My friends talked me into going to an play poker tonight. I really wasnt totally in the mood but I didnt feel like sitting around and doing something usefull like homework so I agreed and went.

I started off in a pretty juicy no limit game 1/3 $300. I considered playing 2/5 $500 but I was still stinging a little bit from the big suckout yestrday so I decided against it. Couldnt make shit for cards for the first hour of play. Lots of money flying around but I pretty much folded 84o for a while.

Hand 1: I look down at QQ raise to $20, old man who has been really agressive reraises to $60. I have $300 and he has me covered, I decide to just call. I really didnt think he had a big pair but I thought that if I reraised I would be stuck in the pot, and the only hand that calls me that I possibly have beat is AK. Flop is AK4, guy does the holywood routine stares at the board, thinks for a minute and starts cutting off chips for a bet. I say "dont bother." and fold QQ face up. He insists that he was going to check, which is total crap, I wasnt calling a $5 bet unless a Q hits. He said he had AK, which I actually believe because he was honestly upset that I had folded.

Hand 2: I am in the blind with . Flop is . I lead out $15, who is a new player pushs all in for $52. I call and he turns over K5 and says I knew you had clubs. Yeah good call dumbshit, great read your still a 2:1 dog. Of course 18 outs is harder to hit than a 2 outter and I lose.

I decided to end the NL headache, I played a couple more hands but was getting impatient and started to worry that I was going to make a big mistake out of boredom. I went and player some 3/6 kill Omaha 8. The 3 guys that I came with were at the game. I played for abour 30 min without winning a hand.

Then something new, they were offering a $60 10 player STG. So I said WTF I need a change. The first sit anf go was great, it was a quick blind structure and the table was rock tight. I pretty much doubled up and was big stack by stealing blinds. I raise from Mp for the third staight hand, the rock in the BB shows me AJ and folds, I had raised with J2o. I was talking up a strom it was pretty funny. The table gets down to 5, I move all in from utg with AK and get called by the BB with 1010 and then hell froze over I won a race with AK. Final hand of the tourney, sb limps to me. I have 89 and check, top is 99Q, he checks I check. Turn is a 7. He moves all in with J7 i call. The blinds were really big at this point so I agreed to chop with the other stack. Made $140 in profit.

Decided to play another $60 STG, pretty much all the same players from the one before. First hand of the damn thing, I tell everyone I am going all in before I see my cards. I look down at AKd and push. MP calls with AJ. Flop is J10X brick brick and I;m out and all is set back to normal. The poker gods can sleep tonight knowing that I am back to losing tournaments with a 3:1 favorite.

I go back to omaha. The one hand I play in the time that I'm there is a ton of fun too. I limp in LP with AKQ10 DS. Flop is J103 rainbow. My buddy bets, 3 callers I just call. Turn is a Qs. making 2 spades. Checks to me I bet the nut, get the usual 0 folds. River is the card I know is coming . I check one player bets, player 2 (my buddy Noahy) raises, I fold. One dumbass has a 7 high flush and bottom 2, Noahy has k9s.

I shouldnt have played poker tonight, I went into it not really wanting to play. Going in with the idea that you really dont want to be there is just stupid and I knew it. Totals -90 3.5 hrs.

Hand 2:

Wow its really not a good thing to be in the middle of a tournament and realize that you really could care less. Not sure if this is the letdown from the weekend or what but I think I might take a couple days off.

definitely time to take a break from poker... and maybe find a gf.

Thanks for the kind words Kuso you jackass. I ended up getting ko'ed from the tourney with KK vs AA. Normally I would have been annoyed today it was more like whatever.

I love Vegas poker there is like taking candy from a baby. Even better I love playing with dealers in the game. My Vegas trip ended up a little different than expected. i was going to meet up with MVP on Friday but since his mom passed his Vegas leg was cancelled. I had planned to stay one day after he left and my buddy Mitch was going to fly up Sunday and we would drive back monday. So when I am a bout 30 min from Vegas Mitch calls and says he's not coming, some school shit came up and he has to go to class monday, so guess I'm in Vegas solo again, oh well turn into into a work trip.

Day 1: Venetian room, brand new room, huge by Vegas standards with 50 or so tables. When got there sunday about 8 were running. Sat down and in the first 5 hands knew it was going to be a good table. This guy who turned out to be a dealer there is playing like a freakin maniac. Raising 5-10x with anything resmebling a hand.

Hand 1: I am BB with 106o. Checks to maniac in the SB he completes. I check flop is 1086 with .I check, Mp bets $20, folds to maniac in the SB who raises to $100. I reraise to $200. Mp folds, maniac calls. Turn . he checks and I push all in. At this point I am prefectly happy is he folds, there are so few good river cards for me. He thinks about it and calls. River is , my heart sinks. I turn over my 2 pair. He picks up his cards, looks at them, looks at them again. Shows me two blacks jacks and throws them in the muck. After seeing the river I was all set to rebuy. As he is rebuying the floorman asks him where all his cips went. He says " took a real bad beat." I almost laughed.

That was the only really huge hand of the say. I did flop a set and stack a lady for $200. And used the good old limp raises with AK against a $200 shorty who called all in with AJ.

I need to go to bed, will post more tommorrow when I have time.

How are classes going? You graduating at the end of this quarter?

So to quickly finish my Vegas trip report.

Day 1: Session 2: I played at Caesars, MVP said that it was a good action game the last time he was there. Not so much this time, it was a bunch of locals playing rock tight, I jumped around games trying to find one with some action but not to be. I played one hand that was sort of borderline, I will post it in the Nl section when I have time. Pretty dead session overall.

Day 2: Tried to play at the new poker room at TI. Yes MVP if you are reading this TI opened a poker room, its a small room near the enterance to the parking lot. Got to TI about 1pm on monday and they had no Nl games. So back to Venetian. Got there and they only had one 2/5 game running, and 1 1/2 game. I sit down at the 1/2 game and get my KK cracked by A7, I made the dumb mistake of betting the river in position with a board of 23457, cost me an extra $40. Funny when the donkey check raises all in with A on that board. The 2/5 game was really dead so I considered leaving. Instead I decided to play a $65 STG

STG: I was really card dead at the beggining. Down to 800 chips and the blinds are 50/100. I raise with 7 to 300. Get 1 caller, flop is . I push my last 500 and get called by J. on the river makes me a straight flush. I am now one of the big stacks. I flop a set vs the other big stack who had raised with AQ I had 77. Flop is 7h Ah Jc. He bets, I push he insta-calls. I love the 7h it is now my favorite card in the deck. I now had about 40% of the chips in play with 4 players remaining. I stole stole and stole my way to the massive chip lead. By the time we get down to 3 I have about 2/3 of the chips in play. Finally heads up with a 2/1 chip lead, I get JJ all in preflop and lose to KK. Then I get QQ, AA and QQ in 3 of the next 10 hands and its over and I win.

I just hope the TI game didn't take all the old farts from the Mirage game...

MVP dont stress it my friend, their will be no shortage of action for you when you move there. Vegas is a giant poker cycle, the locals are always trying to find where the the most fish are. What seems to happen is when a game gets really good the cycle of gossip spreads of how juicy the games are, so the locals start plaing there and the get tougher. Soon the game that had previously been juicy is now dead and you go look for new fishing grounds. Its just a constant cycle of moving around to find action. Also I was there at 10pm on a sunday night on a non busy week so its hard to get a good assesment from one session.