SuitedPair

How goes the battle sir? (no pressure: )

JohnnieH

I'm pretty sure he didn't want to get ripped off for the internetz in his hotel room. I assume the TR will come once he returns home on the weekend.

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Hobbes

Prediction:

Wins @ craps
Loses @ poker
Break even week.

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Milo

At least two losses on the Forum roulette game (is it 5? or 17?).

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westside8

Met up with Moose earlier, have internet at my Venetian room so he might come up to post later. Either way, he's still in today's Venetian DSE with about 55K with blinds at 600/1200/100. 45 cash and about 100 players left (400 started). He didn't cash in the Aria tourney on Monday, and that's all I got for now.

westside8

Got back from Aria hoping to jump in the HORSE game, but decided it was probably not the best idea so came back to Venetian instead. Just saw Moose cash in today's DSE $350 and he's sitting short but not out.

GTA Poker

Is there a 15/30 or higher HORSE running daily now?

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That level 5 trap really paid off...ship him the cookies.

westside8

It's just a Wednesday night special that TT (from 2p2) started when Aria opened. They actually play 20/40 majority of the time. I don't think it runs on another day other than that.

GTA Poker

Oh, I thought I read on 2p2 that it was a nightly game

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philliivey

He is being a degenerate in bobby`s room

moose

Sitting in McCarran right now making use of the free internets and the wifey's desire to be here ridiculously early. But whatever. There were zero people in line at security so that was great and managed to grab a wall plug to keep the battery charged.

I don't have all my notes handy but started slow and built speed over the week, played 4 tourneys and cashed two. Then gave a pile of it back last night with a stupid 8 hour session that ended at 5 am.

So doing a few things from memory and will edit it when I find all my notes. Sun went smoothly from Detroit and arrived about 9:30 and grabbed the rental car. Checked in at Bills. It's a good flop house with decent rooms and beds but no pool or amenities so not the place to stay if you are looking for more than degenerate gambling. Nice big LCDs in the rooms but for some reason it wasn't in HD. Anyways headed up to IP to try and get in the mixed game but it didn't run that night. Too bad. They only had one seat available in the regular cash games so MMoose crashed and I began to walk the strip in search of Chinese New Year chips. Flamingo gone, IP gone, Harrahs gone, though for some reason they still had last year's chips and I snagged one for my nephew. Venetian gone and I was pretty much losing hope. Forgot to ask at the Palazzo, as I was going from memory which casinos had issued special chips. Finally hit pay dirt at the Wynn and grabbed 6 chips. Hilarity ensues when cashier can't figure out 6*$8 and has to use a calculator, then forgets result and asks me. She had to look around a bit to get my chips so I leave a buck and get about 20 steps when they chase me down to give me back my dollar. I give a strange look and tell them it's a tip. I take another 20 steps and decide to go back and get 2 more. That was pretty much the last of the CNY chips so lucky for me the IP game didn't run or else I would have played in that and missed out.

I'll post pics as soon as I can. On to day 2.

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moose

Mon morning we get up too late to get to Tix4Tonight to buy tix to Love (it opens at 9:30am). Mmoose wasn't feeling well so we went in search of a drugstore. Having the car was SOOO handy. Anyways we pass Terrible's Casino which was offering a $2.99 pancake and egg breakfast so we swing into there to get players cards so we can get the special. Since it is a holiday there is a special champagne buffet so we opt for that instead. Go figure. Anyways how stupid are we, we completely forget the free booze but do score with the 2for1 buffet coupon from the booklet we got with signing up with the players club. Also got swag tshirt #1 on the trip.

Since Love was out for tonight I decide to head to Aria to play the $120 1pm tourney. Honestly did not see much of the casino, just went straight to the poker room and sat in the cash game until the tourney started. The tourney started but I wanted to play around to my BB so I ran back and forth btwn 2 tables for a couple hands. Cashed a few bucks and sat down to concentrate on the tourney. It's a great structure but they have some screwy rules for late players that IMO are handled a LOT better in the DSE.

