pokerJAH/pkrfce9 Vegas Trip Report June 8 -12th

JimmyHo

Heading down to Vegas with pkrfce9 (Greg) next week for some serious poker and other miscellaneous debatchery. Plan to try and do daily updates and upload some pictures of our trip. Looking at playing a few smaller buy-in tournaments and hitting the nightly cash games at Rio/Venetian. Staying at TI for the duration of the trip.

List of upcoming tournaments during WSOP period:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoMaiIIMBl1zdDhxMUs2V3hxTUdKLTJrTGVtb3NqWnc#gid=0

BlondeFish

pokerJAH;353573 wrote... and other miscellaneous debatchery. Plan to try and do daily updates and upload some pictures of our trip.

If you're going to have debauchery with pkrfce9, lots of beer and Vaseline may help. ;)
And remember, what happens in Vegas...

gets uploaded to the forum!
Have fun.

Movowelling

pokerJAH;353573 wroteHeading down to Vegas with pkrfce9 (Greg) next week for some serious poker and other miscellaneous debatchery. Plan to try and do daily updates and upload some pictures of our trip. Looking at playing a few smaller buy-in tournaments and hitting the nightly cash games at Rio/Venetian. Staying at TI for the duration of the trip.

Gl and have fun. Just got back from 4 days of debach. As a 1st timer there, my impression of the Rio was that it was a dive...smokey, old and dirty. Total sketch crowd. Venetian was nice. Well lit, airy. Would go back there.

JimmyHo

Movowelling;353575 wroteGl and have fun. Just got back from 4 days of debach. As a 1st timer there, my impression of the Rio was that it was a dive...smokey, old and dirty. Total sketch crowd. Venetian was nice. Well lit, airy. Would go back there.

Yes, Rio is a dump. Although the WSOP takes place in the convention centre which is respectable.

JimmyHo

BlondeFish;353574 wroteIf you're going to have debauchery with pkrfce9, lots of beer and Vaseline may help. ;)
And remember, what happens in Vegas...

gets uploaded to the forum!
Have fun.

Welcome back to the forum Buddy....you were surely missed :) Not too late to book your trip!

pkrfce9

Like PokerAH said, we'll be down there June 8-12. I haven't been there in many many years, so I'm looking for advice from any regulars.

We have rooms at TI and will look to keep our play around the main strip area. I'm looking to play in a couple low-stakes tournaments and will fill the rest of my time with some 1/2, 1/3 or 2/5 nl games depending on how long the bankroll holds up.

Here are some of the tourneys I'm considering:

on the 8th at 16:00 at Venetian is $400 survivor. plays down to final 10% then each gets $3400 -> no tax! :) 12k starting stack and 30 minute levels. single day tourney.
on the 9th at 16:00 at Venetian is $300 bounty. 100 bounty for each knockout. 12k starting stack and 30 minute levels. single day tourney
on the 9th at noon at Caesars is $130 NL. Looks like 30 minute levels but that is all I see. They have these at noon a couple of days we are there.
on the 11th at 16:00 also at Venetian is $250 bounty with $25 bounty. 10k starting stack and 30 min levels

I'll sell up to 40% of my action on these if anyone is interested. PM me or email me on gmail - you can easily guess the address. I'll post which ones I decide to play in before I play them so it is all on the up and up.

Any recommendations on nearby rooms for good cash games? Other low stakes tourneys I should look at during that time period.

I'm thinking about doing the skyjump while I'm there. Anyone try that yet?

pkrfce9

BlondeFish;353574 wroteIf you're going to have debauchery with pkrfce9, lots of beer and Vaseline may help. ;)

what happens in Barrie, stays in Barrie...

moose

You should play the WSOP dailies at the Rio.

Daily TournamentsHide
WSOP $235 DeepstackAll players will begin 15,000 Tournament Chips starting chips.
All levels last 30 minute.
Play continues until we have a winner.

