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Trip Report 1-2 NL at the Flamingo and Venetian Date: 03/26/07 Player: zinc1024 For Rooms: Flamingo,Venetian, Summary: Spent 15 hours over a Thurs night - Sat morning trip playing 1-2 NL at the Flamingo and Venetian. Only won $180 but still "young" at NL, so any profit is a good profit! Flamingo struck me as having weaker players, but not by yards... Content: At the Venetian there were periods where the game got pretty dull, everyone playing conservatively, rarely much action. Then Friday morning around 3am I land at a table with a bunch of Dutch guys, and one guys is doing the lunatic act perfectly, about 3/4 of the time raising his hand by anywhere from 22 to 32 (always an odd number of course!). He's won a lot and he's the table commander. I waited and hoped but got next to nothing to play against him; I really wanted a chuck out of his stacks! The next day at the Flamingo a game was starting to trend towards the dull, so I decided to try to take on that persona a bit, and the cards cooperated. I found a combination of opportunities to push it repetitively, not always with a lot but with "enough", such as raising a 9-7s from one off the button ("27!"), or complete trash in the BB, mixed in with moderate to strong hands in other positions. Quickly I was getting groans and "not again" 's from the others, and I loved it! Now _I_ was the table commander! I quickly went from $300 to $450 on the table, with only occasional small action, but I kept soaking in Later at a different table I wanted to try the same thing...but this times the cards didn't let me (at least the way I wanted to do it, which was by frequently pushing drawing hands more aggressively than usual, mixing in good hands, etc; I was just getting garbage constantly). One of my buddies on this trip has insisted that the MGM was the place to play, but this was his first time in the Venetian, and he concluded that it's a much nicer room. He got drunk as a skunk and according to my other buddy, shut down a table there around 2am by being so insulting to everyone...glad I wasn't there for that! The two of them then hit a crap table, my slightly more sober friend had a roll that lasted 45 minutes, and skunk-drunk proceeds to win $3000...go figure! Early on I made a classic boo-boo, I looked at my cards, looked up and thought "okay, I just need a five on the flop to hit my trips and I'll take someone's stack". Sure enough a five hits, I get all of a competitors stack out there, he shows his two pair, and I proudly throw over my...two fours!! WHAT??? So embarrassing, everyone thinks I'm an idiot, AND I AM, but not quite for the same reason they think so. I sheepishly say "I thought they were fives...". From there on out for the next 12 hours of play, EVERY SINGLE TIME I would re-look at my cards as the flop was coming down. I figured if I did it every single time, it's can't be a tell that I don't have a pair... I wanted to play some BJ and was really disappointed to find the Barbary Coast no longer deals a $10 minimum double deck game, now it's $25 minimum, and they've put in a bunch of "single deck blackjack". No where I know of in the mid-south strip now that has a reasonable game (for a $25 game to count and bet vary I think an $8000 bankroll is minimum, and I'm not up at that level of gambling yet in my life! And I don't like BJ unless I can play what I think should be a profitable game...) Last thing: make sure your plane is delayed as you are heading into Vegas. Mine was delayed an hour and half (at SFO), and I met four interesting women in airport bars, two going to vegas (but the first on an earlier, also delayed flight), and the last one I end up giving a ride to her hotel, meeting her during the trip, etc (she like me was married but visiting Vegas stag w/a friend coming from Georgia). Everyone's in such a good mood headed to vegas, it's easy to hook up if there's some down time for conversations to get started... -zinc |
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