Trip report AC Dec 21-27th (Long, but poker heavy)

[Dave D]

Got back from AC last night, this is my story:

Day 1:

Leave around 1 PM from Boston. I take 90W to 84 to 91 to 287 to GSP. This is I'm pretty sure the best way. I got there around 7 and meet my friend at the Borg, who is busy making money at routlette (standard). He never loses money, it's sick.

I haven't been to the new cafeteria below the poker room (last time I was there was in March before the expansion). The cafeteria is boss. I get fatburger, the only time I'd ever heard of fatburger was from the Biggie song "going back to cali." I'm amused by them saying "one fatburger" and in general they are gheto fabulous, awesome.

I go upstairs and sit at 6/12. 9 PM to 3AM. Pretty card dead most of the time, down $265. I think I got a "sup bro" from someone, you had black wire rimmed glasses and short black hair and a hat I think. I was wearing a grey Wake Forest baseball T shirt and black running pants. I said sup back. Although that was during a brief stint at 3/6 I think, while I was waiting for 6/12. Had a great conversation with someone at 3/6, to the point where I didn't bother claiming my 6/12 seat cuz it was too much fun. Whatever. We talked about colleges and stuff, I told one of the dealers not to send his kid to Northeastern University.

Around 3 we go back to my friend's comped room at Cesars. They wouldn't let us get a late checkout (beat). We walked around a little bit in search of food and found some place that was open. We used my friend's Dad's card and they didn't ask for ID (brag), which was cool. The Ceasar salad comes in a square, and tasted good, which was cool. I've never been anywhere but Borg, and in 20 minutes, I saw more wierd [censored] than I've ever seen in 3 trips to Borg. Some random methhead was dandcing to myself in a mink coat, wierd. Our room is pretty nice, the room is a little bigger than normal, and has really comfortable beds, and really really nice bedsheets. I think more comfortable than Borg's. The room feels a little old tho, and its a little wierd cuz they don't use keycards, but whatever it's nice and its free.

Day 2

We start the day around 12 after some lunch and head over to Borg for some +EV roulette. I lose like $50, and my friend loses around that much too. Variance sucks. I decided it was a good idea to do this in part so that maybe they could give me a poker rate or some better rate on a room when I ask.

I walk up to the "tournament registration" window (which isn't actually for tournaments) and ask who I can ask about getting a poker rate or something. They say you gotta talk to the front desk, my friend cuts in and says they sent us here (they didn't). Kathleen says ok cool, let me see your card. I deftly (and already had it ready) hand her our cards, with $20 under it and say "anything you could do for me would be great". She hands me my $20 back and says thanks anyway, but I'll see what I can do anyway. I'm sure she was laughing hysterically on the inside, especially when she looked at the unballer play on my card, and that I was the subject of jokes later. She says no can do, as expected, whatever. It thought maybe there was a chance b/c it wasnt busy in the borg in general, in fact it seemed dead. In general in this trip, there was never more than one 6/12 table going, if that's any indicator.

My friend has to go home to go skiing around 3, so I leave and go cruising in my car looking for hotels. AC is possibly one of the worst layed out cities, and my gas light turns on. I get nervous looking for a gas station, as there are like 3 in town or something. Eventually I just get tired and call my friend to look up hotels on expedia. He says 130 a night for Shereton, including taxes etc, I say ok. I get there, and they say they cant adjust the rate and you have to buy it from expedia. Whatever, I go on their computer and buy it. The room is nice, all is good and I head to the Borg and sit 6/12 at 5.

No real interesting hands except this:

I have 9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] in the SB

I complete after a bunch of limpers.

flop 567, 2 hearts

I check, 2 checks, bet, 4 calls, I raise, everyone calls. Turn is a 5 and everyone but one guy folds for one bet. River is a meaningless K. I bet, he calls. He has trip 5s, ship it. Standard.

I have KQs [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] in the BB

PF
limp, raise, 3 calls, I call (this probably should have been a raise, whatever, I think I got distracted), someone 3 bets, everyone calls.

Flop

K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]9x

bet, raise, 3 bet, fold I cap, everyone calls

Turn: Qx

I bet, 2 calls

River is meaningless. Ship it. Some donk girl angrily asks me how I could cap that flop. She had AA. I just smile. It's really hard to not explain what it means when you have a draw for the second nut flush and a gutshot and everyone in the world is calling the cap. Not to mention that I could hit trips, my TP might be good against you donks, and clearly my two pair was even good.

