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      <title>Final session in Vegas</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I’m pumped to play at the B.   Before this trip I was intimidated by the place and had never even thought of playing there. Also, before this trip I had never made a poker profit without hitting a jackpot. But I’m up $522 at this point and think it’s time to test myself. 

Well, if I really had wanted to test myself, I’d have tried 8-16, but I’m not that ballsy yet, so it’s 4-8 again. I come in with $160 and hover between that and $200 for the first couple hours. It’s a fun table and I’m wishing I didn’t have a flight to catch (but really who doesn’t wish that in Vegas?). Two hands I’m proud of, but maybe I shouldn’t be:

I get 33 on the button. Two limpers and no one’s raised, so I bop it up and get four callers. Flop’s like a 9 7 4 rainbow, and everyone checks to me. I have a pretty tight table image and decide to see what I can do with it, so I insta-bet. Everyone calls. Turn’s a K. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 07 11:42:59 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>More 3/6 -- should have went to bed</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I’m about to pass out, but the other guys want to try to all play in the same 3-6 game at Bally’s, so I join in for a hundo. Stupid move on my part. The table’s loose and limber, but I’m donktastic. I lose an early hand to Alex when I have KK and he flops a flush that I check-call down to the river. I lose another hand to Steve when he calls my AT raise pre-flop with 9To, and the flop’s 9 T X. He re-raises me on the flop and I should’ve recognized. Later I end up all-in when my flush draw hits on the river, which gets me back to $55. I boost it up a bit more, then am about to leave, satisfied that I rebounded slightly, when I get QQ UTG. I raise, and everyone folds but Alex and the BB, who just call. Rag flop. BB checks; I bet; Alex raises; BB folds; I call. Turn and river are more rags – at least I remember it that way – and I’m check-calling Alex. He shows KK, and I’m pissed that he didn’t re-raise me pre-flop. Forget that I played stupid; it’s all his fault.  [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 07 11:41:37 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>No limit to be found, but they did have a great comp lunch deal</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's Monday, late morning and I head to the V to meet Alex & Steve.  I’ll play any limit up to 8-16 at this point, but of course there’s no game going at the V. Steve & I are on an interest list that never goes more than five deep. Alex sits down for NL, and Steve & I are about to head for the Bellagio, but then what to my wondrous eyes should appear but some workers setting up a lunch buffet in the poker room. It’s a free lunch for poker players that V offers MWF 11a-1p and 5-7pm all through March? Today’s prime rib sandwiches. Steve & I aren’t even playing though, so I ask the floor if it’s okay for interest-listers to partake and he says go right ahead. Ship it. While we eat lunch, Alex wins $200-something at the 1-2, then joins us and we go to Bellagio for one last session before the airport. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 07 10:48:57 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Found early morning 3/6 game</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The seven whole hours of sleep does me good, and I’m looking for poker at 8am on my last day in town. Unfortunately it’s a Monday. I want to get some comp $$ for lunch and feel like I should play more at TI since they had set up the tournament for us, so I wander down that way, but there’s only NL. So I think “Venetian has that bigass room, they’ll have something”, but nada, and they tell me to come back at 11. Then I wander over to Mirage, and there’s one 3-6 going, with a NL in the back of the room from the night before. I’d never even thought of playing at Mirage before, oddly enough. 

I sit down and am loudly welcomed to the table by a talkative guy on the other side of it. He announces that they’ve all been playing through the night, and asks “how much sleep you get last night?” I answer truthfully, and they’re all like “you better get to that table in the back of the room, we don’t want none of your kind here”. I stay. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 07 10:46:13 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>A little NL, but mostly 3/6</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I’ve got a little itch to play NL, seeing as I’m +$511 from limit at this point, so Alex, Ubaldo, & I sit down at the famous Luxor $50max game. I play two hands, go all-in on both, and lose both to Alex, who has top-pair-higher-kicker both times. Well there goes my NL experiment. 

A 3-6 game is about to start, so I join it, and find out it’s this “tournament” Luxor has where anyone with 15 hours the previous week qualifies for the jackpot. Whenever someone wins a pot that’s at least $40, they get a ticket from the dealer, and after three hours, whoever has the most tickets wins $375. But other than that, it’s just a 3-6 cash game. Anyone heard of that before?

It’s all 15-hr locals at the table except for me, and I recognize one guy in a wheelchair right away, who’s been at Luxor every time I’ve played there (last June, October, December). His name’s Tulio and seems tight-aggressive, the only one at the table that way. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 07 10:43:44 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Trip to Spearmint Rhino and In-n-Out -- no poker content</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After 45 minutes ($-18) there, it’s time to go back to the room to round up for the Spearmint Rhino visit. Why are we going at 11am on a Sunday, you ask? Because there’s free cover before 1pm - you know how we roll. This part of the trip was really for Ubaldo. He never got a real bachelor party and wouldn’t let us stop hearing about it. So we keep the true purpose of SR a secret, and he thinks it’s just some place we can get a cheap brunch. Steve and I had heard there’s a dress code, so we try to encourage people not to wear holey jeans & t-shirts, but without giving away the destination. 

