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Friday 6/10/11
Took an early morning drive down to Borgata after work on Friday with a buddy of mine, known to many as one of the sickest online MTT grinders(miw210). Had a pretty stressfull week at work so I was looking forward to some nice meals and a few blackjack/poker sessions before my trip to Vegas on Wednesday 6/15.
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After checkin, we made a quick stop at the craps table to get the feet wet(learned the game just recently and fell in love right away). Bought in for 500 and was down 150 before the dice came to me. $100 on passline and first roll comes 7. Second roll hits 6, button on, additional $90 placed on 8. Next 4 rolls came 8,10,8 and 6 - table now came alive. Somehow ended up not crapping out for 10+ rolls, table went crazy and a bunch of faces lit up. After finally crapping out, I left with somewhere around +700 and went to lunch.
After lunch, we went straight to the poker room and I sat down @ 40/80. It wasn't long before the game got started 7 handed. The session didn't go quite as expected -- few hands in I pick up 4d6d on button - folds around and I 2bet, called by SB/BB.
Flop:
5d 6s 6 c
Checks around, I bet, SB folds BB 2 bets, I 3 bet, call.
Turn:
7d
Had a moment of dejavu recalling my bad beat jackpot hand @ the sands. (quad 6's / low SF). Was now open ended for a straight flush with the trips, BB bets , I 2 bet, calls.
River:
10s
BB checks with a funny face, I bet and get insta raised at which point I'm wondering what he could have possibly hit. Called the raise and BB flips pocket 10's.
Can't really blame his play except for the river check - never played with the guy before but I'm assuming he had a hunch I wasn't going to check river after raising every street.
A few rounds later, I left the table down around 1.5k. Caught up with a good friend of mine who is a regular 2/5 grinder and had a few drinks.
Shortly after, I headed down to the blackjack tables and sat down at the 100 min table. It was one-on-one action between me and a dealer named Tai who was known as the terminator in the high stakes room(why didn't I request for another dealer? lol). 2 shoes later I'm down roughly 5k bringing the net total for the trip to somewhere around -6-7k. It was one of the sickest losing streaks I've had, losing 13 hands in a row. At this point I was feeling pretty annoyed at the downswing I was having so I took a break upstairs and took a nap.
Woke up a few hours later, and here's where the fun begins.
Refocused myself, let go of what happened in the morning and went back to the poker room for a 40/80 session. I can't really recall any notable hands but the players at the must move table seemed to be extremely passive, folding a bit too excessivly to cb's on the flop. Grinded 2k or so in change and left for the blackjack tables.
Sat down at the $200 min table noticing that one of my favorite dealers was there(Jim). We greeted and he leaned over to tell me that the table was running hot all night with a guy that just cashed out 48k sitting my seat playing 2 handed. I don't mean to be superstitious but I do not recall having 1 losing session of all the times I've sat at BJ in Borgata when JIm was dealing. We start the shoe 3 handed(me playing 2 slots and this other Asian guy sitting across the table). First 2 hands comes AJ / 10 Q dealer showing 6. The next wave of hands were the exact opposite of what happened during the morning -- the dealer could not deal himself a hand to save his life, busting left and right and giving us nothing but 20's and double down hands. Was definately a sweet run to make up for what happened earlier. It was getting late and I was half asleep so I decided to cash out and head back upstairs for some sleep. One of my co-workers(Alan) was coming down to make an appearance during the morning and this is a guy who makes me look like a small time gambler. Clearly I needed rest in anticipation for his arrival.
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Saturday 6/11/11
I woke up early to the phone call from Alan telling me that he was on his way. Got up quickly in excitement, took a shower, and headed back down to the same blackjack table. The same Asian guy was there and stood up waving when I started to walk up the stairs into the room. He walked over to greet me asking where I've been. I lol'd. Apparantly he enjoyed my company and thought I had a magical cut prior to the start of each shoe. Soon after I realized that he was the directing manager of the pharm company that produces Plavix(wow?). Anyway, we sit down, order a round of whiskey and began our Saturday morning session. It was up and down for about an hour until Alan arrived. He walked into the room with a big grin, and after sitting down next to me, a sick streak began. I was playing 2 handed at the time betting somewhere between 200-600 per hand and I must have received 4 double down hands within the first quarter of the shoe being dealt. All the double downs connected and we left shortly after to hit up the craps table.
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We both bought in for a decent amount and I crapped out on the first roll. The dice then went to Alan and it had begun. For at least half an hour, Alan went on the hottest streak I've ever seen, connecting on every roll. My bets on 6 and 8 were paid off a dozen of times and the pitboss was just simply dumbfounded. After finally crapping out, I decided it was a good time to take profit since I didn't want to ruin the streak. We had breakfast/lunch @ the metro (wish I took pics) and ordered up a storm:
-shellfish plateau(shrimp, oysters, clams)
-oyster stew
-mediterranean salad
-2 steamed lobsters
-shrimp scampi
After lunch, we met up with my buddy who looked like hell (was up all night drinking with no sleep). He wanted to head back so we packed up and checked out. All in all, it was quite a sick weekend and hopefully a preview of whats to come in Vegas. I'm scheduled to leave at 7:25AM on Wed and should arrive around 10 AM CST. Not sure if I will play in the 6 max WSOP event when I get there(starts around noon ) but its either that or the event on Thursday. Will be staying @ MGM -- updates to come.
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How much were you up at the end of it all?
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On June 13 2011 15:00 Rainmaker5 wrote:
How much were you up at the end of it all?
