So what did I eat in Las Vegas?
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My "medium-well" dinner at Palm
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Yummy dessert at Palm
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Penne Arribgata at Ferrara's
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My dessert at Ferrara's
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The Poker Prof's sorbet
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Lunch at Excalibur
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Derek's favorite
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That concludes this random photo essay of Pieces of Pauly.
Heads Up with Grubby
Make sure you read Grubby's latest post called: Poker with Pauly. He wrote about playing NL together during my last night in Vegas. Here's a bit:
Pauly and I mostly stayed out of each other's way, but I was looking for a chance to play him again since we were heads-up at The Borgata last September.For the record, I had Mrs. Slick and I think she was suited. When you lose a $500 pot and your entire stack to Grubby in Atlantic City, you get a little gunshy even on a belly full of bottom-shelf vodka and a fuzzy head thanks to the painkillers. Nice play, dude. Can't wait for your strip club post!
Finally, an opportunity.
All fold to him in middle position, and he raises to $15. It's folded to me in the big blind.
Now's my chance. I have 89s. A trash hand under other circumstances. But it'd be good blogging material if I called.
I say, "I'm calling because it's you," and throw out three red birds. (I thought by doing so, this might also create future action, putting a bug in other players' ears that perhaps Pauly might be someone who likes to bluff-raise.)
The flop was 10-J-x. A seemingly innocent and familiar flop. (At The Borgata, Pauly had KK vs. my JJ when a Jack flopped.)
I look at his stack, which I sometimes do to get the person thinking I'm counting him down and preparing to put him all-in. A bet at that point will sometimes scare them off.
Trouble was, I couldn't see his stack because he had his hands clasped in front of it. I remembered how much he had, though, but I wanted the display of looking around his hands so I could "see." The gambit didn't work, because he just stared at the flop.
With a $15 preflop raise, I didn't put him on a high pocket pair. A couple times previously he raised $25, and I figured that for JJ, QQ, or KK.
But at $15 and if I read him correctly, I narrowed him down to AK or AQ. (It could've also been AJ, hitting the flop quite nicely. But I had a hunch.)
I thought about check-raising, but I wanted to give him the opportunity to get out.
I semi-bluff with a bet of $25 (a fifth of his stack)... and he folds.
Ah well, we'll have plenty of opportunities to go heads-up again, I'm sure.
After the Pauly hand, I'm back to folding. Then I pick up my second AA at that table. The first, I got the blinds.
The second, I raise small at $15, am reraised to $45, and I push. The guy calls with QQ and as the cards are run I just knew a Q would come.
This being a classic Hilton Sisters hand that would win a Pauly painting, I say, "Damn you, Pauly" (players must've thought it was strange that I was cursing at someone not in the hand) and I'm halfway up to spin the wheel for getting Aces cracked.
The board kept turning face cards (two Kings and a Jack), but no Queen, and my hand is good. I guess I've been beaten down so many times with the better hand preflop, that my confidence has faltered.
So, how about random Vegas pics?
Vegas Photo Dump
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The Bellagio's Water Show
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What Grubby sees everyday...
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This is the only place in Las Vegas where I am up for my career!
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In the Luxor
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More Luxor
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The view from our room
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In Cesear's Palace
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I love these signs posted all over casinos...
Just a quick reminder... see everyone on Poker Stars tonight at 9pm EST for the next event on the WPBT! I will be running another Hilton Sisters Challenge. Be on the look out for pocket Queens...
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