I recorded most of the interesting hands on my iphone after they were over. Reviewing my mistakes at night would probably help me avoid the same mistakes in future.
First Session at Grand Lisboa
Session Stats: 1115-1230hrs, 1h 15min, +HKD 2935, NL 10/25, Buyin 5000
Atmosphere: 3 tables running, all NL10/25. Only see 2-3 white guys and a few American Born Chinese (I think, from their accent). Most are PRCs/HKers.
Player Types: There weren't any gigantic whales. Most were just semi-tight and passive so you can apply pressure with multi-barrels which is always a nice thing. Other than that, the Chinese fish play like ur typical white guys in Vegas. One thing to note is that the Chinese seem to be all middle-aged mostly, compared to the old retired Americans in Vegas.
I have been observing the table for a while, trying to get some live tells on the players. One guy was listening to his MP3 and had an aloof expression on his face, after he betted. Was trying to deduce whether his hand was a monster or not but couldn't get anything.
1) Aloof guy limps with 55 and another limper comes along. I isoraise to 150 (6BB) in the BU and everyone folds except him. The board came out KXXAX. he donks about 300 into 400 and of course I call, with my Top pair. I'm not too sure what he has at this point but his donkbet seems really fishy and I was mostly putting him on some weak pair at this point in time. he checks on the Ace and of course I checkbehind, hoping to either induce another bluff, induce a light calldown on the river, or just reduce my losses overall if I was beat by his Ace. he bets again on the river, about 60% pot-size and I obviously opted to look him up, not giving him too much credit for anything strong. If he really had something strong he would have checked to me and raised over my flop bet. I won about 1000+ from him
2) A few hands later, Aloof guy limps with A7o from Early Position, together with the guy on his left. I picked up QQ and raised to 150 (6BB). A player in Late position came along and so did the first limper. Pot had 500 now.
Flop came out AQ7 with two clubs. Aloof guy leads into us for 350. I chose to call in case other guy had an Ace, I didn't want to chase him out. One could argue that I would probably need to raise for protection but AQX isn't as coordinated as a board like JTX so I'm fine with slowplaying the flop. Turn brought an off-suit T. He bets 1000 into 1200 and I minraised to 2000. He had another 300 so he shipped it in. River brought a 7 and the dealer misread the board. He almost gave the other guy the win, with his 7s full of As but everyone pointed out his mistake and that my Qs full of 7s was the best hand. Won about 3500 from this hand.
3) I picked up KJ in Middle Position and isoraised a limper or 2 to 150. A semi-aggro guy called and so did one of the limpers. Board came out 845r and I made a continuation bet of 300 on the Flop (which is super terrible IMO cos many people might not even fold Ace high in this spot). Aggro guy made a raise to 700 and I was paranoid that he was making a move on me so I flatted. I had some reads on him that he was particularly stabby in position in 3 or 4 way pots when it was checked to him but I had no idea how light he raises in such spots. In retrospect it was a terrible play. Turn brings an off-suit 8 and he fires again. I saw him giving up previously when the King paired on the turn so I think he really had a fullhouse or a straight.
Burnt about 1000 during this session from bad play
Second Session at Wynn
Session Stats: 1230-1615hrs, -HKD 14580, NL 50/100, Buyin 12500+2100
Players: This time we had a Korean, and the rest were Chinese. Two of them had American accents and spoke Cantonese while the rest were all Mainlanders. When I arrived the game was only 6-handed cos it was still quite early. When I was chipped down super bad, a Caucasian guy (I think he is European) sat to my left. He was the biggest fish for the day but too bad I was card dead towards the end + lacking in chips.
1) So I start off by stealing from the BU to 600. UTG straddled and he defends. board came out 98485. I checked behind on the flop cos it hits his range pretty hard but when he checked the turn again I definitely had to stab so I made a healthy looking bet of 80% pot. He thinks and calls pretty quickly. Now I suspect he would have probably donked out an 8 on the turn, and also most 9X or overpairs. So I'm putting him on a hand like 77-22/4X, sometimes even Ace high and rarely a passively played 9X hand. River came out a 5. I decided that I could rep a passively played 67 or 8X (which opted to potcontrol on the flop) so I bet rather big again and he folds.