Re-entry is allowed in these events through 4 levels of play. Players must be out of chips before they can re-enter, but they can re-enter as many times as they wish, prior to registration closing at the end of Level 4. (Approximately 2 hours, 20 minutes after event start time)

Start Date: 05/29/2013End Date: 07/14/2013Days: Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,SatStarts at: 03:00 PMBuyin: $235

WSOP $185 DeepstackAll players will begin 10,000 Tournament Chips starting chips.
All levels last 30 minute.
Play continues until we have a winner.

Re-entry is allowed in these events through 4 levels of play. Players must be out of chips before they can re-enter, but they can re-enter as many times as they wish, prior to registration closing at the end of Level 4. (Approximately 2 hours, 20 minutes after event start time)

Start Date: 05/29/2013End Date: 07/14/2013Days: Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,SatStarts at: 06:00 PMBuyin: $185

WSOP $135 DeepstackAll players will begin 5,000 Tournament Chips starting chips.
All levels last 30 minute.
Play continues until we have a winner.

Re-entry is allowed in these events through 4 levels of play. Players must be out of chips before they can re-enter, but they can re-enter as many times as they wish, prior to registration closing at the end of Level 4. (Approximately 2 hours, 20 minutes after event start time)

Start Date: 05/29/2013End Date: 07/14/2013Days: Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,SatStarts at: 10:00 PMBuyin: $135

JimmyHo

pkrfce9;353831 wroteLike PokerAH said, we'll be down there June 8-12.

I'll sell up to 40% of my action on these if anyone is interested. PM me or email me on gmail - you can easily guess the address. I'll post which ones I decide to play in before I play them so it is all on the up and up.

Any recommendations on nearby rooms for good cash games? Other low stakes tourneys I should look at during that time period.

I'm thinking about doing the skyjump while I'm there. Anyone try that yet?

Why not post an open BAP thread with the total buyin you anticipate to spend on the various tournaments? A few players have done this and adjusted it as the trip progressed. You can update the BAP thread depending on which tournaments you play and refund any residual.

Shopsy2

Hey Greg,

Nice to see your still around, keep us posted on how things are going down there. I'll be in Vegas from the 12th to 19th. Leave some easy money for me.

T8urmoney

moose;353833 wroteYou should play the WSOP dailies at the Rio.

These are big prize pool tourneys.....they play OK until just before the money, but it soon turns into shove fests with avg stack usually being much < 10bb's close to the last few tables.....make sure you bring your superturbo shovecharts imo.

All depends what you're after.

Caesars tourneys are decent during this time, structure not the best.

You may also consider Aria, Binions, Wynn....as I think they all have a tourney series going.

Here's a spreadsheet someone on 4 does up with all the tourneys and times if you want more options.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoMaiIIMBl1zdDhxMUs2V3hxTUdKLTJrTGVtb3NqWnc#gid=0

Good luck

JimmyHo

Day 1 (Pictures to follow)

We arrived around 11:30 Vegas time and after dropping off some newfy guy from the plane at PH, we headed to the Venetian. We played about 1 hour and pkrfce ended up $110 and I was up $80. Greg signed up for the $400 survivor tournament at the Palazzo and I went back to grinding 2/5. Ended up dumping my stack when I commited myself with a nut flush draw on a paired board. Hit my flush but other guy turned quads. Nice hand.

Won a few hundred back with 75c on a 77K board. Then get back into positive with 45c on A3102 board.. I raise to $60, I get reraised to $175. I just call and river is a 6. Guy bets $365 into me and I make it $800. He eventually folds two pairs. +$400 for session.

Greg is currently down to final 15 in survivor tournament. Top 9 get $3,400..

Day 1 chipstack at Venetian (too bad there mainly mine :) )

payperview

Nice comeback. Good TR. looking forward to hearing more.

Card Dead

Don't bash the newfs - we WILL hunt you down! ;)

pkrfce9

Kirk the Newf was cool. We had some good laughs with him. We got him started out in Vegas on the right foot with a free cab ride to his hotel. It sounded like he was going to an awesome pool party today. We were waiting for invitations but for some reason, it was not in the cards.

