Harrahs St Louis Trip Report, Day 1

[MeanGreenTT]

I've been debating how to go about actually making this post as I could be long winded and go into great detail or I could use a one-liner:

Last nite, I scored $212 over 3 hours at $3/6 table [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Now I know this isn't normal by any stretch of the imagination and I'm nothing more than a well educated weekend warrior but if I can beat the game, even for that incongrouous amount, then I know the "professionals" here could CRUSH the game!

13 tables, 2 with $2/5 NL, couple of $3/6 and one $6/12 and another limit that I'm missing, but I didn't see anything over $6/12. I grabbed their tourney sheet and will list that later if anyone is interested.

As for players, mostly recreational and a few business people in town tossing their money away. Very poor card protection, lots of flashing. Most were seated with less than $100 in front of them.

I think the entire table did a double-take when I check-raised the 1st time [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Saw a ton of weak aces, any suited Kx, Qx and Jx limping in as well and more than a few of things like 57s and the like.

I landed around 7pm or so and got the casino just before 8. A new table was opened up and I got into a game fairly quickly. I'd just decided to scope it out and get 500 in chips in expectation of playing tonite. But once I got seated, I DID NOT want to leave!

I had originally decided to leave at 10 then 10:30 and finally had to leave at 11, had to teach a class 1st thing this morning, but I'm telling ya, I woulda stayed ALL NITE if I could've! I'll be back again tonite, shortly!

I'm even considering extending my trip by a day and that's something I NEVER do....I've NEVER extended a trip during the last 10 years, always want to get back home, but if the game holds up, I'll be making plans to stay an extra day and play a ton of hours on Thursday [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[MeanGreenTT]

Thought someone might be interested [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Tables surfaces were very hard and old felt. Chairs were comfortable. There is a snack bar right inside the room, kinda nice, restrooms are "148 paces that way."

Seemed to be VERY young people running the room, but appeared to operate smoothly.

Overall, not a bad room, although kinda smallish.

I was hoping this would help someone out, but if not, please let me know what I can detail, that'll help, thanks.

[MeanGreenTT]

Guess I'm talking to myself and this is useless or y'all are just waiting to see how badly I did tonite [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

I did take notice of the dealers a little more tonite and there were far more slow, bad dealers than good. Lisa and Steve were the only 2 dealers worth a damn the time I was there, otherwise the dealing action was sad [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

As for action it was much more of the same tonite...I got more than my share of cards compared to last nite but Flops weren't as kind.

I got to the room right around 7pm and got seated almost right away, left just after 11.

2 hands put me down early when I played AJ and a flop of Jxx. Turn and River were blank and I led the betting heads-up, lost to pocket Kings, guy never re-raised pre-flop or post. The other loser was AT with a Ten on the Flop, lost to a straight.

Best hand I saw was pocket Kings that I raised pre-flop. Flop came down 5A5. I led out and was raised by a player who I had a great read on thankfully, I mucked the kings and 2 other players called. The original re-raiser called pre-flop with 85. This same player was catching some amazing hands and got to the point where he nearly played every hand dealt.

Overall I ended $18 down over the 4 hours.

So total for 7 hours over the past 2 days is now $194 bringing that hourly trip rate down just a tad.

The class I'm conducting tomorrow finishes mid-afternoon so I'll have a little more play time tomorrow.

[randomstumbl]

Thanks for the report. I've been wondering how nice the poker rooms are in St. Louis.

BTW, as you're probably finding out, you can have spectacular winning nights at most 3/6 games, but overall the average win rate really isn't that spectacular. Since the pots are usually so huge, a couple good or bad rivers can make a huge difference during any given session.

Between the rake and tipping, most people good enough to crush 3/6 can beat a higher level for more.

[MeanGreenTT]

Have to totally agree...last night was pretty rough with more and more people playing just for the bad beat jackpot, that and a couple of hands early brought me down, although I was pretty happy with coming back from almost $150 down to only $18 down for the night. And that included 2 misplayed hands that would've put me positive for the 2nd nite as well.

One of the reasons I didn't sit in on the $6/12 was due to the $500 limit every 2 hours and I thought sitting down with only $500 would be kinda constricting at that level.

Like I said, I'm not at the point where I'm grinding it out daily but I've been able to find success at these tables and if I can, then I know others can do exceedingly well [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Jaquen H'gar]

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One of the reasons I didn't sit in on the $6/12 was due to the $500 limit every 2 hours and I thought sitting down with only $500 would be kinda constricting at that level.



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42 big bets in 2 hours of B&M play isn't that short of a bankroll. In addition, why don't you save chips from previous night's play and add to the $500?

[wstaffor]

You really only need about 25 small bets to sit at a limit table, just make sure you have another 25 in the wallet.

[MeanGreenTT]

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One of the reasons I didn't sit in on the $6/12 was due to the $500 limit every 2 hours and I thought sitting down with only $500 would be kinda constricting at that level.



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42 big bets in 2 hours of B&M play isn't that short of a bankroll. In addition, why don't you save chips from previous night's play and add to the $500?

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I did that actually and maybe it was partly due to a comfort level at the lower level. I did play 5/10 last week in Louisville and did fairly well.

And like I mentioned, I'm not earning a living at this like most here, just a weekend warriior for the most part at this time. I also cut my teeth on NL, mostly tourneys but I think that going from NL to Limit is much easier than the other way around.

Right now I still feel more comfortable at the lower limits, maybe due in part to a $4k bankroll but who knows, I plan on getting to the room much earlier tonite and may scope out the action on the 6/12 [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]