 Vegas November 2011 |
| Day 3 - VDSE 3rd try, Aria daily |
| Last Updated: 2011-11-08 12:01:14 |
| There's a clue in the title of this one that might help you figure out how my day went at Venetian today.
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| We went with the players buffet at Venetian for lunch (free is good). Large fried chicken wing parts (almost small turkey sized) and hot dogs were the main course with what I think was minestrone soup, salad and cookies and brownies for dessert.
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| Hans texted me as we were finishing up and thinking about going to our seats, we met up with him and chatted for a few mins before sitting down.
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| First hand out of the gate I get pocket aces, flop an ace and get paid half of someone's stack! A few hands later I catch pocket queens preflop and raise out, one caller. Check check on the ace-rag-rag flop, he bets out the blank on the turn and I call him down convinced it's a steal. River another Q. Bingo! Again he bets out but won't call my raise.
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| A little while after that pocket queens again, someone who had quickly short stacked himself calls my preflop raise. Flop 5-7-J w/ two hearts, I get him all in and he's actually a favorite with 6-4 of hearts. Queens hold up and before we finish the first round I'm doubled up!
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| I've been getting increasingly frustrated with these deep stack events. Seems like I perpetually get deep but just can't get over the hump. And here I finally feel like I've got some momentum in one of these and I'm a very happy camper.
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| So around the start of the second round a guy comes over and sits in the seat that I'm betting into. And he proceeds to play every one of the first 5-7 hands after he sits down. I look down at A-J suited and raise, he repops it on me. OK, he's making a move. I call to see if I can hit and stack this guy.
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| Flop comes A-J-X. I bet out, he calls. Turn a blank, I bet again, and he shoves for about 3.5 times my bet. I can't fold. He flips over pocket jacks.
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| ARGH!!!
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| My read on the guy was totally correct, he later bluffed off all the chips I gave him and the rest of his stack. I was the only person who got into pots with the guy who came out badly on the short end.
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| A few hands later I get 10s and run into Qs, I try to buy a pot here and there and can't make anything work...and at the end of the next round I'm back down to my starting stack again. All gone that fast.
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| By the break tho (end of 3rd round) I did build my stack back up to about 19K after catching some more big pocket pairs, but that was pretty much the highlight of the day for me.
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| Meanwhile, Hans was getting brutalized. While I was building my stack the first time he texted me that he was already down 1/3 of his chips he managed to get all his chips in w/ KK against 66 and lost. He bought back in (it's a re-entry tournament) and the bustout hand I believe was someone making a stone-cold bluff against Hans', who had flopped a set of eights, caught runner-runner straight. OUCH. And I thought I had bad luck at Venetian...
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| Leon didn't last much longer than Hans, he also took a rough beat.
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| I maintained a roughly 20k stack for quite a while, and once again I finished somewhere between 90 and 100 out of 316 so I had quite a run. But eventually the blinds got bigger and my stack didn't. I shoved w/ A-Q, ran into Q-Q, flopped the ace...and the other guy caught runner-runner flush.
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| I was feeling a little frustrated at that point, but it was only 6:00 and what was I going to do if I didn't play poker? So I ate at a chinese food place in Aria while I watched the first half of the Eagles game and then decided to go join Leon in the Aria 7pm tourney.
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| So first hand out of the gate someone raises, a few folds and then I look down at pocket Kings. I mean to raise to 625 but I've never played at Aria before and I grab a 1000 chip instead of a 100 chip. After I realize my mistake I feel a little embarrassed, the original raiser think it's an act. He and another player both call.
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| Flop jack high, I bet, other caller shoves, original raiser makes a disgusted fold and I call. Other caller has QQ. I more than double first hand out of the gate!
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| This feels familiar.
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| But the result was much better...
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| Right now I honestly can't remember too many hands. I did get a few more hands soon after the kings, but then it went like Venetian had gone. After the early surge the best I could do was maintain my stack. I was waiting patiently for another chance to double up, and finally when we were down to 3-4 tables (paid 9 places) and I was starting to get a little short, I got my first double up from that same guy who had originally raised my kings. I looked down at A-K and raised out, he shoved w/A-J and I called. Slick held up and we had identical chip stacks.
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| After that I had a big run of cards, the hand that really put me in good shape tho was Kings again, this time I had a shove and a re-shove into me. Always nice to look down at kings with two all-ins ahead of you. I was up against 9-9 and A-J and the Kings held up.
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| I didn't play any more big pots, but I did go over the top of a number of raises and continued to accumulate chips until we got down to final table. I went into the final table second in chips and not by much. But again, all I could do was maintain my stack while other people were busting each other out. By the time we got down to 5-handed I was the short stack and we all agreed to a chop based on chip counts, I actually got double what 5th place money should have been.
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| I honestly can't decide what to do today. Part of me really wants to take another shot at Venetian, but part of me is a little frustrated by Venetian and is thinking about just playing at the Wynn at noon.
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| Well I just got off the phone with Joann and she says I should take my shot at Venetian again. So there you go. |
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