Last minute Solo TR 4/27 - 5/1

The pot is $105 or so on flop, and with Villain betting $60 on turn I don't think we need to shove with $500 effective. I would make it $175 or so to set up a river jam.

($175 + $175 + $105 = $465, and we can jam for like $290 on many rivers - maybe not the Jack though)

There are however arguments for a jam too. As said above, stack sizes are indeed akward, and making it $175-$200 will be 'breaking the threshold' so to speak - we have already put in well over 30% of our stack, and thus we are very unlikely to be bluffing here.

Regardless, a raise of some kind would have been best on turn. And it's pretty funny that opponent only check-calls river to a rather weak-looking $75 here.

Getting started on my day after coming back to the room at 6:30-it’s just amazing how being in Vegas gives me a superpower to stay awake all night.

Ended up winning $532 at Venetian and stayed until the closed the room. Dealers said shutting down was a carryover from the pandemic, but that they’re going back to 24/7 in August. Was a shame because it was a good table.

Little before the cash out pic

Getting back to Excalibur at 5:30, I made the mistake of walking past the craps table. I should have kept walking once I saw that the only other guy there was betting against himself.

In for $500

Out in a short 20 minutes for $306-doh!

Am going to grab some lunch and then try my hand at the Bellagio 2-5

Lunch at Crack Shack

Fries were really good and crunchy - 9/10.

Chicken strips were just okay - 6/10

I also liked their Fire sauce more than the Toro sauce

I had no idea/can't believe the Venetian poker room closes. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!

Trying my luck again craps, this time at Park MGM

Not to be yet again as I lost $75 and in 15 minutes-haha. Likely last craps session of the trip.

Just sat down at Bellagio 2-5

Thought those were black 100s on top.

Nice sesh at the Venetian.

Fries look crazy good

I really like the way Bellagio does stakes and buyins. They have entry level 1/3, the 2/5 at 500 cap, and the 5/5 at 1k cap. Leaves lots of room for more play, and table selection. Once the tables get mature, stacks get deeper and more fun.

The Wynn 2/5 has a 1.5k cap, so it often plays much bigger. With all the straddling, it effectively becomes 2/5/10 anyways.

Couldn’t get any traction at 2-5 and made a bad $75 river call thinking I was bluff catching and he had a full house-haha.

Ended 2-5 down $124 and sitting at 1-3 now

Status update-have recouped my 2-5 losses and am up a little over $200 overall

With it being my last night here, I decided to order food at the table and got the Drunken Noodles from Noodles. It was okay - 6/10

They were 4 ways to the flop the way I read it, so roughly $140 otf. Add the $60s from the turn bet and the pot's like $260 with $405 behind, so about 1.5x pot.

You could go with a really small raise to $175, but then Vs getting over 3 to 1. Also stacks would be so short on the river that V could kinda reverse freeroll H, knowing he'll just fold missed draws and H will pretty much be forced to call off when he hits. Pot would be $490 with only $290 beyond, which is only 60% pot. Like I said, a turn shove would be large, but I'd rather do that instead of giving Vs draws a great price in a situation where we have top 2 and are pretty much never folding river. JMO though.

Can you find a fold here?

I’m in the cutoff with a little of $700. 1 limper from middle position and I have 22 and call. Button calls and villain in BB (~$300; just sat down 1 orbit ago) raises to $20. Limper folds, I call and button calls. Flop is J-6-2 rainbow. Villain bets $30. I call and button folds. Turn is an 8 (no flush draws) and villain bets $40. I debate raising, given his aggression and my position, I want to give him another opportunity to bet big, so I call. River is a 3, he thinks for 5 seconds or so and goes all in for $218. I had a bit of sick feeling and said out loud t would be disgusting if it’s set over set, but I don’t know how I can fold. I called and lost to JJ. Could you guys find a fold here?

Am sitting in the sportsbook trying to get the tilt out.

You’ve played it so passively that I think you have to call. If Villain is any good (and even if he’s not) he should be shoving all his over pairs here too.

Sometimes we just have to go broke man….particularly with sets on boards like this

Don't beat yourself up over losing the set over set hand. You can make the argument to fold pre but I'm prob never doing that. You call 22 in the hopes of getting a set, you get the set, no way many are folding on a dry board like that with effectively 100BBs

Ran into the below beauty last night at Aria, all in for $450 on the flop 3-ways.

I think it was Vegas telling me that my poker & gambling time has come to end-haha.

I’m heeding that advice and taking it easy today before checking out.

Will write up a bit more later

Had a similar spot at Bellagio $2/$5 in January; almost impossible to get away from 😡. It's not fun, but it's part of the game.

I don't think your focus should be whether you could have folded or not, but rather how you could have made the pot bigger earlier and gotten value from inferior hands.

As played only losing to JJ and 88 (unless Villain also raises 66 from BB over limpers, probably not always). And I am very certain he would have taken a similar line with all overpairs, if he is somewhat competent. You have played your hand so passively that your most likely holding is Jx rather than a set.

I don't play much NL; in LHE this would be a slamdunk fold pre, but maybe implied odds and all that makes this a playable hand (although as this hand played out, the RIO are exemplified, too). 22 just isn't a very good hand.

That said, you're vacationing in Vegas, and hitting sets is fun. Folding pairs pre is very much Not Fun. And the ev loss, if any, of playing the hand has got to me just a few bucks at most, so as others have said, don't beat yourself up about it.

Seems like you had a fun trip; you'll get 'em next time!

why would you ever fold a flopped set on a dry unpaired board?
BB raises to $20. bets flop $30. bets turn $40. shoves $218 river.
you went limp call call call
he just got to the table so he didn't have any read on you. he could assume you were somewhat weak. he could have done the same thing with AA, KK, QQ, TT, AK, AJ, T9. over-jamming with a missed straight would not be surprising, and you beat all those hands.
it was a cooler. #pokerlife

Thanks for sharing.

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Uh oh you’re one of those who leave after playing your button. Correct play is to leave before posting the BB.

Re-read what you quoted and/or the entire post you quoted and try again.

He was going to leave 2 hands after posting the BB, which means he was going to leave either on the button or immediately after the button, no?