https://www.foodandwine.com/fwpro/wine-list-math

like this entire article infuriates me

they are trying to justify the costs of it all and explain why it's so expensive - but all they do is highlight needless frills

like they literally factor in the cost of a sommelier to talk to you about wine into the cost and mention things like "and you're drinking it out of glasses that cost $45 each and a restaurant will break about 2 of those a day"

how bout you silently put it on the table and i'll pour it into a solo cup?

Last night of gambool. Going to start at Mandalay Bay.

Almighty Gamblor please forgive me for my sins of early celebrations. May you shine down your mercy of one times upon us tonight.

Amen.

At least they're not super sketchy like night clubs especially ones in Korea where they recycle the liquor bottles and fill it with the cheap stuff evem though they're charging you 5x anyways.

Nothing playable at Mandalay. Excalibur it is.

I just noticed they have triple 0 roulette wheels now. Jesus how greedy can you get. But I guess people are still playing them.

Back at Excalibur.

Pretty crazy hand. Split 88 4 times. Dealer flips 9 and somehow busts.

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Played a short 2hr session this morning at Aria. The game was actually quite good, but alas I lost another $1200. Most of it was due to a failed bluff in one hand.

I guess we can start with that hand.
Stacks are around $1500 which is the max buy in.

Villain is a Scotsman in seat 9 in this mid thirties. He seems fairly tight and straight forward seems like a solid player.

Not sure what my image is. I've been at the table maybe 40 minutes at this point.

PF: A couple limpers and I make it 30 from the CO with 8s7s, button calls, SB calls, villain in bb makes it 165, folds back to me and I call, rest fold.

Flop(400): Qd Td 6s
Check, check

Turn(400): 3s
He bets 225, I call

River(850): Qh
He checks, I shove for like 1100 as it's pretty clear he has AK at this point and I think he could probably fold. But in retrospect I should probably just bet 450? idk. Anyways he tanks for maybe a minute and calls with AK. I get his call. I like my line in practice when I actually have the KQs or TT. But not really as a bluff.

Second hand:

$1500 stacks villain is a jovial looking heavy set German guy maybe around early 30s and seems to have done well sitting on around 3k or so. We have only been playing about an hour he is fairly loose semi passive pf. And plays a little tricky post flop where I have seen him min CR the flop with very strong hands and then check a safe turn. He did this twice. We had one hand early on where I 3bet his HJ open pf with AQo and them he CR'd me on a K 8 5r board. Check calls a 8r turn then jams a brick river.

PF: Relatively short stacked Korean lady who has like $400 limps in CO, Villain limps on Button, I make it 30 from the SB with AQo, bb folds and they both call.

Flop(90): A 2 Tr I bet 30, fold, call.

Turn(150): Q completes rainbow.

I bet 125, he then makes a comment saying "what is this? you bet flop tiny and now you betting big? come on that's too much." Then he makes it 300, I call.

River(750): 6.
I check and he eyes my stack before betting 500.
Hero...

ripped asian - you're always a nit unless you are visibly drunk and splashing it up

unsure if recs will also have that point of view though


hand 1: really surprised that he hero'd there with just A high feels like the right play vs the wrong opponent

hand 2: feels like he is super nutted, i'm folding

On the bubble of this 50k gtd w/ about 10bb.

Good news is that was a fast bubble burst. Only one hand for hand.

Bad news is that I got table changed from the CO straight into the BB and now have like 6bb.

Maybe?

Hmm...

And we hold vs A7o.

Alright this is it.

And we get the usual punish.

With less than 3bb might as well make an extra $10.

I jammed 1.9bb utg w/ T8

I figured this will be a better hand than what I will get dealt in the bb.

A7o isolates from MP which seems bad to me.

We win the flip and have 4.5bb in the SB.

Here we go.

Almost. Out in 74th.

Ah just caught up on the Vegas posts, so jealous!!! Some nice food pron as well 10/10

Thanks man glad you enjoyed it!

Would also welcome any thoughts on the last HH if you got time.

H1- seems fine, although I see people hero calling in these type of runpouts way more than they're supposed to live. My guess is they don't encounter many balanced Top pair check backs

H2- I'd go with the live read and fold. Whenever I see people make jokes/jobs like that during a hand, they've got the goods

Got a shot in this Boski.

Almost itm as a shortie in this one