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So four of my friends (who are not 21) and myself made a trip up to Turning Stone this weekend. Now we've been trying to get up there for at least 6 months, but there's always a schedule conflict or someone doesn't have the money, but we finally made it up there.
So we got up there on Friday night, and two of my friends go to play 100max (blinds 1/2 there) and two of them play 200max (blinds also 1/2). I decided to sit at a 200max table with the full $200 and just play real tight. I think I raised 4 hands in 2+ hours and limped maybe 1 or 2 more. I raised 88 to $10, after not playing anything for 30 mins, and instantly there was 4 people in the pot with me. Flop JQK, time to GTFO. Raised AA twice; first time took down the blinds, second time got 1 caller. Flop came AK3, and I bet out and he insta-folds TT. Oh well. Last hand I raised was JJ; made it $17 from the button after 2 limpers. 1 caller from the BB. Flop comes 247, he checks, and I bet out $25 into a ~$38 pot, and he calls. He checks the T on the turn, and I shove my last ~$65 in there and he calls with QQ. Oops. In hindsight, I could have checked the turn behind, but how often to people take that line with QQ+?
So after that I decided I'd get some food. I run so bad at Keno, so now I'm down a little more. I didn't really want to play too much anymore, but with nothing else to do I decided I'd go donk around at 100max for awhile before the tournament the next day. In summary, this table was ridiculous. Anytime I played right and waited for hands, I'd get terrible flops and check-raised on decent flops. Frustrating. Any time I played terribly, I'd make back all the money I had just lost. I don't really remember the details of this table, but I know I played on it from 2AM to 6AM, then went upstairs to sleep.
Tournament started at 11AM on Saturday, so naturally I wake up at 10:45 and have to rush down to make the tournament. 105 people started the tournament. I'm seated with mainly 30-50 year-olds and one guy who looks to be in his mid-twenties. Tournament structure at TS sucks; 3500 in chips to start (and thats after the 500 extra chips for $5 dealer-tip) with blinds at 25/50 to start. 20 minute levels. Ew. I decided I should probably be a little more aggro than usual, just because of the structure. First hand I get 66 from mid-position, and pop it to 300 after two limpers. Flop 679 and I take it down with a C-Bet. A few hands later I get AA, and a raise in front of me to 200. I make it 800 and he calls. Flop KQ4, he checks, I bet, he folds. Cool. In the SB a few hands later I have AQs. Here's the hand where I busto, and I wanna see if there's anyway I can get away with it, other than PF.
1 limper from seat 4. Seat 5 makes it 300. Seat 7 calls 300. I call 275 from seat 1. BB and limper both fold.
--- *As an aside, I thought about raising here, but OOP and with 2 guys behind I didn't want to be chasing AK or something, and instead of folding, I decided I'd just call and see if I could hit 2-pair+ or a flush draw or something.*
Flop comes AcQh2c. I check, hoping to draw out a C-bet from the original raiser, or hope he has AK. He does bet, 300 into the 1000 pot. Seat 7 flats his call. I check-raise to 1100. Seat 5 shoves all-in for ~2200 total. Seat 7 shoves all-in for ~3200 total.
So now here I am with top-two and flush and straight-draw board. I'm almost positive that seat 5 has AK or AJ, so I'm not too worried about him. I had a lot of trouble trying to put Seat 7 on a hand. I figured his range to be 22, a decent-sized A, KQ, Kx Clubs, or something like that. It's real hard to put him on something like AA-QQ because he didn't raise pre-flop or post-flop on the first go around, plus it'd have to be the case 2 queens. I decide to call since the only thing I can really put him on that beats me is 22. Is this a pretty good analysis of the situation?
Anyway, Seat 5 turns over AK like I thought, and Seat 7 flips QQ for trips. Oh well, I'm pretty sure I'm going broke there almost every time. I brick the turn and river. I'm out a few hands later when A7 loses to K5. 103rd place FTL.
So I went to get some more food, ran bad some more at Keno while everyone else was at least breaking even. I came back later that day and got on the list for some $4/$8 Limit Omaha 8/b. When we finally got a table started, it was myself and 9 people over the age of 50. if you've never played limit with old people, it's not something I'd recommend. They hate raises pre-flop on on the flop, and they call everything. Plus this was Omaha, so more suck-outs please. I decided to play real tight, which seemed to be working at first. Then I'd play just a high hand like AKJT and it'd be all low cards. Then I'd play A23x suited and it'd be all high cards. Then I'd flop straights and big flush draws, only to see paired boards or other flushes hit on the turn and river. Ended up losing a little over $100 there.
At one point I took a break from Omaha and played some $10min blackjack, where I dropped $100 in a little over 20 minutes.I picked the dealer with the Andre Johnson jersey, and he just rocked me, much like he rocked the Chiefs on Sunday.
By then I was pretty much done playing, but I got real bored sitting around for 5+ hours,and then it was decided we were staying another night. Sweet. And I'm out of monies. So I get staked for a $30+6 SNG. I was sitting in 2nd place for most of it, just picking up blinds and sometimes betting out from the BB when I hit. Then I got KK. Blinds were 50/100, and UTG+1 min-raised. I raised to 800 from her left. She calls. Flop comes Axx and she insta-pushes. Guess I fold. She shows AJo. Sweet. Next hand blinds were up to 100/200. She open-shoves from UTG, and I call all-in with AKs. Immediately I knew I made a bad call. She flips AA, GG 7th place.
So that was my trip to TS. Now I'm gonna go back to grinding micro-stakes. Later.
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