To Las Vegas Nov. 30 - Dec. 6
It’s a little early, but I’m excited for this trip. It’s been too long.
My husband is attending the MJBizCon conference (
) for his business, and of course I’m going to tag along! I’m looking forward to any samples he gets😉
We leave Nov. 30 and fly home Dec. 6 – conference is Dec. 4-6, so he’ll miss the last day. We are staying at our Hilton Grand behind Flamingo – Elara was booked, but we really like the Flamingo HG, and it was so few points it’s amazing.
We have reservations Sunday evening for Bazaar Mar, but now I’m considering The Orleans $40K guarantee NLHE tourney that day. Seems like a pretty good structure, prize, etc. Any advice? Is it worth it. If so, we might change reservations to Monday or Tuesday.
Will post shoes and roll as we get a little closer. Until then, I’ll share some “home” poker stories.
Played in one of the two local 1/2 NLHE games Friday night. This game has a dealer’s choice $5 bomb pot every round followed by two hands of PLO. I usually play w/o my husband, but he joined me this time. I always ask for my seat ahead of time, and someone else had snagged my seat 5. Annoying, but no big deal. I asked for seats 6 and 7 instead.
For background, my husband and I are definitely winners in this game. My husband has played only a few times, but he is very aggressive and a good player. He has won every time he’s been there, but these guys are terrible players. They buy in for $50 to $100 (then rebuy), limp/call almost every hand, and limp/raise or raise only with QQ+ (usually only w/ KK or AA – and then they limp/shove), but they rarely raise – I mean almost never. They call bets w/ any piece, chase draws for the wrong price, etc. Really bad. There is only one decent (and that’s stretching it) player. And they have zero idea how to play PLO, let alone PLO bomb pots.
When we arrived, they had us in seats 4 and 6 with nobody in seat 7. It turns out one of the players didn’t want us sitting together. I was pretty upset, but let it go.
Funny thing is, if these players aren’t related (at least half of them are on any given night), they grew up together and/or they work together. They are good ole boys, and this is a small town. My husband and I are the only ones not born in the area.
There is collusion among these players every game. These guys will check it down, check the nuts on the river, tell the other guy what they have, etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if they shared profits at the end of the night. However, they are so bad it’s worth playing. Plus, they feed us and there aren’t many other options – and it’s only eight minutes’ drive.
My husband and I never collude. We never check it down and we sure as hell never check the nuts on the river. Plus, at least one of us always shows our hand, even if we don’t get to showdown, because I never want someone to think we are colluding/cheating. So to have this guy want to separate us was tilting. I desperately wanted his measly $100 stack. My husband got a little of it, but then the guy lost his last $60 KK
Halfway through the night seat 5 left, so we got to sit together. I won $150 and my husband won $500, so it felt good 😉 I didn’t push it Saturday night, but If I ask, I know they will never separate us again.
When schedule permits, the wife and I head over to the stepdaughter's house every Tuesday night to cook dinner, hang out and watch a TV show. The last ~year or so that show has been Ted Lasso, and we just watched the final episode the other night. Good show, and now looking to find another one we can all watch together.
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When schedule permits, the wife and I head over to the stepdaughter's house every Tuesday night to cook dinner, hang out and watch a TV show. The last ~year or so that show has been Ted Lasso, and we just watched the final episode the other night. Good show, and now looking to find another one we can all watch together.
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We have watched the entire show four times!!!
Try "The Good Place." Excellent show and fairly family friendly. Plus, it's Ted Danson 😉
We actually started The Good Place, think we only got an episode in, then jumped around a bit until finally landing on Lasso.
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Give it another try -- get a few episodes in, at least 😉
Want me to tell you how it ends?
Spoiler
Just kidding, I'd never do that, at least not on purpose!
prariebreeze, he did seem like a pro. I'm not sure you would have lost as much as he did. Someone from EP bet $25 on the flop and got four callers, then he bumped it to $350, another guy went all-in for $385, and I tanked a minute then called with a K-high flush draw on one board and a straight draw on the other and maybe a couple other outs. I thought he might be trying to buy it (I don't think you would have done that? I would not have.) and figured it was worth a shot. I hit both rivers and s
Am I reading this right?
You called $350/385 with only draws on BOTH boards?
Versus a deep very active player who was trying to run over the table and another player who was very bad with no money behind getting basically 3:1 when deep player can't re-raise? 100% all day, every day. My mistake was not betting smaller on the river.
Versus a deep very active player who was trying to run over the table and another player who was very bad with no money behind getting basically 3:1 when deep player can't re-raise? 100% all day, every day. My mistake was not betting smaller on the river.
hmm, tend to agree more with mackem here ... drawing on both sides in dbbp is usually not the right play ... might be justified with the situation you described, but barely at best imo
