The Action at the Rio...

[LearnedfromTV]

is sick.

I played 2/5 and only one session, so my stories are probably not nearly as good as those playing bigger (I did see a 4-way preflop allin for many many grand won by KK92 on an AKxxx board at the 25/50 game, and I saw Raymer playing 25/50 or 50/100).

Anyway, the biggest pot from my several hour session Saturday:

Guy to my left and I have been chatting a bit. He plays the 50/100 on UB, brought 50K to Vegas and lost all but 10K in the bigger games, including over 20K on a single pot where his AA caught runner runner quads and lost to a flopped straight flush. So he's down playing 2/5.

Crazy, loose, half-fun half-angry gambling guy is on my right. Both have >$1500. Gambler covers UB by a bit. Neither has gotten out of line much and, generally, there haven't been a ton of pots in the $500-1000+ range, although there has been a lot of loose play for medium sized pots.

(Mississippi) straddled, unraised pot. Gambler is BB, UB UTG+1.

Flop ($50) K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. Gambler checks, UB pots, others fold, Gambler raises pot to $200. UB calls.

Turn ($450) A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] Gambler checks, UB pots. Gambler starts thinking, shaking his head, gets up, walks away, comes back, flips over KK , and calls. (Gambler's turn play makes very little sense to me, not only the flipping over of his cards, but the check-call rather than bet out or checkraise, but that's what he did. I don;t understand why he feared AA rather than a big draw)

River ($1350) 5 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Gambler checks, UB pots (slightly less actually, allin). Gambler stomps, curses, stares, walks away, glares, and finally calls, after about three minutes. UB is stone faced the entire time.

UB turns over A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 4 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 4 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].

Gambler immediately whips out $3000 in cash and rebuys to cover. I, trapped in the middle, no longer comfortable with my $1500 stack, but comfortable with my $1K in profit, rack up and get the [censored] out of there.

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