Red Rock - Monday, April 15th
I went home after work, ate some dinner, and was off to the Rock. I told myself that I would only play the 2/5 game tonight if it looked good. Called in and got myself on the 1/2 and 2/5 lists.
I got to the Rock and got my name off of the call in. Jason gave me a seat on table 8 (1/2). I said I'm also on the 2/5. Quick look of surprise, and he said there were seats open on table 3 as well.
I look over and the game is short(-ish). 6 handed. I decided to stay away from it for the time being. No need to jump in and play 7 handed, then a couple people get up, and pretty soon I'm playing short. So I just play some 1/2 in the meantime.
I sat at table 8, which is right next to the 2/5 game on table 3. I was scoping it out. Looked like a couple potentially good people, and some people that looked lousy. Completely judging based on how people look, but thats not that bad of an indicator a lot of the time.
1/2 NL
I pick up two black aces on my very first hand dealt. Gotta love that. Two limpers, and I raise to $15. Get one call. Flop 10-9-7 with 2 diamonds. He checks, I bet $20, he folds.
Next hand I get 7-6 suited, raise it to $8, 3 callers, and check-fold.
2/5 NL
Another guy sits down at 2/5. Younger kid I know from the Wynn. He is OK, nothing scary. Not a real plus for the table though. Then some other guy sits down and he looks like a good spot. Game is filling up so I talk to the desk. I buy another $200 from the counter, grab my $300 from the 1/2 table, and move over.
I'm excited. I haven't played 2/5 NL in almost a year, and it's always my goal to get back into this game. Let's do this!
Hand 1 - I play this hand bad right away. I'm in the blind with K-9 offsuit. Few people limp and we see the flop 5 ways. Flop K-10-9 with 2 clubs. First guy checks, I check (why?) and everyone else checks. Turn is an 8. Doesn't really change anything. Small blind fires $25, I call, everyone else folds. River is a 2. He checks, I bet $60, he folds.
The game looks really good so far. I'm pretty excited. Not that I thought it would be too tough, but it's nice sitting in the game and seeing that it's pretty good. Some crazy shit has been going down. Huge pots. An extreme example, one guy called $100 preflop with J-8 suited. The guy only had $200 behind. Of course, he flopped 2 jacks and won the pot. :P
Also, people have a ton of money in this game. In the 1/2 game, you are lucky to have more than a couple others with the max buy-in in front of them. In the 2/5 game, literally all but 1 person had me covered.
Hand 2 - I raise under the gun to $20 with A-K. Standard raise is much bigger so I probably should raise bigger. But I figure $20 is fine, it will probably accomplish the same thing and also lower my variance. 2 people call me. Flop comes K-8-2 with 2 diamonds. Checks to me, $40, they both fold.
Hand 3 - Guy in middle position raises to $35. I call in the big blind with 3-3. Flop is K-10-8 with 2 clubs. It checks around. Turn is an 8. Checks to the preflop raiser and he bets $100. Looks fishy for sure but I just fold.
Hand 4 - One guy (who does not appear to be that good) limps to my immediate right. I raise in late position with 10-8 suited. He is the only caller.
Flop comes out Q-10-10. BOOM. Raise with the T-8 and destroy the flop. He checks, I bet $25, he calls. Turn is a king, putting 2 hearts on board. He checks. I bet $80 and he calls. Bet sizing is pretty questionable on this hand imo. Should have bet a little more on the flop.
At this point I think the guy probably has a queen. If he checks the river, I'm just going to bomb it.
River is the 6 of hearts. Now he leads for $100. Hmmm.
I thought about this one for a while. What could he have? The queen was not a heart, so I eventually decided he could pretty easily have Q-x of hearts. Plus regardless, it didn't look like he was bluffing. I got a stack of 100 and started moving it around to get a read on him, and he just didn't look worried at all. I fold. He lifts up his cards and I can see J-9 suited. He turned the straight. This hand made me feel awesome, great fold on the river.
Hand 5 - 2 people limp, and I have Q-Q on the button. I raise to $25. They both call.
Flop is 9-4-3. First guy checks, and now the next guy (same guy from last hand) leads out for $40. I grab a stack and 4 red chips and raise to $120. I'm prepared to fold to a reraise. He folds (as does the other guy).
Hand 6 - Guy has button straddled to $10. I have J-J under the gun and raise to $35. The straddle and the big blind call. Flop comes out A-4-3. I bet $50, they both fold.
Hand 7 - Guy raises to 15 in middle position. This guy appears to be pretty good and he has been putting some big bets out. 2 people call. I'm in the big blind with A-Q suited. I decide to just call. I can play this one multiway, and I don't really want to battle that guy. I miss the flop and check/fold. I think that was fine. Could definitely raise, but especially with 2 callers already, I think calling is fine.
