Foxwoods

I had a pretty good time hanging out with Olli in Massachusetts the past few days, but I was even happier to finally make the trip up to Foxwoods yesterday. The trip started out kinda crappy, I got pulled over in the rental car driving 85mph in a 55mph zone. I worked my charm on the police officer and she reduced the ticket to a 65mph in a 55mph, so I guess that was my first suckout of the day :)

Foxwoods has a really impressive poker room. There are probably over 100 tables and nearly all of them are being played, with games ranging from 1-5 Stud to 100-200NLHE. I signed up for $10/25NL and bought in with $5k.

The table was pretty decent. I had a solid image after folding a few orbits, so I decided I to make a little move. One limper and I bump it up to $150 in MP with 67o. The SB calls, as does the limper. The flop comes down Ah8h3d. It is checked to me and I fire $400. The SB thinks for a couple moments and calls, the limper folds. The turn is the 3 of spades. He checks and I fire $900. He stares me down for a while and eventually folds. I didn't show, though I really regretted it because it would have aided my image, but oh well.

I was forced to move tables and one of my first hands was JJ in my BB. 2 limpers and I make it $175. The first limper calls. The flop is 995 and I continue with a bet of $325. The turn is another 5. I think that most small PPs are in his range here, so I check, giving him a chance to try and take it down or make my river bet a little less credible. He bets $400 and I call. The river is another 5, making the board 99555. I check, he bets $800 and I make the call, only to be shown 54o for quads.

I was down around $4k at this point but the table was so good (a couple drunks) so I had to stay. Then the following hand went down: EP limp, MP raise to $75, I call in MP with KdQd, drunk button squeezes to $275, 3 callers and I call as well. The flop comes down a miraculous JdTd8s, giving me a royal flush draw. The original raiser donks $1k and I shove $5200. He thinks for quite some time before eventually mucking Ad9d, or at least so he claims. Pretty sick setup if he did, but he could be lying about his hand. I climbed my way back to even and finished the night up $1k, which I was pretty happy about considering how the night was looking at one point.

Today was similar, just instead of being down $4k I was up $4k and still ended the night up just $1k. I flopped a few miracles in the first couple hours of play:
3c4c and the flop is Ac5c8c, $1300 payoff
JJ and the flop is J92, got paid off $1k
AsJs flopped flush, got paid off $500
KsQs on a flop of Kd4s2s, turn Qd, river 3c, $1k payoff

Then came a pretty big hand. 2 limpers and I overlimp with 8h5h (patented as the live poker boredom limp), 7 people see a flop of Th9h7s. The BB bets $150, I raise to $475, he makes it $1200, I shove for his $3500 total. He called with 99 and I was drawing to 15 outs. The turn and river bricked and I lost the $7k pot :(

OK that's enough hand details, I'm getting bored reading what I'm writing! I had a great massage at the resort today, I'll probably go back again tomorrow. Sometimes I really like my lifestyle...