fun!
Friday night, I came home from work and fell straight asleep. That got my sleep all screwed up with daytime and night time again. I found myself freshly awake at 1 am Sunday morning and decided to stay awake until that night. Let me see, what shall I do for 20 hours?
Yep. Parked over at MGM to investigate a rumor I heard about a 2/4 HORSE game. Turns out it was true, they had spread it the last two nights. Have to keep an eye on that. Off to Luxor where my hours are required and I get to see my wife. $2/$4 full kill for a few hours was fun and profitable. $50 or so? Don't remember. Anyway, I got to play with Justy for a while! Then we had breakfast, then I played the 10am (bounced - QQ vs AK, I lose race.) I went back to MGM to check out the action and wound up just getting the car. I dropped it off at Luxor, walked to Mandalay, and found a fantastic $4/$8 game. Oh, first time playing in a casino? Oh, and you just got married last night and are still drunk? Well, thanks for the $80 and the good conversation, I have to go play the ticket tourney.
The ticket tourney is all good news. There have been big shakeups at Luxor and now employees can't play the ticket tourney. That means more chop money and better odds of winning for the rest of us. The chop went from $55 to $80, profit! And I played with the big boys in $4/$8. No pots for an hour and down $120, but then I went on a bit of a rush. A nice nut flush vs. a K high for 3 bets on the turn and another on the river, a straight, some laydowns, a steal or two, and I made $69 plus the chop money.
There is more to that story. At the table was a guy I clashed with early in my Luxor poker career. I handled him much, much better than I had in the past, and actually enjoyed playing with him and some other locals. I even held my own, mixing my play up a little to get some action as they had folded to my AA raise twice. A2 diamonds UTG is really not a hand one would play, but I limped it. Understand: the Luxor $4/$8 is $1/$2 blinds. You can't try this all the time, but often if you limp first in early you create a 7-way pot for only $2 each. I'm suited, connected, big and small, and I flopped what you normally flop with A2d - bottom pair, top kicker, backdoor flush draw. Small blind bets, I call, some other callers. Of course I want help on the turn or I'll dump. Turn is A spades putting 2 spades out and giving me aces up. I get check-raised by the small blind, and I have to think. He could have flopped a little straight, he could have flopped two pair and put me on just the A, he could have a flush draw, he could just be making a move with one pair from the flop. I'm not folding. If he made his straight good for him. If I raise and he is bluffing he'll go away. I call. River blanks, he bets, I call again. He had flopped top pair 9 and turned a flush draw. Fine play on my part I think.
Justy, Richie and I ate the diner and went home. 15 hours of poker. Not bad.
Yep. Parked over at MGM to investigate a rumor I heard about a 2/4 HORSE game. Turns out it was true, they had spread it the last two nights. Have to keep an eye on that. Off to Luxor where my hours are required and I get to see my wife. $2/$4 full kill for a few hours was fun and profitable. $50 or so? Don't remember. Anyway, I got to play with Justy for a while! Then we had breakfast, then I played the 10am (bounced - QQ vs AK, I lose race.) I went back to MGM to check out the action and wound up just getting the car. I dropped it off at Luxor, walked to Mandalay, and found a fantastic $4/$8 game. Oh, first time playing in a casino? Oh, and you just got married last night and are still drunk? Well, thanks for the $80 and the good conversation, I have to go play the ticket tourney.
The ticket tourney is all good news. There have been big shakeups at Luxor and now employees can't play the ticket tourney. That means more chop money and better odds of winning for the rest of us. The chop went from $55 to $80, profit! And I played with the big boys in $4/$8. No pots for an hour and down $120, but then I went on a bit of a rush. A nice nut flush vs. a K high for 3 bets on the turn and another on the river, a straight, some laydowns, a steal or two, and I made $69 plus the chop money.
There is more to that story. At the table was a guy I clashed with early in my Luxor poker career. I handled him much, much better than I had in the past, and actually enjoyed playing with him and some other locals. I even held my own, mixing my play up a little to get some action as they had folded to my AA raise twice. A2 diamonds UTG is really not a hand one would play, but I limped it. Understand: the Luxor $4/$8 is $1/$2 blinds. You can't try this all the time, but often if you limp first in early you create a 7-way pot for only $2 each. I'm suited, connected, big and small, and I flopped what you normally flop with A2d - bottom pair, top kicker, backdoor flush draw. Small blind bets, I call, some other callers. Of course I want help on the turn or I'll dump. Turn is A spades putting 2 spades out and giving me aces up. I get check-raised by the small blind, and I have to think. He could have flopped a little straight, he could have flopped two pair and put me on just the A, he could have a flush draw, he could just be making a move with one pair from the flop. I'm not folding. If he made his straight good for him. If I raise and he is bluffing he'll go away. I call. River blanks, he bets, I call again. He had flopped top pair 9 and turned a flush draw. Fine play on my part I think.
Justy, Richie and I ate the diner and went home. 15 hours of poker. Not bad.