - I for one strongly approve of you cutting your session short. I think the only reason to play a long session is being at a great table/on a great run (winning image.). So it happens organically. If I tried to put in a session of N hours it sounds like a recipe to lose money.
That’s said, I don’t mind playing 8-12 hours in a day, sometimes more, but it will include table changes, casino changes, maybe a nap.
That’s said, I don’t mind playing 8-12 hours in a day, sometimes more, but it will include table changes, casino changes, maybe a nap.
03-31-2019
, 06:59 PM
As allured to above, me and Enhanced started the day with a trip Downtown! The Donut Bar had their 3 year anniversary, which meant a lot of people and activities:
Quite a long line to get in, but there were still plenty of donuts left. We had these:
After getting stuffed by donuts, we said hello to YouTuber 'SayHiToMatthew'. Not sure how many on here who is familiar with him, but despite not being a poker player he loves Vegas and often travels from Toronto to here. He often promotes The Donut Bar, and he gave us one of his special made donuts each:
After this we strolled up Fremont Street with the usual sights and sounds. This one is a reminder to that_pope, two Kings are always welcome here:
The construction of 'Circa' is still ongoing, would expect it to be finished circa 2020:
After that we went to Golden Nugget. Enhanced as always played no poker, while I got a seat in a $1-$2 game. Super easy game, I made a lot of decent value bets and stack was looking nice:
I cashed out a cool profit of almost $200..... oh wait, since I'm a joke of a poker player that's unfortunately not what happened.
In the second to last hand UTG limps, and I come along with Q9dd (could raise, should have folded). Many others limp as well, before an older player in the BB makes it $7. That gets rid of no-one, and 6 players see the beauty of T-9-9.
Another older player, who have been extremely spewy/active so far, leads for $25, and the pre-flop raiser calls. I make it $105 to go, and only the spewy older fish calls. He has been having a super wide pre-flop selection (32cc, J4ss etc.), I called down his bluff once, and he also 3-bet my UTG-open earlier with KQo (I had KJss).
Turn is my least favorite card in the world, another T. He checked dark before turn, and I check behind. River is an 8 (straight not really relevant as board is double paired), and he leads for $200.
It stinks like a Ten, but is he really so f* bad that he would call a sizeable raise on flop with only a T? I guess he is, but in game I thought it was more likely he was trying to get me off a nine, overplaying a nine, or bluffing with a straight. I make a crying call, and he shows... T6o. Well played, well played.
I snap-cashed out down $118 USD, and must admit I still feel super tilted if just thinking about the hand. I have had much worse losses before, but I was mentally ready to leave with an easy $200 profit, and instead it all goes to pieces in that last hand. Tough to take, given:
1) If I was mentally prepared to cash out, I should have just folded pre.
2) Even though opponent is terrible, I should probably fold the river.
3) I should still be in that game as it was super profitable, not just leave because I got frustrated.
So yeah, that was no fun at all. Instead of continuing on an uptick in a session where I felt I played really good, controlled poker, I instead left with a really bad feeling. But just gotta shake it off and get back on the grind in a bit I guess, as I am sure there are still some very good games out there today. Hopefully I can make better decisions then.
/O
Quite a long line to get in, but there were still plenty of donuts left. We had these:
After getting stuffed by donuts, we said hello to YouTuber 'SayHiToMatthew'. Not sure how many on here who is familiar with him, but despite not being a poker player he loves Vegas and often travels from Toronto to here. He often promotes The Donut Bar, and he gave us one of his special made donuts each:
After this we strolled up Fremont Street with the usual sights and sounds. This one is a reminder to that_pope, two Kings are always welcome here:
The construction of 'Circa' is still ongoing, would expect it to be finished circa 2020:
After that we went to Golden Nugget. Enhanced as always played no poker, while I got a seat in a $1-$2 game. Super easy game, I made a lot of decent value bets and stack was looking nice:
I cashed out a cool profit of almost $200..... oh wait, since I'm a joke of a poker player that's unfortunately not what happened.
In the second to last hand UTG limps, and I come along with Q9dd (could raise, should have folded). Many others limp as well, before an older player in the BB makes it $7. That gets rid of no-one, and 6 players see the beauty of T-9-9.
Another older player, who have been extremely spewy/active so far, leads for $25, and the pre-flop raiser calls. I make it $105 to go, and only the spewy older fish calls. He has been having a super wide pre-flop selection (32cc, J4ss etc.), I called down his bluff once, and he also 3-bet my UTG-open earlier with KQo (I had KJss).
