Vegas Trip - Day 2

Day 2 – July 2, 2008
Woke up at 9am or so, and got a message from actyper saying he has an extra bed in his room in Mandalay Bay, so I migrated to his room as a bed and some personal space beats crashing on a couch in the living room no matter how nice of a mansion the couch is in.
The Mandalay Bay buffet seems ok at first, but I will definitely have to rethink that at the conclusion of this trip. Headed out to Caesar’s Palace to play in their Mega Stack Series. Bumped into Buddy (BlondeFish) prior to the beginning of the tournament, and the tournament started pretty much on time with t7500 starting chips and 50 minutes level.
The table makeup is pretty weird, for the most part the table is very loose passive preflop, but occasionally a hand would be 3-betted.

First hand of note (hero was not involved) was also seat 8’s first hand, about 15 minutes into the level.
Effective stacks – t7500
Blinds 25/50, and Seat 7 raises to 225, and seat 8 announces raise and tosses in 2 1000 chips and 1 25 chip. Now note that the 1000 chip and the 100 chip looks somewhat similar, with another player at the table making the similar mistake earlier. Carrying on – seat 7 calls after a minute or so of thought.
Flop comes Q 10 2 rainbow
Seat 7 leads for 2000, and Seat 8 announces all-in almost instantly. Seat 7 thinks about 30 seconds, and calls. Here I was thinking there is AQ vs. KK, or AA vs. QQ, or QQ vs. 1010, but it turns out Seat 8 has a set with 1010, but seat 7 had AJ. Turn came as a 2, which filled up the boat for seat 8, and seat 7 is left with 475. Those chips went in the next hand with 93o and the BB called by K7ss, both players missed the board completely and the player is gone.

The table was super quiet, outside of the initial talk with the dealer despite my effort to start up a conversation with the guy to my right or left.

Next hand comes up with 50/100, and hero stack is t6500~ with villain’s stack t9500~
Hero is on the button with QQ. Villain limped in behind 2 other limpers and hero raises to 600 and was called by villain in MP.
Flop comes K 6 2 with 2 spades
Villain checks to hero and hero bets 900. Villain check-raises to 3000. Hero briefly thought about jamming but decided that villain’s body language doesn’t seem right as he looked very comfortable and confident and decided to fold.
Final hand of the tournament comes about a couple of orbits later towards to the end of the 50/100 level.
Hero t5500~, villain t7000~
Hero raises to 300 in MP with 1010, and player on the button calls and blinds fold. Villain in this hand has been pretty tight for the most part and hasn’t been involved much.
Flop comes Q 10 9 – not a dream flop but can’t complain flopping a set. Hero follows with a bet of 475, which villain raises to to 1500. I decided that this board is draw heavy enough and with the villain’s play so far, he is probably calling a shove so I shove for 5500 or so. Villain thinks, and calls with QJ. Turn was a 6 but river brought a K and hero is now 0/1 in tournaments in Vegas.
Barely getting any sleep the night before, I retreated to the hotel room to nap before the Bluff’s Poker Party at Sapphire while intending to go to the Rio to sweat Watts until he texted saying he was busted so I catch my with the blogging.
Stopped by the Card Runners party at the Rio before headed to Sapphire for the Bluff poker party – it was an open bar and all. Just got back from it and met a few friends and put some faces on online handles. Doyle and Todd Brunson, along with other pros whom are affiliated with Doyle’s Room were also in attendance. Hitting the sack now and will either play the Caesar’s tournament tomorrow or just hang out at the Rio until the 2+2 gathering at the Golden Nugget.