I saw a $1000 mistake made on Saturday night. Kay a pretty poor 20/40 player misread her hand, thinking she had the A7o, with the 7 being a diamond, when in actuality she had A7o, with the ace being a diamond.
The board read:
5d 6d 8c 9d 8d
On the river, Kay and her opponent went 8 bets, when they both finally decided to just go all-in. Kay had 1 rack and 2 stacks left after putting in the 8th raise. She never stopped raising, thinking she had the stone cold nuts. When her opponent flipped over J7d, Kay's face went white. She flipped over her hand, saying I have the 7d, ahh no, Kay you have the nut-flush, but not the NUTS. Everybody at the table thought we might have a jackpot after so many raises on the river. I guarantee that if I'm putting in 7 bets or more on the river, I'm going to go back and look at my hand just to make sure I have what I thought I have. I'm sure Kay will never make that mistake again!
Brenda was in the house over the weekend. I never got a chance to play with her unfortunately. I got to the casino on Saturday night around 9:15pm, and I was 4th up for the 40/80 game. Brenda had about 14 racks in front of her (14k). NOBODY left that game. I stayed until 4:45 am in the morning, trying to get into that game. At that point I gave up and went home. Brenda was down to about 2 racks from the 14 she had when I showed up. I'm pretty sure everybody went home a winner that night, except for Brenda.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Stuck or Even?
After my horrible July, August has been a much better month. I'm only a little stuck now here in the 3rd quarter of the year. I'm almost even! $540 more to go.
Given that I lost over 10k in the month of July, just getting even sounds good at this point!
An interesting anecdote, I was never sure where the term stuck came from. A fellow player at the table said it came from not wanting to leave when you are losing, hence you are stuck in your chair. Or as he said, when you are stuck you either get even or go broke!
Given that I lost over 10k in the month of July, just getting even sounds good at this point!
An interesting anecdote, I was never sure where the term stuck came from. A fellow player at the table said it came from not wanting to leave when you are losing, hence you are stuck in your chair. Or as he said, when you are stuck you either get even or go broke!
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Old Trip Reports
Editors Note: These reports were posted on usenet by me at one time or another, but since I have started my own blog, I figured for historical sense I should put them here as well, so I can have a record of them.
In chronological order:
In chronological order:
August 2004 -- Palm Springs
Went to Palm Springs over the weekend and the wife let me go out and play some poker at night at Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage.
Agua Caliente has smallish/medium size poker room, about 12 tables if I recall correctly. I only played on Friday and Saturday night. Both days they were spreading the following games, 3/6 with a half-kill, 4/8, 8/16/, 20/40 all with a full-kill. I saw an interest list for Omaha, but I don't
think they ever got a game started. Bad beat jackpot was around 9k, and you needed aces full of anything or better beaten by a four-of-kind or better. Both players must play both hole-cards. Nobody hit the jackpot when I was there.
Friday night, I got to the casino around 9:30ish, and put my name on all the games. Got called for a 3-6 game after about 15 minutes. No real memorable hands, except a J-9s, I played on the button. Flopped a flush draw, raised the pot on the flop, checked the turn, and hit my flush on the river. Finished the table up 2 bucks when I got called for 4-8. At the 4-8 table never got any interesting hands and was up I think 10 bucks when I finally got called for 8-16.
Most of the low-limit tables were your predictable low-limit players. Call you on the way down, and never fold. I tend to wimp out on the river when playing these types of games. If I only have top-pair and haven't improved I usually try to check-it down or just check-call, as I don't
know if someone picked up a miracle two pair.
8-16 is where I made the bulk of my money. I bought in for $200 and cashed out for $1070. I played until about 2:45 in the morning, for the last hour or so at a short-handed table (5 players). I got more aggressive as the table shortened up and made some good money with hands I normally wouldn't play at a full-handed table. Couple of memorable hands. UTG raised, I looked down saw pocket-aces and made it 3 bets. Button and small-blind cold-called. Flop came 2,2,10. Check to me, I bet, calls all around. Turn was a 7, I bet again, button folds, other two call. River is another 2. Check to me, I bet, small-blind folds, UTG calls. I flip over aces, he flips over pocket jacks. Not sure what the button or the small-blind had to cold-call 3 preflop.
Won one hand with presto. Raised on the button with pocket 5's. 2-callers, flop came 8-Q-2. Checked to me, I bet, 1-caller. Turn was another 8. I wimped out and checked behind. River a 5. Again check to me, I bet, got called, and showed my full-house.
On Saturday night I got to the casino at around 8:15 or so. I really wanted to play 20/40, and finally got to play. Not a bad table, probably could have made more, if I had more time to play. Wife said I had to be back at 11:00. I cashed in for $500 and cashed out for $900. No real memorable hands, as I wasn't really catching any good cards. I think the best hand I saw was ace-queen suited, which I won, after turning an ace and check-raising the button.
So in all, I had a good time there. The players were friendly, saw a couple of good players, but most were average at best. Would go back there if I'm in the area.
March 2006 -- Harrahs Rincon
So I decided to play in the WSOP circuit event at Harrahs Rincon. Decent structure, start with $2000 in chips blinds start at 25-25 with 1 hour levels. Never been to Rincon. Pretty big casino, pretty lousy poker room. Fortunately the tournament was held in the Pavilion, which looks like a big conference room, right next to the poker room in the back.
I was seated at seat 8, table 8. Nobody I recognized at my table.
Level 1: 25-25
Played a couple of hands. In the cut-off, with A5c, all folds to me raise to 75, button calls, blinds fold. Flop come king high, 2 spades. Bet out 150, button calls. Check-fold the turn, button flashes me a king. Couple of hands later, pick up 4d4h raise to 125 after 1 limper. Limper calls. Flop comes 966 rainbow. Limper fires out 125, I raise to 400, limper folds. Near the end of the level, pick up A3h, and re-raise a tight player to 150 after he raises to 75. Flop comes 3K9 two hearts. Original raises checks, I fire out 250 he folds. Saw a real interesting hand, where seat 4 more than tripled up. Seat 4 raised with A7d, got called in two spots. Flop comes all diamonds 68T. Money gets all in by the turn. The other two callers had 45d and J9d, everybody flopped a flush. Neither played sucked out and the 4 seat takes it down. More on the 4 seat later.
