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Joker161:
First significant hand at the end of Level 3. I have A367 double suited. I call, there's a raise and three of us call. Flop gives me the smaller flush draw, and it's also a straight flush draw. I have a second nut low draw too. He check it. I turn the flush, and the river misses the low. There's a final bet and I know my flush is not good enough, but it's limit - 400 call to win over 2000. He has the queen high flush. Down to 9k. Level 4. 150/300. I call a raise with KQ42. Miss the flop. Another 600 gone. AKT3 suited. Flop gives me the nut flush draw and a second nut low draw. Turn pairs the board. I'm out of there. By the first break at the end of Level 4, I'm down to 6300. It's a bit like the first bullet at Orleans yesterday. Fingers crossed for the next couple of levels.

Curlarge:

--- Quote from: Joker161 on July 05, 2019, 21:19:37 PM ---First significant hand at the end of Level 3. I have A367 double suited. I call, there's a raise and three of us call. Flop gives me the smaller flush draw, and it's also a straight flush draw. I have a second nut low draw too. He check it. I turn the flush, and the river misses the low. There's a final bet and I know my flush is not good enough, but it's limit - 400 call to win over 2000. He has the queen high flush. Down to 9k. Level 4. 150/300. I call a raise with KQ42. Miss the flop. Another 600 gone. AKT3 suited. Flop gives me the nut flush draw and a second nut low draw. Turn pairs the board. I'm out of there. By the first break at the end of Level 4, I'm down to 6300. It's a bit like the first bullet at Orleans yesterday. Fingers crossed for the next couple of levels.

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Grind on m8😎

Joker161:
Level 5. I lose with A23K, and then go quite big with A2QQ double suited. The flop is J34 with two clubs (not my suit). Turn misses the low and the river makes the club flush and still misses the low. This is not my day! Down to 3k. Call with A36Q. It's just me and the BB. Q56 on the flop. Promising. Then a high card, but it's checked, then a four. I have two pair and the second low. It turns out he has the same low and his seven gives him the straight. He had a queen too so a very similar hand. Quartered. REALLY not my day. I get it all in with KK42. He has A46x and we chop, but I win the high with the 42 for two pair and his A6 is good for the low!

Joker161:
Level 6. I am now on 1,000 chips and the blinds are 250/500, so I basically have to hope for a hand before the BB comes to me and hope I hit. I decide on A576 with a suited ace. Amazingly, I only get one caller. He has 358K or similar rubbish. He is double suited but his king suit is the same as my ace. The table agree that I'll definitely finally win a hand now! Flop is T87 rainbow, then he hits his rubbish flush and a better low with running cards. I should have stayed in bed! Or I could have turned up thee hours late and had a bigger stack right now! I'm blaming the table move half way through the first level. They were making new tables and instead of just using new players they were moving those that had arrived early.  Someone had commented on it when I arrived at the table ("why penalise early arrivers?"). At the time, I just thought the view of the tennis was not quite so good. But now I'm firmly of the view that it was to blame for my s**tty run. ;)

Joker161:
Almost at the exact time that I busted out, Matt texted me. He was going to Treasure Island to play some blackjack. Apparently the odds were good, 2-1 rather than 6-5 for a blackjack, for example, and also it was right opposite the Venetian. We found a fun table, $15 minimum, and I watched for a bit before dipping my toes into the very uncertain water. Actually, it was great fun. I played for (I think) about two hours, had three Negronis (the second was a bit too Campari dominated) and ended up even. Matt then suggested going to an Arts Festival that had been recommended. It was somewhere north of Stratosphere but south of Downtown. Some interesting stalls - I particularly liked the wooden watches - but we ended up, pretty quickly, in a restaurant/bar that had been recommended to Matt. It specialised in Cornish pasties (!) and had two free pool tables that no one was using! We stuck to the Negronis and played loads of pool while eating starters of scotch eggs and one of the 20-odd pastries on offer. Obviously I only got through half of mine, given that it was double the size of any pastie I'd ever seen from Cornwall. Eventually we got an Uber home. I think we were more pissed than we realised. I assume we went straight up to our rooms, although I don't remember the exact details.

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