[AMT]

This is pasted directly from my blog (yeah, I set up a blog for the summer to help me keep track of my life of nothingness, wanna fight about it?) so bear with the potential blogginess. Enjoy.

Poker (AC Trip report): My friend and fraternity brother Chuck had a room comped at Caesar's palace in Atlantic City last night, so my roomate and I went up with him for the night. ATLANTIC CITY RULES, even though the games were a bit off while we were there.
The first time we sat was at Caesars. All of us were put at the same 1/2 table, and all I can say about this table is....wow. Every player at the table was penetratingly obviously bad at poker in various ways. The highlights were a drunk guy and an old guy, the drunk guy who wouldn't shut up, who would call huge bets and fold with little money behind later in the hand, and the old guy who made random sized bets, often over betting the pot by 10x and never folding preflop.
Specifically, the old guy and the drunk guy got into it in a pot where the old guy check/called a flop bet, announced a dark check, and then fired 55 dollars on an Ace turn card. The drunk guy flips out, the dealer never heard the dark check announced, and the floor was called over for a 10 minute dispute of the events before the bet was ruled legal (honestly, obviously the dark check must stand should the floor person confirm that it was said, but since theres no way for him to know for sure and the money was in the pot, it was the only sensible ruling in my opinion). The drunk guy timed out with 2 floor people towering over him ,and from then on basically the table took turns calling time on the drunk guy because of how ridiculous his slowing of the game was.
The only interesting pot I played in this game was when i raised a bunch of limpers on the button with 88. The drunk and old guy called (yes I know, theres a trend) and the flop came KQJ. though the old guy didnt often fold the flop, he had at certain points, and since both of their preflop calling ranges were so ridiculously wide, I decided to try and take down this already-medium-sized pot on the flop. I fired 35ish and the old guy called. This basically told me nothing except that he didnt have 43o maybe. The turn was a 4 and we both checked to another 4 on the river. We again checked and I showed my 88. He looked at his cards twice and mucked. As I was raking in the pot someone said that he mentioned he had A4o. I'm not entirely sure why he would muck trips but obviously the pot was mine at this point and I finished this game +50 even though for the most part I was completely card dead and watching the antics of the table instead of playing poker.
After dinner we headed to the Taj and I sat 1/2 while Chuck played a 35+12 mtt (I know, I cant comprehend the rake either) and Aaron (Manchild) played 2/5. Aaron had a look of death on his face the entire time so his session didnt go optimally I guess. Mine for the most part did not either but I was fortunate enough to take down three key pots in this game that gave me a reasonably nice session.
First, I raised a limper with ATdd. He called directly in front of me and we took a flop of KQJ heads up. Shipit. I was check/raised (holla) and called the raise. The turn was a 7d giving me what I like to call the NUTNUT. He lead 50 and I set him in for not even 100 more in a pot of over 100 already and he thought a while and folded. No matter what he had his play was obviously horrendous but I'm pretty surprised he didnt call given the action and the board texture. He was also CERTAINLY not capable of folding TPTK or better but was also semi weak so I'm kind of surprised I missed out on the last chunk of his stack but oh well.
The next hand I limped A5cc in MP, got called by a young kid directly behind me and took a flop of 3 middle straight cards (I dont remember specifically) with two clubs. I led and he raised 10 to 35. I called and the turn put out another club. I checked and he jammed. I called and he showed the T6cc for a lower flush. I didnt even realize he had the 9c as outs for a straight flush but he missed his 1 outer and i took down a decent sized pot even though he wasnt sitting with a full buy in at the start of the hand.
Finally, against a young Russian guy, for the third or fourth time of the session he limp/called a preflop raise of mine. I had AJhh and we took the flop HU. The flop came ace high with 2 low hearts (I had no heart). As he had done before he check/called the flop and the turn brought a heart. We both checked and the river put out a 4th heart. He led 35 and with a read of what I thought to be a great bluffing spot for him I made it 80 to go and he folded. In the end I finished the trip +200 after about 6-7 hours of play. The next casino I play in will probably be in Las Vegas so I'm feeling good about that. Thats about it for now, thanks for reading.


-Alex