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Trip Report Sick 22 hour session! Date: 04/23/07 Player: gamblehigh For Rooms: MGM Grand,Planet Hollywood,Sahara,Venetian, Summary: Got to play 35 hours of cash games plus a couple of tournaments over the weekend, ended up winner +1330. Content: I flew into Vegas on Thursday night, 11 PM. Checked into the Hilton Grand Vacations Club by the Convention Center. Awesome Suite, with separate Living Room/Bedroom, full kitchen, washer/dryer, jaccuzzi tub, and plasma tv's (though I never really saw this room much, my girlfriend and her good friend enjoyed it very much.) Decided to not waste any time and went to the Planet Hollywood 2 AM $60 tournament. Cool toom, very swanky, but not my favorite tournament. The 4000 chips is good, but it was only 13 entries so it was a small price pool. I played very aggresively and lost a race with QQ to AK just after the break and got bounced out. The real fun began on Friday afternoon at the Venetian, a beautiful, elegant, magnificent room. (Side note: Every cash game I played was 1/2 NLHE) Session 1- Venetian, 3 PM. I was the 8th on the wait list, so they started a new game for us. Bought the max and started to look at my competition. Couple of old guys, couple of Cali Asians, couple of guys who looked nervous as hell. I Decided to stay out of the old guy's way, as they were obviously locals who played there a lot. I started raising the fish and calling the Cali guys and playing flops with them, as I knew that they would raise with anything and get aggressive on the flop. Now, at this point I should mension that I'm also a young guy, and when people see me, they automatically put me on an aggressive game, which is for the most part true. I guess it's because I'm always very confident and jovial at the table. I stole some pots with continouaton bets from the fish, enough to grind my stack to about $450, then the following hand came up. The Cali guy raised from e.p. to $17 and with one fish caller, I called on the button with QJ off. Jc-9c-2d, Cali led for $25, fish called in a way that told me he had clubs, so I raised to $100. Cali folds, fish calls. He has like 60 bucks left at this point, so we're commited on the blank turn, then he missed the river. Took down a nice sized pot and my stack was up to $650. I decided to tighten up since the guy I broke said as he left "Well, that guy just kept playing every other hand and raising and stuff, so I thought he was bluffin!". Played very unevenfully for the next 2 hours and cashed out +350 at 8 PM. I read many good things about the MGM room on this site, so I headed there next. Very cool room, I love the technology applied to the room, and it is very well run. (Chatted with the boss, Michael, who used to run Million Dollar tournaments at Caesars.) Session 2- MGM, 10 PM. Bought $200 and got seated after 5 min into a wild party of a table. Super fun table, everybody was drinking, including myself, so the hands from this session are a bit hazy. I stuck to my game plan of playing aggressively against the fish and calling the loose guys preflop with a lot of hands like 78s and QT off, then moving them off hands when they didn't hit anyting. Of course, sometimes they do hit, so when they raise back I have to fold, but it works often enough to show a profit, especially since this strategy doesn't require you to show many hands. I didn't really play any big pots, and I was up $200 when my table broke at 6 AM. I couldn't decide between getting some sleep or buying in again, so I went to the dice to make my decision. I lost there (surprise), so I decided to go back. At this point, there were only 2 tables going, 7 handed each. Session 2, continued, 7AM- Bought back in for only $140 since I was still feeling the effects of the booze. Again I stuck to the game plan since it was a whole new line up. Grinded my stack to about $250 mostly form this cocky guy in a suit jacket who raised every other hand to $20 then folded to a lot of ugly flops, when the following hand came up at around 10 AM: I raised to $15 with TT, and got one caller on the button. Kc-Ks-5d, and I led out for $25. Button smooth calls after about 15 seconds. I'm done with the hand at this point, I know I'm drawing to a ten, as this was an excellent player who was trying to trap me. I don't even look at the turn, only him as the dealer puts down the turn, then I check. He bets $50, and then I look at the beautiful turn, the TEN OF HEARTS! I raise to $150, and he goes all-in, I call and show right away and he shows AK, and my stack grows to almost $500. Now I go on a tear. Over the next 5 hours, I get Pocket Kings 7 times and they hold up EVERY TIME!!!! They weren't all big pots, but the point is I raked in the pot every time I hade