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Poker Blogs in the "Trip Report" category
Below are all the poker blog posts in the Trip Report category.
Visited Vegas last weekend with some old friends. Unfortunately they are not poker players but we hadn't seen each other for a few years and had a gr (more)
I stayed at the Rio the last time I went to Vegas. I had a pretty sick hand come up at the $2/5 NL table. My action on the river still bothers me a (more)
Played some $2-4 on Stars this morning for about an hour. My usual 3 table setup. I have been trying to be a bit more patient and today I made it a (more)
I went to the Hustler the other night to check out some of the NL cash games. I sat in a $500 min buy-in (I bought in for $1000)...blinds were $5/$10 (more)
I played the Hustler Wednesday night tournament tonight. For those of you who haven't played it, it's a $150 buy-in with a $25 fee, no rebuy freezeou (more)
So I was speaking to Edmond yesterday and he mentioned that he was heading out to the Hustler for their Wed. tournament. If you read my blog from yes (more)
This report was actually from January of this year, but I wasn't using this blog site then so only posted the report on 2+2. Since I haven't won too (more)
We left the city early on Saturday morning and got up to Foxwoods at about 11am. Enough time to buy in for the $500 tournament and get a quick bite t (more)
I decided to try my hand at Full Tilt for the first time - and play like the pros as they say on the commercials. Or do they say 'Play with the pros? (more)
Hey, I don't mean this blog to be filled with bad beats. But this one was classic. I guess the 5 out-er on river that I wrote about last night was n (more)
I've continued to receive some bad beats, but I've also began to suck-out just as much -- a few QQ and KK beating AA, my two pair getting all in on th (more)
I just got back from Vegas and while I was there i had time to play in a $50 rebuy at the Aladdin. The "room" is small because it is under constructi (more)
I visited Vegas last week and played in the new room at Casears for the first time and really enjoyed it -- see my review at [url=http://www.tworags. (more)
Headed down to Atlantic City this weekend to play in the $1500 NL tourney at the Borgata. It was brutal. Was 2nd best all weekend, KK ran into AA, 5 (more)
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $6 BB (6 handed) [url=http://poker-tools.flopturnriver.com/Hand-Converter.php]Hand History Converter Tool[/url] from [url (more)
I was in San Diego over the weekend and I found a cool little poker room called the Lucky Lady. The cardroom is smaller than most LA rooms (about 7 t (more)
Played the new tournament room at the Hustler for the first time last night. About two months ago, the Hustler renovated the room behind the old tour (more)
Visited the Hustler on Thursday night for a little $2/5 NL. I'm not crazy about their structure because they have a $300 max buyin ($100 min). I bel (more)
Ok, I’m in town at the Mirage for Super Bowl weekend with a group of real degenerates. One of the guys is a $1k per hand blackjack player so we’r (more)
I got off to a REALLY fast start. We start off with 2500 chips for the 25/25 level (big field – about 450 runners, $1k each). At the end of the 2n (more)
Drove up to the Chumash with my friend for a night of fun and poker. We got here a bit before dinner and the wait wasn't too bad for the $200 NL game (more)
So my wife and I planned to head up to Santa Barbara wine country for a romantic Valentine's dinner at the Sunstone Vineyard with a few other couples. (more)
I played in the last event at the LAPC prior to the main event. It was another $1k event with about 500 runners. Like last week, I got off to anothe (more)
I played yesterday in a 5/10 NL game for a few hours and netting about 400+. Nothing special to speak up, but check this hand out:
Young guy, good (more)
Playing heads up for WSOP seat. It's the first table of double shootout.
then this hand came up...
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Bl (more)
A buddy and I headed over to the Crystal Park casino. We were supposed to play in a home game, but only 3 of us showed, so we decided to move the gam (more)
I have played the 11:30a $25 rebuy tournament at Hollywood Park twice in the last couple of days and what a marshmallow it is! It is impossible to ra (more)
The Poker Room at the Grand Victoria Casino was a comfortable setting, reminded me of playing a home game. The dealers were extremely nice and even mo (more)
While in Indiana we decided to stop at Argosy before we headed home. I must say this is one of the biggest if not the biggest Riverboat Casino's in In (more)
Here's how to play like a donk and get rewarded...
