Wynn - no win

The Wynn is one of the most swanky hotels on the strip, and as with such places, they deliberately make it hard to go places without passing lots of ridiculously expensive shops. To add to the joy, google maps has the poker room located in a different place than it actually is, so I had a lot of wandering through places like below before I actually found it:

Typical Wynn Shopping

The room was hopping when I arrived, the 12pm daily tournament was underway about an hour and had 4 tables going. Plus a lot of 2/5, 5/10 and various PLO tables. I had to wait about 20 minutes before they created a new 1/3 table to accomodate the wait list and then we were off. The table was a mix of a few tourists (in holiday mode - good!) and a bunch of regulars of various ages. There wasn't a huge amount of action, and the cards weren't really coming my way. I slowly bled chips with a variety of promising hands that didn't deliver, before one decent hand put me slightly ahead again.

A mid position player (regular, old guy, with a tendency to bluff big) opened for 15 and it came to me in the CO with QQ. I popped it to 40 and the old guy called. The flop was jack high and he checked to me, where I bet 35. He raised to 140 (which I though was all-in), but it turned out he had 4 chips left. I called, and bet the last 4 on the river after his check. He called and showed J3 for top pair no kicker and my queens were good.

The last hour or so was a depressing series of me opening and getting multiple callers while missing the flop, or getting raised off marginal hands pre, or getting no callers with my strong hands 😡
The last big hand was me in the BB. There were two limpers and the button (an aggressive new player) raised to 15. I looked down at KQs and knowing he could well be taxing the limpers, popped it to $55. He insta-shoved for $500 and I had no choice but to fold.

Overall, as I posted yesterday, it feels like I'm not in top gear yet, and while I was despondent leaving the table after 3 successive losing sessions, with the benefit of some reflection and a good nights sleep, I'm a bit more phlegmatic today. I'm down around 1 buy in at these stakes, which really isn't significant, and I've definitely come back from bigger 'holes' before. If I was playing online (admittedly for single digit dollar buy-ins!) I wouldn't be thinking twice. There have been at least 10 players in the 3 sessions who've put in more than that while I was at the table. So deep breadth and relax and look to find my thythm and trust that the cards will eventually run my way a bit more.

Wanted Rating: 0/5 stars
Cars Stolen: 0
Prostitute Encounters: 0
Poker winnings: -$256

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