09-18-2014
, 08:58 PM
09-22-2014
, 09:03 PM
Cowboys Casino is a really clean establishment with a great poker-room. Their chips are clean and really easy to shuffle/play with. They use automatic shufflers on all their tables (which are in great condition). They have competent pitbosses/dealers. The chairs are really comfy. The atmosphere is great on the weekends and there are a lot of young attractive girls gambling/drinking everywhere. The food is good and they have a decent sushi menu. For those players that stay until 4am they get to eat delivered pizza for free. The poker-room is open 24/7. On the weekends(Friday/Saturday) the games last though the night into the morning. Buy-ins for the games range as follows: 1/2NL ($100-$300), 2/5NL ($200-$1K). There were about eight 1/2NL tables running, one 2/5NL table, and one 1/2PLO table at peak time (11pm-1am).
Friday, September 19 (Cowboys Casino)
When I arrived at the casino at noon a new 1/2NL table was opening so I was able to get a seat in it. This was the second table open at this time. Within a couple hours a few more tables opened and there was a good selection of tables to choose from.
My first table of the day had a few interesting players in it:
-young asian guy with a bunch of tatts all over his arms, seemed like he had money and was willing to gamble
-middle-aged woman w/ shades (played pretty fit or fold postflop and played her strong hands extremely aggressively [pot-betting] every street)
-a few older asian guys who were loose-passive pre and fit/fold post-flop
-rest of the table was filled with TAGs who weren’t making pot-appropriate bets
All-in-all, a pretty easy table.
Interesting Hand 1:
UTG: young asian guy with tatts ($350)
UTG+2: Hero ($300)
Villain raised to $8, Hero 3-bets w/ TT to $32. Folds around to villain who calls.
Flop: 743r
Villian checks. Hero bets $44. Villian calls.
Turn: Jc (two clubs on board now)
Villian checks. Hero bets $88. Villian calls.
River: offsuit 5
Villian bets $136. Hero tank calls all-in.
Villian shows 22.
*Villian was talking to me the entire time I was tanking. He was talking about his food that he was ordering, how he’s glad that he has me covered so he has enough to pay for his meal even if he loses. I felt like he was putting on an act…trying to act strong/confident.
Interesting Hand #2:
UTG: spewtard who has been rebuying about every 3rd orbit for about two-hundred dollars. ($200)
UTG+1: young asian guy with tatts ($400)
Button: Hero ($600)
UTG limps for $2. UTG+1 calls. Folds to Hero who raises to $16 w/ KK. 2 calls.
Flop: 457cc
2 checks. Hero bets $25. UTG calls. UTG+1 raises to $100. Hero folds. UTG calls.
Turn: off suit 2.
UTG checks. UTG+1 bets $100. UTG calls all in $100.
River: offsuit Q
UTG shows TT (pair of tens)
UTG+1 shows 45o (2 pair: 4s and 5s)
*While I was tanking on the flop asian villain was chirping at me non-stop. This time it felt like he was trying to goat me into calling w/ the things he was saying.
After these two hands, which happened within first 30mins of me sitting down, I felt great about my reads and about the way I was playing. I continued to build my $300 stack to $1.3K by 2:00am. There were so many soft spots. A competent player was up $3K at my table from all the gifts he was receiving from the bad players. I would recommend this poker-room to anyone interesting in playing low-limit NL games.
Friday, September 19 (Cowboys Casino)
When I arrived at the casino at noon a new 1/2NL table was opening so I was able to get a seat in it. This was the second table open at this time. Within a couple hours a few more tables opened and there was a good selection of tables to choose from.
My first table of the day had a few interesting players in it:
-young asian guy with a bunch of tatts all over his arms, seemed like he had money and was willing to gamble
-middle-aged woman w/ shades (played pretty fit or fold postflop and played her strong hands extremely aggressively [pot-betting] every street)
-a few older asian guys who were loose-passive pre and fit/fold post-flop
-rest of the table was filled with TAGs who weren’t making pot-appropriate bets
All-in-all, a pretty easy table.
Interesting Hand 1:
UTG: young asian guy with tatts ($350)
UTG+2: Hero ($300)
Villain raised to $8, Hero 3-bets w/ TT to $32. Folds around to villain who calls.
Flop: 743r
Villian checks. Hero bets $44. Villian calls.
Turn: Jc (two clubs on board now)
Villian checks. Hero bets $88. Villian calls.
River: offsuit 5
Villian bets $136. Hero tank calls all-in.
Villian shows 22.
*Villian was talking to me the entire time I was tanking. He was talking about his food that he was ordering, how he’s glad that he has me covered so he has enough to pay for his meal even if he loses. I felt like he was putting on an act…trying to act strong/confident.
Interesting Hand #2:
UTG: spewtard who has been rebuying about every 3rd orbit for about two-hundred dollars. ($200)
UTG+1: young asian guy with tatts ($400)
Button: Hero ($600)
UTG limps for $2. UTG+1 calls. Folds to Hero who raises to $16 w/ KK. 2 calls.
Flop: 457cc
2 checks. Hero bets $25. UTG calls. UTG+1 raises to $100. Hero folds. UTG calls.
Turn: off suit 2.
UTG checks. UTG+1 bets $100. UTG calls all in $100.
River: offsuit Q
UTG shows TT (pair of tens)
UTG+1 shows 45o (2 pair: 4s and 5s)
*While I was tanking on the flop asian villain was chirping at me non-stop. This time it felt like he was trying to goat me into calling w/ the things he was saying.
After these two hands, which happened within first 30mins of me sitting down, I felt great about my reads and about the way I was playing. I continued to build my $300 stack to $1.3K by 2:00am. There were so many soft spots. A competent player was up $3K at my table from all the gifts he was receiving from the bad players. I would recommend this poker-room to anyone interesting in playing low-limit NL games.
09-13-2015
, 04:01 AM
