Campfire Stories

Bellagio Five Diamond, Day 0

Brrrrr! Howdy y'all. It's freakin cold here in Vegas. The locals are pissed. I walked out to my truck this afternoon and slipped on ICE on the sidewalk. I think the high today was mid 50's. Complete bull if you ask me. We still managed to head out onto the lake and checked out a new island. We dubbed it Shipwreck Island, but have since found out that it was already named that. So much for being original. When we pulled into the cove where we moored we saw a small 18' boat about ten feet below us, and on the other side of the peninsula there was an old 40+' wood boat on the beach. Pretty crazy exploring those. Rode the motorcycle home and froze my arse off.

Last few days have been pretty lazy. I've played a few sessions of 100-200, winning them all. I won $3100 Mon night, $400 Tue night, and $1000 Wed night. Can't complain, that's for sure! In the $400 session I played an interesting hand heads up with Svi, a Toronto native that plays a pretty solid game, but a little too weak-tight, and thus I three bet him with the K Q out of the cutoff. I was sitting one to his left. The flop came K Q 3 . He checked, I bet, he raised, I 3 bet, he 4 bet, I 5 bet, he 6 bet, and I just called. Now He's pretty straight forward in his play, so there's no way he had KK (would've 4 bet pre), and highly unlikely that he has QQ (maybe 5%... same reason. Would've 4 bet). He never raises with small pairs, so that ruled out 33. Thus, his most likely holding is KQ, and second most likely is J T . The turn came an offsuit deuce. He bet, I raised, and after some complaining he folded and showed two face cards. Players to my left said he had KQ. Made sense, and I played perfect. But... oops. He actually had QQ. QQ! Second nuts! And mucked! There was $2400 in the pot, he's thinking it's gonna cost $400 more (turn and river), and he only has one out. Now, it does make sense for me to have KK there... I basically play it the same way... but I also play KQ and 33 the same way too. So sweet...

So, the Five Diamond starts tomorrow, $1500 NL. I'm planning on playing events 1-3 and 6-8, which are all 1500, 2000, 2500. I don't really want to invest more than 12k into this series. If I so well I will play more or if I get somebody to take some of my action I will play more. Offer is still out there if anybody wants a piece!

Until tomorrow...

Peace and good luck.

Devo

posted by Devo @ 7:31 PM |