Ok guys, back from vegas. As much as I wish I had a ton of great stories, I dont, as far as poker goes. The summer has alot more going on then the winter in vegas and I stayed very busy. I have a great story about the pool if anyone wants to hear it. Let me just say, if you ever stay at the Flamingo in the summer,do yourself a favor and order a cabana.
Poker wise, ill give a quick breakdown of the rooms I played.....
Flamingo- Very disappointed in how tough this room was every time I played. Almost zero bad players, in fact one morning I played this was the toughest table I faced all trip. I had 4 players at my table that had played in the ME wsop, and 2 of them had cashed. Also at the table were 2 Sweden players that were good and a guy from Madrid. Brutal table, I only caught 1 or 2 good hands, tried to make a big bluff and got caught but only ended up down 40 after a few hours.
Here was the big bluff hand, 1 limper in front of me (i'd say he might be the worst player at the table, and even he was solid). I had AQ and raised it to 12. 2 callers, including the limper. Flop comes A J 3, 2 dim. Original limper fires out 20 bucks and I am pretty sure he is on the flush draw. I raise it up to 60 I believe, other guy folds. Turn is the 8 of dim. He checks and I quickly check behind. River is another dim and he looks sick. I am thinking he must of made the flush but is now concerned about the 4 dim board. Time to either deal with the loss as I have no dim or go for it. I decide to go for it. Now, I need to bet something big enough to get him to lay it down, but can't make it so obvious. Since their was about 140 in the pot, I decide 100 looks like a nice round number and bet 100 bucks, representing the K/Q of dim (A was a Dim). Guy starts talking about how bad he played, he can't believe he didn't bet the turn, he can't believe he let me luck into that river, blah blah blah. So i'm thinking he's gonna toss em, but then he goes "ahh fuck it, I know this is bad but I'm gonna call", he flips over 64 of dim and I disgustingly muck. Bummer, IMO he made a really bad call, and no way in hell he had any read on me, oh well.
MGM- Very tough, I played in the afternoon, but table was full of foreign players who could play (-30 here as well, although I left pretty soon, I knew their wasn't one single easy out at this table)
PH- Awsome place to play, the players were finally pretty bad and the room is sweet as is the hotel (and the cocktail waitresses have the best outfits in the entire town!). Of course I went card dead, won an ok pot with QQ against a guy who went all in with A7 (about the 4th time he had gone all in with A rag). I left up a few bucks, just did not hit a hand, but yes, their are bad players here and I recommend playing here.
IP- Easiest game I came across by far, had not 1, but 2 guys who liked to call down to the river with A high, finally made some cash here before the table broke, up 100 and some change, although could of been more had I played this hand better......
