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Trip Report 1st Vegas Trip A Winner Date: 04/04/07 Player: mauigame For Rooms: Caesars Palace,MGM Grand, Summary: I LIKEE VEGAS. Ceasar's Palace and MGM Grand for NL Tournaments and Cash Games from a Woman's Perspective Content: ALOHA ALL!! Well, I am back from my first trip to Vegas and the verdict is in. I likee vegas. I had a damn fine time and can't wait to go back for more. Aside from several blisters on my feet, I return in one piece, dignity intact (for Vegas standards anyway). So here is the poker report: If this is too long for you, the synopsis is I made 2 final tables, satellited into the Bellagio tournament, and won some nice big bucks in a cash game..... for more details read on :-) Day one: Cashed in my very first Vegas tournament! Hooray!! Came in 6th out of 54 at the MGM Grand afternoon tourney. Payout $140, not bad, went out with AK vs. KK or some high pair from what I remember... played well, wasn't really catching many cards or flops.... would have liked to climb that ladder a bit but the blinds and antes were huge at that point, pretty much all in any hand you enter and lost the race... oh well. Busted out of evening tournament at MGM.... made a couple mistakes and the guy next to me caught a gut shot and another straight (on the river of course) to take most of my chips (even though I gave him the wrong odds to draw out). oh well again. Gotta watch out for the loosey gossie players early on. Day two: Went to the Bellagio to try the Satellite into the afternoon tourney - 9 person table, top 2 go on and I took the second spot. Really tough table, the players at the Bellagio are definitely a very serious bunch. I was really proud of myself as I really had crappy cards, but just played a very effective survival strategy since it was a satellite. Down to 4 of us - one guy had huge stack, one had big stack and me and another guy had short stacks - and blinds were going up. I took out the other short stack which gave me a little breathing room. Now if the guy with the 2nd biggest stack was smart he should have just waited till I was blinded down to desperation... but luckily for me he just couldn't resist going into it with the big stack, he lost some chips to him and then a few to me, so I was drawing closer to him. I kept tossing in my hand knowing that he would make a silly move - which he did, and lost to the big stack - so voila - there I was in the Bellagio $550 buy in. Now this was a REALLY tough bunch of players. No cheap flops here..... and I was completely and TOTALLY card dead. On the rare occasion I picked up anything at all the flop went in the completely wrong direction for me and hit the other person. It was really frustrating. Got moved to another table with my measly stack and was looking for the hand to go all in before the blinds got to me, but every hand someone went all in before me and my cards were like 62off 83off over and over. Under the gun I pick up pocket jacks and get called by 6 people! Flopped 10QK, then the miracle 9 comes on river... but of course the only hand that can beat me - AJ was held by someone and there I went. It sucked that I couldn't get anything to go my way there, but I felt good that I was able to satellite in, and that I felt I could have played well against those people if I had even just OK cards. That night I played cash games untill 4 in the morning at MGM Grand. What a bunch of loose bottom feeders..... 4 or 5 people in most pots playing junk - my least favorite kind of game.... tried the tight agressive approach but that only works if you actually get some cards - my cold card streak continued.... seriously - in the first two days - at least 14 hours of play I had KK once and had never seen aces yet - it was getting weird.... lost about $100 bucks at that table. Day Three: Cesear's Palace afternoon tournamnet. Now THIS is a card room. I LOVE the CP card room.... it is my new home base for future trips... anyway, $130 buy in - started with 145 people, we are down to 20 of us. I just picked up some big pots and have great position at my table - One stack slightly bigger than me, 2 or 3 other guys right around my chip stack and the rest - 4 or 5 with less or short stacked. Still hadn't been getting great cards this tournament - but had been playing really well, feeling good, but had one HUGE problem. It was now 6pm and we were at least 2 or 3 hours away from finishing up and I had 3rd row ($300) seats to Elton John at 7:30, and needed at least an hour or more to get back to hotel change and go to concert. What a dilemma!! So I decided that if I was going to miss this show it was because I had a HUGE chip lead to win it all.... I figured bust out or go big...... so I busted out..... again oh well. Felt pretty good about the whole thing though..... I know I had what it took to work through a big field, and felt confident I had a great chance to make it to final table..... Elton John was fabulous and I got to go on stage and dance with him... so it was worth busting out..... :-) Played cash games till 4 in the morning again at MGM - same loose bottom feeders, started adjusting my play a bit and walked out $40 or $50 up.... Day Four: Wanted to do Ceasar's afternoon tournament, but it starts at 3:30 and takes 10 hours and had tickets to Prince that night, so went into the $1-$3 No-Limit cash game instead, and boy was I glad I did. I sat down with $300 at the perfect table for me..... In order from my left: Overly tight, conservative guy; REALLY young (looked like he was 12) guy with shades and hat on backwards who knows his way around; fish; then the old grizzled local who knew what he was doing but easy to figure out; and the next 3 out of 4 guys were older rich gentlemen who REALLY didn't know what the hell they were doing but were content to peel hundreds out of their wallets and lay em out on the table (mixed in there was one local who seemed to be really pissed off about something and