Here’s quick update from Borgata event I played yesterday. I’m thinking about doing a full trip report from Vegas but I don’t know if I feel like writing all of that out right now.

My starting table was a bunch of people I never saw before and JOEYTHEB, who I’m pretty sure knows who I am.. we’ve played a fair amount together.

In the first level the only meaninful hand I played.. I limped 56c in MP after a few limps.. BB makes it 250, EP calls, I call button calls.. flop comes 9c 5x 2c.. check to me i bet something stupid and small like 350.. only original raiser calls turn is Ac he ch i bet 850 he call river 2o he ch i bet 1550 and he folds.

At 50/100 a pretty interesting spot came up.. I raise button to 300 with red 55, sb is superaggro and makes it 1k with 3k left behind, bad tight donk BB calls 1k cold with 6.5k behind and I think a bit and call 700 more with 7.5k total behind. Flop comes Jx 7s 6s SB bets out 1k into 3k, BB instamucks and I’m about to muck but I take a few secs and SB looks super nervous. I took about 30 seconds or so glancing and him then see him take a sip of his water and sit back in his chair but I could tell he did it in a way to try to give off confidence but he did it sooo poorly and nervously that I was sure he had no pair. So I ship it in and as soon as I did it I was happy I did because he didn’t look happy.. looked back at his cards and mucked it pushing me up to 10.5k. That was the last hand I won…

At 100/200 I raised a bunch in late position and cbet 3 dry flops but got raised all three times. Then interesting hand against Joey comes up.. He raises button to 600 and I flat Jd10d in BB.. flop comes Qd 7d 6x and I lead 600 and he thinks a bit and calls turn is 9o, I think a while and I don’t think he has a strong hand and decide to lead 1200 again he thinks about 20 seconds and calls and now I’m sure he’s weak and plan on making a big river bet depending on the card. River is offsuit ace which I think I like at first to try and push out 89 or other weak middling pairs but after thinking about 15 seconds and looking over at him I think it’s a little too likely it hit him and check and he thinks a while and checks behind.. I declare J high and he shows AK to scoop.

At 100/200/25 I raised two hands and got repopped from tighter players.. then made probably a pretty bad squeeze shove just to try and gamboool for chips.. blinds were about 4 minutes from going up to 200/400/50 and I had 2.7k and J10o in BB.. bad weak player limps in EP, Joey makes it 800 from CO, Button calls with like 6k total behind, sb folds and I ship the 2.7k after thinking a while.. feeling like Joey probably had a wide range here so I might have a little fold equity albeit probably not much but also figuring if I can win the 50/50 or 40/60 I’ll be up to about 7k.. eventually I do get it in against AQ.. turn gutter ball with pair outs but brick off river..

I’ll be playing the 450 next Tuesday and then the 1k the following Friday.

-Tre