The PH games from like 2am-8/9am are some of the best in town consistently. By far the best at that time

Really..thanks so much for the heads up!!

Bankroll: $3,565
Max BI: $357

Played 8 hours over 4 short sessions at Bally's, PH, Flamingo. Last session was just a cool-off nut peddle session waiting for my buddy to pick me up..except I got stacked first hand...was fortunate enough to break back over even but wow.

After only 8 hours my brain is mush-mush. All sessions were 1-2 and I bought in for $200 each time. So far I haven't really pushed the limit with the max-buy in and aggressive bankroll building/destruction.

Ok I'm a little bit more coherent now.

So as it pertains to why I'm playing only at these casinos: I'm playing towards a $5 buy-in tournament in which top 40 get $500 each out of is typically 200-250 runners. Notice I didn't call it a free roll because the dealer add-on is $5 so it's a $5 tournament. Haha...nit-view but true. I need 20 hours at CET properties for this.

Once this is done I will probably venture off to other poker rooms that run more tables and hope to table hop onto a nice soft table. The tables at these properties so far have been ok though, with only 2-3 tables typically running.

Ok sleep time (can't adjust sleep cycle yet to play 2-9am as Turntup74 suggested :/ )

My sleep schedule when i was in vegas this past summer was normally something like 6AM-3PM and then play almost all of the time i was awake. When my sleeping became much more erratic (sleeping at noon waking up at 5pm) i began to play 2 distinct sessions a day, an "early" session until about 2-3 am and then i would play at PH/MGM until i was so tired i couldn't concentrate anymore.

I would not suggest playing that way all the time but if there are days where you are awake longer or can't sleep PH was always my #1

Glad to see you doing well, keep it up!!

Thanks!!

DONT GIVE UP!

Bankroll: $2,671
Max BI: $267

Back breaking day, I was in the hole ~$1200 and ended down 894.

There will be some hands I'll vent out here they're not totally strategy friendly and I leave out table dynamics and such and I may have some minor details wrong I recorded the hands via texts to my friends (everybody loves a complainer/bad beat story...right guys???)

First hand of the day I flop trips turn full house get it in on river against naked trips. Guy only had $150~ but what a start! One orbit and a half later I flop top two QJ7 flop and get it in against 10-9 (~$200) and AK (short stack <$70). I didn't hold...and that flop was the high point for me in terms of highest equity/largest potential stack I had all day.

Hours later I had KcTc (I can't remember hijack or cutoff I know I had position post flop). I called a raise-call-call to 12 (pot ~50) AcJh9x flop. PF raiser bets $10. Call call I call. (Pot ~90)

Turn 8c EL OH EL. PF raiser bets $35 fold fold I call. (Pot ~160 w/ rake).

River 5s. Guy now checks. I go AI for $120 effective (guys stack). He thinks for about 30 seconds says "your good" and slides in a call. I flip over my busted draw he stares at for 5 seconds then turns over A8.

I then lost another ~$200 where I limp called a raise ($16-$17 ) PF with QQ. And I check-raised-called off AI on a flop of 552 against the PFR (heads up post flop). He had AA. Betting was something like I check he bet $30 raised to $75 he shipped...and I called...yes I thought he had a pair but I clearly did not think his range was only KK-AA here I just robotically assumed any pair above the 5's on board.

This was at Bally's so I ventured up Caesars palace. They run a 1-3 I kept buying in for $200. It was relatively short handed (6-7 handed majority of time) and there was an aggressive European and maybe a Las Vegas reg and then tourists. The reg and euro were playing ok short handed raising enough/appropriate proportion to the short handed dynamic, so I loosened up my range and played along. I won a bunch of small pots.

Then this happened and I was so "proud" of my play...this hand might get torn up by my slow/passive play (think the QQ hand above PF) from you guys but that's what we're here for. I'm actually ok with my play but I may have made a terrible judgement call on what opponent could have had but as you'll see his river check is what gives me the confidence to feel like it was "good" on my part.

