Vegas - Quote of the Week

Didn’t play much poker at all yesterday - just the 7pm Planet Hollywood tournament. It transpired I wasted 5 hours playing Pai Gow with Shazbo, a game which seems to tilt me quite badly, before sitting at the Texas Holdem Bonus game. Shazbo won $1k+ at that as usual :)

I’m going to try and put some hours in today, starting with a morning cash session and finishing with the Treasure Island deeper stacked bounty event tonight. Investors in the deep stack events will have noticed that I have been woeful at putting any hours in, so there will be appropriate rebates when I get back.

Anyhow - on to quote of the week. Planet Hollywood event, 40ish runners with 5 getting paid. I bluff off half my stack in the first level with 7 high running into top set, having to pass on the turn. After nursing my micro stack for half an hour before getting doubled up when holding JJ, I arrive at the break with about 5k.

The blinds jumps every 20 mins after that are astronomical:

200-400
300-600
500-1000
1000-2000
2000-4000

Anyhow, I go into my shove mode after the break and manage to get my stack up about 14k without showdown, by the time we are at the 1000-2000 level with 11 runners left. Then the following two hands happen when we are playing 6 handed:

Hand1
Brummie guy shoves his 7k stack in, and guy to my right calls off half his stack with 7♥10♥. Brummie guy has QT and holds.

Hand2
UTG, I find AJ, my best holding for four levels. I make it 5k. Obviously I can’t fold with 5k of my stack in the middle, but figured this would look stronger than the 14k shove so might get some small pairs to fold.

Guy from last hand is down to 6.5k after but CALLS the 5k from the BB.

Flop is T42

He shoves his last 1.5k which obviously I call.

He has 7♥10♥ AGAIN and I lose.

Brummie guy: “Do you like that hand or something?”
BB guy: “Not really, but I figured statistically it couldn’t lose twice in a row”

Amen to that.