Poker Forum > Member Blogs

The Fossil does Vegas

<< < (176/189) > >>

Erimus:
A few small cashes here and there online have reduced Aprils losses to a meh whatever so far.

All sorted for Vegas after a bit if a faf about, after I won the package found a really good flight and promptly booked it after verifying Susan's stay, then get an email from said company who can't accommodate her on the first 2 days so promptly cancelled this flight, now I am sweating on a full refund, they have put a partial refund back on card, I have contacted them and because the second flight was with another company that might delay the rest of the refund, I had cancelled within 24 hours so I should get a full refund but am currently sweating that.

Regarding the package won I assumed wrongly that cash would be put into account and I would be responsible for travel arrangements, but it was put into a3rd party agent to sort out.

I eventually found flights for £620 return with stops but prices were varying about on a daily basis quite wildly.

I got Susan sorted with a couple of date adjustments.

Eventually sorted Newcastle to Heathrow to Philadelphia to Vegas landing at 20:30, it's a bit of a long winded route but saved £650 for the 2 tickets required.

It was cheaper to add an extra night and fly home on the 10th rather than the 9th but again it's Vegas/JFK/Heathrow/Newcastle.

I was getting a bit of grief from my brother for not getting him tickets for Elbow last month so offered him a holiday to Vegas for the princely sum of £500 which he duly accepted, he plays a bit of Poker but no experience live, he may join in the Apat game other than that he will be by the pool I would imagine and drinking on the night, and day knowing him.

Some fun hands from the Stockton G this month, won a hand with AA v 8 callers, it actually got to the river with 3 of us left in the hand, how that held I will never know and how 7 people call an utg plus 1 3 bet is again a mystery.

A few games later variance decided because of the above I shall lose with AA twice in 4 bet pots v 64 and 69, all good fun though, water off a ducks back.

I managed an appearance at WCOAP in the hi roller, didn't make much of an impact, it started to go wrong with me 3 betting Utg limp with QJ hearts, then I was min 4 bet from button, I called, 2 hearts on the flop, check call, the king on the turn gave me straight outs, I had put him on a tight range JJ +, AK, so even if he had trips or top pair we still have outs , river was a King, I gave up with 15 bigs behind, Q high was never going to be good here, even if I shove repping the King, I don't think he would of folded given my stack and his, my last 14 bigs went with AJ < 77, home safe and sound by 11:30.

Back to Vegas, planning to play the Colossus on the Saturday afternoon 4pm flight, hoping this is the only tournament I get to play all week, obviously this is highly unlikely so plans are afoot for other games, $50k in a day at Planet Hollywood, ($250) Wynn $100k ($500) and obviously will be trying for a double final table appearance at Apat North American championships.

The G continues to astound  tonight, rejammed over an all in with KJ on a KJ high 2 diamond flop, turn my cards over top 2 not realising seat 1 was still in the hand, he was hiding behind the dealer, he sees my hand and still decides to call  my 20 bb shove with 44, of course he hits, 50p in the tin, fun times, I will accept the penalty the dealer gave me in the next game, charming.

Erimus:
It's a bit early but started to plan for next months journey to Vegas.

Its my 5th and more than likely my final visit to Vegas currently 2-2 going into the final set.

First the run bad, remember the flight which was booked last month and had to be cancelled, well that ended up costing me £500, my bad for not reading terms and conditions, I ended up having a bit of a twitter spat with BA after they posted something about their new first class lounge facilities at Heathrow, just indicating to them I was so happy to donate the £500 to the first class customers, pretty sure they needed the cash more than me.

Circumstances out of my control  meant cancelling the flight but perhaps I could of been a bit more patient and not book so early.

To be fair they did contact me and I had more dialogue with them via direct messaging than I had with phone and e mail support, anyway over that now, life's too short to get too upset over massive corporations getting one over you.

Planning on the following schedule

Arrive Vegas today 8:30 pm Grosvnor welcome Party at the Linq, hopefully free bar.

Saturday will be acclimating and recovering from previous night/journey, no Poker planned,  going to a concert on the Saturday night at the Brooklyn Bowl next to Linq.

Sunday play Day 1 of colossus, that takes care of the next 4 days as on Wednesday I will pick up the bracelet and the milly.

Thursday I will be going to SR and spending $990000, just so I dont have any hassle taking more than $10k back through customs, sensible I think.

Back to reality, if I bust the colossus, may stay at the Rio to play either a deepstack or a satellite.

Monday playing at the Wynn $100k gteed.

Tuesday, Carls wedding so no Poker, nothing planned but may try and plan a trip out of town.

Wednesday, Golden Nugget for the Apat game.

Thursday Day 2 of Planet Hollywood $100k guaranteed.

Nothing planned for Friday just r and r before flight home on the Saturday or hopefully day 2 of the Planet Hollywood event.

All the above are subject to change depending upon mood and mental state.

As said initially I would imagine this will be my last trip to Vegas, there are more countries offering poker games to visit and Vegas is not cheap.

This trip is a total bonus as I wasn't intending going this year so it ticks 2 more boxes on the list

1 Winning a package and
2 Playing in a Wsop event at the Rio.

I haven't actually played at the Rio before and only been there once to see Penn and Teller so it will be a first on the poker front.

