Vegas trip report - Monday

I arrived about an hour late because of a plane delay, but the flight was very nice. After dinner, I went to MGM Grand (my favorite poker room).

I sat at a 1/2 NL table, and first hand I'm dealt 66. Flop came 964. This player who has about $900 in front (maximum buy-in is $200) bets $10, one person calls and I raise it to $30. Chip leader re-raises to $60. Other player folds. Now, I'm thinking that if I raise all-in, he folds anything but 99 which has me beat, and if he has 99 then I lose all my chips -- and that's ok because I can't fold a set. So I flat call, turn is a king and he bets out $50. Now I go all-in for $120 and he folds. So my call of his re-raise on the flop, instead of re-raising all-in myself netted me an extra $50.

Then I got involved in a hand in the BB with 63 os when there was no pre-flop raise. Flop came 4c 5h 7h. I bet out $10 into the $10 pot. Everyone folds but one person, who raises to $35. I'm pretty sure he has a flush draw, so I just call to see if another heart comes out. The turn is the Jc, and I bet out $60. He thinks and thinks, and calls. I no longer think he has a flush draw, since calling $60 didn't give him the right odds. Maybe he has a set, I thought. River Jh. I have $60 left, I check and he goes all-in. I decided to call anyways even though I knew that river made him either a full house or a flush. And he had the flush with the 4h6h. So he had flopped bottom pair, with an open ended straight flush draw. I couldn't really blame him for calling I guess - that's poker.

So I re-bought for another $200. I called a $10 raise with 7d8d. Flop comes out 7h 8h 4c. The same player who bets out draws from the previous hand bets out $30. I raise it to $80. Then another player acting after me goes all-in for $180. First person thinks long and hard, and calls. I have $100 left. I decided the first guy had to have a straight, and I folded to my 4 outs. Sure enough, the all-in person had 5h6h for the flopped straight - and the other guy had AhTh for a flush draw (I love it when my reads are right).

So I was very happy about my fold, and my play for that evening. It was getting late and I had been up for 18 hours - so I quit having lost $271.