MGM – low content trip report

[Jersey Nick]

Only had time for one session over the last two days. Sales guys took us to dinner at Seablue in the MGM. I have the scallop appetizer and get food poisoning. Before the unpleasantness with the food poisoning begins I get in 3.5 hrs at the 4/8 game.

The 8 & 10 seats seemed to be off duty dealers. They would raise it up and cap pre-flop and end up playing heads-up, then check it all the way down. Lots of table talk between them as well. I’m in the 3 seat and the 2 & 4 and I start commenting on this activity. The 8 & 10 take a 10 minute break and come back playing very conservitively. 8 ended up going bust half an hour later and they leave.

The table thins out for a while and gets down to 6 handed. The 5 seat is a TAG who dragged several large pots early and was sitting behind a monsterous stack. He’s the only player with any significant skill at the table. I lose a few to him and I’m down about 6BB.

Then the tourists arrive and start spewing chips. Loose/Passive doesn’t begin to describe the situation. The guy in the 10 seat guy buys in twice and calls down almost every hand with nothing. He’s playing slow but calling every bet. Some horse’s ass sits down next to me in the 2 seat and starts bitching about the 10 seat playing too slowly. I politely tell him that the guy is a beginner and he might not want to alienate him. Two other guys drop racks chasing. The 1 seat keeps folding to me on the river when I bet out with only a pair on drawing hands that miss. I make an +18BB swing in 1 hour and cash out to go back to my hotel and get miserably sick. Wish I could have stayed longer...