They put out a bunch of stacks for people who want to register late and then blind them off. However after an hour the stacks are removed BUT they still take late entries. So if you come after one hour then you can start with a full stack. Since it's a pretty long tourney all the local players take advantage of this and show up at least an hour late so that they have a full stack and can pick on the short stacks. IMO dumb rule. Anyways I make the best of the few hands I get but after dinner break I get absolutely nothing and play no hands until final table. Still manage to hit FT 6/9 or something. Then I procede to lose a flip 99<AJ against the shortest stack and I am crippled. Two hands later I outflop 55 with A9, when I spike the A on the flop, bit it also happens to include a 5. Sigh gg me. 8/55 or so and top 5 pay.

Overall, as had been said on allvegaspoker.com, the room is not busy. I found the tables a bit crowded 10 handed and the seat on the chairs is too short, giving no thigh support at all. The room is divided from the casino with a low wall and the slot machine noise detracts from the overall classiness and comfort of the poker room.

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moose

BTW, Mmoose grabbed me McDonald's for dinner break. I asked her to find the burger place Drtyore, Mario and Compuease went to on the CPF trip. I knew it was right across the street but couldn't remember the name. She comes back with McDonald's after being unable to find it. After the tourney as we drive out we see Fatburger right next to McDonald's. Go figure. The power of advertising.

So we decide to sit down at the .50/1 nl tables at Bill's. Mmoose can't outplay the donkey's and drops $197. The final straw was a 3way hand where Mmoose reraises a $25 flop bet allin for $53 on top with KK and gets cold called by middle donkey who calls with his Q6 flush draw or something, which obv hits. So she gives up and goes to bed. I play on because two hookers are slumming it up on my immediate right. A constant stream of drunk men swing by to say hello throughout the evening. Good times.

Later on I meet a guy from Toronto who drives out every week to play some sick 5/10 game in Belleville of all places. He had just recently bought a 2 b/r condo down the street for 90k or something because his wife was a sponsored pro. She plays every DSE and apparently shipped last Thursday's event, so I will have to look up who that was. Edit: I looked up the winners on the Venetian site and the only female who shipped anything top 5 was Sat Feb.6, so either that was her or he was full of shit.

Eventually the hookers switch tables and I decide I can't outplay the donkey's either. I laugh at some guy with a Dario Mineri type scarf who shoves $45 into a $30 pot and he gets all snooty and asks me not to count the pot. But he is so good he eventually loses all his chips so I guess he needed the help afterall. Anyways down $67 and with the hookers flirting with the other table now, I move on to craps. So obv it takes me 5 min to win $72, covering my cash game losses, and I head to bed. Mmoose tells me we won a gold medal so I take bad beat #1, when I decide to stay up and watch it and NBC doesn't replay it until 3 am.

Tues morning we check out of Bills and head next door to the Flamingo for the next 4 nights. We continue our daily pilgrimage to Terribles and collect on the $2.99 2 pancake, 2 eggs, 2 meat special. Before eating we make use of the degenerate coupons in our booklet. I win $7 on a pay $7 on any $5 even money bet coupon when I artfully select red on the roulette table but Mmoose clearly blows it by selecting black on the next spin, so we are up $2. Then I take my double pay coupon to the craps table and begin my downswing by losing $192. Mmoose is +15 using her coupon on BJ. We head for breakfast, and my craps losses make this the most expensive $2.99 breakfast ever.

We check in at the Flamingo and sit down at the cash tables to take advantage of their high hand jackpots and 8am-8pm $100 AA cracked promo, which is a big improvement over their previous $50 AA and $25 KK cracked promo, which previously only ran for a few hours each day. I cash $90 at 2-4L and Mmoose drop $69 at 1-2nl.

We head back to Terribles for the $9.99 16oz TBone special. and we use a $4 off coupon for dinner, making this our cheapest steak dinner ever. It was the best $5.99 steak dinner I ever had.

Since I have never had a steak dinner for $5.99, it was also the worst steak dinner I have ever had. Although, this record would only stand for a few days...

