Saturday, August 20, 2005
AC Trip Report
Well... I guess there are good and bad things to take away from this trip. Overall I think I played well, with one mind-boggling and glaring exception. It seems like everytime I got ahead at the table, I took a pretty awful beat and then a little while later ran into a big hand and lost my buy-in.
The first night we played at Bally's poker room, which wasn't much to to speak of. It had about fifteen or so tables in it, with about five going at any one time. Played for about 13 hours and basically fluctuated between $200-400 for most of the night. I ran into a few hands in a row where I got to the turn and had to pitch so I was down to about $175 when my last hand of the night came up. It got to me in the cut off with AcQd, and three limpers in front of me. I raised to $10 and got called by the small blind and one of the original limpers. The flop came Queen high with two clubs and it checked to me where I bet $30, the small blind called and the other player folded. The turn was a third club and the small blind checked again, this time I led out for $50 with TPTK and the nut flush draw, the small blind called again. The river was a brick and the small blind checked again, so I moved in for my last $85 and the small blind makes an uncomfortable face and calls turning over KK for the win.
The weird thing about it was that he definitely wasn't happy about calling the whole way, even at the end. Just a bad situation I guess, still kind of confused by his play because it really didn't seem like he was trying to slow roll me at all. The same thing happened to me the next day at the Borgata when a guy limped his Kings from the seat after me and I was leading into him the whole way. At least he meant to slow roll it to start with, but he also was putting his money in begrudingly on the river. So I lost $400 to Kings on two hands during my first 25 or so hours of poker in AC.
The last night at the Borgata started off pretty damn well and before I knew it I was up $600 after flopping the nuts about four out of five hands in a row. Take a tough beat when I got my Aces cracked by a double belly buster on the river, and after that hand my night pretty much slowed and went downhill. Lost a big pot with two pair versus a straight, and another one win a huge draw didn't get there. I was still up when I made a monumental error with AQ when I made two pair against a new player to the table. Not even worth writing about how that hand went down, I misplayed it from the turn onward and it cost me dearly. After that hand I was basically back to my orginial buy-in for the night and the table was quite simply full of awful poker players, but they kept hitting their 82's and their J4's, so I ended up losing about $60 on the last 13 hours there.
But I felt pretty comfortable playing in a casino with random players which was good to find out. And I did make some good plays and good reads, so all in all, I'm not upset with how it went. Heading back in September during the WPT event, hopefully I'll make some progress then.
I'm trying to remember some of the silly things I saw happen while I was there, I'll compile those for another post in a day or two.
The first night we played at Bally's poker room, which wasn't much to to speak of. It had about fifteen or so tables in it, with about five going at any one time. Played for about 13 hours and basically fluctuated between $200-400 for most of the night. I ran into a few hands in a row where I got to the turn and had to pitch so I was down to about $175 when my last hand of the night came up. It got to me in the cut off with AcQd, and three limpers in front of me. I raised to $10 and got called by the small blind and one of the original limpers. The flop came Queen high with two clubs and it checked to me where I bet $30, the small blind called and the other player folded. The turn was a third club and the small blind checked again, this time I led out for $50 with TPTK and the nut flush draw, the small blind called again. The river was a brick and the small blind checked again, so I moved in for my last $85 and the small blind makes an uncomfortable face and calls turning over KK for the win.
The weird thing about it was that he definitely wasn't happy about calling the whole way, even at the end. Just a bad situation I guess, still kind of confused by his play because it really didn't seem like he was trying to slow roll me at all. The same thing happened to me the next day at the Borgata when a guy limped his Kings from the seat after me and I was leading into him the whole way. At least he meant to slow roll it to start with, but he also was putting his money in begrudingly on the river. So I lost $400 to Kings on two hands during my first 25 or so hours of poker in AC.
The last night at the Borgata started off pretty damn well and before I knew it I was up $600 after flopping the nuts about four out of five hands in a row. Take a tough beat when I got my Aces cracked by a double belly buster on the river, and after that hand my night pretty much slowed and went downhill. Lost a big pot with two pair versus a straight, and another one win a huge draw didn't get there. I was still up when I made a monumental error with AQ when I made two pair against a new player to the table. Not even worth writing about how that hand went down, I misplayed it from the turn onward and it cost me dearly. After that hand I was basically back to my orginial buy-in for the night and the table was quite simply full of awful poker players, but they kept hitting their 82's and their J4's, so I ended up losing about $60 on the last 13 hours there.
But I felt pretty comfortable playing in a casino with random players which was good to find out. And I did make some good plays and good reads, so all in all, I'm not upset with how it went. Heading back in September during the WPT event, hopefully I'll make some progress then.
I'm trying to remember some of the silly things I saw happen while I was there, I'll compile those for another post in a day or two.
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13 hours at a table with bad players should nett you money. If it doesn't you have to address problems with your game (or opinions of other players).
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: 2:53 PM
Lots of anonymous posters lately... perhaps if you were sitting there you might have some idea of what to talk about... but you weren't, and you don't...
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