Beat - Imperial Palace 1/2NL
Grinding it out for about 4 hours at this point in, bought in short for 100 sitting on about 270 at this point. Table image is tight, players are mostly lag with a couple of calling stations.
About 45 min has gone by at this point and being completely card dead when I look down at A10c on the button. 3 players ahead limp, I raise to 12 (the standard raise it would seem) blinds call and the other 3 call. 6 to the flop.
Flop: Qd Kc 5c.
Lag BB bets 25 (he has seen many pots and has been caught trying to steal before), loose passive calls, calling station calls, I call
Turn: 4c (Bingo) Lag BB best 25, call, call I bump it to 50. Lag Folds LP calls, Calling station calls.
River: 2c LP checks, Calling station pushes for $69. I call, LP folds.
I was worried on that card but obviously not folding. Of course he turns over the 36c for the nut straight flush, thanks for the spanking, you forgot to kiss me goodbye.
I really don't think I could have pushed him off his cards without raising pre-flop significantly more and taking down the 12 in the pot, in hindsight I should have taken the 12.
About 45 min has gone by at this point and being completely card dead when I look down at A10c on the button. 3 players ahead limp, I raise to 12 (the standard raise it would seem) blinds call and the other 3 call. 6 to the flop.
Flop: Qd Kc 5c.
Lag BB bets 25 (he has seen many pots and has been caught trying to steal before), loose passive calls, calling station calls, I call
Turn: 4c (Bingo) Lag BB best 25, call, call I bump it to 50. Lag Folds LP calls, Calling station calls.
River: 2c LP checks, Calling station pushes for $69. I call, LP folds.
I was worried on that card but obviously not folding. Of course he turns over the 36c for the nut straight flush, thanks for the spanking, you forgot to kiss me goodbye.
I really don't think I could have pushed him off his cards without raising pre-flop significantly more and taking down the 12 in the pot, in hindsight I should have taken the 12.
Comments
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This dude was calling everything I really don't think he was going to fold with a made flush anyways (second day at the table with him) I was hoping for some action but you may be right, the board pairing could have taken me out as well.
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Implied odds? *shrugs*
Is it just me, or does anyone else think being last to act on the flop, a shove as a semi-bluff is a line you would consider taking?
As for Imperial Palace, is the rake 10% with maximum $5, plus a $1 promotions rake? What are their promotions besides cracking AA/KK? Is their comp still $2/hour and the maximum buy-in $200? I'm planning to play most of my cash games at IP in July unless I find a casino with a lower rake or has more :fish:.
One word, "chips"
IP is still 5+1, AA/KK is between 8-11AM only, Comp is still 2/hr, Harrah's bad beat jackpot is still going (Actually was at 101,000 up until 11:30 yesterday when it hit at Flamingo everyone got paid $729 at all properties, damn conference). Max buy in is $300. They dropped their high hand board earlier this month, moving to a spin the wheel for all high hands (both hole cards must play), apparently they were loosing too much $ paying out the AA/KK in the morning so they had to drop something and killed this. I saw one woman yesterday hit Quad A's spun the wheel and got a whopping $10.
Does anybody know which strip casinos have $4+0 rake? I hope that it's true that there are so many bad players in Vegas casinos that the relatively high rake is easily beatable. You played the hand fine except for the turn. You just want to bet enough so that it would be incorrect for the calling station to chase. You want him to keep making incorrect calls so that he will eventually lose his whole stack again.
I don't know off hand but some are covered here: AllVegasPoker.com :: View Forum - The Strip
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