Saturday at Wynn

I've been playing a TON of poker in the last month.  Probably the most I've played in a month since I had a real job.  These blogs are getting a little repetitive and they kind of all melt together.  I think I'm going to try to cut back a bit and only write about hands that are at least a LITTLE interesting.  Writing about all of the hands I play is great, but it does get boring to read and it's pretty brutal to write too.  Especially when I'm playing 5+ nights/week.

Wynn 1/3 NL - Saturday, February 16th

Played a pretty long session this day, almost 7 hours.

Waterfall at Wynn - I take breaks here

Hand 1 : Raise Q-Q to 20, 2 callers.  Flop is 7-6-3 with 2 clubs.  I bet out $40.  Guy calls, but bitches a little bit about the amount and tries to get out of calling.  He thought it was only $30.  Eventually he puts the rest in.  Turn is the 5 of clubs, and we both check.  River is the 8 of clubs and we both check.  He turned a straight with pocket fours.

Hand 2 : I change tables.  First hand dealt to me is AQs.  I raise to $12, get a caller (some Snoop Dogg looking dude).  Flop is A-J-x with 2 of my suit.  Monster flop.  He checks to me, I bet $15, he calls.  Turn is a jack.  He checks.  I figure I'll just check.  I don't want to get raised off of my draw, and if I am ahead the guy probably has a hand he can't call 2 streets with anyway (like a weaker ace).  So I check.  River brings the flush.  He bets out $20.  I raise to $80.  He calls.  Q-J.  This hand was sweet, I put money in on the 3 streets I was ahead on, and checked the one street I was behind on.  :-)

Hand 3 : I have AQs again.  There is a straddle and 3 people limp.  What I'm doing on straddles lately is simply doubling my opening raise.  So I'd normally open to $12 at 1/3, and I double it to $24.  Seems kinda high but whatever.  Straddling effectively doubles the stakes, so I double my raise.  Since 3 people limped I raised more, and made it $36 to go.  I got 4 callers.  MONSTER pot preflop, wow.

Flop is A-10-x with 1 diamond and 2 hearts.  I don't have a flush draw.  My wife bets out $75 into me. I figure she either has 2 pair+ or a flush draw, but it's hard to tell.  I just fold.  She ends up hitting her flush and wins a big pot.

Hand 4 : I have A-Q again.  :-)  Guy raises to 16.  I reraise to 45.  He calls.  Flop K-6-5 with 2 hearts. Not the best flop.  He checks, I bet $65, he calls.  Turn, 4.  He goes all-in.  I fold, he says he had the straight.

Hand 5 : I have Q-Q under the gun and raise to $12.  New player, an older Asian guy makes it $30.  This might be his very first hand, he just sat down.  Folds around and another guy cold calls.  Back on me and I reraise to $120.  Asian guy is all-in for $200.  Other guy folds.  I call.  Turns out he had Q-Q as well and we chopped.  The board was sick too, basically no other legitimate hand I could beat.  It was K-K-J-10-x I think.

Hand 6 : Call $16 with 2-2.  5 people see the flop.  Flop is 6-5-2.  I bet out $65.  Guy goes all-in for $170.  I call.  He has 2-5 and my set holds up.

Hand 7 : Guy raises to $12.  I reraise to $35 with J-J.  He calls.  Flop is Q-Q-6.  He bets out $60.  I thought it looked kinda fishy, I don't think he would instantly bet out if he hit the queen.  And I figured my hand was best preflop.  I raised to $150, he folded.

After going through all of these hands, it looks like I had a pretty good session.  Unfortunately though I only ended up winning $83.  Another day, another dollar.

Oh and by the way above are ALL of the hands I wrote down for this session.  Didn't leave any out.  I guess they are all just too interesting to me to leave any on the cutting room floor.  :-)