Leve 2: 25-50
About 10 minutes into the level, seat 4 min raises under the gun to 100. 4 callers in front of me, I look down to 89d on the button and call. Big blind calls blind, saying he can't fold any two for the price he is getting. 600 in the pot. Flop come 367 rainbow. All check to me. I fire out 300. Folds back to seat 4 who calls. Everyone else folds. Boom 5 on the turn now putting 2 spades on the board. Seat 4 checks, I fire out 600. Seat 4 check-raises me to 1200, I push all in. He calls, I annouce I have the nuts, seat 4 responds I have outs and tables pockets 3's. I tell the dealer no pair, no pair. Burn a card and 7 on the river. I go home now and write my trip report. Not sure if I could have/should have played it any different, other than folding before the flop. Glad, I got my money in with the best hand, and I can't blame the guy for calling. He probably thought he had the best hand anyways.
June 2006 -- Las Vegas
Went to Palm Springs over the weekend and the wife let me go out and play some poker at night at Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage.
Agua Caliente has smallish/medium size poker room, about 12 tables if I recall correctly. I only played on Friday and Saturday night. Both days they were spreading the following games, 3/6 with a half-kill, 4/8, 8/16/, 20/40 all with a full-kill. I saw an interest list for Omaha, but I don't
think they ever got a game started. Bad beat jackpot was around 9k, and you needed aces full of anything or better beaten by a four-of-kind or better. Both players must play both hole-cards. Nobody hit the jackpot when I was there.
Friday night, I got to the casino around 9:30ish, and put my name on all the games. Got called for a 3-6 game after about 15 minutes. No real memorable hands, except a J-9s, I played on the button. Flopped a flush draw, raised the pot on the flop, checked the turn, and hit my flush on the river. Finished the table up 2 bucks when I got called for 4-8. At the 4-8 table never got any interesting hands and was up I think 10 bucks when I finally got called for 8-16.
Most of the low-limit tables were your predictable low-limit players. Call you on the way down, and never fold. I tend to wimp out on the river when playing these types of games. If I only have top-pair and haven't improved I usually try to check-it down or just check-call, as I don't
know if someone picked up a miracle two pair.
8-16 is where I made the bulk of my money. I bought in for $200 and cashed out for $1070. I played until about 2:45 in the morning, for the last hour or so at a short-handed table (5 players). I got more aggressive as the table shortened up and made some good money with hands I normally wouldn't play at a full-handed table. Couple of memorable hands. UTG raised, I looked down saw pocket-aces and made it 3 bets. Button and small-blind cold-called. Flop came 2,2,10. Check to me, I bet, calls all around. Turn was a 7, I bet again, button folds, other two call. River is another 2. Check to me, I bet, small-blind folds, UTG calls. I flip over aces, he flips over pocket jacks. Not sure what the button or the small-blind had to cold-call 3 preflop.
Won one hand with presto. Raised on the button with pocket 5's. 2-callers, flop came 8-Q-2. Checked to me, I bet, 1-caller. Turn was another 8. I wimped out and checked behind. River a 5. Again check to me, I bet, got called, and showed my full-house.
On Saturday night I got to the casino at around 8:15 or so. I really wanted to play 20/40, and finally got to play. Not a bad table, probably could have made more, if I had more time to play. Wife said I had to be back at 11:00. I cashed in for $500 and cashed out for $900. No real memorable hands, as I wasn't really catching any good cards. I think the best hand I saw was ace-queen suited, which I won, after turning an ace and check-raising the button.
So in all, I had a good time there. The players were friendly, saw a couple of good players, but most were average at best. Would go back there if I'm in the area.
March 2006 -- Harrahs Rincon
So I decided to play in the WSOP circuit event at Harrahs Rincon. Decent structure, start with $2000 in chips blinds start at 25-25 with 1 hour levels. Never been to Rincon. Pretty big casino, pretty lousy poker room. Fortunately the tournament was held in the Pavilion, which looks like a big conference room, right next to the poker room in the back.
I was seated at seat 8, table 8. Nobody I recognized at my table.
Level 1: 25-25
Played a couple of hands. In the cut-off, with A5c, all folds to me raise to 75, button calls, blinds fold. Flop come king high, 2 spades. Bet out 150, button calls. Check-fold the turn, button flashes me a king. Couple of hands later, pick up 4d4h raise to 125 after 1 limper. Limper calls. Flop comes 966 rainbow. Limper fires out 125, I raise to 400, limper folds. Near the end of the level, pick up A3h, and re-raise a tight player to 150 after he raises to 75. Flop comes 3K9 two hearts. Original raises checks, I fire out 250 he folds. Saw a real interesting hand, where seat 4 more than tripled up. Seat 4 raised with A7d, got called in two spots. Flop comes all diamonds 68T. Money gets all in by the turn. The other two callers had 45d and J9d, everybody flopped a flush. Neither played sucked out and the 4 seat takes it down. More on the 4 seat later.
Leve 2: 25-50
About 10 minutes into the level, seat 4 min raises under the gun to 100. 4 callers in front of me, I look down to 89d on the button and call. Big blind calls blind, saying he can't fold any two for the price he is getting. 600 in the pot. Flop come 367 rainbow. All check to me. I fire out 300. Folds back to seat 4 who calls. Everyone else folds. Boom 5 on the turn now putting 2 spades on the board. Seat 4 checks, I fire out 600. Seat 4 check-raises me to 1200, I push all in. He calls, I annouce I have the nuts, seat 4 responds I have outs and tables pockets 3's. I tell the dealer no pair, no pair. Burn a card and 7 on the river. I go home now and write my trip report. Not sure if I could have/should have played it any different, other than folding before the flop. Glad, I got my money in with the best hand, and I can't blame the guy for calling. He probably thought he had the best hand anyways.
June 2006 -- Las Vegas
My friend was having his 40th birthday, plus another friend had a weekend of bachelorhood due to his wife and two kids heading to the great white north to visit her family, thus a trip to Vegas was to be had. The six of us, all flew from San Diego to Las Vegas albiet at different times and days.
I usually stay at the Aladdin with a comped room, but with their reconstruction and all I decided to try a new casino. I called up the Mirage and talked to a host there when making reservations at the hotel, but alas since I had no history there, he was unable to do anything upfront for me. But, he said to stop by before checking out and he would see what he could do. Since everybody else was staying there, I went ahead and made the reservations (159 and 199 a night), and also set up a line of credit with the casino (5k).