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $6 BB (9 handed)
UTG ($679)
UTG+1 ($432.95)
MP1 ($170.90)
MP (more)
I really don't know what I can add about this room that hasn't already been said 8) . It's very well run, thanks Anthony! The dealers are extremely co (more)
Wednesday nite and after being in town for 48 hours, I've finally held cards in me wee hands
I knew I'd finish my "all day" class early and since (more)
I sat down w/ a few buddies at the Horseshoe in Shreveport this Good Friday. Here’s a brief hand recap for this 13 hour session. I got down early an (more)
After catching 3 hours of sleep in order to rest up for the supposed 3am weakening of the tables at the $1-2 cash game this weekend in Tunica, I sat b (more)
**will be posted in segments**
**will contain pictures, but they might be big, and some are from a cell-phone, so they’ll be crappy**
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Friday morning I wake up and head for the 4-8 (half-kill) game. As with other times I’ve been to GC, it’s full of gamboooooling Asians. Awesome. I (more)
So I came down to LA this past weekend to see a few friends. At first I didn't think we would be able to fit in any poker because we were pretty busy (more)
Saturday morning I come downstairs at Bally’s and see a 5-handed 3-6 game going, so why not. I put my chips down, then go grab something to eat, and (more)
I finished class a little past 12:30 and stuck around the corporate office till 2 pm wrapping things up and saying goodbye to my Vegas crew. I'd decid (more)
I made my way over to the Huslter last night for the 7pm tournament. Hadn't played any poker for a few weeks so when [url=http://www.tworags.com/hom (more)
Onward to Friday nite to play in the 7pm Sarhara tourney for $62. Parked at Caesars, my base of operations for the week but before I'm off I just HAVE (more)
I had business in Orange County the week of 4/17 and as any good poker player would do, I flew out the Friday before the week of work! I had tournamen (more)
After my Hawaiin Gardens experience, I ditched the weekend plan, mapped out the route to Vegas and early Saturday morning, I was on my way to the Vene (more)
I wasn't looking forward to heading back to LA but Vegas was booked solid and I wasn't in the mood to pay $300 for a short over-nite stay. I decided t (more)
Last but not least, with work looming, I had to get setup for a week of training. After completing the business side of the trip, I decided to ditch m (more)
$200 total with the rebuy but a "short field with only 5 tables starting made it a bit of a damper. Word is getting out as it should, it's a good stru (more)
First two hands, her KK hold up, then she hits a flush on the river. After 10 minutes she’s up about 140 and I’m telling her to warn me if she’s (more)
Four hours of half-sleep at Bally’s, and I’m back down at my morning spot, the Bally’s 3-6. This time there’s a full table. The table’s real (more)
I’ve got a little itch to play NL, seeing as I’m +$511 from limit at this point, so Alex, Ubaldo, & I sit down at the famous Luxor $50max game. I (more)
The seven whole hours of sleep does me good, and I’m looking for poker at 8am on my last day in town. Unfortunately it’s a Monday. I want to get s (more)
No limit to be found, but they did have a great comp lunch deal by scotty-win Posted April 20th, 2007
It's Monday, late morning and I head to the V to meet Alex & Steve. I’ll play any limit up to 8-16 at this point, but of course there’s no game g (more)
I’m about to pass out, but the other guys want to try to all play in the same 3-6 game at Bally’s, so I join in for a hundo. Stupid move on my par (more)
I’m pumped to play at the B. Before this trip I was intimidated by the place and had never even thought of playing there. Also, before this trip I (more)
Played in the $125 plus one rebuy tournament last Monday. There were approximately 130 entrants and we started off with 1500 chips at the 25/25 level (more)
I spent five days at Caesars Palace for the WSOP Circuit Event and thoroughly enjoyed my time in their poker room. The room is very well appointed, an (more)
Gladiators with paper swords and an orgy. Just another day at Caesars! by PianoMan Posted August 5th, 2007
Whenever I think I’ve seen a twisted hand—BAM!—another more twisted one shows up. On my recent trip to Caesars, I saw two of the sickest hands (more)
A friend and I arrived at the Horseshoe about 5pm on Friday the 11th. We had called in 30 minutes out to put our name on the list and sure enough, we (more)
The tournament started with something like ~190 runners. We all received 3000 chips; blinds start at 25/50 and go up every 30 minutes. I like Turnin (more)
I recently had some business in the Lake Tahoe area and had intended to bring my wife, but she had to bail out at the last minute. Naturally, I had a (more)
