AC Trip Report with Special Guests

Another weekend, another trip report, well actually my trips are not that frequent but I would not mind if they were.

This trip brings with it special guest appearances by Chrissy and Dom, and this being Dom's first casino card room outing.

We plan to play The Borgata's 50+10 w/1 AO 11: am tourney but much to our surprise all tourneys for the weekend were cancelled. This leaves us to make a dash for the 11: am Showboat 50+10 tourney. We barely make it to the room in time but all manage to find a seat with Dom getting in as an alternate within the first 10 minutes or so.

The tourney was uneventful with Dom and Chrissy busting out at the 5th level. I manage as a short stack to slow down my busting out until a couple hours later and finished 35 of a field of 122.

Now we head on, back to The Borgata and sit down at a 10 player 60+15 SNG tourney. This was the first time I had a chance to witness Dom's casino play and I was impressed. At one point, he was big stack with 5 players left and he was making moves and looking very confident. He made the final four but was cold decked on a couple hands and busted out. The table was very boisterous with alcohol flowing to the majority of players including myself and Dom. Dom had just found out that liquor was gratis at the table and was taking full advantage by ordering a few scotch on the rocks while I had a couple of Heinekens. Chrissy was playing her drinking slow with coffee, which is usually my drink of choice at a casino table, but I will have 1 or 2 beers on occasion, especially in the afternoon.

I end up heads up with an extremely big stack and offer to chop 350/250 with him of course taking the 350. He accepts immediately which I believe was a mistake. I was out-chipped at least 6:1 so he actually should have been able to take me out and take the full $400 for first place, but he did mention that I was aggressive and like shoving my chips around so he had some trepidations and took the safe way out.

In the second SNG I played miserably. I tried to push Chrissy out of a pot early when I was holding a Q with a medium kicker on a Q 7 3 A board. Chrissy came out betting 400 and I shoved all in trying to represent the A, well that was a mistake because Chrissy was holding AQ and left me crippled. I soon busted out when one of the guys that I stacked during the previous SNG mad a loose call when I pushed with A10s and and caught his card to bust me.

After the second SNG we headed off for the 1/2NL cash game. Chrissy and I were seated at the same table and Dom was somewhere else across the sea of felt in the 85-table room. Chrissy was playing very well as was noted to me by 2 players to my right. On one hand when Chrissy held AA she milked one of them for all she could and he said that "she plays like a pro", another player 2 to my right said that she scared him and I believed him.

While I was still playing Dom sat behind me and told me how a donk at his table stacked him. Dom gets AKs and raises it up, he gets one caller. The flop comes down with an A giving him TPTK. Now this is where I am impressed with Dom's reading ability and aggression. He put the Donk all-in with his remaining stack of $120. The donk calls with 66 and is heavily dominated with only 2 outs. This is where you want to be in this game, all of your chips in the middle and being a 90%/10% favorite. Unfortunately, he hits a 6 on the river and crushes Dom's chance of doubling up.

All-in all it was not a profitable trip for anyone but it was fun and I think we all learned something new about the game.