Although we are not down I pretty much gave up a month ago, but actually seen a good game today v City, out of all the games this season it's been pretty anti climatic, only Spurs, Liverpool and Crystal Palace have impressed me the rest of the teams rank average and I won't miss the Premier League, admittedly they won't miss us because we have not been very good, but you support your club through thick and thin, go again next year, one thing the crowds have created a really good atmosphere for a team struggling which has been the best bit of the season.

Anyway waffled on too much as per, got a 12th on Party last night for £175 which slightly reduces this months loses which tbh were not a lot, probably played less than 20 games online and not many live.

Roll on Vegas and a bit of run good.

Zozzy:
Your Vegas itinerary looks great. I will see you at the Leeds tournament tonight and we will have a catch up. 

Erimus:
Cheers Craig, nice to see you tonight and as I haven't done one of these for a while a tourney report on tonight's game as it was quite fun for a change, a spoiler, didn't cash but here goes.

Starting stack is 250 big blinds and this beauty starts the action, utg limps, I 3 bet 10 10 from cut off button flats, flop is favourable ( stolen from elsewhere) 8 10 8, check, check, button bets out, utg calls, I decide to min re raise as it looks like they have something, quads the way it's been going lately, moan over, button and UTB both call, turn brick, utg bets I reraise button folds, she tells me she has Jacks after the hand, UTB calls, river meaningless utg bets out, if he has quads Gl to him, I jam he snaps, he has Q8 off suit, cooler ?, maybe but limp calling Q8 deserves it.

We have 60k, decent start, raise KK flop a house with a KQQ flop, get a bit of value with a small bet on the Ace river, 2 full houses, nice start to proceedings, make speculative calls in position with pretty hands, but even though flops give us equity, brick straight and flush draws, seems full houses are the only way to go.

I defend Q10 and guess what, I turn a house but don't get much action, show for the Bantz.

Up to 70k, then  the downward trend started blind on blind with GMac, I have a Q high straight and he has a King high straight, he almost folds as I put an over pot sized bet on the river, repping the flush, after much ohhing an arring, he calls, nice call sir, he is becoming a bit if a nemesis to me lately but it's fine.
 down to 40k after that and a few more losses.

Raise AQ utg, call a 10 big shove, racing v 10 10, flop had a 10 on it, back to my comfort zone of a 20 big blind stack at 800/1600.

I raise 99 utg, probably going with this hand gets to Mr can't fold, won't fold who defends with 67, flop favourable 569,  bet call, turn 8, it all goes in, I call in the 5 for my 4th full house of the evening and we are back to 40 bigs.

The next few levels are not very profitable, having to fold in marginal spots but the action dictated I would need to get lucky, I folded correctly and was never ahead in any of the hands and wouldn't of got there either.

30 left 18 get paid, cut off opens, I look at KK, jam, 18 bigs, shortie behind calls an insignificant stack, cut off calls with AQ, Ace in the window sees my demise, pick up outs for the straight on the turn but see the shortstack who is all in has one my outs.

So after 4 full houses, Kings twice a few nice bluffs I am back on the A1 bemoaning my luck, was a fun game nice to be involved in a few hands and participate in the game without being card dead all night, had a little rant on Twitter then to put things into perspective checked my sons twitter account who is coming to the end of his police constable rotation in Bradford, he has been involved in a foot chase, arresting someone who has threaten to Kill a member of the public, on his last call of the night discovered a cannabis farm in a street house in Bradford and arrested someone for controlling and coercive behaviour.

In summary an enjoyable game for a change instead of the carnage of the G Stockton of which lately have just become a donator, I am not doing anything wrong just variance, and well it's the nature of the beast.

Any of the Vegas visitors got anything lined up to play, (other than chopping the colossus with me)see or do whilst over there, its getting slightly closer and anticipation is growing, thanks for reading run good, be lucky stay healthy.

Erimus:


Another sweat before the trip, remember the BA fiasco regarding flight refund because of date change re Susans stay, well Tuessday 30th get a call from care home indicating they are currently not accepting any new people into  the home as they currently have a sickness bug going around, they said it's purely preventative and should be ok within 48 hours, they will phone on Thursday to confirm if the booking can go ahead, marvellous, I got a list of numbers in case I had to replan Susans care.

Upshot, they couldn't take her in, tbh I was wary of letting her go in as she isn't too good at the minute, think a week after the event would be long enough but not a day.

Frantic calling around looking for a new place was in progress and luckily I got her in somewhere where she has been before, panic over. It was like hitting the case Ace to make royal flush v Quads, got lucky, long may it continue.

Well here we are for my 5th and more than likely last visit to Vegas got a bit of a journey there, Newcastle > Heathrow > Philadelphia > Vegas, arriving 8:30 local time, would imagine at hotel by 9:15 then straight to Welcome party hosted by G.

As indicated by the first paragraph, all was ok but it's still an extra worry which I could do without.

No poker planned on the Saturday, Champions league match then a band on the night, Colossus Sunday morning and if bust that will see what is about, structure not the best 5k chips 30 minute blinds so will need to get busy early doors, not planning a re Entry but as Grosvnor are paying for one bullet then it seems rude not to have a go.

Plan pretty much the same as above post depending upon mood and general demeanour.

Had a couple of live cashes last month at the G so a slight upturn in fortunes, coming into a bit of form, unfortunately not Winning them but a couple of min plus cashes makes another break even month.

Online very minimal but a 3rd in Skys  8pm bounty hunter for £509 on Sat was a welcome boost to moral and funds.

Anyway just been called to gate for the first leg of journey, Gl me and all the others from Apat in  Vegas, bring it on.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page