2008 WSoP Post 5 - Thank God for consistency
There are certain things that you can count on for every trip to
For poker players, there are a few other things to bank on. For example – you’re going to give and take a handful of bad beats. You’re probably going to play against a ton of local pros who can see you coming before you even walk in the building.
And if you’re in town for a weekend, you can absolutely count on finding a ton of rich European kids dumping money at the Wynn poker room.
Sometimes, it’s nice to know these things in advance.
After killing a couple hours laying around the hotel room today, taking a shower and watching some Euro Cup soccer on ESPN (no, seriously. Mid-day TV sucks), I headed out to the monorail and back to center strip. Just like Thursday, I walked through the Harrah’s poker room on my way to the Mirage room just looking for a decent $2/$5 cash game or a reasonable tournament. After finding absolutely nothing (it’s ridiculous how bad the cash games are in this city right now. There are three rooms – TOTAL – that I’ve found with more than one consistent $2/$5 table running; Bellagio, Caesar’s, Wynn. That’s it) I grabbed a cab ride to the Wynn and hoped to catch people busting out of their 2pm tournament and looking to hit a cash game.
I had no idea.
It might have taken an hour and a half to finally get a seat, but it was worth it. I walked into one of the biggest action, biggest chip moving tables I’ve ever sat on. And sitting across from me were co-table captains – both from
Important note: The Wynn is one of a handful of poker rooms that does not cap the buy-ins for no-limit cash games. Most rooms would have capped me at $500 max buy-in on a $2/$5 game, meaning I would have been at a distinct disadvantage against deep, hyper-aggressive stacks. But with my ability to put down $500 in chips and another ten bills behind my stack, I was not to be trifled with unless the hand was really worth it.
Less than an hour into the table, I had taken more than half of one of the big stacks away (once with a bluff, once with a monster that got paid) and was beginning to chip into the second captain’s remaining stack. The first kid eventually went on meg-tilt and dumped off the rest of his stack on a draw against someone that had turned a full house…oops.
I finally did the rest of my damage against captain #2 with a ridiculously good call, if I do say so myself. On a board of Qs-4s-As-Kc-8h, I called a $300 bet (into an $800 pot) on the river with A7 of diamonds. He disgustedly flipped over Ks-7h and immediately started berating me for making the call. I just smiled and stacked his chips.
So tonight is an early night – turning in at 10pm so I can be up and ready to check out of one hotel and into the other tomorrow morning. Three more days to keep adding to the bankroll.
Labels: Gambling, Las Vegas, poker, Tournament, World Series, WSOP
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