Sahara 7pm tourney

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Left LA and got to Vegas by 10am. Played at Caesar's after lunch. It's been my favorite room, esp smoke-free. Sat down with $100 at $1-2 NL. QQ, AQ brought my stack to $160. Players all bought in for $100 and played very loose. I looked down with KJ, rasied to $15. Flop 22J, bet and got called. Turn A, River K. I had 2 pairs and bet, got called, The other guy turned over his A-raq and won with a better 2 pairs (AA and 22). Crap! Now, look down at KK, raised to $15 again, but this time no caller. Crap, crap! Later, got AA, raised to $10 only hoping to get some callers unlike my KK. This time 4 callers! Flop 2 spades. I bet $25 into a $50 pot, trying to flush out any flush chaser. Only 1 caller now. Turn another spades, check check. River another spades. He checked the $100 pot, I rechecked my AA, still no spades with it. I only have about $60 left, so checked and gave up the pot to him. He turned over his 5-6 spades and dragged in the $100. Hate poker, bullets get cracked. Left after playing 1.5 hrs losing $50.

Headed over to Sahara to play 7pm tourney. I haven't played it for a long time. The last time I played more than a year ago, they only had $1500 chips. Since then, I have been playing Caesar's 12pm tourney, much better poker tourney. Anyway, $62 get you 5000 chips, not bad. The only problem is still the short blind (20 mins). After 2 breaks (2 hrs), the blind is at 300-600 and quickly become an all-in fest. Most ppl had between 3000-8000. Players there were quite bad, lots of them amatuer and beginners. At 25-50 level, a guy raised to $250, that's 5X big blind! I looked down with AQ and decided to call and outplayed him. 2 other callers into a 4 way pot. Flop 3-8-K, check check, I knew the original raiser didn't hit anything ( I put him on med pair), so, I bet 500 into 1000 pot. 1 caller, original raiser foled now. Turn rag, check check. River rag, check, and I didn't want to lose any more money and checked behind him. He turned over 7-8. He called my 500 with 2nd pair! That idiot shortly busted out. Later at 50-100 level, a guy rasied to 300 with 4 callers, I looked down at QQ at big blind and decided to end it right there and then. Raised to 1500, 1 guy put me all-in, the SB thought for a minute and folded. I called, he flipped over 77. My hand stood. The flop had an A, and SB told me that we almost called with A-9, but didn't think he would stand a fight against 2 players. Anyway, that's how players are at Sahara, they overplayed A-rag. Too bad I just couldn't catch any cards. Those are my best hands in 2 hrs! Finally at 300-600, I went all in at late position trying to steal with A-2 (like the other fish LOL!). Only be called with SB/BB. SB flipped over 88, BB with AQ, yikes! Q-6-T-A-2 came on the board, I lost my 2 pairs to AQ. There were 15 tables on Friday night, and very very smoky! I would definitely not play there anymore. I original was looking for the $200 V tourney ppl are touting for. Unfortunately, they only have $500 deep stack tourney right now.

I stayed at Flamingo Hilton, and they remodelled their poker room. Now with more tables, and a flat screen with computer registration system. Looks pretty slick.

Till next time! Happy gambling and thanks for reading.

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  1. Nice report but one thing you tourney players have to remember is that no matter how many chips or how long the levels, everyone waits till they start getting short stacked before they try playing poker. Then every tourney is an all in fest no matter how much/how long you get. Daily tourneys are not the WSOP main event and most are designed to be over in 4-6 hours. Everyone should realize this when going in to play one of these and really have no reason for getting upset when players start moving in all the time because they didn't play any cards along the way.

  2. 25 into a 50 pot isnt enough. you should no that just by playing at a 1-2 table. i think you should have bet the pot, you might still have been called but maybe not.