Another hand against an asian LAG woman who kept asking me why I'd raise. She was fun though. For some reason I was the LAG. The moral of the story is on the turn I had an OESFD with KJ, which came in for the nuts with broadway on teh river. She went for $48, until I just called, figuring we had the same hand, and because I was tired, and I guess I'm too nice. She actually has Q9 for the worse str8, gets up quietly and leaves. I really should have kept going, as she might have gone all the way for like $200, who knows, but whatever. That was also a first. I got progressivly more upset about my mistake as time went on, but whatever.

I get a cab back to my room at 4:30 AM, +350.

Day 3:

I decide to go hit up 10/20 at 4PM, I've never played this high. Interesting notable hand happens:

Douchebag in a WPT Boot camp hat and blue polo shirt, maybe 40-45 years old is the main villian. I have AJo and 3 bet, he caps, there's 2 other people in the hand, I'm second to act on the flop.

Flop comes J high xx, 2 diamonds. Well, I should have been second to act, but INSTANTLY after the flop is dealt, douchebag bets, and next guy raises. I say hold on hold on you skipped me and UTG lots of yelling at the dealer from WPT hat guy, everyone at my end of the table agrees with me. Dealer says you gotta speak up, I say I did, everyone agrees with me and I say whatever. Douchebag starts arguing with the dealer that he asked if anyone bet and she told him no. She starts saying this is like the 3rd time this has happened and he needs to take out his earphones, he starts telling her to shut up, she calls the floor, floor talks to him away from the table. Anyway UTG folds to the 2 bets, I also fold. Douchebag ends up winning with AA.

This was probably the most blatent angle shoot I've ever seen, although maybe I've never never noticed angle shoots before, whatever. He saved me some money, but its still pretty stupid.

More to come in next post.

[Dave D]

Day 4

I decide to donk around 1/2 NL after my 10/20 game breaks up around 3 PM, right before the 4PM tourney. I know very little about NL cashgames, but whatever, I do what I want.

Interesting hand comes up.

I have A8s hearts.

UTG old man raises to like 8, like 4 people call, and I decide its good enough to call in the SB.

I check and everyone checks the 33Jr flop. Turn brings a Q, and 2 hearts. Someone bets $5 and everyone calls including me. River brings 33JQx, runner runner hearts, giving me the nut flush.

I check, old guy who was the PF raiser bets 25, call, call, I raise to 75, and here's where the fun begins. Old guy thinks about it and folds 3Ts face up, nobody, including the dealer says anything. Although there was only 3 seconds before the next guy, a large black man wearing a shirt and tie but somehow has like 3 racks of reds in front of him (like 5 buy ins), also folds 37 face up. Now the dealer and everyone starts saying stop, there's still people left to act. NEXT guy puts out what looks like $100 worth of reds, but the dealer says "call", and there was some time and he didnt correct her. I roll over my hand and he doesn't complain when it gets shipped to me. The guy next to me mentions that that was actually a min raise, and I say I thought so too but the dealer said call, so I thought I just couldn't see the stack right or something. Anyway, the first two donks obviously cost me a lot of money, particularly the first, but whatever.

Another hand:

I have JTs UTG+1, I limp and there's like 4 callers of $12, so I call too. Flop comes JTx, 2 hearts. I check, shorty bets like 45, black man says "I put you all in", which is basically a min raise, and everyone tells him you cant put him all in because there's still people to act, so he just makes it 91 to go. Folds to me and I push for like $275 total. Black man thinks about it after shorty calls, and calls with KQ, and gets there. Yes, this guy was either absurdly lucky, or putting on an elaborate act. Later on like 8 hours later he had like 6 racks in front of him at the same table, and I asked them if they were in play (jokingly) and he says yeah.

I've had enough, and decide basically on a whim that I'm going to play the 4PM tourney. I'd decided on a whim earlier in the day that is. Notable hands:

Blinds at 100/200

I have A2s hearts and complete in the SB.

Flop comes 34x, 2 hearts.

I check, check, bet 600, I raise to 2500, he pushes, I fold. I think hes a good player and fold. Sure nuff he shows a set of 3s, for his like 3rd set of the tourney, and he'd had KK 2x by then.

Another hand:

400/200

I have KK

one call, the guy directly to my left bets 2000 out of turn. It comes back to me and I really have to think here and decide to call, and he bets 2000 again. The caller thinks and folds, I go AI and beat AKs. Never been in that situation before.

