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Browsed a few Art Galleries, had Lobster for lunch, Aria $125 beckons, normal Monday then.
Good start at Aria 17k from 10k at break
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Ran jj into kk 12 bigs left shove time
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And finally Esther KK me v 33 for last 12 bigs flop 3QQ, it"s how we are rolling, onwards.
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After busting the Aria with the above hand, actually it was the next hand as I had 2 bigs left got it in good again with A5 v QJ but the J Binked, guy who busted my kings was really apologetic about his suckout, it sounded like he was more upset about it than me.
Currently running as bad this year as I ran good 2 years ago, playing mtts is such high variance and when it"s not happening just got to play through it and hope it turns around.
Didn"t fancy another game tonight although Adam and Rodders were off to play the $200 at the Venetian, I was in the queue at the ticket place looking for a show to see, got a ticket for Penn and Teller at the Rio so popped over there for that.
Enjoyed the show nothing spectacular but a break from the poker, went over there on my own and felt a bit yuk as I thought about Susan at home, although it"s a nice break for me, she could be here enjoying the shows shops etc whilst I am out and about playing poker, in the great scheme of things health is everything, bloody hell welling up here, pull yourself together man, you are in Vegas.
I think a few are going over to the Aria today for the 1pm game so may as well go for that one, hopefully we can get one or two to a cash position and have a final table rail, would be nice.
Depending on how the above game goes will continue the grind tonight but there will be no cards involved, last Tuesdays cheeky 3rd place at the G, the one I wasn"t supposed to be playing will be aiding and abetting young ladies fund their college educations,and once they get their law and medical degrees you will all be glad I made this small donation to help the world cause.
I have enough left to play another $400 deepstack at the Venetian tomorrow (Wed I think) and another $200 one to finish off the stake, it"s still not over hopefully we can pull a rabbit out if the hat and do a bink in my last 3 games.
Run good, be lucky, stay healthy.
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Aria tournament report, this may be slightly incoherent as I am typing this at 1pm sat at a video poker machine on my 4 th jd coke added to the 4 bottles of corona already drunk feeling slightly typsy.
First bullet 3 bet Ak 3 x first level did I hit,did I ******, had to fold to subsequent bets including Adam calling a 3 bet with kj and hitting his jack, doesn"t he read this blog, no problem rather it go to a fellow apater than some random.
A Canadian lady every time I raised she 3 bet me and she totally owned me she had it every time though ak v qq blah bla blah.
Pivotal hand of first bullet 3 limpers including Adam I 3 bet from small blind with 99 ( total nit), get 2 callers Adam folds, he does read this blog then, I can"t remember flop, but to be honest cant remember what day it is but was fairly safe, 2 clubs I think, one over card, bet the turn which was a brick get one caller, river card is an 8 but of the parsley variety, I have now improved to a straight but the flush had also arrived villain bets 2k5 but I have the nut straight, it"s my turn to act and nearly unload the lot but notice the flush at the last minute, so I call her value bet, k3 of clubs Is good then why wouldn"t it be, because they always get there, (another 50p in the tin, this tin is halfway to funding next years trip).
I should actually fold here as the villain in question is never buffing,although it is the ideal bluff card, but we need to get chips at the beginning so we can move on in the game.
In these games we are really deep at the start but once it gets to the mid game unless you have accumulated some chips you are almost always in the 20bb shove mode looking for good spots.
I pick up 77 utg, i min raise but get 3 callers flop relatively safe j8x, I just jam hoping no one has hit ( it was only 15 mins before re entry I can rep the Jack or a bigger pair Canadian lady calls i ask if she has a Jack, she replies no, but she has an 8, I thought I was safe then realised 8 is one up from a 7 so I was gone, nice call Miss, (probably put me on AK).
Rebought and to cut a long storey short was so card and spot dead it was ridiculous, eventually shoved A8 into buttons 99, didn"t hit, why spoil the habit of a life time.
Back to Harrahs spent some time with Rodders and Colin, decided to hop over to treasures, readers of this blog from 2 years ago may recall a similar journey 2 years ago, the action was fairly similar no need to go into detail, but was a very pleasant 2 hours, the others from the North East had decided on an early night, so this was a lone excursion, and i would like to thank the regs from the G for their small contribution to this trip.
A synopsis of my poker this week would be, playing ok running like a 3 legged dog so cashes have been non existent. Talking to the guy sat next to me I said I had been running like a 3 legged dog. He said he has a dog at home with 3 legs and runs ok, that killed that conversation stone dead.
I have $600 left on the stake and although the phone number given to me by Katrina from treasures would take at least 90% of this I have decided resist Katrina and her Mexican/ Spanish charms to play the $400 Venetian deepstack event later today and a final event to be decided depending upon how the 2 day Venetian event goes.
Incidentally if any of the stakees would prefer me to take up Katrinas kind offer I will gladly forsake the Venetian deepstack game.
We have 2 chances to get out of this and i would be made up if we do a bink.
As I said in my original proposal variance may bite me back hard on the backside after the decent run 2 years ago and so far this has proved to be the case but we have 2 more chances to get out of it.
I could make a list if all the mtts I have played but tbh it would be too brutal to look back upon, and may put me on tilt when re reading in the future and it may put me off returning, all games played are mentioned in previous posts except for a $100 one at Harrahs, decided not to write that up as even I was becoming sick of reading about more bad beats.
I would like to thank you for the opportunity to play through the year and although I got the best of it, a virtual Freeroll to Vegas you all at least got your cash back and enough to buy a new hat, hoping for some run good at the Venetian today, or am I putting a call into Katrina ?, peace. Run good, be lucky, stay healthy.
Morning after the night before, head a bit heavy nothing a decent breakfast and some rehydration won"t cure.
Well done to Adam on his cash at the Aria, our chip dump at the 25/50 level paying dividends.
12pm start for the Venetian deepstack event, morale still ok, so looking forward to it.
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