I'll have a couple of trip reports coming soon on my trip to Tahoe and Reno, but first I need to vent about a situation that came up yesterday. I wen (more)
One of the things that wasn't fully covered in my last post was what I did between the 200/400/50 and the 1000/2000/300 levels. Since I was only post (more)
And the FEARFUL…and UNBELIEVING…and ALL LIARS…shall have their part in the lake of fire! And so it was at the Grand Sierra Pot of Gold tourname (more)
After taking a short break from cards (and I mean short. It was less than a week, but we skipped our usual home game, which felt kinda long), my husba (more)
I had the good fortune to attend the Cirque du Soliel show LOVE at the [url=httphttp://www.tworags.com/MirageHotelandCasino.html]Mirage[/url] this pas (more)
I went to play cards at my favorite location this weekend, the Horseshoe- Bossier City. I actually rented a room this time and was able to play some (more)
My fellow coworker (Landlord79) and I went over to Bossier City, LA to play some $1-$2 NL live poker this past weekend and the following is a session (more)
Short update since I just got back from a long day: I'm in the money at my first WSOP event of '07, the 2K NL (Event #10.) 125 of 1500-odd people rema (more)
Final tally - 63'rd/15xx for (40% of - I'm fully backed) $8,359.
I started out at a pretty decent table and quickly chipped up to 5500 from the st (more)
Horseshoe, Bossier City, LA
6/23/07
One thing that I am starting to realize in live play is that table selection is vastly more important than it (more)
Played the $550 deepstack at Venetian on 6/13 and did well. Started with $10K in chips and my table was very aggressive and lots of good players (1 ma (more)
So played again the next day and again got up to $60k in chips.
Early on got very lucky when all in with 44 vs. 99 and flopped a set. Flopped a set (more)
To start this trip report off, I’d like to say that I love going to Tunica, it’s such an awesome place. The food is awesome and the poker action (more)
This past weekend [b]Landlord79[/b] and I made our semi-annual trip to Tunica, Mississippi to partake in some poker and some good southern hospitality (more)
Recently, I’ve been compiling a comparison chart of LA card rooms for my own reference and as a simple way to respond to the frequent "I'm going (more)
After [url=http://www.tworags.com/index.php?ACTION=blogs&todo=view&ID=595]my visit to Ocean's 11 Casino[/url], I headed back north toward LA and (more)
What can I say? It was an awesome trip, I was reading people really well and the [url=http://www.tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity.html]Horseshoe - (more)
I went to the Naples-Ft Myers Greyhound Track poker room for the first time in 4 years last Saturday. My, how things have changed! The room was jump (more)
I visited the Commerce last week to meet with some potential business partners. After the meeting I decided to stick around for a few hour cash game (more)
This trip to the Horseshoe-Bossier City was filled with perils and pitfalls for me, both on the table and psychologically. If you keep up w/ my blog, (more)
A trip to Downtown Fresno's Cardroom...very interesting by robertsonjeff Posted September 14th, 2007
I play poker professionally and came across Club One, it wasn't quite what I expected. The place is run half like a big cardroom in LA and half a shad (more)
[b]First Satellite[/b]
I made it the Commerce around 3pm. The tournament wasn’t starting until 7pm so I had plenty of time to play a one tabl (more)
This is a GREAT Poker Room !!! I truly felt like I was at home in my own game room. Everyone seems to know everyone, and there is an excellent feeli (more)
So.. went to Vegas for Rolling Stone’s 40th anniversary weekend bash and it was sick! Snoop Dog Friday night, 50 Cent and Kanye on Saturday night. I (more)
Defying even the most aggressively managed expectations, I made it into day 2 of the California State Poker Championships with an average stack. 362 (more)
If a duck takes a dump on you before you leave home, is that luck? by StrayBullet Posted September 26th, 2007
Day1, 9/21:
Decided to cab it to the airport due to the length of the trip and of course I had to leave at the height of rush hour! So I wait, and (more)
Well, I just wrapped up a grueling 2 weeks at the Borgata. I was playing everyday averaging over 10 hour sessions. Unfortunately, it was not a profita (more)
While driving down 75 (I had some business to take care of in North Carolina, so I was returning home. Alas, I'd spent the previous night in Jacksonv (more)
Played in the October tournament series at the Bike last night. The buy-in was $350 with 200 or so runners. I got home around 3:30am and only slept (more)