My friend and I left Friday morning at 10:25 am on-time and arrived in Vegas approximately an hour later. Got on the Dollar shuttle express and was whisked away to the rental car lot. Since I am a fastlane express member, was able to flash my card, picked out a midsize car (dodge something or other if I remember correctly) and was out of the lot in under ten minutes! I love the fastlane express program, plus the rates are cheap, and I get Southwest credits.
We wanted to eat lunch at In-N-Out on Maryland Parkway, but I made the mistake of turning left onto Tropicana instead of right coming out of the airport. No big deal I thought, so I made a right onto Koval, and then a right onto Harmon, only to find out that Harmon doesn't go all the way through and dumps you into the middle of UNLV's campus! Doh. So, I turned back around, eventually getting onto Paradise over to Flamingo and finally onto Maryland Parkway and hitting the In-N-Out. What should have been a 5 minute drive turned into about a 25 minute jaunt! Had a cheeseburger and a coke, and left very satisfied. I love In-N-Out burgers. Normally I am a vegetarian back at home (not for religious reasons or anything, just trying to eat healthier, been a veggie for about a year now), but when I am in Vegas I like to splurge in all things. Or as my friend likes to say: I didn't come to Vegas to be cheap and get skinny. Before I left on my trip my stomach hadn't been feeling too well as it was anyways, but I was hoping that it would settle down and I would be all right. . .
Went over to the Mirage, valeted the car and went to check in. Since I wasn't comped a room upfront or anything I went to the regular check-in line, wasn't too bad. Got a regular room two queen beds, 16082 north wing. However the room wasn't ready yet as it was about 1:30pm or so at this time and they told us to come back after 3:00pm to pick up our room keys, so we checked our bags with the bellhop, and went to the bar behind the hotel lobby to watch the end of the South Korean-Switzerland world cup match. Unfortunately South Korea lost and was out of the World Cup, and I was down in the dumps. What better way to revive myself, then with a little gambling?
First some business to take care of. I went to the casino cage, activated my line of credit, and got a safe deposit box to dump my cash into. Then went to pick up tickets to see Ray Romano that night at 10:30pm in the Danny Gans theatre. I really like Ray Romano's sitcom, and I have a CD of his doing stand up in Carneige hall in New York and liked it, so I bought my friend a ticket to the show for his birthday.
So having taken care of that, I went to play some craps. Got a 1000 dollar marker, and 45 minutes later or so I am leaving +1000 after buying back the marker. I had two really good runs at craps this trip , this not being one of them, both times where I was the shooter. By this time, it is after 3pm so we head back to the lobby and get our room keys and head up to the room.
16th floor north wing, room at the almost the very end of the hall. Sigh, that sucks, long walk to and from the elevator. Oh well. The room itself was ok. A little small but the bathroom sucked. Very small bathroom, single sink, no separate shower stall. Maybe the rooms with a single king will are nicer. We'll see what kind of room I can get comped next time I go. Had a mini-bar, which I kind of liked. Got two bottles of water out of it.
I usually stay at the Aladdin with a comped room, but with their reconstruction and all I decided to try a new casino. I called up the Mirage and talked to a host there when making reservations at the hotel, but alas since I had no history there, he was unable to do anything upfront for me. But, he said to stop by before checking out and he would see what he could do. Since everybody else was staying there, I went ahead and made the reservations (159 and 199 a night), and also set up a line of credit with the casino (5k).
My friend and I left Friday morning at 10:25 am on-time and arrived in Vegas approximately an hour later. Got on the Dollar shuttle express and was whisked away to the rental car lot. Since I am a fastlane express member, was able to flash my card, picked out a midsize car (dodge something or other if I remember correctly) and was out of the lot in under ten minutes! I love the fastlane express program, plus the rates are cheap, and I get Southwest credits.
We wanted to eat lunch at In-N-Out on Maryland Parkway, but I made the mistake of turning left onto Tropicana instead of right coming out of the airport. No big deal I thought, so I made a right onto Koval, and then a right onto Harmon, only to find out that Harmon doesn't go all the way through and dumps you into the middle of UNLV's campus! Doh. So, I turned back around, eventually getting onto Paradise over to Flamingo and finally onto Maryland Parkway and hitting the In-N-Out. What should have been a 5 minute drive turned into about a 25 minute jaunt! Had a cheeseburger and a coke, and left very satisfied. I love In-N-Out burgers. Normally I am a vegetarian back at home (not for religious reasons or anything, just trying to eat healthier, been a veggie for about a year now), but when I am in Vegas I like to splurge in all things. Or as my friend likes to say: I didn't come to Vegas to be cheap and get skinny. Before I left on my trip my stomach hadn't been feeling too well as it was anyways, but I was hoping that it would settle down and I would be all right. . .
Went over to the Mirage, valeted the car and went to check in. Since I wasn't comped a room upfront or anything I went to the regular check-in line, wasn't too bad. Got a regular room two queen beds, 16082 north wing. However the room wasn't ready yet as it was about 1:30pm or so at this time and they told us to come back after 3:00pm to pick up our room keys, so we checked our bags with the bellhop, and went to the bar behind the hotel lobby to watch the end of the South Korean-Switzerland world cup match. Unfortunately South Korea lost and was out of the World Cup, and I was down in the dumps. What better way to revive myself, then with a little gambling?
First some business to take care of. I went to the casino cage, activated my line of credit, and got a safe deposit box to dump my cash into. Then went to pick up tickets to see Ray Romano that night at 10:30pm in the Danny Gans theatre. I really like Ray Romano's sitcom, and I have a CD of his doing stand up in Carneige hall in New York and liked it, so I bought my friend a ticket to the show for his birthday.
So having taken care of that, I went to play some craps. Got a 1000 dollar marker, and 45 minutes later or so I am leaving +1000 after buying back the marker. I had two really good runs at craps this trip , this not being one of them, both times where I was the shooter. By this time, it is after 3pm so we head back to the lobby and get our room keys and head up to the room.
16th floor north wing, room at the almost the very end of the hall. Sigh, that sucks, long walk to and from the elevator. Oh well. The room itself was ok. A little small but the bathroom sucked. Very small bathroom, single sink, no separate shower stall. Maybe the rooms with a single king will are nicer. We'll see what kind of room I can get comped next time I go. Had a mini-bar, which I kind of liked. Got two bottles of water out of it.
Had I been feeling better, might have had a beer or two. As it turns out, I think over this entire Vegas trip I had a grand total of 3 beers! Which is unheard of for me, as I usually try to drink as much as possible without getting sick, when I am in Vegas.
