So during my stay in Vegas I mostly played cash games exclusively at the Wynn, starting out at $2-$5 then quickly moving to the $5-$10. The Wynn has the best players club rewards, the cleanest poker room, and the best overall service of any poker room in Vegas by far. You'd be retarded to play anywhere else (except for maybe the Bellagio because their games are just sick juicy). The Wynn also runs a daily $300+30 from tuesday through thursday and a $500+40 every friday. During my stay, I decided to play in a few of these tournaments. Needless to say, they were very good investments.
Link: http://www.wynnpoker.com/winners.cfm
Wynn Tournament #1 - June 20th
Pavel and I have a room at the Wynn so all I have to do is walk downstairs and register for the $300 tournament in the morning. So I do that and the event starts at noon. The tournament structure is just excellent and provides a ridiculous amount of play:
Starting Stack: 5,000
Blinds (Increase every 45 minutes):
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
100/200 ante 25
150/300 ante 25
200/400 ante 50
300/600 ante 50
400/800 ante 75
600/1200 ante 100
800/1600 ante 100
1000/2000 ante 200
1500/3000 ante 300
2000/4000 ante 400
3000/6000 ante 600
So I start out this tournament and pick up AQ fairly early on the button and raise a limper. Flop comes A-K-6, I check behind. Turn comes K, he bets out and I call. River comes A so the board is now A-K-6-K-A. Pot is like 800ish. He bets all-in for 4000+. I'm like "We are probably chopping" and call. He looks stunned when I show him an ace, and is like "nice hand" and mucks. Sweet gift, double up 20 mins into the tournament, I'm going to make the final table! I quickly realize no one at my table has a clue as to how to play decent tournament poker, as half of them are being total absurd nits and folding every hand except for QQ+ and the other half is shoving 100bb's when they flop 2nd pair. So I build my stack up to 12,000 as blinds reach 75/150. On the last hand of 75/150 just before our 15 min break, the old guy who is 2nd in chips at my table with 10,000 raises to 600 under the gun. It gets folded around to me in the big blind, I look and see KK, I make it 1800. He almost insta makes it 6000. I feel kinda gross for some reason, but it's KK... and I dont fold KK in tournaments to anyone. So all-in it went and he called and showed AA. Board bricks out and I get decked in a 20k pot when no one else at my table other than us two had more than a 7k stack. Sick life... So I go on break and come back and count my chips and see that I have 2,000 left at 100/200 blinds. Second hand after break I pick up AA and think to myself "Sweet, I'm going to make the final table again." WRONG! I raise to 1,000, get two callers, flop comes Q-5-3, I shove in my last 1,000 and get felted by a total moron who flopped a set of 3's. Sweet.
Wynn Tournament #2 - June 28th
So after a week of cash games, I decided to take another shot at the Wynn tournament. Kris Fox (foxfox1) and I woke up and took a cab over to the Wynn (since we were at our condo at this point) to register for the daily $300. We decided to swap 10%. The tournament starts and I get put at a table where, again, everyone is clueless on how to play poker. The fat guy to my right was decked out in WSOP gear (wsop hat, wsop sweatshirt w/ a wsop t-shirt under it, and ofcourse the sunglasses). Fat guy proceeded to take it personally when he limped in the small blind and I raised. He would limp-call my raise and donk lead any flop hoping I missed. Well I did miss most of the time... so I raised and he just folded. Moron. So at 25/50 I raise to 200 w/ QQ utg, and get 3 callers. Then the super loose/passive fish (who was limping every hand and seeing every flop) makes it 500 total from the button. He obviously has Aces. So I call to set mine, and get 2 callers behind me. Flop comes Q-8-4 rainbow. Gin. I check, and it gets check to the loose/passive reraiser who bets 1000. I call, and the two players behind me fold. Turn comes a 7. I check, he bets 1000 again. I shove and he insta calls and I stack his... Aces, duh. I proceeded to get moved to Kris Fox's table, where he was riding a semi-short stack at around 3,000 w/ 75/150 blinds. 10 minutes later, there is a raise to 450 by this loose/aggro monkey (who had a huge stack) and I flat on the button with AQs. Kris in the big blind reraises to 1700 leaving himself around 1500 behind. The loose/aggro monkey calls, and I fold. Flop comes Q-T-4 all hearts. Kris shoves, loose aggro monkey calls. Kris has KK with the K of hearts while the other guy has KJo. Turn is a black Ace, river is a brick and Kris is out.