TI Tourney/George Carlin
***Warning*** Poker stupidity contained herein, continue at your own risk!
There's a reason why Dave's winning these (more)
Day 2, 9/22:
Saturday started out like any other day....any other day that smacks you upside the head at the CRACK OF DAWN! I'm on a typical vegas (more)
Day4, 9/24:
Monday ended up being a light day, as will the next two most likely since I actually have to do some work this trip
Got some “s (more)
It’s been well over a month and a half since I have been to my favorite card room, the [url=http://www.tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity.html]Horses (more)
I won't get into too many of the boring details of the trip. Most of my time was spent at the beach drinking, swimming, getting a tan and the rest wa (more)
This trip report consists of a day of me playing basically the lowest buy in no limit that exists. Maybe this will be helpful to anyone who is curiou (more)
I had a few hours to kill today so I went down to HG to try some $100 NL.
Sat down after waiting about 10 min. At the table one guy had about $7 (more)
Edmond and I met with the marketing folks at the Bike today and we were done around 5pm. I saw no reason to head out the door when the sweat sound of (more)
Not much really happened in the first few levels. At one point I restole preflop with 6[d]7[d] and the flop came 9[d]5[d]3[d] and he folded to my bet. (more)
Not exactly in the blogging mood, but feel obligated to let everyone know how I’m doing here in Niagara.
I made my 3rd straight Day 2, ending up (more)
King Me!!!!
[url=http://www.tworags.com/home/BJJIII]BJJII[/url] and I decided to make a run to the [url=http://www.tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity (more)
Well, my WPT Niagara run just ended.
I started the day with 33,100 with 30min left in the 300/600/100 level, so I had plenty of room to play. My t (more)
[b]Landlord79[/b] and I along with my buddy Ben, who is an online pro, made a Friday afternoon trip to play some live $1-$3NL at my home casino, [url= (more)
This was my 1st visit to the new Wheeling Casino Poker Room. Very poor directions to the Poker Room. Everyone seems a little confused as we experience (more)
Club One Casino/Ace of Diamonds Trip Report - Edmond goes to Fresno by EdmondDantes Posted November 26th, 2007
[i]Cliff notes: Edmond goes to Fresno for the big tournament. Busts out on 1st hand of Day 2. Donates buy-ins in the NL games. Vows to return.[/i] (more)
Wasn't too bad of a couple of sessions. It appears that I'm going to have to make sure that I play the second hand every time I sit down.
