Mini Vegas trip report - pre-Super Bowl Saturday

[pig4bill]

So I've been reading 2+2 and how there are so many bad players in Vegas for the Super Bowl weekend. I've been card dead all month, and hope maybe a road trip might shake the Bad Luck Monkey off my back. There's a round trip fare on Southwest for under $200, but rooms are still on the spendy side. Nobody is going to be playing poker on Sunday anyway, so I get a late afternoon departure Saturday with a 6 am return Sunday, and just figure to ironman it at the tables the whole trip.

There will be plenty of time Saturday morning to lose $325 in a Shooting Stars satellite at Bay 101 before my flight. As it gets closer to the tournament in the spring, these sats get more popular and it's harder to get in unless you wake up at oh-dark-thirty to sign up. It's supposed to start at 7:15, so I will be a sneaky bastard and wake up at 5-freakin-30 a.m. to make sure I get in. I arrive at 6:30 and get a weird feeling because there is no line at signup. All 140 seats have been sold plus 4 alternates, and they started the thing already! I have little hope of getting in anytime soon because it's a rebuy, but I sign up anyway. Surprisingly, I'm in 10 minutes later. I get no hands to play, as my streak continues. Every time I get something remotely playable, like KJo, it's raised in front of me, and I fold. Finally, a few minutes after the break, in level 4 with the blinds at 100-200, I find AA. I almost hate to get AA since I seem to lose a lot with them. It might be selective memory, so I began keeping track of my record with AA, and I am 0-1 since I started keeping track. Anyway, it's been raised to $1000 in front of me, indicating a hand that doesn't want to be called. I'm not going to dick around with these stinkin' aces, so I push with about $3800, content to get the $1300 in the pot. Of course, he calls, with pocket 8's. Geez. Flop comes all blanks. Oops, 2 of them are hearts, and one of those 8's is a heart. You guessed it, turn is a heart, river a heart. I don't even want to know what the probability is of turning a 1 pocket card heart into a flush. 0-2 since I've been keeping track. Great start for my road trip.

Next up: Wild and crazy Super Bowl fans in Vegas

[Aces_up_North]

he had a 5% chance to hit his runner runner after the flop, then 21% after the turn heart. Thats not counting the chance to hit his other two 8s to win the pot, but that wasn't figured in in the Pokulator

Sad story so far, hope it got better

[pig4bill]

The plane arrives in Vegas at about 5 p.m. without crashing, so my luck is improving already. I'm on the cheap this trip, so I take the $5 shuttle to Luxor. I want to try the $50 NL game that I've heard about here. I see no drunken Super Bowl tourists or crazy guys that push with 10-8o. It's playing about the same as any other 1-2 NL game. There are hands being pushed, but they would probably be pushed in any other game. I won a few hands in 1 1/2 hours for $36 and finally have a winning session in 2007!

I took the walkway over to the Excalibur. I've had good luck there in the past before they re-built the poker room. The 1-3 NL used to have a lot of wild and crazy play. The feel of the games now are completely different. This table is full of rocky nits. Seldom more than 3 to a flop. Hardly anyone here has even heard of the Super Bowl, much less are drunken tourists in town for it. Nevertheless, they aren't very good players, and in an hour I'm +$57.

Next: The legendary MGM Grand, widely heralded on 2+2 for loose play.

[52s]

This weekend sucked huge monkey [censored] all around. Nits all over the place. Horrible tippers galore. Just royal suck. I wouldn't be shocked if the MGM 1/2 played like ass as well.

I'm not in the mood to write out my rant on how 1/2 NL is the most worthless piece of [censored] game ever, but is the most neccessary evil in all of poker, but good lord did this weekend blow.

And to the [censored] who was trying to tell me that it's not the dealer's job to call a string bet, but the player's, [censored] you and go back to Foxwoods, you wanting-to-angle-shoot no-nothing assface.

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This weekend sucked huge monkey [censored] all around. Nits all over the place. Horrible tippers galore. Just royal suck. I wouldn't be shocked if the MGM 1/2 played like ass as well.

I'm not in the mood to write out my rant on how 1/2 NL is the most worthless piece of [censored] game ever, but is the most neccessary evil in all of poker, but good lord did this weekend blow.

And to the [censored] who was trying to tell me that it's not the dealer's job to call a string bet, but the player's, [censored] you and go back to Foxwoods, you wanting-to-angle-shoot no-nothing assface.


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please tell us how you really feel

[midwestkc]

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This weekend sucked huge monkey [censored] all around. Nits all over the place. Horrible tippers galore. Just royal suck. I wouldn't be shocked if the MGM 1/2 played like ass as well.

I'm not in the mood to write out my rant on how 1/2 NL is the most worthless piece of [censored] game ever, but is the most neccessary evil in all of poker, but good lord did this weekend blow.

And to the [censored] who was trying to tell me that it's not the dealer's job to call a string bet, but the player's, [censored] you and go back to Foxwoods, you wanting-to-angle-shoot no-nothing assface.


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please tell us how you really feel

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Read between the lines...This was the best weekend ever, with great tippers, friendly, knowledgable players that also happened to be POWs.

[52s]

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Pleasureable and happy go lucky.

But this weekend blew major dick. I can only sit in the box and watch so much "4 limpers before the flop, there's the meager 8 bucks in the pot, here's the flop... oh, there's the $10 bet, oh there's the Hollywood thinking about the call when I know 115% he's folding, yup here's everyone folding... here's your 8 bucks sir, good hand." play before I want to gouge my friggin' eyes out.

This is why dealer's become action monkeys, BTW. We can't stand watching this crap.