So, I'm going to write a "short" poker post to tie up some loose ends. There's a big post about college stuff I want to write, but I don't want a post filled with poker junk to be a post sitting on here for a few weeks.

If you hadn't guessed, no I didn't win a WPT seat that day. It was totally insane at Foxwoods that day though, being one of the first days of the events started. The ladies event was playing in one of the ballrooms, and the tournament area was apparently being used for Act's and they even had tables upstairs where the slots/pit is for the Act III. It was a madhouse, the line for the tournament area was huge and confusing, and the games were packed. Supposedly the 1/2 NL list was like 40 people deep at one point.

So they had to bring in new tables upstairs in the slot area. The lighting was horrible, which isn't a problem for me but many of the old guys were complaining about it. It was very dim and felt strange. The tables also didn't have shuffle machines, but the dealers I had weren't that bad. The decks were different too, Gemaco's but index sized, with a strange flourescent kind of color on the back. At least they weren't getting marked like the other ridiculous decks they have for the other tournaments.

The tournament went horrible, I was in seat 1 and quite uncomfortable. No drink holder, tables seemed smaller. I kept losing my notebook and my Eeyore card capper and eventually just ditched Eeyore and starting holding on to my cards. There weren't too many eventful hands.

I got minraised once with TT, flop came Jack high and I folded like a pussy. Against the same guy though I made a move after he raised my BB and I had J9s, the flop came undercards and I check-raised and bet the turn with nothing. Very risky but I felt like getting aggressive.

Then at 100/200 with AK I got a called in late position and the big blind who seemed tight/agg but was playing hands strangely. The BB took a while to call, I think with a marginal hand based on pot oods and the flop came J99. The guy in late position had like 1550 left and I decided to bet 1500, figuring he has something like KQ and will fold. He goes all-in and the other guy folds and the late position has AA. *puke* Oops. I don't know if the continuation bet is horrible just because he has AA here (I think he has a hand like KQ, AQ, AT, 77, a lot more often here), but I was at least correct that the BB didn't hit.

Then with like 2k ish left I find JJ and push after a late position raised my SB and he calls with K9 and hits a K in the window and a 9 on the flop. Blarg.

After that, I played the 1/2 NL, stacked the same guy twice with KK and AA or something or other, playing a big pot with JJ when I raised in early and got reraised after 2 people called by a guy making it 23. I wasn't sure what to do but I knew I at least had to call, probably raising was a better move, but I didn't want to be making it 100 pre-flop and running into a big decision. I had just sat down. I called, we were 4 to a flop and it came 986 2 clubs and I made it 100. The girl to my left called and Ace came on the turn. I checked she checked, and the river missed the club draw. At this point I was pretty sure the girl didn't have an Ace and had missed her club draw. I checked to her, she bet 75 and I called and she had Kx of clubs. A lot of people felt it was a good call but I think it was automatic. If she goes all-in on the turn I'm fucked though and probably fold.

I should of been up like $200 but I made a bunch of stupid retarded bluffs. Once I decided to make a move with overs and a guy went all-in instantly, said he had a set. At least 3 bluffs/plays at a pot failed. I met a guy I've played with a few times in the Providence/Johnston game, Jeremy, and there were a few poorly played hands of mine against him. Bluffed into him once and he only called with something like the 4th nuts to be nice. I dumped off $60 or so there, and then I folded when there was a straight on the board, I had checked behind him on the flop blind and flopped two pair but the turn was some stupidly horrible card for me that made a 4-card straight and the board put the King high straight on the board and he bet with nada and I folded the board, figuring he had an Ace.


So, I'm going to Atlantic City with Bill from the Friday night poker game. We had been planning a trip since what, August/September, but being the procrastinator I am, I was lazy to work on finishing trip specifics, where we'd be staying, if we'd drive or find another way (the biggest problem, because my car won't make it and my parents ended up deregistering the two cars I could take). X was planning on going but because we/I was lazy he had bills to pay and so couldn't go.

We settled on taking Greyhound from Providence > NY > AC. It was only $130 combined for the Casino fare, and supposedly we get some coupon from Bally's, so that's actually a quite good setup. I've said I would prefer to drive but being able to just "relax" on the bus isn't bad either. It takes about 2-3 hours more, probably smells bad, and costs sort of more, with more logistical variables, but it's not a bad deal.

We're staying at the Crown Motel, some dump next to the Taj Mahal. It was about $290 including some stupid $40 surcharge for booking from some site online. Hopefully everything just goes smoothly in that area. All the casino rooms were booked and super expensive anyway, although if we had booked earlier we could of got a decent room for like $160 each or something or other.

We're planning on trying to play at atleast the Borgata, the Taj, and the Tropicana, the three big poker rooms in the city. Bill is more a tournament player and doesn't play cash games much so we're going to try to play at least 3 tournaments together, although I'm going to try to play some of the 5/10, 6/12, maybe the 7.50/15 pink chip game at the Trop in between, while he plays some penny slots I guess, and tries out some of the good buffets.

Hopefully things go smoothly, and we don't get mugged, as one of the guys I play with on Saturday's warned me about. I'm optimistic, I have to think that the chance of getting in big trouble is slim, like getting a 1-outer or 2-outer at most. He was telling me at night it is really shady, and maybe thinking about opening a hotel account or Western Unioning money back if I win big.


Anyways, it's certainly going to be interesting. My bankroll has shrank. My total life bankroll. It's only less than 6k right now. I haven't played a lot of poker online since all the stupid legislation crap and playing at Foxwoods has definitely hurt. Playing those satellites was truly a bad idea, given that I probably couldn't have even sold $1k of myself if I had won. I just hope I don't run super bad at Atlantic City because I don't know if I could recover in such a short time span, especially since I'm on a trip with the intention of playing poker.

Tags: atlantic city, foxwoods, money, poker

Haven't posted for a while, but I'm heading down to Foxwoods today, planning on playing an Act III super to try to get into the $10k Act III satellite for the WPT event. After that I'll probably just play cash games but I might play an Act II SNG for another Act III seat if the spirit moves me. Will probably make a phone post at sometime in the evening.

Tags: foxwoods, money, poker