Saturday (more)
I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! This was the worst Thanksgiving that I can remember. We spent the day, cooped up in the house; my wife was (more)
Last Thurs night around 9p, I headed down to the [url=http://www.tworags.com/CommerceCasino.html]Commerce Casino[/url] to update my [url=http://www.t (more)
[i]Cliff notes: Edmond plays the WBPT tournament at the Venetian. Busts out with A4o. Watches flight attendants play slots at the airport.[/i]
(more)
Had to drop off some tworags/commerce promotional cards at the Commerce this afternoon and even though I didn't have much time to play I couldn't resi (more)
Hi everyone. I used to keep a blog on blogger.com, but got bored with it and stopped. I do like to discuss poker and sometimes contribute in poker d (more)
Waking up after almost 12 hours of sleep is an amazing thing. Even more so when u had spent the previous 10 hours in a car as I had done driving to Ne (more)
So now we're in the money and i can tell my table feels like its won the lottery and i think a few guys even called their wives to tell them about the (more)
So final part of this trip report that got delayed pretty much indeffinitly due to it getting garbled and I was too pissed off to rewrite it. Now i f (more)
Just got back from 2 days in Vegas and boy did I run terrible. I didn't feel i played my best game at times but I also had some bad beats. I lost 10 (more)
[b]Dec 22nd Trip to the Horseshoe-Bossier City[/b]
I took a day off from work Friday to extend my holiday weekend and to give me some time to play (more)
The Commerce Casino
6131 East Telegraph Road
Commerce, CA 90040
(323) 721-2100
[url=http://www.commercecasino.com]website[/url]
[img]http://ww (more)
The Bicycle Casino
7301 Eastern Avenue
Bell Gardens, CA 90201
(562) 806-4646
[url=http://www.thebike.com/]website[/url]
[img]http://www.twora (more)
I'll make this a quick one, full trip report to come.
I busted out of the tourney about 3 hours into day one. In the first hour I ran a set into a (more)
Well I was finishing up a session at like 3am when I busted in the midnight tourneys I wasn't sure when my flight out of Albany was but I knew my LA f (more)
So I've arrived in Melbourne for the Aussie Millions. Today was the first event, a $1K NL event with 537 players. I just busted out after losing a fli (more)
Hey, we're 4 events into the Aussie Millions now and I'm still having a blast. I haven't had too much success myself so far, but friends have already (more)
After 20+ hours of either being in an airport, or in the air, I've finally made it to the Crown Casino in Melbourne Australia.
Several of my good f (more)
I promised a tourney report and today had some interesting hands so it should make a decent one.
Rebuy period: I usually clown around a bit in live (more)
Today I played my first event here in Melbourne, a $1,500 event - and it was quick and painless, which was just fine by me.
I ended up getting QQ (more)
Lots of funny anecdotes coming from Australia the last few days.
Guess I’ll start with my roommates antics. Jeff played the $100k buyin tournamen (more)
I was a little worried that the PCA trip this year wouldn't measure up to last year but it did and I once again had a blast while I was down there.
(more)
Well, this trip's sucked.
The 5k HU event went poorly (to say the least). I won game 1 (best 2 of 3), and dropped 2 and 3. Pretty much summarizes (more)
Hi everyone - I consider myself a rookie at poker, I used to play some online. I've only played in Poker Rooms about 5 times (Morongo, near Palm Spri (more)
The Borgata is a first class establishment. Their accommodations are superb, they have a great poker room and of course their tournaments are among th (more)
[b]Cliff Notes on my 29th Birthday Trip to the HS-BC[/b]
In celebration of my 29th birthday, [url=http://tworags.com/home/Mr_Taterhead]Mr_Taterhe (more)
[b]Vegas for the Super Bowl?[/b]
Yikes, it’s been a long time since I’ve updated. We’ve been over the top busy with site-related updates and (more)
Last night I went down to meet up with 2+2er [b]Heisenb3rg[/b] who’s in town from Toronto to grind out some limit and check on [b]lakong[/b] in the (more)
I made it out to the Commerce last Friday night (February 1st) for the $545 NL event #8 of the LA Poker Classic. Approximately 550 runners showed up (more)
I arrived in LA Sunday night and played the 2.5k tournament yesterday. I started out on a really good table with a lot of people who didn't seem to be (more)
On Tuesday, I rolled down to the Commerce around 2:30p and hunted down [b]shaundeeb[/b] for a lunch at the Arena Bar and Grill, Commerce’s sports ba (more)
First of all, huuuuuuuuge thanks to Scot and Kyle at TwoRags and Dave and everyone else at the [b]Commerce Casino[/b] for making this happen. It was a (more)
Suite at the Laker Game, Limos, Bad Beat on a Crazy Prop Bet... by lakong Posted February 22nd, 2008
David, out friend from the Commerce, sent me a text message informing me that he had 5 tickets to the Commere’s private suite at Staples Center. Th (more)
I've been taking a hiatus from poker for a while, as Real Life has dictated that I'm not to have any free time.
