Tunica trip report

[jdoe]

I have heard from many a poker player at many a table talk about a place called tunica. This little place in the middle of a cotton field that seems to cater to poker players. So after many years of hearing the great stories of loose Mississippi poker, me and my buddy take a trip from East Michigan to Tunica Mississippi.

After a debate on how to get there we decide on a route to avoid rush hour traffic and get there in 11 hours by car.

We booked a room at the gold strike, per the instructions of fellow 2+2ers, with the intention of playing at the shoe. (when the say they are right next to each other, we are talking a 4 minute walk from poker room to poker room.

We checked in late Thursday and needed a bite to eat before we found a game. We went into the Atrium and ordered a $30 meal ate in and went to pay for it.. They asked mi if I had a players card. I pulled out my MGM mirage card from Vegas and they told me I was comped. I didn‘t argue and went looking for a game. I found a 2-5 NL and found it to be more aggressive than I was used to. I assumed that the buy-in was unlimited as many of the players has about 500 in chips and a big roll of 100’s behind. I bought 200 in red and decided to give it a whirl.

A few hands in I realize that $40 before the flop is no big deal, not a situation I was used to. I catch KT in the big blind and 6 players limp to me and I check. flop comes Q 9 X. the flop checks around and the turn is the J, completing the rainbow. I bet 20 into a $35 pot and UTG raises to 40, everyone in the middle folds, I make it $60 MORE and UTG calls. River is a [censored] 9 and I pay off Q9 with the rest of my stack. Oh well rebuy 200 more. A few hands more and I get AJ sooted in late position and raise to $30. I get called by an Asian guy with a big roll of $100 bills behind. Flop comes J 3 7 rainbow. Out of position I go all in for about 150 and he inta-calls. Crap! Turn and river come out blanks and AJ is good (somehow). When I take down the pot I see that I am UP about 5 or 6 bucks and cashout right away. This was not my kind of game. I crash for the night up one dollar.

On Friday I decide I want play in a tourney. They have a $65 buy in $40 rebuy game going. I buy in and show up a bit late and catch my first tourney hand in the small blind. Mid position raises blinds of 5-15 to 50 and I look down and see AA, so I raise to 300. I get a call and the flop comes J high rags, I move all-in win the pot. Long story short I lose ½ my stack with QQ vs. 22 and get busted on 99 vs. AK when he rivers the running flush. Oh well back to the cash.

I hear roomer of a 1-2 PLO game at the Goldstrike. I get to the Goldstrike and decide to buy 200 and just nut peddle. In the corner there is a 25-25-50 PLO running wit about 100K in play. 2 guys were wearing cowboy hats so I didn’t even sweat the game. I quickly run my 200 into 600 playing 1-2 and cashout and go to bed.

I get in a loose 10-20 game and get the hand of a lifetime. 44 MP I call big blind raises I call one player to my left calls. Flop: A 4 J BB bets I raise other guys folds, BB makes it 30 I make it 40 BB makes it 50 and alarm bells goes off so I just call. Turn is the case 4. I put in the 8th bet when he says I am going to bet it all. I make 8 more raises and he says one more time that he is going to put it all in. I say ok, river bricks and I am numb as hell. I cash out up $800 and grab some dinner. He had AA

I get into a 10-20 Omaha hi-low game. I was told that this was an action game. Comes to find out this was a rock garden times 1000. After pissing away 300 I got back into my 10-20. And went flop dead for 4 hours. I got into the 1-2 PLO game at the strike again bit by now I was playing too scared and donked off another hundred.

Net Net I covered my gas and room. I never paid for a meal (other than a starbucks) and when I tried they wouldn’t let me. I would say tunica is far beyond the best I have ever been treated in a casino. I would go back in a heartbeat.

JDOE