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Borgata NL500

Craps break. Down $275. Should have stuck with my 'winning' table, why I tried a new one is beyond me.

New table after dinner. I buy in for $475.

Okay, a lot of these hands involve same 2 people, Aggressive Solid Young Guy, who I've played with at least 4 times, and Non-Rocky Old Guy. ASYG and NROG for short.Hand 1 - ASYG is up to 1300 in chips, minraises dark UTG2 and says, "If anyone raises my blind raise, I'm all in." Puts chip protector on cards, never looks at his hand.NROG raises to 40 from his 500 stack. I call with JJ on the button.
ASYG shoves all-in. NROG and he start trash-talking each other, you're not gonna bully me, I told you not to raise me, I have a real hand here, blah blah. NROG calls.
I quickly fold. ASYG has yet to look at his hand.NROG flips over AQh.Flop comes J65o. Dammit! I could have tripled up. Turn is a 9. River is an Ace. ASYG takes his card protector off, flips over...pocket Aces! The crowd literally exploded. 3 of us watched him the whole hand, he never, ever looked at his cards. I would have lost to a one-outer for a really soul-destroying beat.

NROG reloads.

Hand 2 - I get red Aces on button. First hand better than 99 in many hours. ASYG raises to 25, NROG calls, I raise to 75, ASYG re-raises to 150, NROG folds, I shove, ASYG thinks, eyes my stack [I started hand with 320 or so] says, 'If you had a full stack I would fold' and calls, flips over red Kings.Flop comes Ac8c5c. Turn is 3c and I'm sweating, but River blanks. Double up.

Hand 3 - I get K4c in blinds. 5 limpers including NROG, I check.Flop comes Jc7c4h. Nice for me. I lead out for $20, called by MP and NROG. Turn is a 2s, I check, MP checks, NROG bets 40, I call 40, MP raises to 90, NROG goes all-in.Now what do I do?
At this point, NROG had been playing very solid [AQs v random hand is a good wager, imho] so I folded here. MP called.River is a total blank. NROG turns over T9c for missed flush. MP mucks! My pair of 4s were good! Sheesh. NROG doubles up.

That set up the following hand shortly thereafter:
Hand 4 -I have KQs in BB. MP raises to 15, NROG calls from Cutoff, I call.Flop comes KhQhXs. I check, wanting to CR aggressive MP or NROG.Check, checked around. No dice!
Turn comes Td. I check, MP bets 40, NROG raises to 80. I raise to 200*, figuring if they both shove I can probably fold if I read one of them as strong. I have about 330 behind this. MP folds, NROG goes all-in, has me slightly covered*. I'm getting 2.5-1 to call. Do you call here?
I put NROG on one of the following hands: AA, AK, KQ, QJ, JT, TT, AJ, AQ. I feel there is <1% chance he has KK or QQ here, also I have 2 of them, obviously. I called.

By the end of the night, I still had not made a single set [save the AA v KK hand where it wasn't needed, and the JJJ would have lost to AAA] flush or straight.

Of course NROG has AJ for the win.

* It was late, I was tired and I don't know if our dealer counted my 120 raise when she counted the NROG's all-in. I'm not sure if he had me covered by 30, or if I had him covered by 90. But the dealer raked all the chips in the pot so I couldn't be sure among the blacks, greens, and reds if she had counted properly.

Borgata pre-dinner

New room is nice, there are 2 diff check-in areas depending on your game [NL and high-limit seem to be at the rear, keep going...] about 85 tables, now upstairs instead of in the horrific freezing cold down area with only 3 urinals for 65 tables, bathroom size is much better now.Some dealers and floor people obviously newbies, but only open 3 weeks so I assume they will get in gear or be canned. I didn't have any problems {I think*} but I did see one dealer miscount a all-in call which was corrected quickly by the players, as she didn't drag in the one guys chips for the call before counting the raise. [is there a term for that? there needs to be.]

Must move table I only won 1 pot in about 2 hours, QQ where I raised, bet flop, was called once, overbet turn because I didn't want him staying with me and I figured he'd raise all-in if I was beat and I could save a few chips, he folded. Pushed the draw out I guess.

Next table was down then nicely up, I get 97s in the blinds in a multi-way limped pot [this table had TONS of limpers, most I've seen in AC, many pots were 6-way to the flop or more] -Flop comes 7h7d6d. Nice. I check, MP bets 15, LP calls, I call. Turn is Ten of spades. I check, MP bets 50, LP calls, I call - std? River is 9d. Jackpot. Flush 'got there,' and 8 makes straight.Pot is about $225 now. MP leads $125. LP calls?!How to maximize profits here?
I think about making it 250 but decide on raising to $300, so they have to call 175 more getting 4.4-1. I am sure I will get at least one caller with that board.Shockingly, and for the only time at that table, 2 guys folded a big pot on the end. I don't show, obviously. I can only surmise there was a bluff and a low flush, or the straight and a bad flush out there. But I won't complain, that was a nice pot.

Leave table for dinner about an hour later, best hand so far was QQ, had 2 AK hands I had to fold on flop to heavy action. Other than that nothing above 77, no sets, no flushes or straights.

Been playing with a buddy and this guy in a "Hershey's" hoodie for a while, I thought he was solid, my friend thought he was bad when we compared notes prior to this hand.Hershey is in LP, has been raising my blinds *very* consistently throughout the day, I have had nothing to play back with, bluffed once and he raised flop so I let it go.
Hershey raises to 15 pf, Button calls, I call in BB with 97h.[4.2-1? Why not. But not with a worse hand here.]Flop comes Ah9c7d. Nice. I check.Hershey bets 15, Button calls, I raise to 35.

Hershey calls, B folds.Turn is a total blank. I check.Hershey bets 35, I check-raise him again to 100. He thinks, thinks, calls. River is an Ace. I check, he checks and shows AKo for the winner. I was totally amazed he thought his hand was good on the Turn. It's not like the 'double check raise after the flop' is a common move at this level with a bluff. I went to dinner shortly after that hand.

Net +$338 so far.