So the 2k no limit was today, and it started real well. Greg “FBT” Mueller opened a pot in late position, the small blind called, and I called outta the BB with 5
8. The flop came gin, 4
67, but Greg checked behind. I bet out the 5
on the turn, which he raised, I reraised, he rereraised enough that I thought he put me allin, and I instantly shoved. He thought a bit and folded, saving 700 chips.
I played the next 90 minutes terribly. We were forced to play out in a tent in the 108 degree Vegas heat in a place that smelled worse than the average barnyard. Despite having twice average in chips, I attempted to get a refund to simply leave this horrible venue, as I was feeling incredibly sick and liable to pass out at any time due to the heat. I limped into the first break with just under 6000, and after my table broke, I got moved to a different area in the room that was atleast a little bit cooler than the first table near the glass doors.
I picked up AA, reraising a limper outta the SB, and only the BB came along. The board came KJ high, and I got paid off pretty well by his AJ. Shortly after I raised KQ, getting one caller. I continuation bet the 1096, and he raised almost the min. I decided I’d try to take it away later, just calling. The turn was a nice Q, and I decided to just check-call this time around. The river was a J, completing a flush draw, and I checked. For some reason he opted to bet huge, 5k, and I had to call with my straight. He had flopped the nuts with 78, although I have absolutely no idea why he would make such a bad bet on the river. Worked out nicely for me though.
I chipped up to over 30,000 in chips at this point, still in level 3 at 100-200. When the antes came around, I made it 700 to go from EP with 33
, getting 3 callers who all had position on me. The flop came 2310, and I fired out a pretty good 2000 chip bet. Next 2 folded, and the last man remaining in the hand shoved me. I was, of course, forced to call, and he had made this terrible play with 810. I have no idea why he called preflop or why he made such a terrible play here, and things were looking good as I would be at over 45,000 after the A on the turn. The dealer held the river card up in front of himself for a while, and I was pretty sure he wouldn’t just ridiculously slowroll me, but that was the case. K. Sick.
Not much went right after that. I picked some good spots, but I isolated an allin shover after 3 people called my initial raise in the 200-400 level, and I lost the flip getting nearly 3:1 on my money for another 16k or so pot. I chipped back to 14,000, when I opened UTG+1 with AK to 1300. It folded around to the SB, who went into the tank, and I mean really went into the tank. Three minutes passed without him doing much of anything besides quietly move his mouth, apparently doing math. He had only played one hand in the 4 hours I’d be at the same table as him, when he open shoved his button for 50bbs with K7, sucking out on AQ. He whispered something to the dealer, who made him repeat himself twice. I asked the dealer what he had said, and he said “the player says he is allin.” We were within 1 BB of each other, and he reraised my 1300 bet to 13,500. I instacalled, and it took him 30 seconds to finally realize he had to turn over his 89. He started screaming like Mattias Anderson of the 2005 WSOP final table, telling the dealer to concentrate on 8s and 9s. I asked the dealer to please not reward the moron just one time. That would not be the case as the donkey kong got there and I was out.
(EDIT: According to the coverage, apparently Kong has a name:
Rolf Slotboom of Card Player Europe somehow managed to get all his chips in the middle pre-flop with 98 and was met with AK. He knelt on his chair beside the dealer and leant right over the table, urging the dealer to deal low cards. )
If either of these huge hands had been even decently played, and I just happened to get unlucky, it would be one thing, but I was really playing fantastic and to lose to people who are just simply that bad, I dunno. It’s a disgusting feeling. Guess I’ll be back at it tomorrow, although I’m considering taking some time off and leaving Vegas for a while.
