My first B&M Hand (Vegas Trip Report)

[SomethingClever]

So, this weekend I went to Vegas for about the 8th time, but played my first hand of live poker [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

Not a bad start.

I'm in the Excalibur 1/3 spread limit game. I sit down in late position and get dealt in without even posting a blind. Weird!

So I have the A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] and I raise it up to $4. Couple players call, including a beefy looking guy wearing a Utah T-shirt. Flop comes ace-high, I bet out, everyone else folds, he calls. Turn: K. I bet, he calls. River: x. I bet, he thinks and calls.

He tables 88.

And the pwning was on.

Pizownored and I arrived at about midnight on Friday... staying at the Tropicana, which turned out to be sort of a dump. I've stayed in quite the range of hotels in Vegas... from the old Maxim, to the Imperial Palace... to the Mirage, MGM and nicer ones like that.

Anyway, our friends were hanging out at the Excal for some reason, so we headed over there, spotted the poker room and sat in the 1/3 spread. Actually, I sat in the 1/3 spread, and piz played 100 NL for a while. When he finally made his way to my table, he broke it within 10 hands with his LAG-tacular play.

So the floor came and moved us remaining 4 players to different tables, making the huge mistake of allowing pizownored to sit to my direct left at a new table.

Of course, every time I made it 4, he made it 7 blind. The details are fuzzy, but at the end of the night, I was up a rack, pizownored was down a rack, and the table was pulling its hair out.

Hand of note: At the first table, I get JT [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] on the button and raise about a billion limpers.

Flop comes 2, 8, Q with two hearts. A semi-LAG in early position bets, a few people call, I raise, LAG 3-bets, one other player calls, I call.

3 to the turn, which gives me my flush. LAG bets, I raise, he calls looking confused.

River puts a fourth heart on the board and pairs the 8. LAG quickly bets with a [censored]-eating grin and so I just call. He proudly yells out "2's and 8's!" and throws his hand into the muck face down [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

The dealer throws his hands up and says, "I can't touch those."

Now, I was thinking that he meant he had two pair. So I tabled my flush calmly and said, "It's okay, I've got the flush."

The dealer still had his hands in the air, arguing with the LAG and some of the other players at the table. I'm just sitting there smiling calmly... thinking I've won. Finally everyone asks me, "Is it okay if we turn these over?"

I say sure, and am shocked to see 82o flipped over for the boat!

Learned my lesson on that one. If a moran wants to muck his winning boat, let him.

Later in the night, I decide to own this guy. You can't officially straddle in the 1/3 spread game for some reason, so I just announce "blind raise" when I'm UTG. Couple players fold, LAG makes it 7, a few other players call, excited to get in on the action.

So maybe 5 or 6 players see the flop for 3-bets, which is ace high.

Now, here's where I make the n00b mistake of actually looking at my hand. I look at my cards and see AJo. I say something to the effect of "owned," and bet. LAG raises, maybe one or two calls, and I 3-bet. He caps and everyone calls.

I can't remember how the rest of the hand went, but needless to say, I ended up re-filling my depleted rack with most of the LAGs chips. I think he had queen high.

Still, I lost severe ownage EV by actually looking at my hand on the flop.

Saturday: Only played a few hours, again in the Excal 1/3 (because that was the only game my non poker playing friends dared to try), won about $1 playing *extremely* drunk.

Sunday, pizownoerd and I headed to the Mirage. He sits in the 2/5 NL and I play some 3/6.

At my table initially:

110 year old man
110 year old woman
Beefy midwestern guy
Beefy midwestern gal
60 year old lady
80 year old man
Guy about my age spouting nonsense about pot odds
Another guy talking about how the higher limits have less "chasers"
55 year old foreign LAG wearing reflective sunglasses and trying to look hard.

Great table.

I lose the first hand I play to the 110 year old lady. I have KT spade in the BB. She raises in EP, eleventeen people call so I defend.

I make a loose flop call with the board J82... I had 3 overcards, a 9 gives me an OESD, I had a BD flush draw... and there were about 72 SB in the pot.

Turn: K. I bet. Only the old lady calls.

River: Blank. Bet, call.

Oh, she tables AA. I got wapownzorized, old-lady style.

After that, I proceed to run retardedly hot and get up 2 racks before cashing out.

Pizownored meanwhile, was crushing the 2/5 until one fateful hand... I'll let him elaborate.

For the trip, I was up about 3 racks. I also won a $10 bet on Arizona getting 5 points.

Also on the positive tip, I got my non poker playijng friends to ALL play in the 1/3 at the Excal. They mostly lost money, but had a lot of fun. So that's +EV.

On the negative tip, we didn't get to meet up with any other 2p2ers. A few people PMed me, and I would have liked to meet up, but my friends had a lot on their agenda besides poker and before we knew it, the weekend was up.

Oh, except for Mason, who was the 110 year-old at my 3/6 table [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

my fatefull hand:

500NL 2/5 blinds 9 handed. Soft game, a few loose/passives, a super LAG and some lesser LAGs. Villan is 1 off the CO and not very good. He is prolly the tightest player at the table other than me, however still too loose and he litteraly jumped up and down for joy when he won a freeroll against the super LAG w/ the nut str8 gone nut flush.

So, I get T8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] in he SB w/ a stack of about $1,160. couple folds, 2 limps and LP makes it 20$. He has about 2k in his stack. 2 folds, 2 limpers and i call. Flop is 977r w/ 1 heart. Checked to raiser, he bets 50$, limpers fold, i call. Turn is Jd. I check, he bets 100$. At this point i figure i have the best hand and he is drawing to 2 outs w/ AA or KK and will surely pay me off. So i CR him and make it 500$. He looks at me and goes all in. I stick w/ my read on him and call. He flips over JJ and severly pwned my face. d'oh!!!

[CheckFold]

I chopped that AQ hand with you (which I played like crap I know). I basically had no idea where I was and out of position, didn't feel I could fold and didn't feel strong enough to check raise my stack in into 2 of you.

Got horrifically cold decked the rest of the time I was there, never got a chance to double up off super LAG like everyone else even though he was on my immediate right.

I was surprised you called the all in on the hand that broke you. Given the size of your raise and his push, I thought that's a pretty safe fold against that player even with 3.5 to 1 or so on your call. I think he would have actually folded AA or KK in that spot, but paid off if you made it 250 or 300 then made it another 200-300 on the river.

Anyways, first time I've read a post about a hand I was at the table for. Good to know another 2+2er by face.

[TheHip41]

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He tables 88.

And the pwning was on.

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Hi-larious

[LouisMatthews]

really newbie question, but rack = $?

[jtr]

A rack is 100 chips, enough to fit into the plastic racks casinos hand out to carry your chips in. The $ value depends on what chips they are. A rack of white would be $100, a rack of red $500, etc.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

ROFL i thought you might be a 2+2er, i should sup-bro'd you.

Yeah, after he pushed i thought he might have JJ. But then i thought it would be unlikely, and he could just as easily pushed w/ AA, KK or QQ there. maybe even TT. In fact, had i been in his shoes, i woulda smooth called. well, live and learn i guess.

[LouisMatthews]

I knew that rack = 100, but I didn't know what denomination it was.

[smoore]

under 5/10 limit or 2/5 NL, assume it's $100. At 2/5 NL I would have to ask if they were 1's or 5's.