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ThinkerJE makes a return trip to Vegas
ThinkerJE:
Ok, just woke up with a banging headache, way too much Miller Light last night. The plan for today is to have a day off poker and rail Martyn on day 2 of yesterday"s tournament. Its starts at 2pm local time so I have a couple of hours to sort myself out and get down to Ceasar"s. He has about 235k in chips with the average around 165k so he is in good shape. There was one crazy hand that happened late last night (or was it early this morning). UTG moves all in for about 40k and I am watching behind Martyn when I see he has KK. He moves all in for 80k and looks confident. Then another guy moves all in behind him for 120k. W
e look at each other and are both thinking the same thing, what a time to run into aces. Then the BB takes ages to muck his cards, not sure what he had but he was never going to call. So its 3 way AK vs KK vs QQ (this is surely a fold with his chips). The best hand holds and Martyn is up 200k.
I have just found out that the football has started with the Czech Republic beating Switzerland. This is another result for the thinker bankroll as the Ceasar"s sportsbook had the Czech"s at 8/5, which myself and Jon thought was way too big so we lumped on. I had priced them around the 4/5 mark so 8/5 was simply silly (those septics know nothing about soccer). Add that to another nifty won on the video poker and it seems that I am winning on everything except the poker. I am not down about it as I am generally making good decisions (a few mistakes) and getting my money in good. I just need the cards to hold and a deep run is just round the corner. As a change we are heading to Binion"s tomorrow to play the PL Omaha event. This should be a lot of fun, it will be interesting to see how many runners they get and the standard of the play (my bet is on variable).
Friday night in LV is simply mad. The queue for the nightclub was right through the casino. Also the suits on the door only let ladies into the club, How does this work then, the entire club is full of ladies in low cut revealing outfits, what is the point of that if there are no blokes allowed in. There was also a big performance from either Cher, Elton John or Bette Midler in Ceasar"s Palace. There was lots of DJ"s and posh frocks mingling about with programmes and drinking champagne. Those tickets must cost a bit. Now I have always had a soft spot for Cher (as she has the power to turn back time), and Elton can belt out a good tune but Midler is just annoying. These people have probably spent the best part of a tournament buy in to see these perform, its not for me, I"ll stick to getting out drawn for my money.
I will update later this evening on how Martyn gets on.
NO BAD BEATS - just a banging headache!!!
ThinkerJE:
Martyn and his monster chipstack at Ceasar"s Palace.
Mr Tubbs:
Unlucky with the A3 what a s*** call don"t you hate people i"m behind but i call.
I also had the Czech"s at 8/5 what value thank you will hill croatia are good value also on sunday good luck martyn great read j
ThinkerJE:
Ok just got back and yet again cold drinks have been taken so I apologise if I mis type my words.
No poker for me today, instead myself & Jon were railing Martyn in the last 4 tables of the megastack at Ceasar"s that started yesterday. It all kicks off early with all the short stacks going all in and about 8 players getting busted within the first 20 mins. Martyn is sitting back and letting them get on with it. Unfortunately the big double up hand does not arrive. He does make one incredible laydown when he bins JJ pre flop when a solid tight player has raised UTG. Both me & Jon agreed that it is the correct fold to that player and if it had been anyone else on the table it would have been a push for sure. Notwithstanding a couple of blind steals, by the time we get to 12 left Martyn is very short stacked. He cannot find a spot as there is always action before him, finally he pushes UTG with K9 and gets called by AJ. No help on the board & Martyn finishes 12th for $1,860. A top performance to make his way through a tough field and nothing more he could do today. Well done mate, you deserve it.
It was really interesting watching the play from the rail. Me & Jon were trying to put people on hands and looking for any information we could pass on to Martyn to help him on his way. At one break when we felt he needed to get busy and start to loosen up we gave him this big team talk about strategy and all that. All the time we stressed that it was still his decision how to play. It is very easy from the rail to say start pushing with any 2, but much more difficult to put the chips into the pot. I think he agreed with us and I hope that we were able to help him in the tournament. As it turned out he never had the chance to push with any 2, but I am sure he would have if the opportunity had arrived. The good thing about our crew is that we all play with different styles and can bring different things to the table with respect to certain poker situations. We also think alot about the game. Discussing hands that have occurred and how best to approach certain situations that may occur during a tournament, it all helps in the development of all of our games.
After Martyn had busted we headed to the food court for a chilli dog (which was very nice, and I am curious who decided to put chilli on a hot dog in the first place, and thank him/her loads) and then decided to get some fresh air. We headed outside the Bellagio to watch the fountain show. The first was to "big spender" and I must say I was slighty dissapointed. However as we were leaving another performance started to "time to say goodbye" and I must say it was magnificent. If you every are in LV then you must check this out. I know it is just music & water, but it had even a big lump like me mesmorised. It is truely special.
We then decided that an evening of culture was in order and promptly headed for the bar opposite the pu$$ycat casino to drink beer and watch girls dancing in cages. This is also very special.
The next 5 hours simply fly away as the beer flows and the topics of conversation include; Should Martyn have started to push earlier. Could he have done anything differnet. Which of the pu$$ycats is the best mover. Top 5 five Spice Girls/Movie Stars/Pop Stars/Sports Stars/Soap Stars. All very valid discussion.
I try to get pictures of the pu$$ycats and get blanked by them all. This is most annoying as the girls were all to happy to pose for pictures for Jon & Martyn, it must be me.
We head back to the Circus around 1am and there is just enough time for me to hit quad aces on the video poker to add another $300 to the thinker bankroll.
Plan for tomorrow is breakfast at 10am then Binion"s at 2pm for the Omaha tournament. That should be a lot of fun. Details to follow soon.
NO BAD BEATS - Well done Martyn. A top performance from a top player.
lukybugur:
Yep, well done Martyn. Your pals who spent the last few hours railing know all your tells now tho ... 8)
Erm, did you say the pu$$ycats posed for pictures ... ?
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