So after the break I ride a string of cold cards, staying alive by picking up blinds with a tight image vs tight players. I hovered around 9k at 100/200 when two hands in a row I get dealt AK, I raise and get caller(s), then when I miss and c-bet dry flops I got shoved on twice. Oh well, that put me down to around 5,000 as blinds increased to 150/300. I felt comfortable at my table, since it was clear no one was really that good at all. The big stack at my table was totally cardracking every new player to come (he kept picking up JJ+ every other hand, it was pretty sick). So after stacking 2 players, two hands in a row, the cut-off raised to 900 and this big stack that I'm talking about reraises on the button to 2400. I look and find KK in the big blind. So I shoved. Cut-off folds, and big stack insta calls and shows AA. Ug not again... Flop J-3-5 rainbow, turn 6, river... KING! I run so good. Ship me that double up. So this guy is visably upset about the beat (even though he has the entire table covered by x3) and I proceed to play a very sick hand against him:
With my newly acquired 12k stack blinds moved up to 200/400 w/ 50 ante. I raise KQo in middle position to 1200. This same big stack I just sucked out on calls on the button. Flop comes As-7h-8s, I bet 2000 and he calls. Turn comes a 4c, I check and he checks behind. River comes a Kh. I check, all ready to just fold if he makes a value bet. He eyes my stack then puts me all-in with a 10,000 bet into this 7,000 pot. What!?! I ask him "How can you have a big hand? You checked the turn" ... he gives no response. So I try to get something out of him: "Sir you can't have a big hand here, you checked the turn. Your line makes no sense." Still no response. WTF  "Ok I call." He slams his fist down on the felt and says "Good call" as he mucks. I usually dont celebrate when I win poker hands, but I definitly gave a mini RaiNKhaN yell "YYEAAAAAH SICK CALL" as I tabled my KQ on this hand. So with 26k I cruised to the final table.
The final table was pretty easy for the most part. I picked up QQ on the button and stacked the only good player at the table when he reshoved A3s in the big blind (and I was raising every button so it was def a set-up / cooler). Later on I see this game good player get into the Top 40 at the WSOP Main Event. The "key" hand was at 2k/4k blinds w/ 400 ante. We are 5-handed and I pick up AQ utg so I raise to 20k and commit myself vs anyone who wants to reshove on me. Well this tight/solid Danish guy reraises to 100 less than what I have. I look at him and feel sick strength. Yes I know this fold is bad... And I swear I never make this fold vs anyone but I cant describe in words the look this guy had on his face that just screamed: "I HAVE ACES, AND I'M GOING TO SILLY SMACK YOU OUT OF THIS TOURNAMENT KID." I should have just made it 12k to go so I could have some room to fold. But I'm a total donk. Worst fold ever, but I did it. Everything seemed to work after that, as I raped the fat guy dressed in WSOP gear with my Q3s vs his T3o, and he stormed off without shaking my hand. Then I raped that tight/solid Danish guy when I reshoved AJ and he called with AT. Lastly, this guy who was playing very tight through out the entire tournament just lost his head against me and had enough of my abusive blind steals, so I raised A9o on the button and he insta reshoved from the big blind... so I called and he had K8o, my A9 held and the remaining two players were like: "Wow... how did you call that? He's been so tight." And I responded: "I can't fold, dont bluff me." So ship it:
Wynn Tournament #3 - July 12th
Again, Pavel and I have a room at the Wynn and I register for the $300 tournament at 11:00am. Went back to the room to take a shower then went to the Cafe to pick up a bagel and some coffee. Got back to the Wynn poker room around 12:10, 10 minutes late. I sit down on the cut-off, my 3rd hand I pick up 77 and raise to 150. The guy behind me flat calls, and both blinds call. Flop comes Q-T-7 with two spades, both blinds check to me and I bet 600. The flat caller behind me calls and the blinds fold. Turn comes a 8. I bet 1600 and the flat caller calls again. I say to the dealer "No Jack no six please!" and the river is a 10. Sweet, full house. I bet 2400. He shoves... I'm like ugg, I call. He has QQ and decks me. Sick life. Busto 3 hands into the tournament.
