Highlights

I played extremely well all night. The only thing that stopped me was Hymie calling me on a flush draw with about 50% of the odds he needed.

Game 1: Musky dominated early building a massive stack. He then went into his shell, and folded his way to the final two. When raised by Magic Man, he thought and re-raised all in. Magic called, won the hand and the tournament. The fact that Musky held Kojack to Magic's KT is beside the point.

It was the second biggest choke job in MPT history. No one is sure what the biggest choke job is, but we're trying to make Musky feel better.

Game 2: Apparently sucking out on Magic's AA wasn't enough of a boost. So when he found himself outchipped 10-1 against Regulator, he had some work to do. He took down some pots when the killer hand came. Reg does not raise with KK. The flop comes 866. Reg is first to act, and goes all in. Hymie called with Q6 and essentially eliminates Reg as a threat.

To review: Reg took a very high risk reward option. He didn't raise with KK, thereby allowing any hand in the pot. With a potentially scary flop, he committed his entire stack without the benefit of knowing the strength of Hymie's hand.

Reg: I think it's a big mistake not raising with KK, but I can kind of see your thought process. You wanted to get it over with right then. The only thing you were scared of would be an A on the flop, and even then without Hymie raising, no big risk.

However, two questions remain. A) What hands was Hymie going to have that we would have a good second best hand without raising pre-flop that would enable him to lose a lot of money post flop? B) Why on earth go all in on that flop? What possible hand is he going to have to call you with that doesn't have you beat? K8?

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Repeat Offender

As I'm 'stuck' here in Vegas at a convention, I thought I'd might as well get some poker in. I'm staying at Disney-Vegas (aka the Excalibur). So I sat down for a couple tournaments. Both were 50 player tourneys that paid 6.

Tourney1: I was doing pretty well when we got to the final table. I was a little above par when they combined. Except that they let the players coming in choose their position. I had played with the chip leader, and he sat down to my left. He apologized at how lame it was he could choose where to sit.

Promptly, a weak player limped in, and I looked down at AT. I knew I could outplay the guy after the flop, and I still had the chip leader behind me, so I called. Chip leader put me all in. Fold. There goes 1/8th of my stack. The chip leader apologized for position again. *Note to Hymie- the problem is that the player chose the position, not that the whole table wasn't randomized.

Anyway, I looked down at KK, and knew I was all in no matter what. If I went all in right away, I'd just get the blinds, so I just raised knowing I was all in no matter what hit. Two callers, excellent. Flop comes Txx, and I push. One guy was all in before the flop, and the other called. He hits runner runner to make a straight with QJ. I was bubbled out.

Tourney2: I was playing well, watching people go all in all over the place, picking off pots here and there, buying some others. By the time we hit the final table, I was getting short stacked. I pushed UTG with A5, and the BB called after some thought. He showed A8. I stood up, ready to be out 10th. Nothing on the flop. Nothing on 4rth. And a 5 showed on the river. I looked at the guy I sucked out on and said "You've been MPT'd!" Not really.

The next 10 hands were all J2 82 95 T4 crap. People were all in ahead of me each time. So I folded again and again and again. I ended up folding my way to 2nd place. Not a bad result for such crappy cards.

Khyle All time Vegas results: 3 tourneys, 2 seconds, 1 bubble. I am officially the #1 MPT Vegas player. That and $2.50 will get me coffee at Starbucks...