wasn't playing or hitting or something). So all in all a very easy table..... giving lots of action with losing hands.... loved it. So I pick up A7 clubs on button. The biggest fish in the tank calls, all fold to me, I min-raise to build pot in case I hit, and BB calls (the young dude). I hit 2 clubs on flop, fish checks, I bet medium size, dude calls, fish calls (pot is getting healthy now). My gorgeous Jack clubs falls on turn giving me the nuts, but there was some interesting possible straight draws there for the other guys and now I want them to catch up a bit (also figured if I bet there dude was smart enough to figure out the flush and would fold, so then fish might fold) so dude checks, fish checks, I check.... K diamonds falls on river, so I know I have nuts and I am hoping that the straights or 2 pairs came through for the others. So dude is sitting there with about $40 in chips and two $100 bills in play in front of him. He's not worried about the fish and probably figured I woulda bet turn if I had anything, so he throws in a $100 bill, (be still my heart), fish promptly shoves his whole stack in, and I sit and contemplate and chew my lip just a bit and look a bit worried, then I shove all in..... so now dude sits back in chair and starts mumbling to himself. He seemed to be at the "oh the hell with it point" anyway, and after a minute shoves all his chips and the other $100 bill in the pot - EUREKA!! Raking in a HUGE pile of chips with hundred dollar bills sticking out of it was SUPREMELY satisfying, musta been $650 bucks in there. Never really liked cash games before that, but I am warming up to them now. haha. Stayed another 45 minutes or so, won more money, and cashed out for $1,000..... Day 5: Time for one more tournament at Ceasar's - same structure as the one on Thursday - this time 100 or so in. After hitting that flush my cards seemed to finally be coming in (I run hot and cold).... doing well at the first table, knocked out 2 players have a nice big early chip run.... get switched to a new table, so here I come - fluffy bunny- with my chip rack (had too many chips to hold in my hand - I love that, and a big old shopping bag hanging off my arm as it was last day and picked up souvenirs for my kids on way). Sit down with all those guys and give them all the once over - smiling, saying hello, nicey nicey. Of course what I am doing is sizing them all up without them knowing it (I wore these fancy fashion shades to hide my eyes). Right away I spot the guy who is going to give me trouble. He is sitting perfectly still looking at me, with big shades on. My first impression was that he was a lion sitting in the veld who just spotted the gazelle he plans on picking off. I guess most fluffy bunnies come in, play stupid, get lucky, get a big stack and then donk them all off. About one round in, I hadn't played much yet - folded out of one or maybe two pots. I pick up A3 diamonds in the cut off, not a great hand, but worth taking a stab as everyone else had folded, and myself and the lion (who was the BB) had the big stacks at the table (his stack was almost exactly the size of mine). Blinds were $200, $400 at this point with $25 ante. I bet $1000. Button and SB fold. Lion in the BB hesitates then calls, so pot starts out substantial pre-flop - almost $3000 and our stacks were around $14,000 at that point. Flop comes something like 4D 5C JD, so I have Nut flush draw, wheel draw and the ace over..... now I am thinking about this guy, and his perception of me. I KNOW if I check that he will make a bet that I don't want to call no matter what his cards.... I am just a girl after all and he will bully me out of the pot, so I know I want to bet, and figure $1000 screams draw, (we were both staring at each other during flop) so I hesitate just a moment after flop, look down at it and put in $2000, and then calmy sit there as relaxed as possible. If he had raised me hard I mighta folded... so I really wanted him to fold. That bet amount was the perfect one to make him completely undecided, it nearly killed him. I think his instincts told him he was probably good at that point, but his brain hadn't adjusted from the lion eating the fluffy bunny perception - he just couldn't wrap around the fact that I could bet out a draw like that, or a bluff, that I MUST have him beat. He took a long time but he layed it down. (turned out he had 66) I was really proud of myself on that one. It wasn't the most important hand overall, but it was the one where I felt that I really played the player - and yes I had lots of outs, but based my bet more on him than on the cards. He actually never recovered from that, it really threw him. He busted out within the next 45 minutes. When he saw me later from his cash game I could tell he was still thinking about. I made the final table...... which was really cool as it is at the head of the room, up on a raised podium. Unfortunately I busted out in 7th when I ran into pocket 10's 2 hands in a row. The first time was legitimate, I pushed all in from the cut off with AJ (blinds and antes were enormous at this point) and SB short stack woke up with pocket 10's and took a big chunk of my stack when they held up. Next hand I had A4 suited and shoulda walked away from them as there were 2 shorter stacks at table than me, but the guy who had bet had played so much rubbish that day and been SO lucky, he was the bettor I came over the top of, should not have done that it was stupid - he had pocket 10s also damn it..... oh well, cashed for $540...... next time..... So all in all, a successful first trip to Vegas. Next time it is all Cesear's Palace.... what a great room..... walked out of Vegas with about $1300 profit and the satellite win (a $420 value), not bad!! My advice to women - study this game, know it cold, and then go rip the guy's throats out. My advice to men - that fluffy bunny across from you may have fangs - BEWARE. |
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