Last night I went up to the Wynn to play. I didn't know if I would play 1/3 or 2/5. I figure 2/5 is probably tougher than average at Wynn so I might just wait and play elsewhere. Also, maybe I should just focus on weekend play for 2/5. So I ended up playing 1/3.
The game was fucking tough. I lost. It was frustrating. And yet, at the end of the session I had an awesome time and it was one of the more enjoyable sessions that I've had in a while.
There was one guy there that was FUCKING GOOD. Like the best I've seen at 1/3 basically ever. Or maybe he was just a maniac with no talent, but it looked like he was playing awesome. 3 betting constantly, and 4 betting preflop multiple times as well. Just really owning the table. I was in awe for sure. I just never see anyone crushing like that.
Some other guys were good too. There were a couple just old rocks that were playing super tight. There was one younger guy, talking about how they have a team of people they are backing in WSOP events, and he seemed to be positionally-aware and was playing pretty TAG basically. The rest of the table just seemed relatively tight. Not a good table, and if I was really smart I should have just changed tables. But, I didn't. :-)
I was in a ton of interesting hands. Here are some of them.
Few people limp to the button, the TAG guy I described earlier. He raised to 18. Pretty big raise, but there were some limpers. This guy seemed to be playing more hands around the button and cutoff. I had Q-Q in the blind. I figured the guy on the button could be stealing so my hand was most likely the best hand (for SURE), so I'd just reraise and probably take it down. Plus it would help me avoid having to play this tough hand out of position. I raised to 48. Folds back to him, he makes it 125. This hand was crazy. You NEVER see 3-bets at 1/3 without a huge hand, and 4 bets, thats just insane. That guy ended up playing pretty snug overall so I think I made a good fold and he probably had aces or kings.
Really good LAG guy raises to 13. I have A-Q suited in position. I reraise to 33. Now this guy 4-bets me up to 75! To other people I'd definitely fold, but I've seen this guy be super aggressive and I thought this could even be a bluff. Just like F you, get out of my pot, I own this table. I thought about reraising, but I didn't want to commit my whole stack and obviously I didn't have a great hand to reraise with. It would have basically been a bluff if I did reraise. However, I still thought my hand might be ahead of his range (maybe this is me being an idiot though) so I called. I was definitely thinking about making a big move on the flop. Flop came out K-x-x with 2 diamonds. I have spades. He bets out 69. I definitely thought about just pushing over the top here and took a while to think. I just didn't think this guy had a good hand every time and thought he could still easily be bluffing here. Although, again, maybe that's just me being a dumbass. I thought about it, and obviously this board is terrible for me. I have no redraws, one overcard, just nothing going on. No backdoor flush, nothing. Plus, maybe this guy really does have A-A or K-K or whatever. Who knows. So I folded. I'll pick a better spot. I guarantee I would have shoved if I flopped a spade draw, and maybe if the board was just all babies I could have shoved too. For better or worse. :P Overall it's probably better the board came the way it did, I don't really need to shove 300 in with A-Q no pair.
LAG guy raises to 15 in the cutoff. TAG guy calls him on the button. I'm in the blind with A-J. I figure I can easily be ahead of both of their ranges. The LAG guy raises in position a LOT (and just raises a lot period). The TAG guy has been pretty quiet but he has been calling the LAG guy in position sometimes. My guess is because he knows the LAG guy has a wide range and he is probably ahead of a lot of it. So my A-J looks pretty good to me right now. I reraise to 50. Probably could have made it 60. The LAG guy thinks about it for a while, grabs a huge stack of chips (which had me mentally freaking out) and eventually he just calls. The other guy just shakes his head like, this pot is pretty crazy right now but how can I fold, and he calls too. So now I'm in a super bloated pot with A-J out of position against the two best people at the table. lol. I still think my hand is probably ahead of a lot of their range. Flop comes K-9-x with 2 clubs (I have no clubs). At this point, I showed a lot of strength preflop and I'm not just giving up. So I bet out 110 and cross my fingers. They both fold. Whew. I'm not usually getting myself in spots like that. But it was pretty exciting.
Another fun hand. I had 9-9 and again, the LAG guy raises, this time to 13. I call. Everyone else folds. Now this guy bets 25 dark and says "I have a good feeling about this one". So the dealer is about to put the flop out and I do something I have literally never done before in my life... I call dark! LOL! So the flop action is already done before the flop even shows up. My reasoning was, I think my range is well ahead of his preflop. I don't want to be scared off of the flop, so I'm just going to completely ignore the flop and call dark. The flop was A-Q-4, so I was pretty happy I called dark (or maybe sad) because I certainly would have had a hard time calling if I considered the flop. In fact if he hadn't bet dark I would have folded the flop. Turn was another 4. He checks, I check. River, 7. He says, I bet you have 7s and checks. I check too and flip up the 9s. He had pocket 8s. :-) So I won that one.
I was down as much as 300 at one point, but eventually only ended up losing 130. I was pretty happy with that because I didn't flop a ton of big hands or anything, and I really thought through some tough situations and played some real poker. It was a ton of fun.
As far as my blog goes, I don't think anyone's reading it (although comment on it if you are!). What I'm thinking about doing is just printing up some pieces of paper with my blog address, Twitter account info, and email (the.best.ever.poker@gmail.com). Then if someone is like "what did you have?" I can say I'm not going to tell you, but I'll blog about it and you can see the blog here. That might get people viewing my blog and talking about it, and getting me more interested in it. In fact I think I'll do that today!
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