them, including this one: British guy, who I had on my fish list, raised to $15 from LP. I was on the BB, KsKd, and raised him to $40. He hesitated and called, all very similar to a hand where he had shown AT and won. I check in the dark to confuse him, and flop comes 8-9-9. He bets $10 into a pot of $80, but I din't put him on a good player trying to get a raise out of me, so I go ahead and make it $50. He looks worried as he calls it, but I go ahead and move all in before the turn even hits, again trying to confuse him. He insta-calls and shows me 88 for a boat, then the miracle KING OF FRICKIN CLUBS on the river! He had about $200, and this put me close to $1000. I kept playing well through the afternoon and cashed out $950 at 8 PM Saturday for a profit of $1010... pretty sick 22 hour session! I played a tourney at Sahara at 11 PM after dinner, but I got bounced early. Awful room, pretty good structure for the tourney. My girlfreind actually placed 5th out of 85, so I killed time by shooting craps till she was done. We went back to the hotel at about 6AM Sunday and slept until check-out at 10, then made it back to the MGM by noon after lunch and checking bags. Session 3- MGM, 12 PM. This was the roller-coaster of a session. Started a new table and everyone bought in the max. I started catching hands and raising with them, but hands I had dominated kept drawing out. Hand #1- I have AK and raise to $13 from middle pos. One caller from the button, flop K-Q-4, two spades. He leads out for $15, and I raise him to $45, he calls. I'm not sure where I'm at, but I've got plenty of rebuy money and I don't mind losing one buy in if it will keep them off my back later. He checks the turn, I go all in, he calls with KQ. Hand #2- I raise with AA to $22 on the button after about 5 limps, get one call from a young guy who can play. Mission accomplished with the raise, got heads up and it looked like a steal. 4c-5c-6d, and he leads for $20, and I make it $60 to find out where I am. He goes all in, and we both started the hand with about $250. At one point he says "I've got the nuts" and that makes me think he may be bluffing. But he can play, so maybe he really has the nuts and is doing some high level thinking... I decide that there are a lot of hands that have me crushed, some that have me 50-50, and not many hands I could see where I was a clear favorite, so I fold, and he says, I had the crackers, and shows me 78. Cool, good fold, Edgar. I go for a craps break for about 20 minutes to cool down, then come back to the table. I'm sitting around $150, stuck $400 when one of the guys from the party table joins in. He says something about him bringing me luck, but of course I dismiss it. Then I go on another tear. I have 22 on the big blind, and after like 6 limps, the button makes it $15. I call with about $200, hoping that a couple of more people call, but only one more does. I check in the dark, and boy I'm glad I did when it came 8-2-9 with a flush draw. The button makes it $50 and I know he has QQ, KK, or AA. I think for a while and just call trying to represent a draw and hope for a blank turn, as I know that will bring his stack. Sure enough, I check and he moves all in. I insta-call, and he shows AA and says, "Damn, you DID hit the set, good play" and suddenly I'm almost not stuck. I keep playing well, pretty agg, and I've got the table putting on the straddle every hand. I even convinced this Bill Gates look-alike who said he had never straddled in his life to do it! The following hand came up when I was on the straddle. Under the Gun limps in, and it creates a limp-fest. As everyone limps, I say, "If no one raises, I'm going to steal this pot and protect my straddle!" No one raises and look down at AK. I raise $200. I know, I'm sick. I get a $35 call, a $90 call, and a $140 call!!!! We say let's just show now, and I'm against 88, 79s, and TJ off!! Flop comes K-8-2-4-2, and I even though I lose to the set, he's so short stacked that I still show a nice profit for the hand. Suddenly I'm not stuck anymore, and I toss the luck guy two red-birds as a token of appreciation. I don't beleive in luck, but this was a little weird. I cash out almost $700 for a profit of $140 at 9pm, flight left at 11pm. I highly recommend the Venetian for it's oppulance, but the MGM is my place due to the great traffic of dead money! Sorry Michael, I didn't make it to TI, the games I was in were just too good!! Thanks again to everyone that has posted here as it helped me quite a bit while I was in Vegas! Over all, I made $1450 in 35 hours of cash games, for a rate of about $41 per hour. After two $60 tourney entries, I ended up $1330 winner for the trip. Not bad for a 1/2 player, huh? |
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