Grinding it out at the Rio

We got to the Rio today around 11:30am for Devin to play the 1500nl event. They weren't letting in spectators for a few hours so Brett, Travis and I left to explore the wonderful world of the Wynn's uncapped NL games. Unfortunately, upon getting there we see that the wait list was hours long, so after taking a lap through the casino and checking out the scene we dropped Brett off at MGM to play SNGs/cash while Travis and I headed back to the Rio for sweatage and pwnage.

After we watched TravestyFund bust deep from the 2k PLHE event and Devin busting the 1500 event, I sat 2/5nl at the rio. The game was kind of nitty at first, but the entire session it went from nitty to random TONS of action for a few orbits, back to nitness, etc...

I went from 500-->650---> 250 after i turned a set vs. a big fish's turned straight (he didnt have a full buy in either). I rebought to 500 and ground my way back up to even (800) when, yet again, I doubled up a short stack, this time a semi nitty lady to my right who had less than 200 to start the hand. We got it all in in a limped pot with 97hh to her K9cc on a Q99ss flop. That all sucked but I continued to grind my way up when a few big hands came up.

First, I'm sitting about 850ish and mississippi straddle the button to 10. The small blind (who is the most weak/tight player in the history of poker) calls, and DevinLake UTG dark raises 15 more. I call blind on the button (obviously!) and the small blind again calls. We take a flop 3 way and its T72 all diamonds. The small blind leads, Devin folds and I finally look at my cards: TT. shipit. I make raise 20-80, he makes it 200 and I end up shoving the flop with his 300ish behind. He tanks and ends up folding A MADE FLUSH. I didn't see his cards but I did see him fold bottom set on the flop vs Devin and the big stack, so I'm pretty sure he wasn't lying.

After this, Z32fanatic came to the cash rail on the 1500nl event break (he ended up getting ITM last i checked, shipit) and during this time I ended playing a 550 bb pot for stacks. Weak/tight guy opens utg to 15, tight solidish young kid maks it 60 in mp (he wasnt 3 betting particularly light at all) and I cold call the button with two black aces. The flop came Js6s2. PF 3 bettor led 75 into me, i made it 250, he tanks FOREVER and shoves. At this point I'm putting him ONLY on two kings, and sure enough he turns over two aces...at least I'm freerolling and made like 10 or 15 bucks on the hand.

After this the only other big pot I played was when I opened to 20 with two red Kings. Guy two behind me calls. We take a flop of Q98hh. I lead for 35 he calls. The turn is an offsuit 7, and I was going to lead but in the spur of the moment decided to check. Once I checked, I thought I had made a mistake by not betting but I also realized at this point I needed to shove him in. He ended up betting 75, I shoved over and he quickly called with AQo. The river was a deuce and I stacked the donk. yaaaay.

After the 6 hour session, Rob called and said he was headed down to the rio to meet up with MikeCH and JShuttlseworth. Brett and I joined them for dinner at the rio and then we all headed to the Wynn (except for MikeCH who stayed to play 10/25nl at the rio). By the time we got there I was exhausted and the wait list was pretty long , so we rounded up matt (hippo) who was already playing there, brett, devin and myself and we headed back home while Rob and Owen (Jshuttle) stayed to put in a long session at the Wynn. I am absolutely exhausted now, but even though today was a huge grind I enjoyed the session and thought I played reasonably well. Hopefully the pwnage won't be as swingy, but will continue.

Today: 6 hours of 2/5 deep stacked at the WSOP, cashed out 1100. Not my finest session, but if I can maintain 60/hour the rest of the trip I'll be pretty happy. Anyways, it is definitely time for bed...thanks for reading.



-Alex


edit: also at my 2/5 table was this idiot young blonde kid who looked like he was 10, decked out in dodgers apparel with his fat ring and chain. The kid berated me from opening the CO and button every time...the 3rd or 4th time i did this with AKo. he called from the bb. Flop Came A98hh. he check/called my flop bet. the turn came an offsuit 7 and we both checked. The river completed a 4 straight with an offsuit 6 and the bb led just about pot or overpot slightly. I tanked and after checking the turn behind thought he was value betting AT/AJ/AQ or, being the cocky talking constant idiot that he was, was just as likely on a pure bluff. I'm a fish calling station so i looked him up and he turned over AQs. gg. he then requested a table change and got up.