We get to the place around noon, three in a cab and five in Dave’s car. Steve was in the car with Ubaldo and will have to pipe in about how he reacted when he figured out where we were headed. We’re in there, no cover as advertised, and there’s a few scattered clusters of dudes and girls in the corners, and no one on stage (of course, since it’s freakin’ early). [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 07 10:40:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>3/6 limit -- short</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Four hours of half-sleep at Bally’s, and I’m back down at my morning spot, the Bally’s 3-6. This time there’s a full table. The table’s real loose but I only have a little while to play. I hit a flush and am up 20 or so until this hand:

Ks7s in the SB, no one raises; I complete, four to the flop. Flop’s 7 7 3 rainbow. I bet out. BB folds; MP calls; LP calls. Turn’s a 9. I bet; MP calls; LP raises; I re-raise; MP calls; LP calls. River’s a 4. I check. MP bets. LP calls. I call. MP: pocket 33. LP: pocket A7. I muck in humiliation. Good thing it wasn’t no-limit or I’d been busto. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 07 10:38:33 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Cash Game Session -- 2/4 adn 4/8 limit</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[First two hands, her KK hold up, then she hits a flush on the river. After 10 minutes she’s up about 140 and I’m telling her to warn me if she’s gonna play a hand so I can fold. She replies “oh come on, I’m friendly” with a touch to my arm. She starts showing me her cards when I’m out of the hand, small talk about the Dave show, where we’re from, how long we’re in town (it’s her last night), she tells me I have nice eyes, I return the comp, blah blah blah, and with each blah she’s either touching my arm or my knee. Giggity. 

Nate and Jon are wandering around the poker room and come over to watch my table, but really her, and I slip Jon my phone so he can take a front view picture (who wanted a picture two paragraphs ago, I know). Notice those… chips.

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I get distracted by poker for a little while, and flop a set, top two pair, and a flush almost consecutively. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 07 10:35:56 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Private Tournament at Vegas TI - Part 3 of report</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Saturday morning I come downstairs at Bally’s and see a 5-handed 3-6 game going, so why not. I put my chips down, then go grab something to eat, and when I come back, it’s 4-handed including me for 5 minutes, then one guy leaves, and it’s me against two Asians. I ask about a rake reduction, and the dealer says if we have one, then we’re not eligible for the jackpots. I say that’s ok with me, but my table-mates will have none of it. So we play 3-handed for an hour. I get OK cards and play fine, but when I stand up, I’m down $8. That’s why you don’t play raked 3-handed. Oh well. At least I’m warmed up for what’s next: private tournament at TI for our whole group.

Before the trip, I had arranged this thing with Chris Coffin, the TI room manager. He’s on allvegaspoker and was hella cool in setting it up. Buy-in for $50+10 for T1500, another T1000 for a $5 add-on, and optional $25 re-buy if below T1500. First three places cash. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 07 08:47:40 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Part II of Vegas Trip -- Includes some poker at Venetian</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Friday morning I wake up and head for the 4-8 (half-kill) game. As with other times I’ve been to GC, it’s full of gamboooooling Asians. Awesome. I rock it, winning 3 kill pots in a row at one point and leave +$200 after 2 hours. 

One win of note: I’m in middle position with pocket red Kings. I raise pre-flop, and am called by the button - a super loose Asian guy who had been hemorrhaging chips since Steve was at the table last night. Flop: Ks 9s 2s. I bet; he raises; I re-raise; he calls and shows his buddy standing behind him his cards. Buddy shrugs. Umm, OK, thanks for that. Let’s not see another spade come. Turn is not a spade, river is not a spade, but he calls my bets at both, then mucks when he sees my set. 

Lunchtime at the Port-o-Call buffet means it’s budget-balla time again, and the 5 of us eat for $4.95 each with coups. 6/9 for food/service. None of us sampled the delicacy below:

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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 07 10:24:54 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Trip Report: Las Vegas Budget Ballin' 3/22-3/26</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[**will be posted in segments**
**will contain pictures, but they might be big, and some are from a cell-phone, so they’ll be crappy**
**amount of non-poker vs. poker content will be adjusted based on reader preferences**
**cliff’s notes will be posted at the end of each segment**

First, some backstory. I’m getting married in May, and this trip was my bachelor party. All of us are between 26 and 32. 2p2er D-FENS (aka “Steve”) has been planning it for at least 4 months. Real pictures of all participants will be included later, but let’s start with this:

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Quick poker/personal bio of each, L to R, top row first:
Matt: Real loose-aggressive, sticks to NL. The person who sent the email leading to  [url=http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=9557610&page=0&fpart=all&vc=1]Scotty's bad beat while teaching.[/url] 

Dave: Hard to tell re. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 07 10:17:24 -0400</pubDate>
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