I decided to give tournament play a miss yesterday and go and play some cash in a couple of different properties, that I had not previously visited. So the day started with a walk across to the Rio to use the $10 comp voucher that I recieved for the Seniors Event, but didn't use - since I didn't make it anywhere close to the dinner break!! I timed my entry to the Carnival World Buffet just right (not by design I must add), walk in just a few mins before 11:00 am and pay an additional $3.95 for breakfast and by the time I had been seated and ordered a drink all the lunch items were at the counters.
So, fully re-fuelled I get the free shuttle to Bally's and within minutes I am seated at a $1/$2 NL game and take the max buy-in of $300. After approximately 2 hours I have close to $800 and fully expect to leave the table having recouped the $1000 of the Seniors Event buy-in.... that is until I horribly misread a hand!!! I'm in a pot with on old(er) guy who has already re-bought a couple of times. The flop is KQx, superb for my 'KQs'... Matey checks and I bet about half the pot and he calls, which I know he would do if he held an Ace... turn is an A, and he bets out... Perfect, I raise he calls... River is of no concern, he checks I bet another $100... he calls and flips over his Ace/Rag for one pair... I turn my cards over and the Qh has miraculously changed to the Th... WTF!!!! Almost $300 gone on that hand.... That's around £150 in real money you know!
For the next 20 mins or so I carry on playing but I just can't get that mistake out of my head. I did get a bit of it back, then made a really bad call and I realise that, although it really pained me to leave the table while this guy still had my chips, if I didn't get up I might easily donk off the rest of my profit. So, reluctantly I leave the table and cash-out $554, for a $254 profit.
I wander through from Bally's to Paris and stop along the way for a Crepe Suzette... mmm, Very nice. Paris is a nice casino in a 'Venetian Grand Canal Shoppes' kind of way. A high ceiling painted to look like the sky and the casino floor made to look like it is happening outside in a town square. I find the poker room, which is about 8 or 9 tables crammed into an area which has been stolen from the sportsbook (what we call bookmakers) area. I see a $1/$2 game going but I don't get a good feeling about the place... I still have that misread going round in my head. I give up on the idea of playing any more poker for the time being and have wander round the shops.
It's about 5:00 pm now and hotter than hell outside so I decide to get the shuttle back, relax in my room for a couple of hours and then hit the Gold Coast cash game. I figure on waiting inside Bally's reception until the bus shows but when I look outside there is what looks like almost a bus full already queueing. So I decide to brave the heat and get in the queue. It must have been almost 20 mins before the bus turns up... A sign outside a store across the road kept flashing up 116 degF, I thought my brain had poached!
Back at the GC I need re-hydrating, I go into the shop just inside the building and they have bottled water at $1.75 or a six-pack of Bud-Lite for $5.29... since they both taste about the same I bought the Bud-Lite as it worked out cheaper. :-)
Two bottles of Bud later, showered and refreshed, I head down to the poker room and straight into an empty seat in the $1/$2 game and buy-in for $200. I'm quickly up to about $350 and then just as quickly down to about $70, when all the money goes in pre-flop and my AA doesn't hold up against KK. I buy another $100 and grind it out for about another 3 hours and eventually leave the table at 1:00 am with another $212 profit.
Another profitable day, but it could have so much better if only the poker Gods and my eyes hadn't let me down.
Today, I'm going to have a look at the Wynn for the first time and play their $300'ish tournament at midday.
So, fully re-fuelled I get the free shuttle to Bally's and within minutes I am seated at a $1/$2 NL game and take the max buy-in of $300. After approximately 2 hours I have close to $800 and fully expect to leave the table having recouped the $1000 of the Seniors Event buy-in.... that is until I horribly misread a hand!!! I'm in a pot with on old(er) guy who has already re-bought a couple of times. The flop is KQx, superb for my 'KQs'... Matey checks and I bet about half the pot and he calls, which I know he would do if he held an Ace... turn is an A, and he bets out... Perfect, I raise he calls... River is of no concern, he checks I bet another $100... he calls and flips over his Ace/Rag for one pair... I turn my cards over and the Qh has miraculously changed to the Th... WTF!!!! Almost $300 gone on that hand.... That's around £150 in real money you know!
For the next 20 mins or so I carry on playing but I just can't get that mistake out of my head. I did get a bit of it back, then made a really bad call and I realise that, although it really pained me to leave the table while this guy still had my chips, if I didn't get up I might easily donk off the rest of my profit. So, reluctantly I leave the table and cash-out $554, for a $254 profit.
I wander through from Bally's to Paris and stop along the way for a Crepe Suzette... mmm, Very nice. Paris is a nice casino in a 'Venetian Grand Canal Shoppes' kind of way. A high ceiling painted to look like the sky and the casino floor made to look like it is happening outside in a town square. I find the poker room, which is about 8 or 9 tables crammed into an area which has been stolen from the sportsbook (what we call bookmakers) area. I see a $1/$2 game going but I don't get a good feeling about the place... I still have that misread going round in my head. I give up on the idea of playing any more poker for the time being and have wander round the shops.
It's about 5:00 pm now and hotter than hell outside so I decide to get the shuttle back, relax in my room for a couple of hours and then hit the Gold Coast cash game. I figure on waiting inside Bally's reception until the bus shows but when I look outside there is what looks like almost a bus full already queueing. So I decide to brave the heat and get in the queue. It must have been almost 20 mins before the bus turns up... A sign outside a store across the road kept flashing up 116 degF, I thought my brain had poached!
Back at the GC I need re-hydrating, I go into the shop just inside the building and they have bottled water at $1.75 or a six-pack of Bud-Lite for $5.29... since they both taste about the same I bought the Bud-Lite as it worked out cheaper. :-)
Two bottles of Bud later, showered and refreshed, I head down to the poker room and straight into an empty seat in the $1/$2 game and buy-in for $200. I'm quickly up to about $350 and then just as quickly down to about $70, when all the money goes in pre-flop and my AA doesn't hold up against KK. I buy another $100 and grind it out for about another 3 hours and eventually leave the table at 1:00 am with another $212 profit.
Another profitable day, but it could have so much better if only the poker Gods and my eyes hadn't let me down.
Today, I'm going to have a look at the Wynn for the first time and play their $300'ish tournament at midday.
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