You did what you went to do Ben, and I'm jealous as **** of you. It may have cost a lot, but in the end you got a great trip, and lots of connections. Give us all a hollar when you get home and we'll all go out somewhere. (On mikey)

Also, post some pictures man I know you had to of taken some!!

 

Now go play some freaking Single Deck Blackjack downtown.

 

SHARKKKKKK!!!!! Great job Ben, u even impressed Mike to the point he wants to take u out on a dinner date I guess u will just have to stick to collecting all the G-Force customer's money for now.

 

man it sounds like you had a lot of fun! I'm happy for you even if you didn't win graet job!

 

Hahahaha. I'm gonna hit some blackjack up in a little bit. I'm gonna practice my counting first though. And I gotta find a printer to print out my basic strategy chart. I'm feeling a sick rush of cards at the blackjack table followed by some true degeneracy on the roullette wheel. LOL J/K.

 

Congrats on playing your best - it's hard to play at a high level for so long... All you can ever ask is to get your chips in with the best hand and hope it holds up which is what you did...

 

Okay now to post some hands.

99% of the time you're playing poker you're playing in a straightforward manner. Most people think poker is about luck and bluffing and all of that stuff, but it's really about playing your good hands and trying to extract maximum value against your opponents range. All poker is is putting your opponent on a range of hands and acting accordingly with how that range compares to your hand.

The other 1% is where it gets interesting. This first hand I'm going to submit to CardPlayer's 'Hand-To-Hand Combat' to try to get it published. I picked off a bluff with A high and took down the pot.

With the blinds @ 100/200 I made it 600 from the button with AT. The Small Blind, an, extremely aggressive player smooth called, and so did the the Big Blind. We saw a flop of K Q 2. They both checked and I made a continuation bet of just over 1/2 the pot. The aggressive player in the Small Blind called and the Big Blind folded.

At this point I'm trying to put the Small Blind on a hand. He's a VERY aggressive player and would have certainly re-raised me Pre-Flop with AK, AQ, AA, KK, QQ, KQ, and even 22. It's possible he's got a hand like JT or AJ or AT and wants to peel a turn card to either hit his hand or be able to bluff me out of the pot. It's also possible he's going to fire any turn card to try to win the pot.

The turn comes a 7, putting two diamonds on the board. He thinks for about 30 seconds and checks, and I check behind.

The river is a black 4 and he fires out for 3/4 pot.

I couldn't decide what to think. I don't think he would bet a hand like KT, QT, QJ, or KJ. He would probably check-call looking for me to bluff at it with what I have. He certainly wouldn't value bet a 7 or a 4 there either. So I decide to look him up with my AJ and see if A high was good. I really wanted to get a read on this really aggressive player also because he was on my left and would have position on me for every hand except when I was on the button.

I called his bet and he insta-mucked and said I was good. At the break we got to talking about how terrible our table was and he told me he had T8, for no pair, no draw. He just wanted to see if I would look him up.

Headed to the Rio to sweat Taylor Caby and other CR members.........

 

My "all in" every hand tactic seems to work perfect for me..

 

That's actually the strategy for being short stacked in a tournament. If you've got less than 10 Big Blinds and it's folded to you in late position it's actually mathmatically correct to shove all in with a VERY wide range. Picking up the blinds and ante's increases your stack by such a large % its the only way to play it.

 

You need to be hittin more than the blackjack....... It's freakin' Vegas

 

Don't worry, I hit plenty at the Rhinno Lounge on Monday night.

And for all of you wodering, NO, I DID NOT go to the bunny ranch.

 

Damn Ben no Bunny Ranch, than what did u go for

 

Good job man. I dont speak poker lingo, but it all sounds cool, LOL. Nice to do well at something you enjoy.