What better way to get over a bad beat than to play some more poker ? When I woke up, I was still thinking about the Aces in the Caesar's tournament. Still, back to work. I decided to start at the Mirage again. Played a pretty volatile session on $1/2. Several large swings.
Had doubled up from $200 to $400 when I saw a flop with 66 and flopped a set on a 68J board with two diamonds. All the money went in - he has J9 of diamonds. Turn was a Jack giving me a house and making his flush draw irrelevant. However the river was 9 giving him a bigger house. Start over again ....
Finally managed to win a big pot with the powerhouse - flop came A34 - flopping me the wheel and also giving me a draw to the straight flush.
Won a really nice pot near the end with 7d8d. Jd6d4s flop gave me straight and flush outs. It was a raised pot pre-flop, which was bet on the flop as well. Turn 5c was perfect - a reraise on the turn took it down for me.
+$400 or so in the end.
I intended to go on to MGM, but played a $125 tourney at The Mirage first. Just 31 runners. Fast structure - I was knocked out 12th when my KK was cracked by 33.
Very friendly room. Lots of people said "you're from England aren't you ?" but it wasn't my accent. Rather my gutshot.com shirt. The name is well recognised. More so for the famous club (which isn't technically the Gutshot anymore) than anything else.
I decided to go incognito for my next assignment though - I wanted to go down to MGM which everyone tells me is super-soft. So, change of shirt and off I go.
I didn't get as far as MGM though. I had decided that on this mild evening I would walk there but after a while it became apparent I wasn't getting much closer so I stopped off at Caesar's again.
Good session in $2/5. Just played pretty straightforwardly for +$350. Sat next to a go from England (fancy that ....). Where are you from someone said. "London" I reply (it's easier). The chap next to me says "I'm from near there - Bedford".
Well, it turns out he lives in a village just outside. I joined him for some late dinner (about 2:30am by now) and I decide to complete my journey on to MGM whilst he makes his way to Bellagio where the action is fantastic apparently.
to be continued ....
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