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[Hairy_Crocodile]

At a bi monthly bar tournament.

Starting stack is 5k, unless you have earned certificates to start you with more.

Starting at 15k, wish me luck!

Update: got knocked out before final table. I shoved with 15bb when it limped to me and got snapped off by AJo, I hold KQs and ace high holds. GG

 

[Hairy_Crocodile]

Welp, busted out with KQs before final table.

Had a long day after the tournament and am now at a home game.

In for 50. I am in love these new chips.

 

[jpietrella]

Waiting on 2/3 and @Josh Kifer vibes

 

[Max D]

 

[doublebooyah85]

Not live but just got back, poker rooms r busy.

 

[Aray12]

 

[Jackypoo]

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Nice stack but dang those chips are dirty

 

[Aray12]

Nice stack but dang those chips are dirty

Probably the dirtiest chips I have ever played with

 

[ImCrossland]

First time playing at Aria & first time playing $1/$3.

With a $300 buy-in limit, I think this is where I’ll take my brother to play when he gets here in a few days.

 

[ImCrossland]

So $1,000 should get me a pretty decent tourney set if I can figure out a way to walk away with the chips? Lol

 

[ImCrossland]

Boy these are nice

 

[OfficerLovejoy]

Boy these are nice
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Yes, let the solids consume you... you're one of us now.

 

[ImCrossland]

Very early double up. Hit a river Jack for an inside straight against trips. Bet 5k after the river, guy re-raised me to 10k and I pushed it all-in.

 

[ImCrossland]

Update:

Two hands within 30 mins of each other bust me out. Some of the most devastating hands I’ve experienced considering my play strategy.

Too sick to even play anymore.

 

[ImCrossland]

Missing some details but tried to write down everything after they happened. Was seeing red so very difficult to write in that state:

Hand #1 (Lost Half Stack)

Blinds: 500/1k

Button: A2hh (Me)
SB: 23u
BB: ??

All fold to me and I raise it up to 3k.

SB & BB call.

Flop is 2 2 7 rainbow with a 7 of hearts

SB bets 5k, BB folds, I raise it up to 10k and SB calls

Turn J (not a heart so no back door flush draws for me)

SB shoves all-in and I call

River 3

Hand #2 (Busted Out)

Same opponent, same spot!

Blinds: 1.5k/3k

Button: A9 suited (me)
SB: 46u

3 players play the BB and see a flop

9 5 6 rainbow

SB raises to 10k, middle player folds, I re-raise to 30k, SB calls.

Turn 2

He checks, I bet 50k, he re-raises all-in and I call.

River 3

 

[ImCrossland]

Can’t bring myself to play anything under a $1k tourney buy-in again. I could’ve played better but still stings like a mf

 

[doublebooyah85]

Can’t bring myself to play anything under a $1k tourney buy-in again. I could’ve played better but still stings like a mf

That sucks. Remember no matter how good you play, on a large field tourney, 20% ITM is great success. Go into it very understanding you most likely will get knocked. Play within your bankroll.

Loss aside, was is still fun for the nerves and overall excitement?!? And environment? Where was the tourney? …nvm I see MGM … Venetian and the orleans have very affordable big field tourneys.

 

[ImCrossland]

That sucks. Remember no matter how good you play, on a large field tourney, 20% ITM is great success. Go into it very understanding you most likely will get knocked. Play within your bankroll.

Loss aside, was is still fun for the nerves and overall excitement?!? And environment? Where was the tourney? …nvm I see MGM … Venetian and the orleans have very affordable big field tourneys.

It’s been a blast as always. The comment about buy-in’s was really just a swipe at what I would politely consider a very inexperienced player making mistake after mistake and hitting his very few outs.

Maybe it’s my complex and it helps me sleep at night but I feel like I would take all of these hands from an experienced player. They either wouldn’t play the hand in the first place (most likely) or they damn sure wouldn’t make it down to the river.

Frustrating to make what I would consider a quality bet that should elicit a fold and it is unsuccessful.

 

[doublebooyah85]

And where is the bad beat thread? Frel

It’s been a blast as always. The comment about buy-in’s was really just a swipe at what I would politely consider a very inexperienced player making mistake after mistake and hitting his very few outs.

Maybe it’s my complex and it helps me sleep at night but I feel like I would take all of these hands from an experienced player. They either wouldn’t play the hand in the first place (most likely) or they damn sure wouldn’t make it down to the river.

Frustrating to make what I would consider a quality bet that should elicit a fold and it is unsuccessful.

Lol yep! But we need bad players, u just got screwed. It will happen again, and again, and again lol. And of course don’t forget the pots you always win when they make those same dumb mistakes.

In "Confessions of a Winning Poker Player," Jack King said, "Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career." It seems true to me, cause walking in here, I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can't stop thinking of how I lost it.

 

[JD378]

After taking some time off from playing I decided to give it a go again, I was passing through Vegas the other night & decided to go play some 1/3 at the Bellagio. I didn’t get a picture of the stacks but I bought in for $500 & after 4 hours I cashed out with $1100. Then last night I was in the Phoenix area & played at Gila River-Lone Butte, I was playing the 2-200 game, I bought in at the table minimum for $200 & cashed out 3 hours later with $850.

 

[ImCrossland]

Never thought I’d find myself harvesting house mold but MGM Grand seems to have just added on a shit load of new chips (not sure if it’s same chip design or not but it likely is) and they are incredible.

The red $5 is eye popping. Will share pics when I get back to my room later but anybody know the specific red they use?

Also, shoutout to @Chicken Rob for the incredible chicken inlay design that mirrors the MGM inlay.

 

[ImCrossland]

This is a bad picture in poor lighting of a used chip but I swear the minty ones are sweet. The $1’s too.

Since I’m having no luck gambling, I might just harvest.

 

[ImCrossland]

Oh and these are nuts too.

 

[Altheman003]

View attachment 783859Oh and these are nuts too.

Haha I thought you harvested tournament chips for a second

 

[ImCrossland]

Haha I thought you harvested tournament chips for a second

You’d think that by the way I was playing haha

 

[ImCrossland]

Hit 2 absolute miracle rivers. 6 left.

 

[ImCrossland]

After 4 1/2 hours playing and a really cool final 3, we agreed to chop it 3 ways instead of 3rd leaving with $100. Needed the good karma baby and I get to call myself a winner haha

 

[ImCrossland]

The $1's and $5's are as minty as it gets. Very tempted to put together a small set for myself but we'll see if a barrel of crisp $25's is possible. The red $5 just pops.

 

[Payback]

A 2/5 in for one 1k buy in kind of night. Never saw AA, KK, or AK all night, but that doesn't matter!

 

[Chicken Rob]

The $1's and $5's are as minty as it gets. Very tempted to put together a small set for myself but we'll see if a barrel of crisp $25's is possible. The red $5 just pops.

Those minty house molds are sweet, but would be so much sweeter if the recess for the inlay was smaller, or the inlay filled it like on the higher denom chips.