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Date: 14 Dec 2006 11:31:56
From: jofo
Subject: Las Vegas trip report
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Hitting Vegas this time of year is a first for my wife and myself. We
usually wait til after
the Christmes / New Years holiday but our son decided to get married in
December so
off we went. The wedding was actually quite nice. Not the cheesy LV
wedding we had
imagined.
I didn't have all that much time for poker. We arrived late Sunday
night and the wedding
took up all of Monday. On Tuesday morning I headed downstairs for the
Alladin 10:00 AM
tourney. A $60 buy in with unlimited rebuys for the first hour. Only
one person at my table
did the rebuy. An older gentleman who saw every single flop and chased
any flush and straight
draw to the river. He wasn't hitting anything but continued to play
this style until he got KO'd
chasing yet another 4 flush (with his potential 10- high flush draw !).
I commented that a player
like that could be trouble when he's hitting hands and the dealer told
me the guy wins the tournament
from time to time. He had finished in the money the day before.
They start you with 2K in chips and blinds at 25 - 50. I guess my
only surprise was that , except
for the loose older guy, the play was actually pretty decent. I got a
hold of most of my chips by trapping
with a flopped set of 9's. I called a preflop raise from MP and the
button and Bigblind called. The flop was K-9-5. Everyone checked to the
button and he bet. The blind called, the EP guy called and I went all
in. I got called by the buttons' A-K and the EP called all-in. The turn
and river helped no one.
I made it to the final table ( there were about 50 players to start)
as the short stack. The top 6 players
got paid. There were 3 other players with stacks just a little larger
than mine. I went all-in 3 times and
didn;t get called once. Everyone had tightened up to try to make the
money. The woman to my right
basically waited until she got blinded off. She told me she couldn't
wait to tell her friends that she made
a final table. She got to tell them shortly afterwards when she out in
10th. I continued to steal with
mediocre cards and no callers by targeting the smallish stacks.
Evertually, I had enough chips to
assure myself a payday. We lost 2 more players shortly therafter and I
was in the money. I ended
up going out in 5th for a payout of $232 when the chip leader called
my all-in bet from the BB. I had
A-10 and he had K-8. I hit an ace on the flop but he made a gut shot
straight on the river with his 8.
Looking back, I did OK finishing where I did given my cards. The
largest pair I caught in 3 hours were
nines, but my A-K , A-Q hands held up when I needed them to. That
should have been an omen for
the 4-8 cash game I was about to join at the Bellagio. More on that
later......
jo
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Date: 15 Dec 2006 07:50:59
From: manjargl
Subject: Re: Las Vegas trip report
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Nice report, good job on stealing pots in the bubble
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