After calling the bell-hop to deliver the bags, unpacking, and unwinding for a little bit, I am ready to head back down to the casino to gamble some more, but my friend wants to nap. Ok, fine with me. So he naps, and I do some more gambling.
I promptly lose 2 grand, playing double deck blackjack in the high-limit casino. Think I made it through 3 shuffles or so. Hmmm, maybe blackjack is not my game this trip, so I moved back to craps and won 2 grand, putting me back into the positive. I then headed back over to the high-limit lounge and there is some party going in there. Turns out the Mirage was having some celebrity hard-court poker tournament the next day, and tonight was the gathering mixer. So I bellied up to the bar and played some 9/6 jacks or better video poker at $25 a hand. Ended up losing my $500 buy-in, but I had fun and killed some time. So I went back to the craps table, get another $1000 marker and turned that into a little over 3k. Tried to buy my marker back, but they had already sent it to the cage with the shift change. Went to the cage, to buy back my markers, but it had not arrived yet, so they would not cash out my chips for me. Arghh.
By this time, my friend is stirring and hungry so we go eat at the Carneige Deli inside the Mirage. I've heard that the food was really good, so I wanted to check it out.
Damn, the sandwiches were huge! I ordered the hot pastrimi while my friend got the club. There was enough bacon on his sandwich to build a small log cabin. My pastrimi sandwich was a plate full of meat with a side of rye bread, literally. I manage to eat about half the sandwich, while my friend did much better getting almost 3/4 of his down. I felt a little guilty about wasting the food, and had I known the sandwiches were that large, my friend and I easily could have shared. However, having seen Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe recently, I'm glad to know that my food got recycled into some nice pig feed, and didn't totally go to waste.
After that I bought back my markers at the cage, my friend and I played some more craps. I got a $500 marker and walked away about 300 to the plus side after a little while. By this time some of the other guys were starting to show up. However, it was also getting close to show time for Ray Romano, so my friend and I started heading over to the theater to see the show, so we were not able to hook up with them yet.
After calling the bell-hop to deliver the bags, unpacking, and unwinding for a little bit, I am ready to head back down to the casino to gamble some more, but my friend wants to nap. Ok, fine with me. So he naps, and I do some more gambling.
I promptly lose 2 grand, playing double deck blackjack in the high-limit casino. Think I made it through 3 shuffles or so. Hmmm, maybe blackjack is not my game this trip, so I moved back to craps and won 2 grand, putting me back into the positive. I then headed back over to the high-limit lounge and there is some party going in there. Turns out the Mirage was having some celebrity hard-court poker tournament the next day, and tonight was the gathering mixer. So I bellied up to the bar and played some 9/6 jacks or better video poker at $25 a hand. Ended up losing my $500 buy-in, but I had fun and killed some time. So I went back to the craps table, get another $1000 marker and turned that into a little over 3k. Tried to buy my marker back, but they had already sent it to the cage with the shift change. Went to the cage, to buy back my markers, but it had not arrived yet, so they would not cash out my chips for me. Arghh.
By this time, my friend is stirring and hungry so we go eat at the Carneige Deli inside the Mirage. I've heard that the food was really good, so I wanted to check it out.
Damn, the sandwiches were huge! I ordered the hot pastrimi while my friend got the club. There was enough bacon on his sandwich to build a small log cabin. My pastrimi sandwich was a plate full of meat with a side of rye bread, literally. I manage to eat about half the sandwich, while my friend did much better getting almost 3/4 of his down. I felt a little guilty about wasting the food, and had I known the sandwiches were that large, my friend and I easily could have shared. However, having seen Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe recently, I'm glad to know that my food got recycled into some nice pig feed, and didn't totally go to waste.
After that I bought back my markers at the cage, my friend and I played some more craps. I got a $500 marker and walked away about 300 to the plus side after a little while. By this time some of the other guys were starting to show up. However, it was also getting close to show time for Ray Romano, so my friend and I started heading over to the theater to see the show, so we were not able to hook up with them yet.
We had pretty good seats. 6th row back row FF, far stage left or right, I don't know from which vantage point you're supposed to call it. The show was good, we got out around 12:15am or so. The material was about 65% stuff I hadn't heard before, the other 35% of it was on his CD that I had already heard, but still funny nonetheless. After the show, he took questions from the audience. One person asked him, that he had heard that his wife doesn't really like all the jokes about her, the family, and their sex life and had asked him to stop using it in his routines. Ray replied, yes that had come up between them, but his response to his wife: "I tell her to go cry in a bag of money". Hilarious.
After the show, we thought about hooking up with our two other friends who had arrived at this point, but we were both tired and my stomach wasn't feeling too well, so we decided to turn in at 12:30am. Yeah, I know who goes to bed at 12:30am on Friday night in Vegas? Well, I have two young kids at home, and I was just too tired to do anything else.
So the next morning, I wake up at 6:00 am on the dot. That's the time my 2 year old daughter usually comes bouncing into the bedroom to wake us up. I realize I'm in Vegas and can sleep in, so I fall back asleep for another couple hours of sleep till about 8:30am or so.
Go through the rinse cycle as my friend likes to put it, and I go buy-in to a 20-40 holdem table at the Mirage poker room, while everybody sleeps. Nothing exciting really happens, except for the local player (maybe a mid-limit pro who likes to grind it out, not sure) raises from UTG, everybody folds to me in the small blind and I find ace-king and just call, and so does the big blind. Flop comes down 9-high rainbow. I check, big-blind checks, UTG fires out. I check-raise, big-blind folds, UTG 3-bets me and I call. Turn is a blank. I check, he bets, I call. I'm thinking that he either has ace-king, ace-queen, a big pocket pair, or a set. Not sure if I'm willing to call a bet on the river if I don't at least pair up. River comes a blank, I check, he checks behind. I table ace-king, he mucks flashing me a queen. Guess it was ace-queen after all. I comment, guess the tourist knows how to play after all, and I get a chuckle out of the table. If he had bet the river, I probably muck, or raise. I surely can't call.
So after playing poker till about 1:30 or so, my other friends are finally stirring so I go eat at Cravings the Mirage buffet. However, by the time I am ready to start eating at the buffet, my stomach really starts to grumble, but having already paid for it, I decide that I must eat something. So, I have some salad, a little fruit, some fish, and some cocktail shrimp along with a couple of cokes, while watching Mexico vs Argentina in the World Cup. The Argentinean goal in overtime was a beautiful goal if I've ever seen one.
