Oceans 11 trip report

AlienBoy · #1 02-21-2007, 10:28 PM

Had to be in San Marcos for business on Friday, and decided to stay over and play at Oceans 11.

I rented a room at the motel right across the parking lot , which with my AAA discount was $85. At 2 in he afternoon, I hadn't slept yet from the night before having played a 12 hour session at Commerce before driving to San Marcos, so I asked the front desk for a quiet room - she gave me a room on the side facing the freeway which was anything but quiet -I complained and got changed to the side opposite the freeway which was far better.

After taking a nap, I headed over to Ocean's 11 at around 8. I got on the board for the 8/16 kill, but took an available seat in the 4/8 kill while waiting.

The 4/8 was a pretty loose game - but over an hour I was down 2 racks as I'd flop a set, and someone would make their runner-runner straight, or I'd flop a straight and someone would runner runner a flush - you know the drill.

After this nonsense, I got a seat at the 8/16 must move, and my first hand was AK[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], capped preflop 3 handed, I flopped K69, but slowed down against main villain who as it happened had AA. UGH.

Things rapidly deteriorated from there. This table was about the toughest table I've encountered in recent memory. While at this table I think I found *one* exploitable player that kept me alive, but I couldn't get a handle on the rest - they all seemed to know each other and each other's play. At one point 4 players had left the table - and they all came back *at the same time*. Seemed kinda weird.

Finally moved to another table that was also quite tough when I sat down - but around 2 AM the very good players were racking up and I was able to move to a better seat positionally - still 2 of the players that were giving me trouble at the must move were here now. And in addition, I really wasn't getting cards that connected tot he flop. (That is, I'd have a good starting hand like KQs, and it'd end up 3 bet PF, but the flop would be AA2) By 3AM I was down about 5 racks ($2 chips, so $1000).

Finally, at around 3:30AM the table composition changed. Another table broke, and a number of loose players were seated at our table. Finally some players I could exploit, and now finally I got a few playable hands as well.

By 4AM the table composition had changed so that there were typically 5-7 to a flop, and people calling down all the way. I.e. the game was softer than soft. My hands like AQo would hold up with a board of QT9K7 - with 5 players calling down.

WTF??? No one had a King??

At 5:30 AM they gave us free breakfast!

I ended up cashing out over 9 racks ($1800) at 6 AM. I would have stayed, but I was very tired and I wanted to take a nap before heading back to LA.

Overall: Nice casino, good food and service. At the 8/16 it's a tough game at least in the evening, though pretty soft in the early AM.

AB

ECWGuy420 · #2 02-21-2007, 10:33 PM

Fri. from what I've seen is the softest day, I'm not sure what regulars you were playing with since they're all bad/awful.

AlienBoy · #3 02-21-2007, 10:41 PM

Well, at the must move, if I had a hand, all would fold to me, like *every time*.

The table was super tight, and very aggressive. After the must move, the next table had possibilities, but I didn't get cards for hours.

Compared to the 9/18 at Commerce, it seemed like a pretty tough table. Though this *was* my only experience there, and not knowing *any* of players was a factor.

AB

surfinillini · #4 02-21-2007, 10:54 PM

anyone know how the NL action is?

I'm moving closer to that casino next week and it will be quicker for me to get there than the commerce or bike.

sanmarcosrun1 · #5 02-21-2007, 11:41 PM

What level NL you want to know about? The 40NL (1,1), 100NL(2,2), and the 500NL(3,5)are all extremely soft. From what I have experienced the "regulars" at these games are some of the worst players. The service and dealers is great. This is my main place of play mainly for the games. All NL games are beatable. Their rake is 3 dollars drop and 1 dollar jackpot. 1/1 game can be beat for 15-20 dollars an hour on a consistant basis. 2/2 game is exactly the same and even better on weekends with all the college kids playing there. A 4 year university is within 15 minutes of the casino and the bad ones come to play very often.

Also the Floor's are amazing guys too. Only draw back is finidng parking as it is terrible on busy nights and weekends.

HOWMANY · #6 02-22-2007, 02:09 AM

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Only draw back is finidng parking as it is terrible on busy nights and weekends.

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Understatement of the century.

UncleKraut · #7 02-26-2007, 06:49 PM

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What level NL you want to know about? The 40NL (1,1), 100NL(2,2), and the 500NL(3,5)are all extremely soft. From what I have experienced the "regulars" at these games are some of the worst players. The service and dealers is great. This is my main place of play mainly for the games. All NL games are beatable. Their rake is 3 dollars drop and 1 dollar jackpot. 1/1 game can be beat for 15-20 dollars an hour on a consistant basis. 2/2 game is exactly the same and even better on weekends with all the college kids playing there. A 4 year university is within 15 minutes of the casino and the bad ones come to play very often.

Also the Floor's are amazing guys too. Only draw back is finidng parking as it is terrible on busy nights and weekends.

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There is no 500NL game. They have a 100-300NL game with 2-3 blinds, and a 300-1000NL game with 5-5 blinds.

The 100-300NL game can be extremely nitty, or ok. Sometimes you get a couple donators, but no guarantees. Friday and Saturday night are the times to go. During the week it's tough to find a good table. This game is definitely tougher than any of the lower limit Los Angeles NL games.

I haven't played the 300-1000NL yet, but I would assume it's nit heaven with blinds as small as 5-5.

Anyone play the 300-1000NL?

jedi · #8 02-22-2007, 07:16 PM

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Fri. from what I've seen is the softest day, I'm not sure what regulars you were playing with since they're all bad/awful.

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Yeah, that's probably me. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

binki · #9 02-22-2007, 10:53 AM

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I rented a room at the motel right across the parking lot , ... so I asked the front desk for a quiet room ...

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paper thin walls and a freeway on one side and busy street with trucks on the other. i got stuck in the ramada express there a number of years ago on a business trip and by 4am i was calling our corporate travel agent to get a room somplace else because of the noise.

AlienBoy · #10 02-22-2007, 11:45 AM

Yep - I was at the "qualiy inn".

The irony is the the reason that I went to San Marcos was to buy 200 pounds worth of MLV, a high density sound proofing material for my apartment... and I sleep in a hotel that sounds like the pit stop at the indy 500.

Bleh.

It wasn't so bad on the side directly opposite the fwy, though.

AB