 Vegas October 2013 |
| Day 5 - Another deep run |
| Last Updated: 2013-10-04 12:52:56 |
| This will probably be a a little shorter than usual, I'm a little pressed for time today.
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| No late night again on Wednesday so we were up fairly early on Thursday. It's actually nice having some time to sit around and do "nothing" for a few hours every morning. Relaxing is rarely on my agenda...
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| Lunch at Spice Market Buffet at Planet Hollywood. One thing we've noticed this week is that the strip is pretty dead. Usually there's a long line to get into Spice, well really any buffet at the heart of lunch time, but not so this time. We haven't seen any long lines anywhere all week.
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| On to Aria for another day of poker.
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| There isn't a lot for me to talk about as far as the 1:00. I lasted well past the end of the rebuy period, but the bottom line was the cards just weren't there for me. There were only two hands of note.
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| On the first one, the under-the-gun player raised out to 1400, blinds were 300/600. The next person to act, who had just recently come over to the table thanks to a table break, was someone I already had figured for a "call with any two pre-flop" kind guy. He made the call and I looked down at A-Ks. I make it 3000 to go, original raiser folds and "any two" calls off 1/3 of his stack.
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| Right at that moment I thought to myself "he's pushing any flop". Flop comes something like 10-6-2, he picks up his chips and goes all in. I almost certainly had the best hand preflop, which means I most likely still have the best hand. I do think about it for a couple of seconds but given his pre-flop range was 80-90% of hands and this was such an obvious spot for him to try and make a move I call.
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| He rolls over 3-4.
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| My ace holds up.
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| I told Joann I'm going to switch from "Puppetmaster" to "Bluffcatcher". This was an easy one, but I've been catching a lot of bluffs online and I'm happy to say it's translated into my live game.
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| So I double up, a few hands later our table breaks down and I get moved to another table. Just a few hands in a short stack goes all in and I look down at pocket Jacks.
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| Calling is not an option. It's 1/2-1/3 of my stack and I don't want to have to try and play jacks post-flop if there's another caller. So basically I'm going all-in to isolate or I'm folding...and I don't see ever folding Jacks to a short stack all in...so I go all in. Guy on the other side of me immediately goes all in. Dammit, that can't be good...
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| Original all in had 10s, guy who went over the top of me had Queens. A 10 hit, a Jack did not and I was done. Ugh.
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| A quick aside: That's probably the 4th time I've seen a three-way all in with consecutive pairs on this trip, not necessarily involving me although now that I think about it there was another one when I had a big stack, me and someone else called down a very short stack when I had 8s and it turned out short stack had 9s, other caller had 7s.
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| I've also see a lot of quads, all flopped. 3's one time (on a dark all-in described in another blog entry I think), and three times flopped quad Queens. Thankfully that time I had KK on a Q-Q-K flop was not one of them, but as I'd mentioned it did cross my mind.
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| But I digress...
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| Hung out watching the start of the football game at the Aria sports book and then headed into the 7:00.
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| Started out great. I actually had quite a few good starting hands and several of them hit. But then I had a run of small-to-middle pairs and I called off a chunk of chips trying to hit sets and stack someone.
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| Another quick aside: I don't believe I have flopped a set all week in situations where I was hoping to stack someone post-flop. I'm sure I hit here and there on preflop all-ins, but it would have been nice to catch just one where I had a chance to stack someone with 20-50 BB stacks.
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| Well long story short, I blew half my stack when I loose player raised preflop and I called with A-K of diamonds. Flop was something like 10-9-4 w/ two diamonds, he bet out and I decided to make a move and raise. He called quickly, which was not good. I turned a Q to make it a straight draw, a flush draw and two overs, he made a small bet (so either he had a monster or he had a borderline hand and was making a blocking bet), I called, but I missed the river and had to give it up.
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| I got all-in on a flip and lost and went to the cage to rebuy.
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| Next table also started out great. Caught a boat and got paid some (A-7 flopped 778, turned an ace), cracked aces with J-10 to double up, caught another boat and got paid again (reraised with A-K, flop came A-K-x, turn another A, after checking flop and turn I value bet the river and he called w/ QQ). Before I knew it we were down to three tables of 30 with 9 getting paid and I had a decent sized chip stack.
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| I was able to build it up a little as blinds went up and people dropped out, but when we got down to two tables I went a little card dead and blinds started to catch up to me. Had a couple of hands that didn't work out, more people dropped off and when we were down to 15 players I was almost exactly at 10 big blinds and one of the shortest stacks.
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| Big stack raises out, I look down at A-Js and push all in, folds back around to him and he sits there and counts out the chips...thinks about it for about 20 seconds, lets out a sigh, puts the chips out and turns over pocket kings.
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| Seriously?
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| Someone else at the table said "you had to think about that?" Honestly, I think he really was thinking about it.
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| Worst part was, when the board ran out x-10-J-Q-A he thought he lost and couldn't understand why they were pushing the chips his way and I was leaving the table...
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| Oh well. Busted out 6 from the money, another good, deep run. Poker is always more fun when you catch some cards and can play from the strength of a big stack! Just one of those classic cases of all the cards coming early and not enough of them coming late. Oh well.
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| Friday is "getaway day" for us, but Joann has let me know she's OK with me playing in the 1:00 today and driving home whenever I cash or bust out so I'll do the phony "if you're going to twist my arm..." and play. |
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