After the show, we thought about hooking up with our two other friends who had arrived at this point, but we were both tired and my stomach wasn't feeling too well, so we decided to turn in at 12:30am. Yeah, I know who goes to bed at 12:30am on Friday night in Vegas? Well, I have two young kids at home, and I was just too tired to do anything else.
So the next morning, I wake up at 6:00 am on the dot. That's the time my 2 year old daughter usually comes bouncing into the bedroom to wake us up. I realize I'm in Vegas and can sleep in, so I fall back asleep for another couple hours of sleep till about 8:30am or so.
Go through the rinse cycle as my friend likes to put it, and I go buy-in to a 20-40 holdem table at the Mirage poker room, while everybody sleeps. Nothing exciting really happens, except for the local player (maybe a mid-limit pro who likes to grind it out, not sure) raises from UTG, everybody folds to me in the small blind and I find ace-king and just call, and so does the big blind. Flop comes down 9-high rainbow. I check, big-blind checks, UTG fires out. I check-raise, big-blind folds, UTG 3-bets me and I call. Turn is a blank. I check, he bets, I call. I'm thinking that he either has ace-king, ace-queen, a big pocket pair, or a set. Not sure if I'm willing to call a bet on the river if I don't at least pair up. River comes a blank, I check, he checks behind. I table ace-king, he mucks flashing me a queen. Guess it was ace-queen after all. I comment, guess the tourist knows how to play after all, and I get a chuckle out of the table. If he had bet the river, I probably muck, or raise. I surely can't call.
So after playing poker till about 1:30 or so, my other friends are finally stirring so I go eat at Cravings the Mirage buffet. However, by the time I am ready to start eating at the buffet, my stomach really starts to grumble, but having already paid for it, I decide that I must eat something. So, I have some salad, a little fruit, some fish, and some cocktail shrimp along with a couple of cokes, while watching Mexico vs Argentina in the World Cup. The Argentinean goal in overtime was a beautiful goal if I've ever seen one.
So after lunch, we decide to play some craps as a group. Well on this craps run, I went on a massive heater. I even told one of my buddies as he's walking up to the table, I feel a heater coming on. I ended up rolling through 3 stick man so at least 40+ minutes and turned my 1k marker into $3400+ after buying back the marker. My other buddy, took his last 25$ and turned into 700+. Best craps run I ever had in my life up to that point. For whatever reason, I was a little conservative in upping my bets while on was on this run, and only started to up my bets near the end, so I didn't really make as much as I could have. I told myself, the next time I am on a heater again, start pressing my bets up earlier.
So after feeling really good with myself, we cash out and discuss plans. We have dinner reservations for 6 at Del Friscos steak house and its about 4:30 now. So we decide to change, get ready for dinner, and head over the Del Friscos early and have a cigar in their cigar lounge. I brought some Cuban Montecristo #2's for the trip and prompty handed them out to the guys, and we made our way over the restaurant via limo.
Got to Del Frisco's and lit up. BIG MISTAKE, at least for me. Up to this point my stomach was a little on edge but tolerable. After the cigar, it was definitely not good. I couldn't keep anything in me. I felt bad after having ordered such a nice meal, that I only had like 3 bites of my steak. After dinner I was feeling so bad I just wanted to go back to the hotel and crash. The rest of the guys wanted to stay and smoke more cigars, so I cabbed it back to the hotel and was in the room by 7:30pm or so, I think.
I crashed in bed, after stopping by the hotel gift should and picking up some of the pink goo to calm my stomach. I channel surfed and flipped between Major League and Forrest Gump. Both great movies, for completely different reasons. My friend showed up around 10pm or so, and I was finally feeling a little bit better. The rest of the guys headed over to the Voodoo lounge at the Rio.
So I hopped in the shower, and we headed down to the craps table to do a little gambling before hitting the strip club. We promptly lost 1600 of the 2k marker I got. I told my buddy for his birthday, I'd front him 1k, if he lost it was on me. If he won, I got back my 1k, plus half of his winnings. Well, that only took a little bit of time to lose and scrap the rest of that plan.
So we headed off the Sapphires, got there about 11:00pm, and left around 3:45 am in the morning. The rest of the guys showed up around 1:45 am after getting blown off by the chicks at Voodoo lounge. Basic strip club stuff, I was feeling good enough to have a beer, so I had a Corona with a lime, plus a couple of Red Bulls while I was there. Spent some of my easy-earned cash on well-endowed strippers in the VIP room. Good times had by all.
Next day was check-out day. Set the alarm for 10am, next thing you know the damn alarm is going off. Shower, and head downstairs to talk to a host.
Found the host, he agrees to comp my room for both nights. Said that they are looking for 150-200/hand for 4 hours a day for a room comp. My average was right around 150, but I only had 6.5 hours of play over the two days so far, but I told him I was thinking of moving here permanently from the Aladdin and was sick, so he picked up both nights and gave me his card and told me to call him next time I want to hit town.
Flight leaves at 4:05 pm, and I heard that Sunday afternoons the airport in Vegas is just crazy. So the plan is to leave early and eat lunch at the airport.
Just enough time for one last session at craps. I started at 11am, finished at about 12:45pm, and went on the best heater of my life. I bought in for $1500 cash, and colored up at $6501, and after a $200 tip for the crew, took away $6301 to the cage. Since I didn't want to take that much cash on the plane with me, I had them make a check out to me for $6300, which I promptly deposited into my checking account this morning!
So got to the airport after returning the rental, and found that the airport wasn't that busy and our flight was 45 minutes behind schedule. Oh well, the best laid plans of mice and men and all.
So after feeling really good with myself, we cash out and discuss plans. We have dinner reservations for 6 at Del Friscos steak house and its about 4:30 now. So we decide to change, get ready for dinner, and head over the Del Friscos early and have a cigar in their cigar lounge. I brought some Cuban Montecristo #2's for the trip and prompty handed them out to the guys, and we made our way over the restaurant via limo.
Got to Del Frisco's and lit up. BIG MISTAKE, at least for me. Up to this point my stomach was a little on edge but tolerable. After the cigar, it was definitely not good. I couldn't keep anything in me. I felt bad after having ordered such a nice meal, that I only had like 3 bites of my steak. After dinner I was feeling so bad I just wanted to go back to the hotel and crash. The rest of the guys wanted to stay and smoke more cigars, so I cabbed it back to the hotel and was in the room by 7:30pm or so, I think.
