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Short 1 Session Report- Harrah\'s Las Vegas
Hey all,
Just got back from Vegas. Only got to put in one session as I was on vacation with my Dad and didn't want to leave him to fend for himself. We stayed at the Venetian; so the closest room was Harrah's, more or less. I was within walking distance of Bellagio, Mirage, Imperial Palace, Bally's, etc. but chose to give Harrah's a shot. Ok..first off, it's a pretty small room. I think they've only got about 8-10 tables. The room is non smoking; there are plenty of TVs and the floor man and dealers were all pretty nice. I showed up at about 10pm on Saturday night and they had: 1 table of 4/8 with a 1/2 kill 5 tables of 2/4 an interest list for a 2/5 200NL game. All in all the room was pretty full of beginners as you would guess by the stakes. I got a spot in the 4/8 pretty quickly (I have been playing 5/10 6 max and some 10/20 on line for the last month or so). The players on this night were pretty bad. It was very common to see 7 to the flop, even for 2 bets. I had my first experience with a guy who LOVED to live straddle every chance he got. I saw a guy go to the felt (utg in my hand below) on the river with K J on a 9 9 K 6 9 board. On the river, he re-raised the woman who had the case 9, 6 times. The room allowed 5 bets in a multi way pot; unlimited raises heads up. The table was pretty great. Probably only 2-3 people (including me) who were seeing less than 50% of the flops. I didn't have great cards; in 6 hours I never had a pair bigger than 99. I had AK 1 time; AJ 2 times. I noticed that live I turned into an even bigger wuss than I am on line. I was ultra passive, unfortunately. Here was the biggest pot I won of the night: I'm in the BB with QJo Called in 5 places; back to me; I check my option. (6 players, 6 sb) Flop: 9d 10d 4s I check; UTG bets; utg+1 raises; MP2 cold calls; fold; button cold calls; I cold call; UTG calls (5 players; 8 bb) Turn: 6c I check; UTG bets; UTG+1 raises; MP2 folds; button cold calls; I cold call (4 players; 16bb) River: Kc I check; UTG bets; UTG+1 calls; Button Folds I raise; UTG re-raises; UTG+1 calls; I raise; UTG caps; UTG+1 calls; I call. 3 players; 31bb Amazingly; UTG shows AA for 1 pair of aces UTG+1 shows 99 for a flopped set I show the nut straight for a rivered beauty. I played for 6 hours and left up 32 bb's or so. I had a lot of fun. Player interaction; and actually hearing the dialogue of the maniacs as they are throwing money around is highly entertaining. I wish I'd had time to put in a session or two at some other casino's; but it didn't work out. At harrah's there was no type of jackpot; no type of gimmick at all. The max rake was 4$ (that kind of surprised me; I'd assumed it would be 3$ like empire. There were some great lines spoken as well: "the kicker; I always lose to the kicker" (from a south american "any two will do" guy) "UP!" (meaning raise; from a japanese maniac, live straddler who LOVED action. He loved to cap including capping once preflop with 2-3 offsuit. I'm certain he would have capped preflop with anything if he had someone to raise with. That's all. |
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