2) I have been quite tight for a while. BU is an aggressive American Chinese and SB is a passive/weak PRC guy. I picked up 59s which is quite shitty but still somewhat playable with a few gutshot possibilities and flush potential so I squeeze 1300 into the initial raise of 300. BU calls and SB folds. Flop comes out AATs and for some reason my hand started to shiver (which is a physical tell that I have a monster). I tried to look nervous too but I think he probably didn't have anything anyway and folds to my halfpot bet.
3) I call AJs vs an EP raise and it was 4way, with the Korean being in the small blind. Korean leads out 1900 into 2300 on a AJ5s board. all fold to me and I raise to 6000 which is about half my stack. korean tank/folds and i earned about 4000 so I'm up 5000 at this point.
4) I raise from Middle Position with 78s (400) and I have 3 callers, 2 being in the blinds. SB is the same American Chinese. Both blinds check to me on a AK2s board and I cbet with my flushdraw 1000 into 1600. SB raises to 3000 and I call his raise, given that I was deep with him (I had 17500 and he covers). Turn was a blank 5 and he bets 2750 into 7600 which is really small so I call again with my good odds to hit. River was another 5 and he jams 15000 into me. I do some Hollywood and think for a while before folding. He shows a single 2 so he either had 22 or some random 2X bluff.
5) I steal from BU with T5o and chose to 2 barrel AQ2r6 board after villain instacheck/caled the flop. I was ready to fire 3 times cos he reeked of weakness with his timing tell (no one ever calls so quickly with a super strong hand cos they need time to consider whether they should raise or not). I also knew he wasn't a complete station.
6) I raise from MP and Aggro American Chinese 3bets me from SB so I fold A7s.
7) Aggro guy 3bets BU vs CO with AQ and stacks off for about 13000 preflop. He stupidly outlevels himself into thinking that he would get 4bet bluffed because of his image and ran into AA. Stupid thing was that the board came out KKX and the solid PRC asks, "Do you have KK?" Upon hearing that i knew he certainly had AA. rest of us at the table were like "wtf?". Other guy says I have AQ and muck his hand, leaving after he lost his entire stack.
8) I isoraise from Late Position with J9o and solid PRC calls from blinds, limper calls too. Board came out J57r3 and I bet/called a checkraise from the solid PRC guy which might/might not have been good. I still don't know cos I did see him pull a move on the crazy European later on.
9) Now I'm down to 5500 left and I pick up JJ. Another PRC guy raises to 900 cos it was a straddle pot and other guy calls, I shipped JJ. PRC guy tank/folds (what he claimed was AK lol) and other guy tank/folds with what he claimed was a middle pair.
10) I raise K8o to 700 from CO in a straddle pot and get called by SB/UTG. SB was a quiet girl who seems to be from HK while the UTG is a fat HK guy. Flop came out Q9XsQsK and I chose to check because I figured there were many straightdraws on the flop and I wasn't getting anything to fold. Turn was checked around again. River was bad card for me, the girl bets out 1900 into 2700 and I chose to call cos she might have easily been stabbing at the pot there. She shows A7s for the nutflush and takes the pot down. I'm almost broke at this point, with 2000 left.
11) I have been folding almost every hand for 15-20 hands. I picked up 33 in the big blind, some guy isoraises to 500 and I shipped 2000. In retrospect I have at most 30% fold equity since he is quite committed with about 2700 in the pot and him having to call only another 1500 more.
I did see him squeeze into 4 people with 23s earlier on though so I guess he wasn't as tight as the others. board came out AJTXX and he mutters "i'm screwed" in Mandarin. I show my hand which was 100% dead and he happily flips his 88 to take the pot down.
Overall Profit: -$11645 HKD (-$1500 USD)
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