Hand 8 - Guy with a cigar and a lot of money raises to $20. I call with 5-3 of spades. Flop comes out Q-J-6 with 2 spades. He checks, I bet $25, and he calls. Turn is an offsuit 3. He checks again. I figure that although I have some showdown value right now, it's very likely he still has me beat with a jack, a pair between 6 and jack, or whatever. So I'm going to bet again. I bet out $75 and he folds.
Hand 9 - Limp with 5-5, call a $30 raise, miss, fold.
Hand 10 - I am in the big blind with K-3 suited. The button straddled, and I call 5 more. He checks. The flop is 10-6-4 with 2 of my suit. Small blind leads for $25 and I call. I don't think this was very good. Lot of people behind, and I'm not getting the immediate odds to call. Probably should have just folded. Raising was somewhat out of the question because the small blind only had about $150 left.
Everyone else folds. Turn is the 6 of my suit. He checks, I bet $100, he folds. Not sure why I bet that much either, just got messed up for some reason.
Hand 11 - Guy raises to $20, 2 callers, I call with J-8 suited, miss, fold.
Hand 12, 13, 14 - Bunch of hands with Q-J. I call a $15 raise with Q-J, miss, fold. Probably should never call a raise with that even in good position, it just doesn't have enough value to call a raise with. Reraise or fold.
Next, I raise to $25 with Q-J. Get a bunch of callers, miss, fold.
Next, I call $25 with Q-J... SUITED (spades)! :-) Probably not good. I'm in late-ish position, don't remember exactly where. Another guy calls.
Now a guy on the button reraises to $65 total. Original raiser calls. Arrrgghhhh. This pot is fucking huge. I decide to call, and the other guy calls. $260 in preflop, lol.
Flop is not what I wanted. :P A-7-3 with 2 hearts (and one spade). It checks to the button, and he bets $80.
This was actually interesting. I thought, there is NO WAY THIS GUY HAS AN ACE. He reraised preflop, and now he's betting small on this flop. I am putting him on a big pocket pair, JJ-KK. At this point, I'm seriously considering check-raising him.
Now, the guy to my immediate right calls $80. That threw a wrench in my plan. I figured he probably had an ace. I still thought about it for a bit. I decided that it probably just wouldn't work to get both of these guys off of their hands, and I have zero equity in this pot. So I fold.
The hand played out really interesting, btw. The other guy folded. Turn was the ace of spades (giving me backdoor spades if I stayed). Now it goes check, check. River is a blank. Now the guy who called $80 leads for $225.
The other guy sits there and thinks about it FOREVER. He finally calls. He called with 6-6, and he was good. Sick. MONSTER pot. Other guy must have been on a flush draw. I wondered how high his draw was. If I got crazy with the hand, I could have potentially shoved, got called by the draw because the pot was so big, and won a $1000+ pot with queen high.
I also wonder that if the other guy folded, if the 6-6 guy would have folded to a bet of $200 total. I don't know what I would have made it, but I think I would have fucked up and made it too small. In reality the pot was so big that I could just shove. But then, he may think I'm on a draw and call. But with 2 cards to come facing 2 probable overcards AND a flush draw, it's a flip at best and I think he has to just fold. Super interesting hand imo!
Hand 15 - Worst hand of the night. Guy in the hijack opens to $20. Cigar guy. Next two people (both lousy) call. I'm in the blind with J-J... and call. Sigh. Such a terrible call. I should reraise that all day. I was thinking, I can sort of trap this guy, but that is retarded for two reasons. First, this hand is not strong enough to trap with at all, so that reasoning makes zero sense. Second, this guy raises in late position so he does not have to have a strong hand at all. So stupid.
Flop comes 5-2-9 and it checks around. I was going to check-raise, which was again stupid. Just over-rep my hand for no reason. Turn is a 4, so at least I still have an overpair. I bet $40 and get 2 callers including 1 guy who called all in for $1. :-) River is the ace of hearts putting 3 hearts on board. I thought that this guy could easily have A-K, so I check. (Now that I say that, it makes zero sense. Why would he call the turn with A-K?) He checks. The preflop raiser had A-3, turned the straight. The all-in guy had J-9 suited, flush. If I reraise preflop I win $60, but instead decided to lose $60.
I ended up losing $202. Not terrible, and it felt great to get back on the 2/5 table and play. The game was good, people are fucking terrible at poker. I'm not great, but I'm better than these idiots.
Only thing I don't know about now is if I should continue at 2/5 or wait and build back up a few bucks. My bankroll is at probably 2900-ish now. I guess I can take one more shot at it. If I lose, back to 1/2.
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