Thursday at Red Rock

Went up to Red Rock on Thursday night and played for just a couple of hours. 

I feel like I didn't play that great.  I feel like I was playing looser than normal, but maybe I was just getting more hands to play.  I was also trying to be looser in position which is probably a good thing.

Only played a couple of hands worth noting.  I don't know if I played them bad or not.  First I had 9-8.  I think offsuit, and I just limped.  I have not been playing hands like that AT ALL lately so this was a bit of a stretch for me.  Flop came A-10-7 with 2 of a suit.  There were about 5 people in the pot and some guy bet out $10.  I called.  Maybe not the best call, I don't know.  With the suited board there are only 6 outs I can feel really comfortable about, and the jack does make K-Q a straight too (although that would be unlikely).  A guy behind me called the 10 as well.



Turn comes an offsuit jack.  Bingo.  Same guy bets 20.  I thought about raising, but I just called.  I'm honestly not sure what I was thinking at the time.  I probably should have raised.  The flush draw was out there and if a K or Q came off, that would put me in a tough spot on the river too.  But I just called, and the guy behind me called.


River was a 10.  Same guy bets out 20 again.  I raise to 75, both fold.  Pretty good pot for me, but I don't know if I played it really terrible, or somewhat terrible, or fine. 


I also had A-A in the blind.  Some guy in early position with a short stack raised to 10.  I just called, and another guy just called.  I thought this guy had a pretty short stack so I might be able to just get it in with him on the flop or something.  However, it makes sense to think that if he has a short stack and wants to get it all in, why not reraise him preflop and hope he shoves it in there?  Either way, I just called.


Sigh, I really should have written this blog the other day.  I don't really remember the whole hand.  I think the flop came something like J-T-7 and I checked, the other caller checked, and the raiser checked.  Then on the turn I bet 20 and the preflop raiser called, and on the river I bet 40 and he folded.


On both of these hands I wondered if I should have bet less.  On the aces hand especially.  I didn't have any reason to think he had a super strong hand.  I could have maybe bet 20 again or something like that.  On the straight hand, I guess 75 was fine.  Really small bet compared to the pot, so whatever. 


Overall it wasn't the most focused night for me but I did end up winning exactly $100.  I'll take it.

In other news, I got my poker bankroll boost I've been hoping for in the form of a birthday gift.  :-)  My awesome wife shipped me $1K for my birthday to help start up a bankroll for me.  Overall I have $1900 or so, dedicated to poker.  This is the first time I've had a real, official bankroll in a long time.  I'm excited about that and hopeful that I can start building it up like back in the day.

I think we're going to play tonight.  Probably either at Red Rock or at Aria.  We'll see.