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Joker161:
Saturday 6th July
Woke up at about 4am, but back to sleep reasonable easily and then woke again at 8am, and with no melatonin (that I can remember). Feeling OK all things considered, although Matt chose to forgo breakfast. It's the big $1,100 at the Venetian today. Quite exciting! I forgot to mention. Yesterday while at the bar there was another earthquake (7.1 apparently). We were on the ground floor of a pretty solid building, so no swaying this time, but all the lights started swinging including the ones above the pool tables. No one seemed unduly concerned. The balls weren't moving, so we just got on with the game (and the Negronis).
Joker161:
Here goes. We have 25k in chips and 40m levels, but there are no 25 chips. So we start at 100/100, and then 100/200. It already feels like we've missed all those cagey early levels. We've already had a 10k pot! One bloke has raised about seven times. He's only shown once - A5s. Hmm. Before all these raises, I make a raise to steal (why?), he calls. I bet the flop and he raises. I get the chips back from him when I raise with KK, he calls, and calls my flop bet. He finally folds to the turn bet. My first big hand. There's a raise to 300 and I call with KQs. A bloke who has just called a raise with 94s (it went to showdown) re-raises to 700. The raiser calls and I call. Flop is Q88. We check it round. Turn is a second diamond. Bet of 700, I make it 2k and the loose bloke folds and the other one calls. The river is an ace, check, check. The raiser shows K2s for the missed flush draw. Nice. I then get KK again, raise, one caller. Flop is ace high but I bet anyway and he folds. On 29k already. End of Level 1. I call UTG with 88. On reflection, on this table that should always be a raise. The loose bloke raises from the CO and I call. Flop is QT9. I bet and he calls. Turn an ace. I check, he bets, I fold. Also, an even looser bloke has joined the table. He lost a chunk, JJ vs KK and then went on massive tilt, raising the next five or six hands and massively betting the flop. He's settled down now. He has a very angry tattoo, so slightly scary!
Joker161:
Level 2. 100/200. Very little action for me, apart from a visit to the toilet. The tattoo man is playing most hands and building a stack. He had a decent AJ for two pair (against A7). Then he's shown K9 and J8, both for two pair too. I'm very scared about playing a hand with him. I can see my aces getting cracked by his 74 s**t. At the end of the level I get AQ UTG and raise. I get three callers including loose bloke (LB) and tattoo man (TM). Flop has three hearts. We all check. Turn a blank. We all check. River a fourth heart. I have the ace of hearts. I bet and obviously they all fold. Perhaps I should have bet the turn.
Joker161:
Level 3. Because there are no 25 chips, they kindly give us this 100/300 level before jumping to 200/400. In fact, the clock is telling me the next level will be 200/300 (odd) but with a 300 BB ante. So that's a bigger jump than to 200/400. Anyway, again, not much action on this level. I'm in the BB and it gets folded to the button. He goes all in for 3800 and I have ATs. Feels like a bit of a gamble to me so I fold. The very next hand he does the same thing and the bloke to my right calls him. All in has AJ and caller has AQ. Clearly my decision was tight! I play 76 LP in a limped pot. Miss. Dull level.
Joker161:
Level 4. I get AJ in the SB. Another LB raises to 1000, I re-raise to 2600 and he calls. I miss, check and he pushes for 10k. Clearly me not playing a hand for over an hour had no effect on him! My first big "what if" of the Vegas trip. I get AT UTG+1 and decide to be super sensible and fold. TM calls, LB raises and TM calls. Flop is TT3. NO! TM folds to a bet, but I wonder if I would have got anything off LB. I play no more hands this level. Card dead, and I don't want to try and get lairy because I WILL get called. I'm down to 21.5k.
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