I get to the final table and its down to 3. Asian LAG woman, and a grouchy guy who wouldn't take 2000 for a chop. 3rd normally was 1500, second was 2500, first was 4920. Whatever. Asian woman has been pushing like 60% of her hands since theres been 5 left. I get AA and limp OTB. She pushes, I call. She flips up J3o

Flop: 3xx
Turn: x
River: J

Seriously, the only thoguht in my mind is "ugh, now I have to play for another hour." I know I can outplay these donks, and I wasnt too worried about the blinds surprisingly. After teh hand I have something like 140k to her 120k.

Like 3 hands later she goes all in, grouch calls, I find AK and grit my teeth and call. It stays good against his AT, and her junk.

I end up winning this tourney. Ship $4920 no chop. I was so tired I was retarded at the final table, with 3 left I could barely see straight. I was saying the bet and putting out the wrong amount. 80% of my mental energy was spent in counting chips and stacking them, and the floor wouldnt color me up. But it definatly felt good to take it down finally. I never really sucked out or got super lucky, just had my 70/30s hold up, which is pretty key.
It was amazing how these people just do not understand pot odds. They couldn't believe that, as a big stack at the FT, I called a minraise with 78s, getting something like 4:1 in the SB from an open raise from the CO and I knew the UTG was calling after his limp. flop came 78x, I check call AI and my hand is good to take out the minraising donk. Also, it was amazing how scared of losing people were, especially during the bubble. I didn't even steal much at all, but you could just see it.

So on Monday I decide to play the christmas tourney, $320, no rebuy/AO. Incidently, every kind of jew was in that casino that day, all from NYC, brooklyn. Shot ones, tall ones, fat ones, orthodox ones, cool ones. The tourney itself felt almost like a home game, as a couple players knew each other and at one point we had a father and a son at our table.

One interesting hand:

I'm BB with AKo. Can't remember blinds, but I think I had around 35k.

UTG calls, LAG raises to like 5k, I forget what blinds were but it wasn't out of line, probably 1200/600 or something. He'd been pushing a lot, especially in the early parts of the tourney, he made it well known that he was playing every hand, would call almost any raise, and would often push. He had a voice kinda like frink from simpsons, except with very jewish oys thrown in. However, lately he'd been only showing down good hands.

Anyway, next guy thinks a little and pushes. He got 11th in the previous day's tourney, so I know he's probably decent, and I just generally had the impression that he's a decent player. However, I know that he knows the guy's a LAG, so he's pushing to isolate, or maybe steal. I know he's probably not making this move with AA or KK, so it could have been anything as low as AQ, another AK, or AJ, or maybe even a medium pair. I think and push my AK. Old guy calls with TT, original pusher has AK.

I yell SHIP IT HOLLA when I see the Ace come, mostly just because I was curious if there were any other 2p2ers around. Normally I don't show emotion when I win/lose.

Another interesting hand:

I call by accident with AQ UTG. I thought the dealer said 1600 to you sir, like that she was telling me to post my blind. I say whatever I'm not gonna argue about it, so I'm forced into calling. OFC I know that someone else is gonna push, and they do in LP. I call for like 10 blinds, and he has 35. MHIG, and ofc I have to ignore the "that was stupid to push with 35."

Later on I double up against one of the best players I've ever seen, asian guy who ended up chopping first/second. I had QQ and he had AK.

Anyway, I make it to the FT. First is ~$15.5k. I get AA, and push for ~12 blinds in UTG+1 after UTG limps (which he was somewhat prone to do), couple folds and a nice blonde woman thinks hard and folds. The next day I ran into her randomly and she told me she had AK, and was more worried about AA UTG, and I told her that's a push for me. She had like 220k, I had 120k. Anyway everyone folds. That might have meant first or second place for me, whatever.

With like 7 or 8 left or something I push AQ, no callers (10 blinds), TT (no callers), and AJ and get no callers. All three in a row, I show all 3. Eventually I push over a regular raise, as the big stack with AQ, he has KK and the flop teases me with an OESD and I think i might have had a FD on the turn. Also, Against a good player this hand comes up:

I have J7 in the BB. One limper and I check in the BB.

Flop comes AJx. I insta check, he bets 10k, he'd been really tight, but I decided that an A would have raised PF. I C/R to 30k, he pushes for like 22k more. I'm getting at least 4:1, and call and he has JQ. I guess he had a read (part of why I only C/R'd to 30k was b/c I had him pegged as a good player, so he'd see that as trying to extract/coax an AI and fold more than if I check/push).

Anyway, eventually I get some luck and work back to a reasonable stack and we're down to 4. I push 78s into AA (and a guy who's lucky to get there too) and MHING.

I take 4th, ship $3510. As always, disapointing to not get 1st cuz that's what I'm playing for, but whatever.

