January 25+26, Caesar's Palace, $1/$3 NL
We have been hitting Caesar's Place to play 1/3 lately. It's our new place of the moment. There are some nice things about it. You can get to it PRETTY easy from the highway because it's just north of Flamingo. Parking is alright, not the absolute worst. You have to walk a ways to the poker room, but it's in it's own little enclosed room super far away from the smoke of the casino which is nice. Cocktail service is awful but right now we aren't drinking anyway so it doesn't matter.
Few interesting/big hands from this weekend:
I've been doing this a lot lately and it is NOT helping me. I need to tone it down over the first hour or so I play. Bunch of people call a straddle or maybe it was just the big blind, I don't recall, but I make a pretty big raise out of the small blind with Q-2 offsuit. :P Guy calls me. OK. Flop has 2 diamonds (I have the queen of diamonds) it's something like 9-7-2. I bet out $45, guy raises me huge, I fold. :P Instantly lose a big amount. This is in the first half hour I'm playing.
I'm in the big blind with 5-5 and check. 5 people see the flop and it's pretty ridiculous. 5-5-3. Haha. What a flop. Not much out there though, so I check it. Checks around. Fine, might not get much action on this. Turn is a jack. I bet $15, guy to my left calls. OK. There was a flush draw on the flop too so he could have that. River is another jack. Interesting! I decide to way overbet the pot. This guy either has a jack (so there is no way he can fold) or he has a flush draw and I'm getting nothing out of him. So I bet out $100 into the $45 pot. He has me covered and I have a little over $400 including that $100 bet. He grabs two stacks and puts them out, raising me another $100!!! Dream situation. I don't take long and I just say "all in" and he insta-calls. J-10 no good for him. So I win this INSANELY huge pot for no reason. Plus I got another $100 bonus on top of that (high hand). What a sick start to the weekend.
That was on Friday. Unfortunately it was just a downward spiral from there on Friday. Nothing super interesting, just a lot of hands similar to - I have AK or AQ, flop top pair, get drawn out on or bet out on a scary card.
One somewhat interesting hand was when I had 8-7 in the big blind and checked. Flop was 9-8-8. About 5 players. One guy leads out for $10, I raise to $25. Another guy cold calls it, and the $10 bettor calls. Turn is a 6, giving me an open ended straight as well. Checks to me, I bet $40, they both call. River is a queen. They both check to me and I check. The $10 guy had J-8 so he had the higher kicker. :P
I was up about $375 at one point, but ended up only winning $75 on Friday. No biggie, still a win and I'll come back next time.
Next day was pretty brutal and there was a common theme - I get all in, I lose. Variety of situations but that was what was happening.
In one hand I think I raised preflop with 5-4 offsuit (why) and the flop was Q-4-3. This guy bet out $25 and he had been betting out a lot, so I raise to $60. Next guy goes all-in. Sigh. Came back to me and I think he had about $79 more. He looked REALLY weak. And I felt like this guy was just trying to get me. There was about $45 in there preflop, +$25, +$120, +$79. I really felt like any 4 or 5 would be good, plus this guy could have a draw (although that does seem unlikely). So I made a (probably really bad) call. I didn't improve and he had Q-10.
Next hand I button straddle (which I was doing all night long) and I had K-9 of spades. My wife directly to my right raises to $16 and I call, there are 2 or 3 others as well. Flop is J-5-3 with 2 spades. It checks to me, I bet about $25, get 2 callers. Turn is a 7. Checks to me, I bet $60. Now the first guy check-raises all-in. BLAH!!! Why did I bet???? :-) Other person folds and it's on me. It was an extra $120 for me to call. Pot had a decent amount of money in it. Preflop was $16*5, Flop was $75, turn is $120 + $120. So I'm getting 3:1 or so. Not quite good enough odds. But I just say fuck it, grab the chips, say "GAMBLE!!!" and put them in. River I miss, he says he has the straight, fine. I lose. But then he says it was a good call from me. I'm like, WTF are you talking about? Turns out, he didn't have the straight on the turn. He had 8-6 of spades. Flush draw (which was dead) plus the open ended straight draw. And he hit the straight. FUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKKK. $500 pot slips through my fingers.
Then to top off the night, in early position an older guy raises to $15. Another guy calls. I have A-K in the blind and raise to $50. Original guy calls. Now the middle guy goes all-in for like $150. He had been short stacked all night and although he was playing fairly tight, he went all in for a TON preflop a bunch. And I had him go all in over a raise on me earlier when he had 9-9 and I busted him with Q-Q. So after he goes all in, I'm definitely not folding. I didn't think the other guy had a super strong hand (KK+) so I just took the 4 bills in front of me and threw them in. He folded. Guy who went all in had J-J. Flop was Q-Q-x, turn gave me a flush draw also, but I missed everything and lost another huge pot.
Overall I ended up losing maybe $430 or so. Not a great night, but I had a bunch of shots at winning pretty big pots to get even or close to even. So I'm not sweating it too much.
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