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A Vegas round-up
Apr. 7th, 2005 06:08 amMy total figures for Vegas were a profit of $1229 in 145 hours. Madly, nearly all of this came from high hand bonuses. By way of mitigation, I would point out that I adjusted my style of play where high hands were available, making some calls that would be wrong if there were no high hand bonus. Basically these included any gutshot call to a straight flush on turn and river, plus playing any suited connecter (4-5 or above) and suited with one gap (4-6 and above). However, even I would admit that I was lucky in the number of high hands that I hit (a royal flush, two straight flushes, and four aces).
One of the downsides of having a poolside room is that people tend to treat your “relaxing area” outside as somewhere to stop and chat when they drunkenly decide to take a swim at 5am. Luckily I can blank out most external noises.
My best two days were the final Tuesday and final Wednesday, when I won at $4-$8 and at $6-$12, more than wiping out any losses in the limit games (bonuses excluded). The $6-$12 had a lot of “ABC” play, but little quality deception (less, for example, than you encounter in $2-$4 online). Basically, people just bet their hand. The only difference from $4-$8 is that the standards are slightly tighter and players are more likely to enter first-in with a raise than with a call. But there were hardly any reraises on the flop “to find out where you stand”, few raises to get a free card, and no slow-playing of trips on the flop. These are standard weapons in $2-$4 online (to the extent that you know that anyone betting out on a flopped pair does not have trips!) and I’m surprises that I didn’t see them at $6-$12.
On the way back I watched Jim Carrey in Lemony Snicket’s Series Of Unfortunate Events. Carrey can be very good, but the film itself is a bit of a curate’s egg. One of the problems of children’s fantasy novels is that you are never quite sure in what era they are set. So we have 1950s cars with old-fashioned telephones in them, a 1950s kind of world with fairyland-style houses and Victorian-style lawyers and actors.
Dustin Hoffman made a nice cameo appearance along the lines of “what am I doing in this movie? Oh yes, it’s the money, isn’t it”.
One of the downsides of having a poolside room is that people tend to treat your “relaxing area” outside as somewhere to stop and chat when they drunkenly decide to take a swim at 5am. Luckily I can blank out most external noises.
My best two days were the final Tuesday and final Wednesday, when I won at $4-$8 and at $6-$12, more than wiping out any losses in the limit games (bonuses excluded). The $6-$12 had a lot of “ABC” play, but little quality deception (less, for example, than you encounter in $2-$4 online). Basically, people just bet their hand. The only difference from $4-$8 is that the standards are slightly tighter and players are more likely to enter first-in with a raise than with a call. But there were hardly any reraises on the flop “to find out where you stand”, few raises to get a free card, and no slow-playing of trips on the flop. These are standard weapons in $2-$4 online (to the extent that you know that anyone betting out on a flopped pair does not have trips!) and I’m surprises that I didn’t see them at $6-$12.
On the way back I watched Jim Carrey in Lemony Snicket’s Series Of Unfortunate Events. Carrey can be very good, but the film itself is a bit of a curate’s egg. One of the problems of children’s fantasy novels is that you are never quite sure in what era they are set. So we have 1950s cars with old-fashioned telephones in them, a 1950s kind of world with fairyland-style houses and Victorian-style lawyers and actors.
Dustin Hoffman made a nice cameo appearance along the lines of “what am I doing in this movie? Oh yes, it’s the money, isn’t it”.
