We left the Mirage after the Kevin James show and went over to the Wynn to continue playing. I was riding high on my win from the Mirage. Definitely was looking forward to kicking some ass at Wynn.
We got into a game and right away I thought it was not a very good game. There was one guy there I totally hate, he just bugs me. And the rest all looked like regulars, I didn't see a ton of weak spots in the game. Not that 1/3 is so damn tough that I should just get up and leave. I'm just saying it wasn't the best game ever. We actually put in a table change request which never came for the 3.5 hours we played that night.
My poker weekend really wasn't going that bad until this session. I had lost on Thursday and Friday, but I just came back huge at Mirage and felt pretty good. Then I got smacked down hard during this session.
Hand 1 : I raise to $12 in the cutoff with Q-10. The button calls me. Flop is K-Q-8. I bet 16, he calls. Turn is a blank. I check, he bets $16, I fold. I hate folding to that small of a bet but what can you do.
Hand 2 : I raise to $12 with A-J in the cutoff. 2 callers. Flop is 10-6-4 with a flush draw. The blind bets out $10. I raise to $35, he calls. We see the turn heads-up. Turn looks like a good card, a jack. Now this guy bets out small again, $20. I thought he might be trying to see a cheap river with a flush draw. I make it $75. He calls. River is a 4. He bets out $20 again. I call. He has 6-6. Flopped a set, rivers a boat.
Now that I'm thinking about it, he probably bet out small again on the river trying to get me to raise him again? That's the only thing that makes any sense. That hand was just weird and I lost a decent amount on it.
I raised the flop because that's the WPT boot camp style play there, so I'm OK with that. The turn was confusing. I guess I could have just called and folded to a river bet if the flush came, or fold to a big bet if it came. It just looked like too good of a card for me at the time to just call. But then again, betting into me again on the turn after I raised the flop is really suspicious. Probably should have been more careful there.
Hand 3: I raise to $12 with KQs. 3 callers. Flop ace high and it checks around, turn is a jack, lady bets out $35 and I fold.
Hand 4 : I messed this one up. I raised to $12 with AK. Guy calls me in position. I have played with this guy before and I felt (at the time) like I kinda knew how he plays, but that is just me being a complete idiot. As they say in the WPT boot camp sessions, you need to have SO much table time with someone before you can tell what they are doing. So it was just completely stupid of me to vary my strategy at all based on what I thought this guy was doing. Of course, preflop was fine. :-)
Flop comes A-9-4. I bet $20 and he calls me. At this point since I "know how this guy plays" (lol) I figure I'm going to get tricky (WHY?!?!?!) and check the turn so he can bluff at me. It is so idiotic to even type this out. I mean yeah, maybe that would happen. But anything could happen. I have no reason to logically think this is going to happen. I've played with this guy like 3 times in my life for a total of 10 hours max. So stupid.
Turn is a deuce. I execute my plan perfectly and check, and he bets $45. Since this worked exactly the way I planned, I call.
River is a 9. This was actually a pretty scary card for me (or should have been) because what else is this guy calling me with on the flop? I check again and he bets $100. I call. He has 2-2. Turned a set.
So I screwed myself this hand by getting tricky. As it turns out, maybe my plan would have worked. He called the flop with what I can only imagine was the intention of bluffing the turn. Otherwise that call is just retarded. Of course he hit. But once I think that I'm somehow in bluff catch mode, I am committing to call down. The call on the turn really wasn't that bad, but when I call that pretty big bet and the river comes, and he bets $100 again, is he bluffing? Maybe, but I think I need to just say "good hand" and give it to him at that point.
If I played this hand straightforward, I probably would have bet the turn, got raised, and folded. Or bet the turn, got called, and check/folded the river. Either way it would have been way better than what happened. This hand made me mad just because I played it really bad and didn't stick to the plan. Yeah, the guy got lucky and drew out on me, but I still should have stuck with the plan. I didn't have anywhere near sufficient evidence to stray from the plan.
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| Huck Seed in the 1/3 game at Wynn |
One neat thing was that Huck Seed came and played in the game for a while. He was sitting directly to my left. There was a $25/$50/$100 NL game going in the top section that he was waiting for. Brad Booth was in the game among other people. So Huck sits down with $500 and is playing. Obviously it's a sign of a bad game if I'm playing 1/3 NL with someone that won the WSOP Main Event. lol. Table change anyone?
I didn't lose much to Huck though, if any. He actually played pretty damn tight when people were aggressive against him. Definitely was interesting to see. He would put BIG bets out, and he played some pretty crazy hands, but when people played back at him he pretty much laid down 100% of the time. Probably a really smart move especially in a 1/3 game where you know people aren't playing back at you that much without big hands.
Hand 5 : 2 people limp. I'm on the button with AQs. I raise to $18. Huck reraises from the small blind to $50.
I don't LOVE AQ here but at the same time, I didn't think I was going to lay down. I raised the button which might look weak. I reraised to $130 and Huck folded. He said he folded A-K. Haha.
Hand 6 : I raise to $12 with J-10 suited. Our friend Krystal calls. Flop is 10-3-2. She bets out $20. I raise to $60. She calls. Turn is a 7. She bets out $100. Sigh, I fold. I figure I probably have the best hand a lot of the time here, but I didn't want to call that and have to deal with a river bet. Better to just let it go.
Hand 7 : I call $3 with 5-2 suited. Huck makes it $28 total. 3 other people call. I called as well. There was a lot of money in the pot and it was less than 5% of the effective stack, so it was OK (WPT boot camp style). Flop came 10-6-2 with 2 of my suit. I bet out $80. Huck thought for a long time and folded. Then this guy Dane goes "yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.... yo mama!" and raises all-in. Argh, I fold. Another $100 down the drain.
Dane is this crazy dude from Denmark that is always wearing insane shit - a big cowboy hat with dreamcatchers hanging from it, and fortune cookie fortunes tucked into the band around the hat. Also some crazy jacket with all kinds of weird patches on it, and he's always wearing sunglasses. And he always bets in increments of "yo" (like, "yo eleven" at the craps table). So if Dane wants to bet 22, he will say "yo yo" and bet 22. And if he bets 49, he would say "yo, yo, yo, yo, nickel!" That's just the way this guy operates. Cool guy though, he is super nice even though he looks like a typical poker jerk. He's always drinking and having fun. He just plays super tight. Usually is winning though.
That's pretty much it for my Wynn session. I ended up having my biggest losing session in forever and lost $651. It was a real morale killer especially since I just won $440 earlier that night at Mirage and thought I was back. Then I go get crushed and end up deeper in the hole. That sucked.
Almost done with my shitty weekend recap. One more part, Venetian the next night.
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