Downtown Run:
A dealer at Bally's told me there were no caps on buyins downtown. If someone wanted to throw down $15k on their spot at $1/$2 at the Golden Nugget or Binions, that would be perfectly fine. I checked it out.
At this point I don't trust myself with >200bb. Ten years spent as a casual online tournament and SNG player means that 95% of my hands have been played with a 1-100bb stack, with the majority of those at less than 50bb.
With a deep stack, I'm going to be folding to 3-bets and 4-bets too much, and stacking off too lightly. Both of these things are EV disasters. I will adjust; I just need time to shake off a decade of ingrained playing decisions.
The Golden Nugget is a comfortable and friendly room. I think the biggest $1/$2 stack was around $1500, so not terribly out of line. I'll be playing there more often, I think.
Binions, on the other hand, has an appearance of having gone downhill. They tore out the poker room for renovations, though it's supposed to be back at some point. The place had about one third of the player density as the other properties on Fremont at the time, and they were skimping on the air conditioning. It was probably around 78° (26°C) in there. To me, that's always the first sign that a property might be in trouble, though it may have been a maintenance issue for all I know.
I wanted to catch a movie at Neonopolis, but the theater is long gone. The place is nearly empty and moribund in the middle of the day.
Neonopolis was a big idea in the early 2000's to help revitalize the Downtown area. It failed on its own, but the sensibility was well-meaning, and on average the rest of Downtown does look more vital than it did when I was living out on the Stewart Avenue barrio at the turn of the century.
I left Downtown and played out the rest of the day at Orleans. On weekdays, I'm starting to lean towards locals>Strip regs, while reserving the Strip for the weekends and the prospect of more tourists at the tables.
I took my share of bad suckouts: as you do. I was only mad at a bad $20 call I made on the river from being inattentive and putting my opponent on a hand instead of a range, and thus completely missing the flush.
Towards the end of the run, the Bad Beat Jackpot hit at the Orleans. I wasn't at
the table, but every holdem player sitting at a table at the time will get a small share. I'll be picking that up today. The consensus estimate on my share is $100-$150. I won't add it to the tally until I know the exact amount.
Gold Nugget and Orleans: 6 hours: ($-295)
Last edited by suitedjustice; 07-12-2018 at 12:44 PM.