I crashed in bed, after stopping by the hotel gift should and picking up some of the pink goo to calm my stomach. I channel surfed and flipped between Major League and Forrest Gump. Both great movies, for completely different reasons. My friend showed up around 10pm or so, and I was finally feeling a little bit better. The rest of the guys headed over to the Voodoo lounge at the Rio.
So I hopped in the shower, and we headed down to the craps table to do a little gambling before hitting the strip club. We promptly lost 1600 of the 2k marker I got. I told my buddy for his birthday, I'd front him 1k, if he lost it was on me. If he won, I got back my 1k, plus half of his winnings. Well, that only took a little bit of time to lose and scrap the rest of that plan.
So we headed off the Sapphires, got there about 11:00pm, and left around 3:45 am in the morning. The rest of the guys showed up around 1:45 am after getting blown off by the chicks at Voodoo lounge. Basic strip club stuff, I was feeling good enough to have a beer, so I had a Corona with a lime, plus a couple of Red Bulls while I was there. Spent some of my easy-earned cash on well-endowed strippers in the VIP room. Good times had by all.
Next day was check-out day. Set the alarm for 10am, next thing you know the damn alarm is going off. Shower, and head downstairs to talk to a host.
Found the host, he agrees to comp my room for both nights. Said that they are looking for 150-200/hand for 4 hours a day for a room comp. My average was right around 150, but I only had 6.5 hours of play over the two days so far, but I told him I was thinking of moving here permanently from the Aladdin and was sick, so he picked up both nights and gave me his card and told me to call him next time I want to hit town.
Flight leaves at 4:05 pm, and I heard that Sunday afternoons the airport in Vegas is just crazy. So the plan is to leave early and eat lunch at the airport.
Just enough time for one last session at craps. I started at 11am, finished at about 12:45pm, and went on the best heater of my life. I bought in for $1500 cash, and colored up at $6501, and after a $200 tip for the crew, took away $6301 to the cage. Since I didn't want to take that much cash on the plane with me, I had them make a check out to me for $6300, which I promptly deposited into my checking account this morning!
So got to the airport after returning the rental, and found that the airport wasn't that busy and our flight was 45 minutes behind schedule. Oh well, the best laid plans of mice and men and all.
Disclaimer: None, all, or some of this report may be made up and not true. Names changed to protect the innocent. To the best of my knowledge this report contains the truth and nothing but the truth.
November 2006 -- Las Vegas
Big Smoke is upon us. Just another excuse for the married men among us to abandon our wives and families as we make our pilgrimage to the holy mecca of gambling, booze, and sin.
With the introductions out of the way, to the particulars. Left San Diego on a Southwest flight leaving around 8:30pm or so after its delayed departure. The rest of the crew skipped work early and arrived earlier than I. Arrived in Vegas around 9:20pm, got in the winding cab line and left the airport around 9:45pm. Got long-hauled through the tunnel, as I dozed off after I told the cabby to take me to the Mirage. I awoke to find myself on the freeway! When I met up with my buddies, I asked them later if they too were long-hauled and they answered affirmatively, although B said, that his cabbie said there was some construction going on at Paradise or something, so the freeway is actually faster. I don't know maybe, but I think we just got schnookered.
Anyways arrive at the Mirage around 10pm, check in. 19028, North Tower I believe. I was comped a room for 2 nights from my host at the Mirage and asked for a king bed, non-smoking, but that late at night all they had available was 2 queens non-smoking room with a partial view of the strip. Standard room, nothing special. Regular TV, mini-bar, etc, etc. Small bathroom, no separate shower stall. I prefer a separate stall but no luck here.
November 2006 -- Las Vegas
Big Smoke is upon us. Just another excuse for the married men among us to abandon our wives and families as we make our pilgrimage to the holy mecca of gambling, booze, and sin.
With the introductions out of the way, to the particulars. Left San Diego on a Southwest flight leaving around 8:30pm or so after its delayed departure. The rest of the crew skipped work early and arrived earlier than I. Arrived in Vegas around 9:20pm, got in the winding cab line and left the airport around 9:45pm. Got long-hauled through the tunnel, as I dozed off after I told the cabby to take me to the Mirage. I awoke to find myself on the freeway! When I met up with my buddies, I asked them later if they too were long-hauled and they answered affirmatively, although B said, that his cabbie said there was some construction going on at Paradise or something, so the freeway is actually faster. I don't know maybe, but I think we just got schnookered.
Anyways arrive at the Mirage around 10pm, check in. 19028, North Tower I believe. I was comped a room for 2 nights from my host at the Mirage and asked for a king bed, non-smoking, but that late at night all they had available was 2 queens non-smoking room with a partial view of the strip. Standard room, nothing special. Regular TV, mini-bar, etc, etc. Small bathroom, no separate shower stall. I prefer a separate stall but no luck here.
After unpacking head down to the casino. The rest of the guys had reservations at Delmonicos Steakhouse so I figured they'd still be eating. I ponied up to the craps table, bought in for 1000 and 45 minutes later was walking away with zippo. I headed to the high-limit casino, and decided to play some blackjack. Got a marker for 2500, and played blackjack til about 3 in the morning, spreading my bets from 100 to 500 or so. Cashed out for around 5200. Tried to buy my marker back but it had already been sent to the cage. By this time I was super tired so I decided to head off to bed. Met a really nice guy, named Steve from Atlanta while I was playing.
Wake up the next morning around 8:30am, even though I didn't get to sleep until almost 3:30am. I have trouble sleeping in strange beds, plus my internal clock doesn't seem to let me sleep in anymore now that I have kids. So I go through the rinse cycle, and head down stairs to do some more gambling. First I head to the cage, cash in my chips and buy back my marker. Play some more craps, lose 2 grand doing that. Sheesh, craps just sure doesn't seem to be game this trip. No heaters yet, not even a handwarmer.
So I decide to play some poker instead, or at least I tried. I went to the Mirage poker room and got on the list for 20/40 and 40/80 limit holdem. Brush lady kept saying that the game would be getting started soon, but it never did in the hour I was waiting. While I was waiting and wandering around the casino, I saw a game called WPT All-in Holdem. Hmmm, I know how to play hold-em, let me check this game out. Basically it you heads up versus the dealer. You make a blind ante bet, plus 2 optional bonus bets. A bonus bet on your initial 2 cards, and a bonus bet on the final hand bonus. After inspecting your cards, you have 3 choices, fold -> lose your ante, but play out the hand for the final hand bonus, raise -> 5x your ante bet. Dealer must have a pair or blackjack total of 13 or higher, or all-in -> 10x your ante bet. Dealer must have a pair or a blackjack total of 17 or higher. Pretty fun game, although I dropped 600 playing it, but simply going all-in blind just about every hand.
