Vegas Day 7 - Venetian $2.5k - El River Blufferino

I played the Venetian 2.5k today, but played poorly after a drunken late night (morning?) cash session with Volcano, Deven, Fluke and Jalfont. 20k starting stack, but the starting table contained 3 Equadorian riverboat gamblers, and I didn’t win any of the gambles.

Incredibly, in 7 hours play, I got AQ in the hole once…and that’s it. Nothing else. Everything was literally K2, Q5, T4 etc etc. Hugely frustrating especially with Aces and Kings getting shown down left right and centre around me. I managed to get my stack back up to 22k, by blind agression, and hitting a flop here and there. Unfortunately I lost 12k of my chips running a huge river bluff with . Hand was as follows:

He raises to 600. I call on the button with . I decide I am going to play this hand like a monster, if the right scare cards come along.

Flop is

He only bets 900 so I call, as I actually have a gutshot here and want to represent the diamond draw.

Turn is 10c

He bets 1500 and I call.

River is a diamond. The perfect scare card.

He bets 2k and re-raise to 8k with my 5 high. He thinks for ages, and muses out loud “got the flush huh?”. He finally calls and I muck without even looking at his cards. Guy next to me says he showed KK.

After that I anted down for a while before shoving over an early raiser and 3 callers with . Many players never seem to understand this move, but when you are 20k below stack average and have 12 big blinds, you might as well generate a huge pot with live cards to try and get back in the tournament. I get called in 2 spots, so there is tons of dead money in the pot, but unfortunately I don’t connect and I am bust.

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