Anonymous says

Great read and sounds like a great trip, Podi. On the trip hand you were probably a bit too holywood. Might have been better to just take your normal time -- say 10-30 seconds -- and raise. Or maybe he never calls. Really nice trip report.

09/25/07

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So.. went to Vegas for Rolling Stone’s 40th anniversary weekend bash and it was sick! Snoop Dog Friday night, 50 Cent and Kanye on Saturday night. It was amazing. But.. we are here talk poker…

I am at the 2/5 table for a while and the table sucks. There are only 2 – 5/10 tables and I am waiting to get there. The table I am at is pretty ABC and no one was really messing around. I stole lots of little pots when the action was checked to me, but nothing exciting. I finally get moved and add-on to the $1000 max.

I am up to $1130 and in late position. UTG+2 raises to $50, gets 1 caller and its folded around to me and I squeeze KK. I raise to $180 and then he re-raises me back for $200 on top. I have only been here for an orbit or two and he was def an action player, calling to see lots of flops and firing bets if checked to him. I go all-in and he insta calls and turns over AA.
SHIT! Just my freakin luck..


Flop comes…. K4K!! Ain't that a bitch! Flopped quads and doubled up. I have to admit that he took it very well (where I woulda shit my pants and gone nuts). He got moved to the main table and Tommy Vu sat down and the table went to shit.

He bet every hand big and there was nothing I could do, I had nothing. It didn’t matter, if there were 4-5 limps, he would make it $150. I raised to $60 with TT, he was the only caller. Flop came K85 and I bet $100. He makes it $300 (and has about $10K in cash ready to reload with), I think for a while and fold. He says he had the best hand, passes it to me to see and I look and he has Q5.

Thankfully I was moved to the main game and away from that maniac. Normally I would love to play with someone like that but wasn’t getting the cards to do so.

I got to the main game with $2200 and left with $3360. I had two major hands:

1. UTG+2 raised to $50, 2 callers and I called with 44. flop came T42, Check, Check and the guy to my right bets $120, I called and the other 2 folded. K on the turn, he checks. I am pretty sure that hit him by the way he checked. He was very thoughtful on every play he made and he checked very quickly. I bet $200 and he called. 7 on the river was great, no flushes and no straights. I am 100% sure I have the best hand, he can’t have KK he would have raised pre-flop. He could have TT, but again, I think he would have raised based on how I had seen him play. Add to that, he checks the river. I made a small value bet of $150 into a pot of $840, and he min raises me to $300. This gets me thinking and again I put him on AK. Also, after that bet he only has $300 left. So I think for about 2min, count out the $150 like I am going to call, then announce RAISE, throw in the $150, think for a few and say ALL IN. He actually folded AK face up and saved his last $300, even though the pot was over $1600.

2. Limped pot with 4 players. I have J9 and the flop comes 982. Checked around to me and I bet $40 into $40 pot. BB calls and the other 2 fold. (there are two clubs on the flop) The turn is the Jd, he checks and I bet $80, he thinks and just calls. He could have QT or 7T, plus sets to beat me. Thankfully the river is a 9 giving me 9’s full. He checks, I bet $200 into a pot of $280, and he says “missed your flush huh?” I don’t say a word and am keeping super still and holding my breath, hoping to give off a tell as if I am bluffing. He says “I really should raise you but just gonna call” and turns over 9T.

I played the Bellagio $540 daily earlier in the day, got no cards and busted out early.

Overall a great weekend, saw some great shows and won some $$$$. (including $1200 playing craps when a guy hit the Hard 10 and Hard 8 in back to back points and I had $40 on the hard way both times)

Playing the PS WCOOP $1050 tomm, $15K in chips and 30min levels. Wish me luck!