Wynning!

Last night we went up to the Wynn again.  My wife and our other friend swore up and down that they were not playing.  Sure enough, by about 8:30 PM everyone was there playing.  :-)

My wife shared this article from the WPT Boot Camp site with me before we went last night : http://www.wptbootcamp.com/dont-dwindle-reload/.  Basically the guy was just saying you should buy in for a full stack and keep it loaded so you don't get a big hand and not get all the money you should from it.  I have been a little hesitant to buy in for the full buy-in at Wynn ($500 at the 1/3 game) just because if I do something stupid, I'll lose an extra $200.  Especially because with our strategy, I might be putting my whole stack in with a draw or possibly stacking off lighter than I would have in the past.  

However, I think she is right.  We have been playing way better than any time in recent history.  Yes, I might get in a weird spot where I end up dumping way more than I should have on a hand.  However, I think there will be more spots where I could capitalize and ship a giant pot where I would have missed out on a few hundred dollars by not buying in for a full stack.  So I like her strategy, and I'm down to buy in for the full stack all the time.  I'll definitely start doing that every time we go to Wynn from now on.  Tonight we are heading to Aria and the max buy-in at 1/3 is $300 (lame), but we'll be back at Wynn soon.

Last night went really well for me.  I actually got some hands and got some good action when I did. I flopped a couple of sets and busted a guy both times.  Nothing interesting - I am in there with 6-6, flop K-6-3 or whatever, get the guy all-in, win.  I never doubled up exactly, but I did win some decent pots.  

I'm really surprised at how often our continuation bets are working.  It's a REALLY high percentage of the time.  I think in the past we just wouldn't bet enough.  Now we are betting around 2/3 pot, and it's working really well.  

Couple funny recent poker stories too.  Last night this guy was saying how he lives in California and was just out in Vegas to "party", blah blah blah.  Our friend notices that when he opened his wallet, he had like EVERY player's club card in town in there.  Haha.  So we think he was local and just pretending that he was from out of town, lmao.  

Even better was the other day.  Two guys at the table were speaking some foreign language.  They sounded a lot like Roman and Maurice from Rounders.  :-)  I was thinking, "We know you're talking about pierogies and snow and shit, but....".  Anyway, our friend says she can speak their language.  And then she is like "I know you were talking about the ace of spades".  Later she told us that she actually saw one of the guy's cards when he peeled them up and one of his cards was the ace of spades.  Haha, it was pretty hilarious that she called him out on that secretly, I'm sure they were like "WTF?".

Well anyway, I'm out of here.  Final tally from last night was that I won $310 and my wife won $270.  Going to Aria tonight, wish me luck.