So after getting frustrated to all hell with the poker room, I saw screw it and decide to play some more blackjack. I go the high-limit room around noon or so and get a marker for 2500. Turns out the Mirage was having a 300,000 blackjack tournament that day, so the blackjack pits were pretty busy. I play until around 5pm again spreading my bets between 100-500. After I'm done, I cash in buy back my marker, and it turns out that I am up 3k for the trip so far. While I was playing, I got some Chinese food in the high-limit lounge. Food wasn't bad, but it upset my stomach. Since the Big Smoke started at 6:30 pm, I head over to the Venetian to meet my buddies, and get in line for the Big Smoke. My buddy has a beer waiting for me and I thank him merrily. Unfortunately, the beer plus the chinese food are now wreaking havoc on my poor stomach.
Wake up the next morning around 8:30am, even though I didn't get to sleep until almost 3:30am. I have trouble sleeping in strange beds, plus my internal clock doesn't seem to let me sleep in anymore now that I have kids. So I go through the rinse cycle, and head down stairs to do some more gambling. First I head to the cage, cash in my chips and buy back my marker. Play some more craps, lose 2 grand doing that. Sheesh, craps just sure doesn't seem to be game this trip. No heaters yet, not even a handwarmer.
So I decide to play some poker instead, or at least I tried. I went to the Mirage poker room and got on the list for 20/40 and 40/80 limit holdem. Brush lady kept saying that the game would be getting started soon, but it never did in the hour I was waiting. While I was waiting and wandering around the casino, I saw a game called WPT All-in Holdem. Hmmm, I know how to play hold-em, let me check this game out. Basically it you heads up versus the dealer. You make a blind ante bet, plus 2 optional bonus bets. A bonus bet on your initial 2 cards, and a bonus bet on the final hand bonus. After inspecting your cards, you have 3 choices, fold -> lose your ante, but play out the hand for the final hand bonus, raise -> 5x your ante bet. Dealer must have a pair or blackjack total of 13 or higher, or all-in -> 10x your ante bet. Dealer must have a pair or a blackjack total of 17 or higher. Pretty fun game, although I dropped 600 playing it, but simply going all-in blind just about every hand.
So after getting frustrated to all hell with the poker room, I saw screw it and decide to play some more blackjack. I go the high-limit room around noon or so and get a marker for 2500. Turns out the Mirage was having a 300,000 blackjack tournament that day, so the blackjack pits were pretty busy. I play until around 5pm again spreading my bets between 100-500. After I'm done, I cash in buy back my marker, and it turns out that I am up 3k for the trip so far. While I was playing, I got some Chinese food in the high-limit lounge. Food wasn't bad, but it upset my stomach. Since the Big Smoke started at 6:30 pm, I head over to the Venetian to meet my buddies, and get in line for the Big Smoke. My buddy has a beer waiting for me and I thank him merrily. Unfortunately, the beer plus the chinese food are now wreaking havoc on my poor stomach.
We go into the Big Smoke, grab our cigars and what not, plus some food. I was not as impressed with the Big Smoke this year as is in years past. This is my 3rd Big Smoke, and I liked it least of all. The ballroom at the Venetian was too small, there were no tables to sit at, and no chairs. In any case, the cigar smoke, my upset stomach, lack of places to sit simply overwhelmed me and I left early at 8pm to go crash at my hotel. I told the guys, when they decided to go off for extra-curricular activities, call me as I may be feeling better.
So I walk back to the Mirage, and crash in my hotel for a couple of hours. Around 10pm, I arise, and head down to the casino feeling better finally. I again try my hand at craps and proceed to lose another 1500 very quickly. I then head off to the poker room and decide to play 1/2 no-limit holdem with a max $200 buy-in. This is pretty low stakes for me, so I decide to play almost any two cards preflop for any reasonable price, and then play post-flop correctly.
Some big hands I was involved in:
I had Ace-King offsuit and limp for 2 bucks in middle position. Everyone folds to the small blind, who completes, and big blind checks his option. Flop comes ace-king-rag. Check to me, I bet 7 bucks, small blind folds, big-blind calls. Turn is a jack. Big blind bets 20. I raise to 60, big-blind calls. River a king. Big blind checks, I bet 45, he calls. I turn over my full-house, he mucks showing me Q-10 for a turned gut-shot straight that hit on the turn.
Another hand, I had Ace-King offsuit in the big blind. 4 or 5 limpers, button raised to 7, calls all around. Flop comes Ace of Clubs, Jack of Clubs, rag. Check to the button who bets 20, I raise to 100. UTG thinks for a long hard while, and finally calls. Everybody else folds, and I bet blind all-in on the turn for my last 52. He of course calls, and blanks off. He had King of clubs 10 of clubs for the royal flush draw that didn't get there.
UTG I raise to 7 with 7 diamonds, 6 diamonds. Get like 4 or 5 callers. Flop come 8, 9, 10, two spades. I flopped the idiot end of the straight. I check, cut-off moves all-in, button moves all-in over the top of him! I think for a long time, before I fold and I show the table the fold I am making. They can't believe I'm folding my hand. Turns out the cut-off has a set of nines, while the button has Ace of spades, Jack of spades for a higher straight draw, and the nut flush draw. So even though technically I was ahead, I am dog to win the hand at showdown. Button ends up winning when the river comes 7 for a jack high straight, so I would have lost as well if I had played.
I did crack pocket aces with 4,5 off suit when I flopped two pair and my opponenent wouldn't release his overpair, when it was pretty clear he was beat.
Interestingly enough around 1am or so, a young lass sits down wearing nothing but a bra and a shawl that barely covers her to mid-thighs. Her cleavage is hanging out and proudly being displayed to the table of 9 other men. She eventually gets busted, and a conversation breaks out around the table if we think she was a working girl. Vote goes 6-3 that she was indeed a working girl, having a hard night finding johns.
While playing poker, I decided to have a beer. Unfortunately, this was not such a good idea. My stomache begins to protest and when buddies call to tell me they are ready to head to the strip club, the idea of a hundred and ten pound stripper writhing, contorting, and grinding against me for the next couple of hours, is enough to convince me to pass. So unfortunately, this Vegas trip, I saw no naked women, other than the young hooker who played at my poker table. I end up playing till 3 am and head to bed, booking a modest 100 dollar win.