Also, one other funny thing, and kinda an insight on psychology or whatever, some guy is AI on the flop (or maybe PF). He makes a flush and she has 99 and makes a boat. She doesnt see it right away and says "oh he has a flush" or something and I say "no 4s, they paired" dealer calls it out. Floor says the hand too. Guy says no no, floor, she didnt see it, you cant call out her hand, she didnt see it. Floor's like cards speak, you're an idiot (not actually you're an idiot). He says FLOOOR, everyone's like "he is the floor", then he comes down to earth and says sorry, nh, good game.

Hmm what else...

I was playing 10/20 and a large man walks by and says "where's the stop and go", that made me laugh for the next 20 minutes. It's right here old man.

Played one other tourney on tuesday where the following hands happened:

I have AQs Spades. 200/100

raise from big stack to 800, , I call.

Flop comes 235, 2 spades. He bets 800, giving me something like 3.5:1 or so with the blinds/antes and decide to just call.

Turn brings a 6, no spade. He checks, I check. River comes a blank, he checks, I value bet like 45% of the pot (2500), he calls and we both flip up AQ.

I also split with another AQ earlier against a pretty passive player who called my c bet on the flop and turn and neither of us had anything.

I end up going out when new guy (but a terrible player) raises to like 2.5x the bb with 7 BBs behind, I push AJ knowing I have the best hand, he says "I have to call LOL" and flips up 78s and proceeds to make a str8. Standard.

On monday Mench sat down at my 10/20 table. I originally have him pegged as just another jew from NYC who has no idea what's going on, especially after he says he's from NYC and has some livestrong type bracelet with hebrew. However I eventually ask him if he's a 2p2er and we start talking. He sucks out big time on a hand on me (it's ok, although I hope he posts it in Mid Stakes), and I tried to tell him why his flop play is wrong, but I can't put my finger on it exactly other than the obvious. In discussing the hand, the other players are like deer in the headlights. After he leaves white trash kid calls him "mr. numbers" and says he doesnt really believe in the numbers, and him and another player agree "he'll be bust in 3 weeks." Mench introduces me to fslexduc, Foxwoods Fiend and his gang. Fslexduc is donking up 1/2 NL, obviously quite intoxicated, and says "I'm on tilt" with something like what looks like 4 buy ins in front of her. Ok whatever.

She's sitting with Dean, and I try to introduce myself, and he pretends to not know what 2p2 is. Probably the worst bluff hes ever run in his life though, because he's smiling, sitting and talking to Vanessa, etc. However, I'm too retarded from my tourney to think, so I don't react well with any good whitty retorts.

Other than that, nothing else super notable. Overall I only managed to hit like 4 sets in limit, and generally ran pretty bad, down about $1100, but obv ran well in tourneys. Never hit quads in limit, which I generally take as an indicator of how I ran on a trip. Also, the borgata waitresses are hotter than I remember them last time, and half the time they had the B team in because it was christmas.

Oh yeah, and I vowed to visit the Taj on this trip. What a dump, including the poker room, which had like 12 people on the waitlist for 5/10, and just didnt have the games we wanted running. The place made me want to puke. The borg is the best poker room in the country as far as I can tell, only beating the Wynn because of it's size. There's just not much wrong with it, except the floors kinda sucked about seeing you say "lock it up." Also, the games seemed not as soft as normal, although for some reason they were best from 12 midnight to 4AM, unlike normally 10-2, but whatever.

[CCx]

hell of a trip report - good read

[chopstick]

Great read, thanks for writing it up.

[Messiahkid]

great read

[coolio4433]

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I have KQs [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] in the BB

PF
limp, raise, 3 calls, I call (this probably should have been a raise, whatever, I think I got distracted), someone 3 bets, everyone calls.

Flop

K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]9x



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Mind clarifying how there were 2 K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] in that deck?

[cmurl904]

"Some donk girl angrily asks me how I could cap that flop. She had AA."

LOL,I love the "expert" commentary at the low limit tables.........Hmmmmm let's see, TP and a flush draw.
99% of us would've done the same. Let's hope anyway...

[Befolder]

Great report. Exciting results for you.

[Dave D]

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I have KQs [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] in the BB

PF
limp, raise, 3 calls, I call (this probably should have been a raise, whatever, I think I got distracted), someone 3 bets, everyone calls.

Flop

K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]9x



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Mind clarifying how there were 2 K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] in that deck?

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Rigged.

My bad, I wrote this up really fast. I think the 9 was a spade and the K was something else. I definatly had the second nut flush draw, and a gutshot, and ended up winning with 2 pair Kings and Queens.

[toss]

Good trip report.