Vegas Day 2

In the morning me and andy had around a 3 hour online poker session. He played around 16 tables on pokerstars and I averaged somewhere around 10-12 on chanpoker. He finished up with 4000 hands and I played 2500.

In the afternoon we went to the Rio, where the world series is being played. It was hot again and we ended up getting a taxi. We saw a number of famous players in the poker bit of the casino inluding Tony G, Barry G, Juanda, Negreanu, Benyamine, Ferguson, Lederer.

Me, Hui and Andy played a $175 sattelite to the $1500 WSOP event. We all played well, we got down to the last 5 before Andy busted out. I had a lot of chips but then lost 2 quick hands where i was around a 75% favourite and ended up busting in 4th. Hui was next to go in 3rd. So a dissapointing result but the fact that almost all the other players were absolutely terrible was encouraging.

In the Afternoon We played a little more online and then had a short lived gym session. We arrived at the gym about 9:50 and at 10pm a security guy came and told us it was closing. We all went to bed soon after that, me and andy set the alarm for 3am so we could get up and play our first session live. We plan to play in the early hours to hopefully run into lots of tired, drunk players at our table that have been at the casino for hours.

For some reason the alarm didnt go off but I woke up around 3:30am anyway and by 4:30am we were buying in for $300 each at a 1/2NL table at the venetian. The table we were at was not quite as soft as I had expected, but still far far easier than the online equivalent. There were probably 3 people at the table playing every hand and the other players were generally weak. There was probably only 1 or 2 other guys at the table that were actually aggressive. Me and Andy decided to split our winnings losses to reduce a bit of variance.

My first and only big hand came about an hour into the game. I had pocket 4's in middle position, and I called a $7 raise from a guy who acted before me. Another guy behind me called too. The flop was a lovely J42 with 2 diamonds. The original raiser bet $10, a weak bet which made me think he was on a flush draw or had a J. I raised to $45 and the guy behind me called as well as the guy who bet $10. I was sure one or both of them had a flush draw, so when the 8 of diamonds came on the turn I was a little worried. It was checked through and then the river was another 2 and I made my boat. The early position guy bet $60 and I raised to $200. The guy behind me folded and it was back to the early position guy. I was 99% sure he had a flush so and thought he would pay me off. After thinking about it for ages he called with the nut flush and I raked in a $600 pot, by far my biggest ever pot playing live.

There were no other big hands, just smallish ones that were won on the flop or turn. I got all in preflop with QQ against a shortstacked guy who had KJ (so i was around a 75% favourite) but he got lucky and hit a K on the flop and I lost a $140 pot. I ended up cashing out $540 and Andy did the same, after winning a pretty big pot with KK. It was a nice session so hopefully we can have another good one later today.