Sunday, Bloody Sunday. Should have just slept in. Lost a ton. Enough said. Left Vegas around 9:25 pm, put my head in bed around a little around 11pm, after saying hi to my wife.
That's it.
So I walk back to the Mirage, and crash in my hotel for a couple of hours. Around 10pm, I arise, and head down to the casino feeling better finally. I again try my hand at craps and proceed to lose another 1500 very quickly. I then head off to the poker room and decide to play 1/2 no-limit holdem with a max $200 buy-in. This is pretty low stakes for me, so I decide to play almost any two cards preflop for any reasonable price, and then play post-flop correctly.
Some big hands I was involved in:
I had Ace-King offsuit and limp for 2 bucks in middle position. Everyone folds to the small blind, who completes, and big blind checks his option. Flop comes ace-king-rag. Check to me, I bet 7 bucks, small blind folds, big-blind calls. Turn is a jack. Big blind bets 20. I raise to 60, big-blind calls. River a king. Big blind checks, I bet 45, he calls. I turn over my full-house, he mucks showing me Q-10 for a turned gut-shot straight that hit on the turn.
Another hand, I had Ace-King offsuit in the big blind. 4 or 5 limpers, button raised to 7, calls all around. Flop comes Ace of Clubs, Jack of Clubs, rag. Check to the button who bets 20, I raise to 100. UTG thinks for a long hard while, and finally calls. Everybody else folds, and I bet blind all-in on the turn for my last 52. He of course calls, and blanks off. He had King of clubs 10 of clubs for the royal flush draw that didn't get there.
UTG I raise to 7 with 7 diamonds, 6 diamonds. Get like 4 or 5 callers. Flop come 8, 9, 10, two spades. I flopped the idiot end of the straight. I check, cut-off moves all-in, button moves all-in over the top of him! I think for a long time, before I fold and I show the table the fold I am making. They can't believe I'm folding my hand. Turns out the cut-off has a set of nines, while the button has Ace of spades, Jack of spades for a higher straight draw, and the nut flush draw. So even though technically I was ahead, I am dog to win the hand at showdown. Button ends up winning when the river comes 7 for a jack high straight, so I would have lost as well if I had played.
I did crack pocket aces with 4,5 off suit when I flopped two pair and my opponenent wouldn't release his overpair, when it was pretty clear he was beat.
Interestingly enough around 1am or so, a young lass sits down wearing nothing but a bra and a shawl that barely covers her to mid-thighs. Her cleavage is hanging out and proudly being displayed to the table of 9 other men. She eventually gets busted, and a conversation breaks out around the table if we think she was a working girl. Vote goes 6-3 that she was indeed a working girl, having a hard night finding johns.
While playing poker, I decided to have a beer. Unfortunately, this was not such a good idea. My stomache begins to protest and when buddies call to tell me they are ready to head to the strip club, the idea of a hundred and ten pound stripper writhing, contorting, and grinding against me for the next couple of hours, is enough to convince me to pass. So unfortunately, this Vegas trip, I saw no naked women, other than the young hooker who played at my poker table. I end up playing till 3 am and head to bed, booking a modest 100 dollar win.
Sunday, Bloody Sunday. Should have just slept in. Lost a ton. Enough said. Left Vegas around 9:25 pm, put my head in bed around a little around 11pm, after saying hi to my wife.
That's it.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Crazy Mike is in the House
I played with Crazy Mike again last night. I put a serious dent into his chip-stack after he put an early beating on me. I ended up +2220 in 4.5 hours of play with him. We were playing short-handed 40/80 and as usual every hand he played it was automatically 3-bets before the flop. He's a character, likely very insecure with himself. When we were 3-handed, whenever he was the button he would live-straddle. I was on his left, making me the small-blind every time he was the button and I was first to act. If it got back to him unraised it was an automatic 3-bet and then a bet on the flop was always coming. Even if you check-raised him, he was calling no matter what. Most hands he didn't even look at his hand until after the turn card hit. It's next to impossible to outplay or get a read on a guy who hasn't even looked at his hand yet. When he's running good, get out of his way. When the cards run true, take the chips and run.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Good Seat Change, GREAT Month Change
A new month brings new results. How's $557.58 an hour sound? Outstanding. That was my hourly rate for the two weekend sessions I got to play. 12 hours total. I made back more than half of my losses in July in the basically one weekend of play.
Friday night was phenomenal. Everything I played was hitting flops hard, or just good enough to make the best hand and someone else a second-best hand that they felt compelled to pay me off.
Saturday night, I saw the biggest chip donor in a long time. Unfortunately, I didn't get much of his chips. He consistently overvalued his hands and pushed hard, he certainly wasn't afraid to put his chips in the middle. One absolutely amazing hand that I could not believe:
Roc raised UTG with pocket tens. Donor 3-bets in the big-blind with ace-queen. Flop comes ten-jack-little rainbow. Roc and the donor are playing overs, so at this point the limits are now 80-160. Donor bets, Roc raises, Donor calls. Turn is a jack, giving Roc a full-house. 5 bets @ 160 each go into the pot, with the donor being the initial check-raiser! (check-raising with a gut-shot, although I think he was trying to represent the jack). River comes a king, giving the donor broadway. CHECK-BET-CALL!?!?!? He gets there on the river, and then just check-calls? I don't get it. Neither did Roc or the rest of the table. Good only just call sir!
Friday night was phenomenal. Everything I played was hitting flops hard, or just good enough to make the best hand and someone else a second-best hand that they felt compelled to pay me off.
Saturday night, I saw the biggest chip donor in a long time. Unfortunately, I didn't get much of his chips. He consistently overvalued his hands and pushed hard, he certainly wasn't afraid to put his chips in the middle. One absolutely amazing hand that I could not believe:
Roc raised UTG with pocket tens. Donor 3-bets in the big-blind with ace-queen. Flop comes ten-jack-little rainbow. Roc and the donor are playing overs, so at this point the limits are now 80-160. Donor bets, Roc raises, Donor calls. Turn is a jack, giving Roc a full-house. 5 bets @ 160 each go into the pot, with the donor being the initial check-raiser! (check-raising with a gut-shot, although I think he was trying to represent the jack). River comes a king, giving the donor broadway. CHECK-BET-CALL!?!?!? He gets there on the river, and then just check-calls? I don't get it. Neither did Roc or the rest of the table. Good only just call sir!
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