I busted out of the Survivor tournament just a couple spots short of the money. Very frustrating. Jim had suggested avoiding tournaments on your first day down here and he was right. I felt so tired by the end of that one I probably was not playing my best.

Jimmy didn't mention we spotted Doyle at the Venetian playing in the open area. I noticed Metzler with him and I guess a couple other high rollers.

Woke up very early this morning. Had a great workout and brunch at the hotel. Then we hit Belagio. Now there's a casino! I played 'ok' there. Up $500 on a 1/3 table after a few hours. The players there are pretty atrocious! I think Jimmy was down a bit on the 2/5 but hit a nice spin on the slots to bring things back.

I spotted David Benjamine playing open faced chinese for $100 a point. He hit a miracle card on the last card to avoid fouling and grabbed a couple grand each off some young kids he was playing against.

Now off to the Rio.

JimmyHo

Day 2 was pretty uneventful. Started off the morning at Bellagio playing 2/5. Played about 5 hours and ended down about $200. Only hand that comes to mind is when I reraise with aces to $105 and single player calls with 78off. I bet $200 on flop and guy calls as he hit his 8. He only has $150 behind and so I push on turn and of course its another 8...nice buddy...he proceeds to drop about $2k to the table.

Greg crushes the 1/3 game and we head to the Rio for the evening. Greg is sporting his new Open Face Chinese Poker tshirt. I cant keep up with the orders :) There are about 5 open face tables going. Had QQ run into KK once so pretty well even on the trip for poker but up about 150 on my morning slot sessions.

BlondeFish

pokerJAH;354107 wroteis sporting his new Open Face Chinese Poker tshirt. I cant keep up with the orders

Dear Diary,
OK, I'll bite. How did pkrfce9 get an Open Face Chinese Poker t-shirt?
And when will the debauchery start with live streaming video?? ;)

pkrfce9

Up about $250-300 at Rio last night. The room is inspiring with its 200+ cash tables but my table was very poorly run and had lots of players who did not have a clue what they were doing.

Venetian was pretty quiet this morning but very generous. +900 after about 4 hours of 1/2. So many fun memories. Like getting cards thrown at me after felting 'Howard Hughes' for $450 with set over set AAA > KKK. Or busting a guy on the river with T2 and shouting 'I did it for you, Doyle'. (Doyle was in the room.) Good times.

Nice free brunch back at TI and now I'm taking a break while Jimmy tries his luck at the 1/3 downstairs. This place is a dump for poker.

I think we will hit Bellagio this afternoon.

We will probably have a couple TI '2 for 1' lunch/dinner buffet coupons left over if anyone down here is interested.

pkrfce9

BlondeFish;354110 wroteHow did pkrfce9 get an Open Face Chinese Poker t-shirt?

I know the owner of the company. Nice guy. Says he is a good poker player, too.

pkrfce9

I had an awesome trip report of today ready to post but it disappeared. Dammit!

Ended up dead even at Bellagio 1/3 after a few hours. Was up a couple hundred after my AA held up but then the table changed, I went card dead, friends dropped in from out of town, I don't know.

Came back to find Jimmy, aka the Bus Driver, taking the kids to school. He really showed them how to play 83o blind! I had to leave the table because I couldn't keep a straight face.

He came over later and sat at my Venetian 1/2 table and put it almost completely on tilt. I've never seen anyone drive half the people off the table but he did it. It was fun but frustrating. I ended up down about 150 on that session.

Did I mention Johnny Chan was sitting at the table next to us? That's right Johnny Fuckin Chan! He is such a good sport. I convinced him to sit at our table and play a couple of hands, where we completely dominated him. Photos to follow. The ones from the table will be hand-drawn sketches from my memory.

Too bad we were both down that session. We were offered BOTH hookers and blow on our lengthy walk back from Venetian to TI. And she looked pretty hot to me.