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Originally Posted by kfellmy
1. Gold Strike
2. Hollywood (tourneys are quite beatable)
I have yet to play at the Shoe, Harrah's or Sam's Town.
Trying to get businesses started, don't get much time.
I played at Harrah's, Horseshoe, and Gold Strike.
I played 3 tourneys at Harrahs, $60 on Thursday, $100 on Friday, and $70 on Saturday. Small fields, most was 33 on Saturday.
Overall, the fields were very soft. Finished 4,6,5 respectively and bubbled on Thursday and Saturday. In the Friday event, we had 22 I beleive and my first table had 5 women at it. Two were okay players but the other 3 were not very good. Hard to find betting patterns or ranges with the group and many all ins early.
I played cash games at all 3, playing $1-2 NL at Gold Strike, and $1-3 at Harrahs and the Shoe. As I mentioned earlier, the best action was at the Shoe.
Played several sessions at Gold Strike. First on Thursday afternoon and the room was dead, one table going. Played for a couple of hours, very tight table, and lost $45. On Friday morning came back and played, still only one table but action picked up as the 11:00 tourney began coming in. Better game, not as tight. Ended up down a few dollars. Low buy in tourney had at least 5 tables, think buyin was $35. Played again on Saturday and broke out about even, some action in the room. Had considered buying in to $100 Saturday afternoon tournament but a player at Harrahs told me that they rake more than what the first prize player gets, so I didn't.
Since we stayed at Harrahs, I played a lot there. First couple of sessions didn't have much luck and lost about $100. The buyins for the $1-3 were $100-$300. Friday and Saturday the room was pretty full.
The best game I ran into was on Saturday night when I came back from the Shoe about 1 o'clock. I walked in the poker room and sign up for $1-3 and Harrahs only has 1, maybe 2 automatic shufflers, the rest are hand dealt. Well they had combined tables from the evening, since there were now only 3 or 4 tables going. I buyin for $200, and there were 4 young white guys, 3 young black guys, and a middle aged asian guy. The average stack size was well over $700. I put the table stakes at around $6K or more because they allow you to put money up under your chips and several players had 2 or more hundreds under there chip stack.
About 1/2 hour in to the session, we get a monster pot. Now the 4 young white guys are all LAGs, as are 2 of the black guys and the Asian guy. There is a straddle on nearly every preflop for $6 and the range for a typical preflop raise was $20-$50.
There is a multiway pot (5 players) and preflop raise is to $50, and of course 3 callers. The flop comes q,5,2 with 2 clubs. The Asian guy bets $50, he is called and the last to act raises $50, all 3 call. The turn is a 7 non club and the Asian goes all in and probably has at least $600 behind the line. He is called buy all three players. This creates a main pot of $960 (4 players could cover $240). One of the young guns has an additional $200 plus left creating a sidepot of over $400. One guy turns over a,k no clubs, the other pocket jacks and the third turns over a,5 clubs. The asian guy turns over q,5 no club draw. A club comes on the river, one of the young guys takes it down for nearly $1400.
I played until 5:00 in the morning when I had to go since I had to catch the shuttle at 7:30. The average pots were $300-400. I picked up a pot for over $480, picked up about $250 for the session.