Was gonna ask this too, haha. That sounds pretty amazing, lol.
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Alot. Basically whatever was in the last picture, minus a few thousand that I spent on gifts for family
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o.o
"Minus a few thousand that I spent on gifts for family."
I suppose you made more than ten grand then? Contrats anyhow.
EDIT: if those are all $100s, then that's a lot more than ten grand. o.o.
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Jesus Christ, these poker guys posting on TL are ridic.
How many people do you think are out there pulling similar gigs? Are these guys like the top 1% of lucky grinders and like 10'people or is this a whole little community?
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Wait, blinds were 40 dollars and 80 dollars?
I don't even want to buy in to a game with that much 
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Good god, I can smell that money all the way here.
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Ares[Effort]
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Sick life yo! GL in vegas!
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Your bets, as well as your opponents, just make no sense to me lol. As for with BJ/Craps seems like you were running well so at least thats nice, but that hand as well as the one from your BBJ blow my mind in weird ways.
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On June 13 2011 16:42 Zlasher wrote:
Your bets, as well as your opponents, just make no sense to me lol. As for with BJ/Craps seems like you were running well so at least thats nice, but that hand as well as the one from your BBJ blow my mind in weird ways.
Well, I would love to hear how you would have played out the hand.(maybe you didnt read that it was a limit game)
Preflop raise on button with 46 diamond 7 handed in a limit game is standard.
Aside from that, I would have capped every street except river if he followed. BB's check on river was the only questionable move here so I would love to hear your explanation.
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Oh you play limit, well I guess I can't say with certainty how it'd play out differently but without knowing the bet sizes on this hand, the call on the river bugs me a lot. Yeah you hit your pretty trips but theres two on the board, as well as straights and flushes on the board. What do you have beat with your one 6? When the possibility of a 6 and any higher kicker (less likely) pocket 7's or 10's or 6/5 6/7 6/q any two spades any 8/9 like, you honestly don't have much beat that you can expect him to call with. I don't know the bet sizes like I said, but the river call just doesn't make much sense to me when you don't have many reads on him, and you're spending a lot of money to get the read that youc an get from sitting a few more rounds. The BBJ betting patterns were really off because a 30% pot bet doesn't really keep much aggression and your equity isn't running well by the turn on a 1/3rd pot bet. If that was NL (maybe it was PL, which then once again I can't comment as I have no expertise whatsoever on PL) then you should have been putting in 2/3rds pot after you flopped your set on a rainbow board and then felt really weird on the turn with the way you guys were 2/3 betting each other back and forth. I'm not a pro by any means but the equity you're getting on the bets you (and your opponent) made on the BBJ hand in your last blog were pretty bad. For this hand, once again, no idea since I don't knwo bet sizes.
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For the BBJ - I agree with you and normally my style of play would be a cb around the 60-70% figure but my bad excuse is that it was my 2nd hand and I was just feeling the table out.
The hand explained in this post could not be played any other way to be honest, at least on my part. (yes it is 40/80 limit, not NL). Most players would have played the same way even with A5 with that type of board - limit is a whole different animal compared to NL. On the river, there is no way I could have checked that hand, let alone fold to a 2b after the action pre/f/t.
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Btw zlasher, you playing in WSOP this year? if so we should meetup in vegas
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Wow sksyen I read your last blog and I must say that it's a very entertaining blog. I can't imagine me living a similar lifestyle as you are having now. That's why I'm so fascinated with people who could. Gambling in the casino with such high stakes (from my point of view) and then even making quite some money out of it is just wow :O
Keep the blogs coming :D
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yeap, sick life! GL in vegas/WSOP sksyen!
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Heading down to Sands now.... this is getitng to be too much lol. Coworker wants to go so I guess I'm in. May have another post by the time I"m off to Vegas 
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Pffft, should have continued the run on the Trop and put them out for good!!!
nice job! I want to go down now :[
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On June 13 2011 17:33 sksyen wrote:
For the BBJ - I agree with you and normally my style of play would be a cb around the 60-70% figure but my bad excuse is that it was my 2nd hand and I was just feeling the table out.
The hand explained in this post could not be played any other way to be honest, at least on my part. (yes it is 40/80 limit, not NL). Most players would have played the same way even with A5 with that type of board - limit is a whole different animal compared to NL. On the river, there is no way I could have checked that hand, let alone fold to a 2b after the action pre/f/t.
Ah sorry, yeah with limit its played on a level that I absolutely don't understand the meta about. And no I'm not gonna go to the WSOP lol, maybe if I win a BBJ I'll consider it 
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Highlight of my Sands session yesterday:
-Greeted by casino host, told that on next visit my card status will be upgraded(basically more comps)
-Sick streak in craps, one old guy could not break and kept hitting over and over. Had 10k on the table in bets at one point spread out and the pit boss issued me this waiver:
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Rofl thats one hell of a waiver to get, I like it.
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the comps at sands sucks, everything is based off earned $ amount, nothing given for free.
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Does anybody know how much money you can carry with you on a domestic flight? Getting mixed answers at the moment and I hate doing pos debits in a casino . It is a ridiculous amoutn you have to pay in fees.
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As long as you are not traveling outside the country there is no limit on the amount of currency you can travel with, however if you are traveling outside the country (not in US) you may only carry 10,000.
TLDR You can carry as much as you want as long as you stay within the US
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Good stuff, thanks. Each pos debit transaction runs up at least $100 in fees, better to just bring enough $.
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