We played a ton of poker this weekend. All night Friday, pretty late Saturday, all night Sunday. When I say all night I mean leaving the casino after the sun comes up. On Monday we actually left the Aria at around 6 AM, went to Denny's, and got to bed by about 8 AM. Just like the good old days.
I had a lot of fun. Did I play well? I don't know. I definitely played super loose, and bluffed a lot. Some successful, some not as much. I'm learning so I figure it's OK.
The game at Aria on Saturday was really good for a while. People were just AWFUL. In one hand, I raised with A-J suited. Flop came J-J-4. I had trip jacks one other time and this other guy at the table had been joking with me about how jacks were my card. So one guy bets out 10 and I just call, and I said "I'm going to slowplay my jack". Haha. Turn, 3 I think. He bets out 25, I raise to 60, he calls. River, blank (maybe a 2?). He checks, I bet 100 (basically his whole stack). He calls. He had 4-3. Bottom pair no kicker. SO sick. He's all asking his friend "Would you have called?" Just no clue. It was great.
Friday at Wynn was total insanity. I had such huge swings. I sat down and was instantly up $430. It was sick. I raised with 4-3s. Flop something like K-5-2, with 5-2 of my suit. Checks to me, I bet 15. Get check-raised to 45, call. Turn, SICK. 6 of diamonds. Guy bets 150. I go all-in for something like 200+ more. He calls, drawing dead.
Then I had some bad hands. I raised with K-Q to about 8, get a ton of callers. Flop was nice, K-J-10. So I flop the straight draw and top pair. Pretty good flop I thought. Guy leads out for 20, another guy calls. I raise to 75. Now this next guy goes all-in for 145 more. Folds to me. I had seen him go all-in a few other times in the last couple orbits, so I figure whatever, I'm going to call him. He had A-Q. Sick. So I lost a huge pot there and probably should have just folded.
Later I get K-K. This girl had been going CRAZY, raising a ton, she was up like $1100 or so. Just CRUSHING. Like every hand she was putting giant reraises in, just killing everyone. So I get K-K and I think I just called a raise preflop. Flop comes K-9-x with 2 clubs. She bets 40. I raise to 100. She calls. Turn, 10 of clubs. She bets out 150. I was thinking about it and just couldn't fold. I had another 230 behind. So I call. River, blank. She puts me all-in, I fold. On that one I probably should have folded the turn, but I couldn't make myself do it. At least I folded the river. Pretty sure it was the right move.
I bought a new book this weekend. First poker book since I started playing again. Dynamic Full Ring Poker. I bought it as an e-book that I can read on Kindle, which is pretty fancy stuff. I'm pretty excited to read a poker book written recently. The reviews are decent too. I guess this one is still a couple years old, but it's better than the 10 year old books I have from before. I figure any new books probably take into account the wisdom of older books, so this should be pretty good.
I'm really excited to play again. I had a ton of fun this weekend playing. Just going crazy, bluffing a lot, playing a ton of pots, crushing people, getting crushed, it was awesome. Loving poker right now. :-)
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