7-handed (I have ~460) and smooth called the aggro Euro PF for $15 (he had me covered) with KK. We got to the flop heads up with me in position. QJ7 flop (where did we see this exact flop before?? Sigh/hehe). He over bets 40 I call. (Pot ~105 after rake)

turn 3 He bets $100 I raise to $225 he calls. (Pot $555)

river 2 He checks...I ship my last $180~ he mulls it over for over 1 minute and calls.

I proudly flip over KK he shows the Q first then the 2. sigh! I was actually not bothered by this hand and I think it was the best hand I played in a big pot all day.

I can't even remember what I thought he might have on the turn when he bet-calls me...so perhaps against perceived ranges my play is -EV and I just lucked out he only had Q2. All I remember was feeling like "I got this well played" etc haha.

The table at Caesars now filled up and I lost again to euro with JJ on QQxxQ board. He limped PF I raised and we got heads up and he lead out flop turn river I just call call call he has QK. I mean I really goofed because I didn't even stop to think "what does he think I have?" And possibly at least think about whether I'm good. I just did another robot call down. I don't remember bet sizes I lost ~$250.

Suffice to say I dropped 6 buy ins at $200 a time (or topping back to or just over $200). I'd say I played maybe 35% of hands OK and the rest too aggressively/tilty.

Good news: I won $300 after all this at Caesars then flamingo.

My brain is extra mush I'm not even playing with my buddy right now I'm just waiting for him to finish playing at Bally's before calling it a day/night/destruction.

Thanks...it's definitely wound-licking time.

Ouch. Sry to Hear. But recoverable.

Right.


Need reads on villain to make accurate hand decisions but lets say we don't know much.

1)Considering raising largeish on flop if you have the nut combo draw here. You have fold equity against Non 2 pairs+ to make it profitable usually.

2) Turn bet signals Ax or better.. Guy isn't bluffing here hardly ever so you should of realized his range is strong.

3) refer to above when deciding whether to bluff the river. Either semi bluff Flop or take equity and give up river.


It seems like calling down/possibly folding on triple is considerable alternative.






seems fine.


Tough Spot. Might fold river sometimes but I think its fine to call call call here.
One thing I do here..Ive had this happen a lot in live actually..

So On river he either has quads or a odd bluff/confusion value bet.. So really talking to him can give you the info you need.. Bad players will tend to be super comfortable with quads and start to enjoy your interaction so you can sometimes get sweet reads and fold.

Thanks for the insight! On the Kc10c hand I had GUTshot on flop and only turned the nut flush draw.

Most of my losses were tilting and playing too many hands after some of these match ups. So again the "beats" themselves only cost me so much the tilting cost me a lot.

Not going to beat myself up (that was last night) and today I'm just refreshing myself for another set of sessions.

I'd like to start a petition to call these draws "nutshots."

Probing for info (I literally read a section on that this morning) is certainly a tool that can and should be utilized to give yourself maximum chance to make the right decision.

Haha

How standard is it for you to just flat with QQ+? Was this based on gameflow, dynamics, villain tendencies?

Also how often do you play at Caesars? It's one of my favorite rooms in Vegas

Subbed. Don't go busto again!

The guy had raise in late position with that size a couple times prior but not out of proportion. Now I see he probably had something every time. I basically got into trappy-crappy mode. He didn't really show much aggression. I basically gave up on the hand and just decide he could have any pair above the 5's... I don't have any history where he would just flat a check raise with a lesser pocket pair. So my excuse for him having any PP is a lazy way of saying I sigh-gave up stationed off his 3-bet jam.

Limp calling with big PP is something I may do out of position if I know it's going to be heads up. There were 1-2 limpers ahead of me (I didn't mention that) and nobody between me and the raiser. Everybody had folded including the blinds. I'm ok with this "tricky play OOP" not totally defining my hand. If anyone else had called I would have 3-bet and I guess there I will find out if he defines his hand with a 4-bet. Now I can do that heads up too, but I like dead money in the pot, I almost never do this if any limpers/blinds call or limpers between me and PFR. So it's bit standard but I may employ it more often than is "the norm".

I played at Caesars only this one time so far in my time out here. I will play there Sunday for a free roll but as for 1-3 or 2-5 short stacked I probably won't play as much there as other places. It is a nice room and being isolated from everything is cool.

