ATLarge Trip Report - Part 1
Two weeks ago was the ATLantic City Annual RecGambling Excursion gathering, which attracted over 200 runners, participating in 3 different events, HOE, NLHE, and Stud. The event was held at the Trump Taj Mahal again this year and was sponsored by PokerStars.
I left the office around noon, in hopes of getting to AC around 2:30, so I would have time to check into my cheap off the boardwalk room, and get to the Taj to play a little $1/$2 NL before the PokerStars banquet at 8pm. No such luck with that plan. After wasting over an hour sitting in traffic approaching the George Washington Bridge in NYC, I finally made it down there at close to 4pm. Al this meant, no time to waste checking in when there is poker to be played!
I sat down and proceeded to donk off $120 in the first hour playing to aggressively and making bad calls/reads. After settling down, and not getting anything to play for easily an hour, I started to pick up a few pots, when I finally found a decent hand. By now my table image should have been very rocky, with the combination of tightening up my play, and not getting any hands. I was in late position with about $260 behind and I look down at the Hiltons (Q-Q) after a raise to $12 and 4 callers. No way I want that may in the pot, so I raise to $60 hoping for a caller, but happy to take down the $51 there since anyone with any powers of observation would realize that I haven't played a hand in forever. So much for that assumption, two callers later we see a flop of 10-6-2 rainbow. Check, check to me and I push my remaining $200 in. After going into the tank, an older gentleman who was a calling station, made the call with A-10s. I fade his 5 outs and stack a very nice pot of just over $600. A few more orbits of nothing, I book $300 and it's off to the PokerStars banquet.
This years PokerStars banquet included a Q&A with the 1983 WSOP Main Event Champion, and 4 time bracelet winner, Tom McEvoy, as well as a talk on theory by Jerrod Ankerman and Bill Chen. The food was good. Your regular buffet fare, salads, pastas, chicken, fish, and a carving station. Two trips thru and another two trips to the desert station, the two talks began. Tom was very personable and his great passion for the game was very apparent. The talk on theory was a plug for their upcoming book which is going to bring together math and poker and optimal play theory. I believe it may be a 2+2 published book.
After the banquet I head back down and sit for a short 2 hours and, play poorly, and give back $200 from the earlier session, and decide it's time to go check in and get some rest for the tournament tomorrow morning.
I left the office around noon, in hopes of getting to AC around 2:30, so I would have time to check into my cheap off the boardwalk room, and get to the Taj to play a little $1/$2 NL before the PokerStars banquet at 8pm. No such luck with that plan. After wasting over an hour sitting in traffic approaching the George Washington Bridge in NYC, I finally made it down there at close to 4pm. Al this meant, no time to waste checking in when there is poker to be played!
I sat down and proceeded to donk off $120 in the first hour playing to aggressively and making bad calls/reads. After settling down, and not getting anything to play for easily an hour, I started to pick up a few pots, when I finally found a decent hand. By now my table image should have been very rocky, with the combination of tightening up my play, and not getting any hands. I was in late position with about $260 behind and I look down at the Hiltons (Q-Q) after a raise to $12 and 4 callers. No way I want that may in the pot, so I raise to $60 hoping for a caller, but happy to take down the $51 there since anyone with any powers of observation would realize that I haven't played a hand in forever. So much for that assumption, two callers later we see a flop of 10-6-2 rainbow. Check, check to me and I push my remaining $200 in. After going into the tank, an older gentleman who was a calling station, made the call with A-10s. I fade his 5 outs and stack a very nice pot of just over $600. A few more orbits of nothing, I book $300 and it's off to the PokerStars banquet.
This years PokerStars banquet included a Q&A with the 1983 WSOP Main Event Champion, and 4 time bracelet winner, Tom McEvoy, as well as a talk on theory by Jerrod Ankerman and Bill Chen. The food was good. Your regular buffet fare, salads, pastas, chicken, fish, and a carving station. Two trips thru and another two trips to the desert station, the two talks began. Tom was very personable and his great passion for the game was very apparent. The talk on theory was a plug for their upcoming book which is going to bring together math and poker and optimal play theory. I believe it may be a 2+2 published book.
After the banquet I head back down and sit for a short 2 hours and, play poorly, and give back $200 from the earlier session, and decide it's time to go check in and get some rest for the tournament tomorrow morning.
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