Wynn last night

Played a short session at Wynn last night.  2/5 NL.  It was a blast!

I'm buying in for the full stack now, $1500.  That feels good.  I feel confident that I'll be able to make the right decisions and stay out of the way of better people at the table.  What I've seen the last couple days too is that the "good" people at 2/5 just play ridiculously tight.  So that makes it easy to stay out of their way.

I only had one hand that was somewhat interesting yesterday.  SUPER tight guy under the gun raises to 20.  He has me covered.  This old guy with a billion dollars calls.  I have about $2000 and call with A8ss.  Flop comes K77 with 2 spades.  They both check to me.  I thought about checking, but I also thought it was unlikely the first guy had anything or he would have just bet, so I bet $45.  The original raiser calls.  Turn is a brick, offsuit 5.  We both check.  River is an 8.  He checks.  I try to go for some pretty thin value and bet out $75.  I thought he might talk himself into calling with some ace high hand thinking I missed spades.  He calls with KQ.

In retrospect this wasn't that great.  I think it's very likely he could also have 99-QQ and call.  I didn't expect a king was in his range because I would have figured he would bet the river.  Overall this guy is so tight that maybe it was overly ambitious to expect he would call me with worse.  Live and learn though.

In another hand I raised very small ($15) with 4-4 in early position.  Guy with about $260 calls me.  Flop is Q-4-5 with the 4 and 5 of hearts.  Checks to me.  I bet $20.  Now this guy check raises to $40.  He has two hundred dollar bills left.  I thought about reraising but I also thought that it might look way too strong, and since I was in position I could let him bet again.  So I call.  Turn is a 7, he bets 100.  I casually toss in two black chips.  He insta calls.  He is drawing dead with KQ.  Sweet.

My buy-in was fun too.  I had $200 in red chips, a stack of green ($500), and 8 black chips.  I think it's a good idea to keep the number of chips I need to move on any given hand low.  So even if I'm betting several hundred dollars, I can just grab a small number of chips to make it happen.

I ended up winning $411.  Not half bad for 2.5 hours of play.  I'm not getting a ton of hours in but I'm having fun and playing well with the hours I do get in.  That's a good thing.  Slow and steady but if I keep making progress I'm happy.