What's up with the what's up? That's what's up.

I played 1/2 at the Venetian and Caesar's yesterday.  Precious few hands to speak of.  In about 4 hours at the Venetian, I never felt the need to add on to my original short stack.  I had one premium starting hand in that time, so mostly I was folding.  The one premium, I limped for the straddle in the new utg with KK.  Good player to my left makes it 20.   Folds around to me, I'm all-in.  He calls.  I flop and turn Kings, and my quads hold up.  He tells me he had JJ, which makes sense.  That pot puts me up to me high for the session - a whopping $156.  I eventually leave up $17.

During the session, the reason why I didn't feel the need to add-on is because there wasn't any big stacks giving away money.  I tried to loosen up the action by talking and then getting a show one card when not called agreement.  I had different deals with the players to my right and left about if it's folded to us in the blinds.  I asked if one guy's hair was real.  Alas, still not huge mistakes being made, so we went to dinner.

At this point, I was happy to go upstairs and have some Panda, but that wasn't good enough for Tom.  So, I trick him into paying the extra on my meal at Noodle Asia.  I should add that money to my poker winnings.   Hi-yaa.

We head to Caesar's.  Sidenote:  Don't walk through the Forum Shops.  I proceed to get in one of the best, juiciest, gambliest 1/2 games EVAH.  People are calling 40 on the river with K high, talking about how hard it is to fold top pair shitty kicker for an all-in from a nit, and bluffing for stacks regularly.  Nice.  I proceed to win 5 hands in 4 hours.  I saw a neverending string of 93o, J4o, J6o, T4o, etc.

At one point, a kid sits down on my right for a little less than 300.  He proceeds to get it in pre against the crazy at the table, with AQ.  He hits a Q, and the other guy only shows an A (so I think he got it in with AT or worse, since he would have shown AK and there were two jacks on the board).  A little while later, the kid bets pre, flop, and turn for obvious value against crazy with a final board of 86j63, with a flopped club flush draw getting there on the river.  Sure enough, despite the board pairing on the turn, crazy overbets enough to put the kid all-in on the river, and the kid tank folds.  Crazy shows T9o and explains how to play to the kid.  About an orbit later, kid raises to 10 in EP and crazy and one other  idiot with over 1k in front of him both call.  Flop J52r.  Checks around.  K on the turn.  Ch/ch/20.  Crazy then check/raises to 80.   Kid makes it 150, crazy snap shoves, and kid snap calls with JJ to double up (to 760).  A couple of hands later, kid makes it 10 pre, crazy raises to 45, idiot calls, kid reraises to 210, crazy calls, idiot folds.  Flop 984r.  Kid jams, crazy thinks for a second and calls.  Kid shows QQ, turn pairs the 9, river a blank.   Crazy mucks, meaning he played a 1300 pot with relative shit.  Yes, he lost 1k in two hands at 1/2.  Without much.  It was a good game.  And, he wasn't the only spot.  And, yes I only won 5 hands in 4 hours.  Frustrating, but I was happy to leave up 240.

There are more hands that I could use to relay the craziness, but they don't offer much that interesting.   One guy flopped a boat after limping aces, got the turn and river to double pair the board so he could get paid.  Wow.

I'll tell you one hand that makes me look good.  I have Tc8d in the bb.  It limps around and we see a flop of Qd9d3s.  A young, dour foreigner bets 10 after a check by me and crazy, folds to me, I call, crazy calls.  Turn Td.  Checks around.  River As.  I check, crazy bets 55, dour folds, and I tank hero-call and am good.  Easy game.

Ok, I didn't play the GN HORSE yesterday.  I think MGM has a Tuesday night HORSE, so I am planning to play that.  Also, I didn't work out Sunday, but I did get to the gym yesterday.  So, today it's work out, play cash, play MGM HORSE.  Go, Jim!