Turn is my least favorite card in the world, another T. He checked dark before turn, and I check behind. River is an 8 (straight not really relevant as board is double paired), and he leads for $200.
It stinks like a Ten, but is he really so f* bad that he would call a sizeable raise on flop with only a T? I guess he is, but in game I thought it was more likely he was trying to get me off a nine, overplaying a nine, or bluffing with a straight. I make a crying call, and he shows... T6o. Well played, well played.
I snap-cashed out down $118 USD, and must admit I still feel super tilted if just thinking about the hand. I have had much worse losses before, but I was mentally ready to leave with an easy $200 profit, and instead it all goes to pieces in that last hand. Tough to take, given:
1) If I was mentally prepared to cash out, I should have just folded pre.
2) Even though opponent is terrible, I should probably fold the river.
3) I should still be in that game as it was super profitable, not just leave because I got frustrated.
So yeah, that was no fun at all. Instead of continuing on an uptick in a session where I felt I played really good, controlled poker, I instead left with a really bad feeling. But just gotta shake it off and get back on the grind in a bit I guess, as I am sure there are still some very good games out there today. Hopefully I can make better decisions then.
/O
04-01-2019
, 01:38 PM
I also played the $100 6pm at Ceasars along with Enhanced. And although my result was not on the same level as him, I have no complaints with how I played.
To cut it short, my starting table involved a huge fish who was bluffing way too much. I got short early, then doubled with QQ vs A9 on a 9-4-5-5 board (money in on turn), then trickled down a bit before doubling again, this time with 66 pre against the fish A5 and another players QJ.
Played an interesting hand against the fish later as well, when I raised KTo to 1500 pre from early position (3-600). Bit loose, but we were only 7-handed and table was weak. Fish calls SB, rest folds. Flop comes J-T-4, and he checks. I check back for pot-control + I have seen that he loves to blast when others show weakness. Turn is another J, and he checks again. I bet 2200, and he check-raises to 8100. Bit weird, as this is a different line than I expected him to take. I give it a bit of time, but in the end decide that this guy is way too spewy to give this one up. I call, with plans to call down on pretty much any river as well. River comes a 5, which put backdoor diamonds out there, but I do have a flush blocker in the form of Kd. He moves all-in, I call, and he shows the complete airball of K7hh.
All this lead to me having a great stack of around 35000 chips to 1st break. Blinds would be 4-800-800 after.
We are down to 20 players when I sit down after break, and the very first hand I get QQ from UTG. I make it 2000 to go, while the two new players to my left discuss a bluff that the youngest of them made earlier. He also calls my 2000, and BB calls.
7-6-5 is the flop. Not the very best one out there, but can still bet for value. I bet 3000 (half pot), and the young player mentioned above just moves all-in for over 40000 chips (!). BB folds and it's back on me. I can't see him ever playing a set like this, so unless some weird two pair, this is pretty much always gonna be an overplayed overpair or something like 78. So I call it off, and opponent shows TT.
Enhanced later told me that average stack at FT would have been 47000, so this is a pot that could easily have landed me there. But it wasn't to be as a Ten hits the river, and we're out of the Ceasars $100 6pm tourney. Pretty unlucky! When I played this tourney on Monday I also had the same thing happen (TT vs 99, 9 on river).
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Headed over to what is weirdly enough one of my favorite rooms, The Excalibur, and started a cash game session instead. There was a huge donator in this game as well, but disappointingly enough I never got involved in huge hands with him, and he racked up to leave after I had been in the game for around 2.5 hours. That said, it certainly wasn't unprofitable, as seen below:
(here I have limped in, like the fish I am)
In the end I cashed out for +$205, which was pretty good and ensured that I profited on cash game this day as well. I really would have liked to get in any huge hands against the donator, but can't complain overall I guess.
Today.. who knows? Don't have any concrete plans yet, and actually slept until 10am (late for me in Vegas). Might go promo-hunting at Venetian, as I believe they are starting a new high hand promotion today.
Cash Games:
Hours played: 28h 30min
Won/lost: +$507.00 USD
Hourly rate: +$17.79 USD
Tournaments:
Won/lost: - $105.00 USD (4 played)
/O
To cut it short, my starting table involved a huge fish who was bluffing way too much. I got short early, then doubled with QQ vs A9 on a 9-4-5-5 board (money in on turn), then trickled down a bit before doubling again, this time with 66 pre against the fish A5 and another players QJ.