Wynn Tournament #4 - July 13th
It was a Friday $500 during the Main Event of the WSOP and I got sat down at a table full of complete morons. Unforunately, I was card dead for the first 2 hours and couldnt get anything going. About 20 mins into the tournament I raised AKo on the button to 150 and got a call from the retarded small blind, it came K-5-6 and he checked I bet 300 he called. Turn came a 9, he checked I bet 750 and he called. River came a Q, he lead out for 750 and I'm like "Ug... show me your KQ" as I called. Eh, I was close enough... he had Q5o. So I lose a big chunk of my stack in that hand. I then pick up AJo in the big blind, and it gets folded around to this old guy in the small blind who limps, so I raise to 300 at 50/100 blinds, and he limp-raises to 1500. So I'm like ug oh well and fold, and he flips up 73o in the middle of the table like he made some kind of great play. I proceed to watch this crazy asian dude who played every hand go up vs this old guy aggro bluffing monkey and they play some 15k pot with 44 vs A5 on a 7-8-9 board, crazy asian dude's 44 holds and everyone thinks he made the sickest call in the entire world. The clueless retard obviously has no clue what he's doing, he just cant fold a hand. I'm thinking to myself: "Give me a hand one time please!" So at 75/150 I'm at like 2500 left, crazy asian dude limps, weak/tight small blind limps in as well and I'm in the big blind with A4s in spades. I make it 700. Crazy asian dude calls, and other guy folds. Flop comes J-3-5 all hearts. So I c-bet 1500 leaving myself 300 behind (lol). So the crazy asian dude is like "I have too many outs to fold this... ok I call" and puts the rest of it all-in with Q9 with the Q of hearts. I table A4, and the turn and river bricks out for him and I double. Then after the hand he starts talking to the guy next to him saying: "I knew that kid had nothing by the way he bet." ... OK SIR! So after the break at 100/200, crazy asian dude limps I raise on the button with QJ, and crazy asian dude calls. Flop comes Q-9-6. He checks, I bet, he calls. Turn comes a 3. He checks, I check behind. River comes a 3. He bets 1600. I snap call, and he's like good hand and holds on to his cards waiting to see my hand. So I decide I'm not going to turn over my cards unless he shows me first since I did call him. We give each other like a 15 second stare down (lol) and finally he tables K4o, and I show him the QJ to take down the pot.
Later on in a 6-way limped pot, I checked 96o in the big blind and flop came 9-6-5 with two hearts. So I lead at the pot and got two callers, one of which was this crazy asian dude. Turn came a 9 so I had this hand on lockdown, I bet 1/2 pot trying to keep the draws in. The first caller folded and the crazy asian dude made the call. At this point I put him on a draw, so river came a blank 3 (flush draw missed). And I checked to him. He pauses for a second then picks up two stacks of chips (about 4k worth) and starts counting em out infront of him. Then he asks me how much I have in my stack left, to which I respond that I have about 8k left. All the while I am totally cumming in my pants waiting for this moron to try to bluff me with his missed draw. Finally after 2 minutes of debatting he pussys out and checks behind. So I show him my full house, and he says something along the lines of "I knew you had that." ... sure you did. I proceed to lose a few chips on short stacks reshoving on my blind steal attemps and I leave myself with 11k at 150/300. I raise in early position to 900 with JJ and this aggro old guy insta makes it 3000. At this point I thought I could have just folded and played on... but the other part of me just felt this guy was loose enough to have a fairly wide range of hands here. Plus JJ was the biggest preflop hand I've seen in 4 hours. So I shoved and he snap called with QQ and I go busto. I was pretty frustrated with myself for the entire afternoon, but looking back on it now I dont think the shove was that bad given what I knew at the time.