I was worried when the waitress, not only brought out the Terrible's steak sauce, but also Heinz 57 and A1. I never use these products but since the steak contained virtually no flavour, they knew obv what they were doing.

By the time we finish, and drive over to PH we are a bit late for the $80 Bounty tourney and get on the alternates list. I sit at 1-2nl and make a couple bucks before they decide to add a table to the tourney. 54 runners but we start 2 levels in. The structure is horrible but the play is so bad I'm sure this would be a very profitable tourney. Mmoose picks up one $25 bounty but neither of us cash. I especially get fucked over with 3 tables left when, as a decent stack I raise with J10 and flop J10x. I bet weak on the flop and the one caller insta shoves. He rolls A10 and of course the A shows right away on the turn. I'm crippled and shove QJ a couple hands later, only to be slowrolled by some ass in the sb who 'debates' for about a minute and then shows AK. I flop the Q but of course the turn brings the K. I sit back in the cash game and end up +$43 overall with the pretourney winnings until Mmoose busts shortly after. We head back to the Flamingo and wrap the night with another $28 for me at 2-4L and $155 for Mmoose at 1-2nl. Wed I plan to play the $350 DSE at the Venetian.

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moose

Wed we enjoy Terribles breakfast special again and I get to the Venetian just before the tourney starts. The structure is of course amazing with 40 minute levels and 12k starting stacks and I don't want to feel rushed so I take my time and get to the table a few hands in. Most of my table has prepaid but we are only 4 handed to begin. On my immediate left is the only dangerous player, a young kid with a Full tilt hoodie who is obviously some big internet player. He attacks the table endlessly. I'm not sure of the value of that at a 50/100 level but whatever, he accumulates chips though and I generally avoid playing with him.

Early on though I raise with 99 and take a good sized 5k pot or so from him when we check the turn and I set the river and he pays my river raise.

Shortly after, still in the first level I raise with JJ and the bb calls. I flop top set because I am obv so good and c-bet. sb calls. Turn is a 4 and I check. sb bets strongly so I repop and sb shoves it in. She shows 54 for a turned bottom 2. WTF? SGHN and I have 28k and 20 min in I am clearly the chip leader.

So I decide to chill out and wander the room, go to the bathroom, find some coffee etc because I have no need to fuck around with 28k and 50/100 blinds. I come back in the 2nd level and a few players have shown up and we are 6-7 handed. Internet guy has recovered from the hit I gave him and is sitting with 15k or so and the original members of the table are all left with 3-8k ea cuz they suck. Within a few hands of sitting down I stack another player with another set.

Next hand of note, I defend my BB with QJ when an aggressive player who has constantly been open raising, open raises from the cutoff. One advantage I had at this table is as the away players showed up and the busto seats get filled from other tables is that I was in the 1 seat and the 10 seat never showed, so that was one less player attacking my blinds. But on the other hand it seemed open season on my BB because there was no-one to defend the sb. Anyways the blinds are lvl 3, 200/100 and he opens to 575. The flop is Q high and figure I am only behind to KQ, as I expect AQ would check behind so I come along when he cbets. The turn brings a flush draw for me and I check/call again. River is a nice J and I bet out, get called, and take a nice 8k or so pot.

Later after he dumps the rest of his chips to internet guy, someone mentions that he had said that I had cracked his KK. But meh whatever, I'm a luckbox. Anyways I am well over 40k and still among the chip leaders. People are still registering so the ave is still hovering just over 12k.

Next: I lose my mind and dump 25% of my stack...I typed this in the car driving from Detroit so I'll pull out my tourney notes later and clean up some of the details.

I'll side note now my comments about late players and Aria vs how the Venetian handles it. As I said before late players registering after 2 levels in the Aria tourney start with a full stack. In the DSE if you register late they deduct one set of blinds per 15 min and then the dealer releases one small blind into the pot every hand until all the deducted chips are back in play. Much fairer way to handle it IMHO.

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Wetts1012

These are good TR's.

But.....

How the fuck do you remember all this stuff?

I couldnt tell you in detail what I did this morning.

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