Vegas -- On the Bubble
LAS VEGAS -- Drew and I capped off our 5-day, 5-night trip to Las Vegas this morning with a freeroll at the Tuscany poker room.
It's part of a promotion the new poker room has. Sign-up starts at 8 a.m. and it's 40 people max. Winner gets $150, 2nd $100 and 3rd gets $50.
Tourney is at 10 a.m. You get 1,000 chips and for $10, get 500 extra. Blinds go up every 20 minutes, which is decent for that kind of tournament and the field was pretty weak.
Of course, I bounced out in 4th. On the Bubble.
Oh, well.
The tournament started out fine. Drew and I were at the same table in the beginning. I got transferred to another table and lost some chips.
When the blinds were $100/200 I only had $600 left. After the bb (who had $600) went all-in, I called with T7s. This old timer who was the big stack called.
I flopped a flush!
Later, when it was 2 tables, I was moved to the right of Drew. I had AA on the button and made it $1,200 to go (bb was $400). It looked like a classic steal raise.
Drew thought about it -- he had much more chips than me at that point and pushed all-in. The bb also called.
The AA held up and I had about $6,000 in chips, what I pretty much had the rest of the way. Drew later busted on a hand in the bb with T7. Flop was T22. This guy who was the chip leader at the table limped with JJ and called Drew's all-in. I folded my ATo. Drew went out.
When I got to the final table, I made a mental note to steer clear of the two big stacks and worked to aggressively punish the short stacks and rob them of the blinds, which were $500 and $1,000.
When it got down to 4, I was in the bb when the chip leader raised me to $2,000 with A3o. I had JTs, so I pushed.
Flop was nothing after he called. Turn was a J!
River was an A.
I was out just like that.
Later, we had lunch at Mr. Lucky's 24/7 at the Hard Rock Casino. Excellent wings (second to Binion's Coffee Shop) and probably the best club sandwich and best veggie burgers in Vegas. It was a great people-watching spot, as there were lots of hotties walking around, some in swimsuits to and from the pool.
The trip continued to be great -- they gave me an upgrade for my Delta flight and I didn't even have to request it! Cha-ching!
It was a great trip, a little long, perhaps, but I'm itching to go back soon...
It's part of a promotion the new poker room has. Sign-up starts at 8 a.m. and it's 40 people max. Winner gets $150, 2nd $100 and 3rd gets $50.
Tourney is at 10 a.m. You get 1,000 chips and for $10, get 500 extra. Blinds go up every 20 minutes, which is decent for that kind of tournament and the field was pretty weak.
Of course, I bounced out in 4th. On the Bubble.
Oh, well.
The tournament started out fine. Drew and I were at the same table in the beginning. I got transferred to another table and lost some chips.
When the blinds were $100/200 I only had $600 left. After the bb (who had $600) went all-in, I called with T7s. This old timer who was the big stack called.
I flopped a flush!
Later, when it was 2 tables, I was moved to the right of Drew. I had AA on the button and made it $1,200 to go (bb was $400). It looked like a classic steal raise.
Drew thought about it -- he had much more chips than me at that point and pushed all-in. The bb also called.
The AA held up and I had about $6,000 in chips, what I pretty much had the rest of the way. Drew later busted on a hand in the bb with T7. Flop was T22. This guy who was the chip leader at the table limped with JJ and called Drew's all-in. I folded my ATo. Drew went out.
When I got to the final table, I made a mental note to steer clear of the two big stacks and worked to aggressively punish the short stacks and rob them of the blinds, which were $500 and $1,000.
When it got down to 4, I was in the bb when the chip leader raised me to $2,000 with A3o. I had JTs, so I pushed.
Flop was nothing after he called. Turn was a J!
River was an A.
I was out just like that.
Later, we had lunch at Mr. Lucky's 24/7 at the Hard Rock Casino. Excellent wings (second to Binion's Coffee Shop) and probably the best club sandwich and best veggie burgers in Vegas. It was a great people-watching spot, as there were lots of hotties walking around, some in swimsuits to and from the pool.
The trip continued to be great -- they gave me an upgrade for my Delta flight and I didn't even have to request it! Cha-ching!
It was a great trip, a little long, perhaps, but I'm itching to go back soon...
posted by kurokitty at
12:01 AM
1 Comments:
The bubble boy! I've been there so many times! Exactly the last place out of the money. The only real loser of the tourney!
And there's no need to thank my posts!
Thank you for posting such great stories. I'm so far away from Vegas those stories seem almost unreal.
I'm a long way both geographically and experience.
Hopefully I'll make it some day, and we'll be able to crush some games.
At least I can still hope!
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Victor_Enriq, at 9:42 AM
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