Got into Vegas on Saturday. House is pretty sick though haven’t spent too much time in thus far. Checked out the Rio and saw pretty much every famous poker player you could imagine there and could stand about 10 feet away from them and watch them chat/play at the table. Was pretty awestruck.
Pokerwise I’m still stuck pretty good for the month but I’m hoping I’ll dig my way out before month’s end. Played a little 5/10 today and lost about ~$5k but luckily I played some 2/4 to 3/6 later as well as a little PLO and managed to get relatively close to even for the day. Definitely won my biggest PLO hand ever today http://www.pokerhand.org/?2768855
As far as playing live goes I played a short 2/5 session where there were really only 2 interesting hands. I’m really both a fullring & live playing fish but here they go. Hand1 old dude like utg+2 opens to $20, I flat QQ two to his left. Flop comes J68. He bets $25 and looks strong. I flat. Turn is some brick, like a 5 or something. He bets $75 and I call again. River is a brick and he shoves like $400 more. I flip over my cards and tank. He never looks at my hand and remains silent. I feel like he has a big hand mainly AA/KK/JJ and end up mucking. He shows AKo and I realize I gave him way too much credit and kinda tilt a bit. Hand2 is later, its like a 5 way limped pot and I limp Ad3d from MP. From comes down QdTc5d. Checked to me and I bet 20 – asian dude sitting about $600 deep to my left makes it $50. I don’t think he’s all that strong and in hindsight I definitely think flatting is best but I decide to make it $150. He calls. Turn is a Js. I bet like $250 and he calls. On river it bricks off & I have like $130 or so left and I just shove in small hopes that he folds but he calls w/ AQ. lol. I would obv play QT and 55 the same but whatev. After the hand he’s like “put you on flushdraw the whole time, you shouldn’t shake so much” I just say “nh” and walk away. I’m kinda dumbfounded cuz if he’s putting me on a flushdraw why isn’t he just shoving the turn? Also, I guess there’s no such thing as fold equity live which I will have to take into account and remember for the future. Anyways, other than that also played a little $1/$2 house game in which I won $230 which was nice.
I’ll leave you w/ a cool father’s day ad. Not as good as the usual vid stuff but its like 2:30am and I’m too tired to find something really good.
Folding the river would be pretty bizarre for the asian kid in the aq hand, obviously he should put in the money on the turn.
The AK hand was way more baffling to me, I think you made the correct fold despite you having him beat.
You should pick up Tommay Angelo’s book “Elements of Poker” there are things in there on live poker, but it’s also a good read in general.
I envy your Vegas experience, must have been awesome. Am sure you can still crawl out of your poker slump. keep us posted.