by Antneye » Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:13 am
Trip Report...............
Arrived on Monday evening, checked into a hotel about 2 miles from Foxwoods (Belissimo?) and immediately went to the poker room. I looked for a low stakes PLO game, but everything they were running was PLO8 so I decided to go sit at a LHE table just to have a little fun without risking too much cash on day 1. They only had 2/4 and 4/8 LHE running and there was a seat at 2/4 so I sat down. Quickly saw that 2/4 plays like .10/.25 online. total loose passive limpfest game that I could crush back when LHE was my main game. Shook off the rust quickly but ran bad (no diff then my present online play it seems) and dropped 20 BB over the course of the evening.
Went back to the hotel around 2:00 am and was back at casino by 9 to get ready for the tourney.
The tourney was a blast. They had about 750 players show up and the quality of player was definitely better than your average daily donkament. I played uber tight early but wound up making a couple of really good second best hands that left me semi-short stacked by the first break. First hand was a set that ran into a straight (I managed to lose the minimum but could have found a fold on the river looking back) the second hand was a killer, but again I dodged a bullet........
I am in SB with AJ suited. about 5 people limped in (not the norm at the table). I thought about making a big raise, but it was still early and I did not want to play a big pot oop since I didn't think I could get all of the limpers to fold (probably a mistake) so I just completed hoping to flop big.
The flop came down AAT rainbow giving me trip aces with a J kicker. I felt I had the best hand because TT, AA, and AT up through AK would have raised the way the table had been playing. I lead out about 2/3rds pot hoping to either take it down or get 1 or 2 streets of value out of a weaker ace. Everyone folded to the CO who called. Let's tak about the CO for a sec.
He was the hyper-aggressive young guy who thought he was Gus Hansen. Splashing around in a ton of pots, raising from late position, calling flop and turn in position, firing river if checked to and showing a bluff every time he got a fold. He also got caught bluffing once by one of the better players at the table.
The turn was a brick below the ten making the board AATx rainbow. I fired another 2/3rdish pot bet and he called. River was a K putting a possible broadway out there (which I discounted). Knowing this guy loved to fire the river in position (and not wanting to be faced with some crazy bluff-raise which he was capable of) I decided to check/call. He obliged by firing a 2/3 rd pot sized bet into me (his bluffs had all been in this range) and I snap called only to see that he had flopped the boat with his AT offsuit. He proceeded to ask me how the hell I managed to not fire the third bullet so he could have raised me to which I politely declined to answer and tell him my read (which every other thinking player at the table also had because this guy was so transparent).
Looking back at the hand I doubt he folds to my raise if I decided to raise so I likely would have been eliminated right then and there if I had raised pre, but I still think not raising was probably a mistake.
That left me about 1/2 of my starting stack with an M in the 10'ish range so I started looking for double up opportunities. A little while later I had A7S hearts in the BB and the flop came down 69X with two hearts. I check called the flop (should have c'rd all in imho) against the same aggro donkey from the last hand. The turn was a 7 and this time I did check raise figuring I may have the best of it and even if I dont I have outs and was running out of time. The dick turned over a flopped set, the river bricked, and my first tourney was over......oh well.
All in all the tourney was a blast.
I spent the rest of the time playing 1/2 NL since that was about all my roll and my psyche could handle (after a horrible PLO downswing this weekend). The game was easy to beat but after a horrible beat late in the day I ended up walking away break-even on my cash play for the entire stay and only down the tourney buy-in.
Due the approaching blizzard we cut our trip short and left Tuesday night so we didn't get to play on Wed as planned. Good thing we left when we did or we would still be snowed in up there (not the worst thing in the world, but I had to get to work today). I didn't get to see much of Foxwoods other than the casino where the poker room is, but it was a great time and the poker room was jam packed with a wide spread of games going.
I will be going back again, but will probably stick to my forte'....cash games.
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Antneye on Fri Feb 12, 2010 4:10 am, edited 2 times in total.
