Casino Montreal/UFC 97
Just survived a whirlwind tour to Montreal for UFC 97 an dof course had to hit up Casino Montreal to play some poker too. Rolled into town at 11:30 Friday night, shotgunned some beers and then out to the bars. Closing time rolls around and my buddies and I part company-them to go crash at the hotel and me to play poker! I get to the casino around 3:30 am and there are about 15 tables running. There are no spots at the 1-2NL so I sit down at the 2-5 NL to wait until a spot opens up. I buy in for $200 and get dealt rags for a few hands then wake up with pocket 10s in MP. Folded around to me, I make it $20 everyone but the small blind folds. Flop comes out with 2 hearts and a diamond, all lower than my 10s. SB checks, I bet out $25 and he calls. Turn is a 10 of hearts and he pushes-he clearly has me covered, so I interpet this as him making a move on the drunk guy-so I call. He flips over Q4h for the flush and I don't fill up on the river. Not the most promising start! So I inform the table that they are all too good for me and slink over to a 1-2 table which has an opening. I buy-in for $100 and proceed to lose-my buzz and also about $60 of my buy-in-in the next hour and a half. I win a little bit back. So it's getting to be around 5:30 am and there are now just 3 tables of 1-2 running. Our table has 8 people and I am sleeping in between hands leaning on the empty seat beside me. No one seems to mind! Finally my rush hits. I wake up (literally) to 3-5o in the SB and a family pot. I call, BB checks and we see the flop give me the wheel! I check and it is checked around to a guy in MP who has been pretty aggressive all night. He bets $10, a good player behind him calls and I call, all others fold. Turn is a 9 or 10 filling the rainbow flop, I check MP bets around $30, good player calls and I call all-in. River is an A. Bettor bets out again and gets called. They flip over 2pair, with the aggressive guy having rivered his A for the sidepot. I show the wheel and I'm back! Our table breaks up a few hands later and we get moved to new game. I come in at the BB, get dealt A3d, 3-4 people call and then one guy raises to $6, another guy calls, I call and everyone else folds? Anyway flop comes 3 diamonds, giving me the nuts. I check and it gets checked around. Turn is nothing, I check raiser bets out for around $12, caller and I call the bet. River is nothing, I check and aggressor bets, caller re-raises to $30 and I re-raise to $60 he pushes me all in. I call, he flips over KJd for the second nuts. I'm back.... Get 10Jo in the BB flop comes 789 rainbow in a 5 way pot. I check there is betting and calling. Turn is nothing more betting and calling, River is a blank as well I fire out about half pot, bettor folds one of the callers pushes me all in , I call and he rolls over 10Jo as well. The VERY next hand-different deck with the shuffler-the flop turn and river come out the exact same! No one at the table had ever seen that before, including the dealer! I pick up pocket queens a few hands later raise to about $10-get re-raised to $25 so I call. Flop comes all low cards. I bet out for $40 and he pushes for $10 more which I call-we both have QQ. I lose a hand when I limp in after 4 callers with AJo. Flop comes with an ace and it is checked to me-I bet and get 1 caller-who I put on A-rag. Turn and river I bet and get called-showdown he has AKo. Just couldn't see that one coming. I got AK and stacked some kid who bluffed off his last $40 to me. At 9:30 am, I count my chips and have exactly $300-so I get the hell out of there. Had I not been so tired I would have stayed and fleeced them but it was sleep time.
Make it to the UFC which was lots of fun-got pics with a bunch of UFC and WEC fighters plus Gavin Smith, Howard Lederer and Eric Lindgren! I am now salivating for my Vegas trip in July to UFC 100!
Oh, one other thing-the cards are all in french so V is the jack, D is the queen and R is the king. This totally screwed me up (as well as all the other English people at the table!)
Make it to the UFC which was lots of fun-got pics with a bunch of UFC and WEC fighters plus Gavin Smith, Howard Lederer and Eric Lindgren! I am now salivating for my Vegas trip in July to UFC 100!
Oh, one other thing-the cards are all in french so V is the jack, D is the queen and R is the king. This totally screwed me up (as well as all the other English people at the table!)
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My brother bought a bunch of UFC 100 tickets. Hes selling pairs in the lower 200s (row 5-8 or something like that) for 1100 USD. Pretty comparable to anything youll find on stub hub.
UFC 100 [7/11/2009] Tickets at StubHub!
PM me if youd like me to follow up for you.
Do you know how many he has in total? Definitely follow up on this for me please.
Alright I talked to him, he has 2 pairs and one row of 6 left...so 10 tickets in all. All of them in the lower 200s in row G range. Pairs are 1100 USD. If you want more then 2 sitting together you can either buy 4 of the 6 for 2100USD or all 6 for 3000USD.
Sold one pair this morning. He has this left.
Pair in section 202 Row G
6pack in section 204 Row K
Cool. Already forwarded this to Watts so hopefully we'll get something finalized soon.
they were sold out before they even reached the general public.
you can check ebay and stub hub for tickets but from everything Ive seen it looks like everything is going for at least double face value.