Wynn Tournament #5 - July 19th
I came, I saw, I conquered. Plain and simple. The weird thing was, I left the room to go register and Pavel is half asleep in his bed and says "I think your going to win this one..." before he passes out. Only 30 players entered this one so I played solid ABC poker til the final table. At the final table I attempted to turn it up after the first 4 aggro donks killed themselves. There was this one young kid from denmark with all the chips, and what made it worse was this kid kept getting more chips through total gifts from other players. The young kid limped AA and flop came A-J-5, he gets check-raised, and turn comes a 8 and the guy shoves all-in and he calls and the guy has 43! GAH MAKE THESE MISTAKES VS ME PLEASE! So we are 4 handed, and they all want to chop 4-ways but the pay-out only awarded the top 3 players. So I'm like no... I dont chop. I pick up some chips on the bubble, and the guy who bubbles tilt shoves another gift to the young kid from denmark. The guy who busted in 3rd place got value towned when I had KQ and raised his big blind. He called and the board ran out K-5-3-3-9 and he called 3 barrels with K4. The kid from denmark took him out and we were heads up at 300/600 blinds. I had 25,000 and the young kid had 125,000. He offered a chip chop right here and I laughed at him. So we played it out and I found that he had totally changed his play from being real passive when we had the other players at the table to a very hyper aggressive heads up. The only problem was that he was limping every button. So the first big pot we got into was about 30 mins into our heads up match, as I chipped up to about 30k he limp reraised all-in and I called with 77. He had KT and we were coin flipping. The board bricked out for him and I won the huge double up to get me at 60k vs his 90k in chips. He then offers me a 40% chop, to which point I respond "If you take 40% then I'll chop" and he says no so we play on. 30 minutes later I deck him in a pot when he limp-reraises me on the button (like he's been doing frequently at this point) and I call with AJo. Flop comes 8-9-A and I check call a bet on the flop. Turn comes a 3 and I check and he jams and I make the call. He has A4o and I hold to take over the chip lead. We battle it out for an hour more, and I feel that he continues to get more and more frustrated. Finally he raises on the button and I call in the big blind. Flop comes T-9-3, I check raise him on the flop and he 3 bet shoves all-in. I insta call and he has K2o. Turn and river brick out and I win the tournament. The kid was very nice, and was praising how well I played heads-up etc... Some guy who was watching us play heads-up on the rail for the entire time came up to me and said it was one of the sickest comebacks he's ever seen and asked for some information about me. I was like, thanks dude but, uh, your weird, and I aint giving any info on where I live and shit. LOL.
Wynn Tournament #6 - July 20th
Only 10 players entered this $500 friday tournament so it basically played out like a deep stacked sit n go. I noticed that most of the players at the table were just complete nits that thought they could outlast each other. So I decided to change up my play at the start and raised more hands to pick up some chips. I chipped up to about 10k and knocked out one player at the first break which I thought was good. My plan back-fired a little bit on me as the antes kicked in at 100/200. The players that were short started giving me no respect and were reshoving on my raises. This forced me to play tighter than I wanted to at this point of the tournament, and be more cautious with my opening raises. I pretty much played real tight and folded my way til we were 4 handed. I was on the shortest stack at that time with 6,000 at 150/300 blinds. The other 3 players wanted to chip chop 4-ways, and I'm like: "I dont chop." They all seemed real tight and wanting to make some money so I decided to test the waters and pick up some blinds. The action for me started off like: Raise, Fold, Fold, Raise, Fold, Raise, Fold, Raise, Fold, Fold. No action from anyone... all the pots were getting walked around or folded preflop. Hmmmm, lets turn this up a bit. Raise, Raise, Fold, Raise, Raise, Fold, Raise, Fold, Raise, Raise. Still no action, I had now chipped up to almost being chip leader. Ok... lets just keep raising until someone decides to play back: Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise. Still no action... for the next hour I raise every single hand (with the exception of 4-5 hands where one of them open raised before me and I had trash) and chip up from 6,000 to 30,000 without playing a pot past the flop. The dealers were joking that I should just put out the raise before I get the cards. It seemed that the 3 players left were all look at each other and trying to wait each other out. So finally one of the guys pushes in his short stack and I have JJ and bust him. I have the majority of the chips in play going into 3 handed and I'm pretty sure I can't lose, so these two ask for a chop again. And I again tell them I dont chop. So they REALLY want a chop this time, and eventually tell me that they will both give me first place money just so they can chop 2nd and 3rd place. I'm like... uuhhh Ok well I guess I'll take that chop. Later that night I told Lyric and Daut at dinner, and Lyric suggested that I should have asked more than 1st place to let the other two players chop. ROFL.
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