However, the company I work for mad (more)
Meh day @ the Shoe.
Last Saturday fellow tworagger [url=http://www.tworags.com/home/landlord79]Landlord79[/url] and I headed over to our home casin (more)
Brag: Had a straight flush with 9[d] 9[s] on a 8[s]10[s]J[s]Q[s]5[d] board.
Beat: Lost the $500 pot (1/2NL) when villian turns over A[s]K[s]
(more)
I spent the last few days in Fresno visiting Ed (aka the Rake, Bugsy, Moe Green) and had a great time. I don't write many trip reports for fear my lit (more)
I was very fortunate to have Good Friday off from my job, so you can guess how I spent my day off. That’s right. I made a trip to the [url=http://t (more)
In the Chinese tradition, yin and yang represent “two opposing and, at the same time, complementary aspects of any one phenomenon." Yin qualities a (more)
I was staying with my parents in DFW so we decided to head up to the Choctaw casino in Durant. My parents play the slots but I would have at least a (more)
The Wednesday 5/10 nl game had two full tables with a waiting list. They also have a Omaha 5/10 with a kill This room is a gold mine, saw a few friend (more)
[b]Stars & Stripes[/b]
While other poker rooms have seen tournaments attendance soften, the [url=http://www.tworags.com/BicycleCasino.html]Bicycle (more)
Bike Stars and Stripes $335 NL Tournament -- following through with a plan! by lakong Posted April 24th, 2008
Podiman called two weeks to say that he’s coming out to LA for a visit and was to play in the Bicycle Club’s [url=http://www.thebike.com/tourname (more)
Yup, that’s what the events here in Vancouver are being called. WPT Canada, short for “[b]World[/b] Poker Tour: Canada”
….Right…
Well, (more)
Two 4/8 sessions on 5-10 and 5-11 for just under 4 hours total.
Saturday bought in for $100 then got felted after about and hour. Rebought for anoth (more)
Don't know how much gold I could buy with the profit from this visit, but I could if things kept coming up like they did.
Bought in at 4/8 table f (more)
Edmond and I made plans to "bring our home game to the Commerce" this past Monday. The Commerce has a great program where they will host your regular (more)
I spent a day at Winstar casino this week and although it wasn't a terribly profitable trip I was really impressed by the poker room. First of all th (more)
It was my girlfriend and my third anniversary so we spent last weekend at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, MS. We flew into New Orleans and drove a rental (more)
Every good cardroom should have its own tournament series, yes? Hence the First Annual Central Valley Poker Championships held Aug 3 through Aug 9. (more)
The GF and I went on a trip to Northen California last week. I really wanted to stop by Club One in Fresno but I just didn't have time to make it dow (more)
Commerce California State Championships - Event #10-13 Results by MattSavage Posted September 18th, 2008
Following are the winners of Events 14-16 of the Commerce California State Poker Championships. Congratulations to all the winners!
Tomorrow, Fr (more)
First things first... in my last blog entry I recapped the beginning of several hands without discussing my actions. In summary (not sure if order ma (more)
The Big 3-OOHHH!!
Once again, I celebrated my birthday at the always accommodating [url=http://tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity.html]Horseshoe-Bossi (more)
LAPC $545 6-handed NL -- You suck out on me, I suck out on you twice! by lakong Posted February 4th, 2009
I had planned on playing the 6-handed $545 tournament. Matt Savage and I exchanged emails and I wanted to stop by to see him and get in some poker. (more)
I drove up from SD to Commerce last Friday to play in the $545 NL event, some weird stuff happened and it might make for an interesting read. I get to (more)
I ended up playing 4 NL tournaments -- two full table normal tournaments, one shootout and one short-handed. I didn't go very deep in any of them. I (more)
Played at the Hustler again last night. As always, I started in the nightly tournament which was a $100 buy-in event. They started us with 10k in ch (more)
So this was a refreshing trip for me, i havent been playing much.
I played a cash game 1/ 3 table. i started the night with 200 dollars
in chips. (more)
Well, it's been a very long time since I last posted a Blog, and I have to say, I'm not much for blogs, but I'm going to try to change that.
I drov (more)
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