I appreciate the support!

Bankroll: $2,981
Max BI: $298

I almost recovered all my losses from yesterday. I know I shouldn't think or make statements like that but I can't help myself.

Start off at Bally's get lucky to flop a good hand and have it be good by the time I fill up on the river. Up over $300.

Next at flamingo I call a raise to $15 in late position with 67 SOOTED against mid position raiser and caller right behind. Flop is 45J with 45 of my suit. Initial PF raiser bets out $50 limper behind CALLS and I mini-tank.

I started the hand with ~$270 which is my stack and they have me covered. I'm basically hoping the caller doesn't have higher diamonds (I mean wtf zero definition of his hand except he hit this flop somehow but isn't trying to protect his hand which can be indicative of a higher/nut flush draw).

I ship. Initial PFR mini-tanks a little longer than I did and says call. The flatter calls instantly. By the river I miss initial PFR shows 55 and caller shows J4 (that was just awful but I'm glad he didn't have A-high FD like I thought he may have). What an unbelievable flop. How the hell do they raise like that PF, call with that PF, 3 ways to the flop and we ALL hit that damn flop! Almost unreal.

So I tilt off another $50 or so and leave for Venetian.

I short-buy for $250 and just do clown antics like, "how much is the maximum buy in? Oh that much? I can't afford that", "how much is the bet", miscounted calls and all the annoying stuff those deep stack 2-5er's hate along with me being a short stack and acting like an idiot. Of note a few of the players were waiting for. 5-10 game to open and our table was must move to boot. They were raising and 3-betting each other very light in my judgement (one dude showed his 3-bet with garbage to probably set up action for future). So I basically just called small raises in position and post flop with any draw or top pair type hands and Initial PFR would c-bet 2/3-full pot and maybe one call behind and when it got to me I would just jam. I did that twice and win without showdowns. High variance.

I hit and ran for >$350 and then cooled off at 4-8o8 and only played 3 hands in 2 hours and all were kills and on all I missed my draws (to both hi/lo and drawing to the nuts on at least one end each time). I then scooped 2 non-kill hands and broke just over even. Night session at Bally's saw me lose $70 and thus the night ended.

If only my OESF draw hit.....not a winners way of thinking...but...I...must...stop. Haha.

Haha at the dumb OESF draw story and yes I love the fact J4 was in there I'm saying it's an awful play on his part and yes I want that every time if I know that he can have that sort of hand. In the end I just gave up on thinking if he had the better FD and with my hand I just went back to level-1 thinking I have this, it is strong, ship-ship. Apologies for the "bad beat damn I didn't get there" overtones

Bankroll: $3,059
Max BI: $305

Started at the first casino nothing happening lost a little bit then went to Venetian, decided it was cool to dump a few buy ins at 1-2, then hours later cashed out down under $60 so that was nice. Went back to Bally's and value-towned a couple marginal hands and then slow played KK from the SB...EL OH EL since we had that discussion of how often I flat with big PP OOP heads up (BB was left to act though) I did it twice in two days. I flopped top set check flop, bet turn river pot size pot size got call call.

I'm sure I'm going to get free flights to your locations to play in your private home games

I've been swinging really hard. Due to tilt, incorrectly played marginal situations, a few big mistakes, a little bad luck. I really haven't played too well, when I play I feel like I'm playing ok, but looking back. a lot of errors. I also have played quite passively overall.

Bankroll $3,064
Max BI $306

Played 1 more hour after last post. Ended up coin flipping for 100BB's AIPF and won and before that got ~$67 in 45/55 PreF and then $91 25/75 PostF and didn't luck out. All this was against "the best player" at the table

The reason I sat in the game was for 1 particular player and unfortunately I never got involved with him and he busted in a >$900 pot and I left immediately after that.

Ok a friend of mine pointed out something. I can buy in up to 10% of my BR at anytime. I don't have to do 10% but the closer I buy in to that amount the more in line with the aggressive BR management method that this challenge is supposed to entail.

Bankroll: $3,170
Max BI: $317

Bankroll: $3,373
Max BI: $337

Long session. 10.5 hours. Up a tiny bit.