Played an interesting hand against the fish later as well, when I raised KTo to 1500 pre from early position (3-600). Bit loose, but we were only 7-handed and table was weak. Fish calls SB, rest folds. Flop comes J-T-4, and he checks. I check back for pot-control + I have seen that he loves to blast when others show weakness. Turn is another J, and he checks again. I bet 2200, and he check-raises to 8100. Bit weird, as this is a different line than I expected him to take. I give it a bit of time, but in the end decide that this guy is way too spewy to give this one up. I call, with plans to call down on pretty much any river as well. River comes a 5, which put backdoor diamonds out there, but I do have a flush blocker in the form of Kd. He moves all-in, I call, and he shows the complete airball of K7hh.
All this lead to me having a great stack of around 35000 chips to 1st break. Blinds would be 4-800-800 after.
We are down to 20 players when I sit down after break, and the very first hand I get QQ from UTG. I make it 2000 to go, while the two new players to my left discuss a bluff that the youngest of them made earlier. He also calls my 2000, and BB calls.
7-6-5 is the flop. Not the very best one out there, but can still bet for value. I bet 3000 (half pot), and the young player mentioned above just moves all-in for over 40000 chips (!). BB folds and it's back on me. I can't see him ever playing a set like this, so unless some weird two pair, this is pretty much always gonna be an overplayed overpair or something like 78. So I call it off, and opponent shows TT.
Enhanced later told me that average stack at FT would have been 47000, so this is a pot that could easily have landed me there. But it wasn't to be as a Ten hits the river, and we're out of the Ceasars $100 6pm tourney. Pretty unlucky! When I played this tourney on Monday I also had the same thing happen (TT vs 99, 9 on river).
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Headed over to what is weirdly enough one of my favorite rooms, The Excalibur, and started a cash game session instead. There was a huge donator in this game as well, but disappointingly enough I never got involved in huge hands with him, and he racked up to leave after I had been in the game for around 2.5 hours. That said, it certainly wasn't unprofitable, as seen below:
(here I have limped in, like the fish I am)
In the end I cashed out for +$205, which was pretty good and ensured that I profited on cash game this day as well. I really would have liked to get in any huge hands against the donator, but can't complain overall I guess.
Today.. who knows? Don't have any concrete plans yet, and actually slept until 10am (late for me in Vegas). Might go promo-hunting at Venetian, as I believe they are starting a new high hand promotion today.
Cash Games:
Hours played: 28h 30min
Won/lost: +$507.00 USD
Hourly rate: +$17.79 USD
Tournaments:
Won/lost: - $105.00 USD (4 played)
/O
04-01-2019
, 01:38 PM
Woke up and joined the PH $80 tournament with J just for fun. Played a pretty funny hand:
In the bb with Jc9c, there is a small raise which everyone calls. Flop is Td7d2x. Guy makes it half the pot, gets 5 calls and we ship it for fun for like 9000. We get 4 callers, up against T7, 72 and AdJd. Turn blank river is an 8 and the OMCs are going nuts!
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In the bb with Jc9c, there is a small raise which everyone calls. Flop is Td7d2x. Guy makes it half the pot, gets 5 calls and we ship it for fun for like 9000. We get 4 callers, up against T7, 72 and AdJd. Turn blank river is an 8 and the OMCs are going nuts!
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04-01-2019
, 02:39 PM
It's cool how you guys are having fun doing your own thing. I went with a group of friends once (I was actually friends with only one of the group) and they all just followed the alpha around like lost puppies. I wouldn't be surprised if they all went to the bathroom together.
04-01-2019
, 02:56 PM
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Woke up and joined the PH $80 tournament with J just for fun. Played a pretty funny hand:
In the bb with Jc9c, there is a small raise which everyone calls. Flop is Td7d2x. Guy makes it half the pot, gets 5 calls and we ship it for fun for like 9000. We get 4 callers, up against T7, 72 and AdJd. Turn blank river is an 8 and the OMCs are going nuts!
In the bb with Jc9c, there is a small raise which everyone calls. Flop is Td7d2x. Guy makes it half the pot, gets 5 calls and we ship it for fun for like 9000. We get 4 callers, up against T7, 72 and AdJd. Turn blank river is an 8 and the OMCs are going nuts!
This is great, moar updates prease!