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ARRGHPLEASENONONONO posted:Financial and operational analysis. Not direct gaming analysis though, there's a dedicated team for that. I'm guessing they meant the rack as in the table bank, like once it started coming up Banker over and over again, big bets were being placed and won.
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Well I just got back from Vegas and I got loving smoked at the tables lol.. I'm thinking about calling up the local high schools and arranging to go give talks on the horrors of gambling. Most interesting thing at the tables is that all of the Ceasar's properties have a linked Pai Gow Poker progressive jackpot for a 7 card straight flush that is approaching 4.7 million dollars as of the time I left.. It's a $5.00 minimum bet and mathematically its actually player favored with a positive expected value. Kind of a cool thing that shouldn't be expected to come around too often in a casino.
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ARRGHPLEASENONONONO posted:Financial and operational analysis. Not direct gaming analysis though, there's a dedicated team for that. The chip rack because so much money was going out. This was 2018/2019 at Starworld I want to say. Macau seems like a cool place. Very serious gambling going on. I like the older area and the Cotai strip is just too big and spread out.
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Lote posted:The chip rack because so much money was going out. This was 2018/2019 at Starworld I want to say. That's amazing. Was it because there was so much back betting that they kept using up all the lower denom chips or just clearing it out? I have a soft spot for Starworld as I used to hang out there a lot 10 years ago, the bar on the 16th floor was great. The older area has changed a lot recently and with the concession renewal in the next few months all the ones that are not direct SJM / MGM / Wynn / Galaxy (like Starworld) may change drastically. L'Arc is already a shadow of what it was. On the plus side if you come back and go to Cotai you can use the Light Rail to move around, you'll probably have a carriage just for yourself.
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ARRGHPLEASENONONONO posted:That's amazing. Was it because there was so much back betting that they kept using up all the lower denom chips or just clearing it out? Yeah the back betting was crazy. I visited macau in 2015 to play poker. It was pretty cool but I didn’t do much aside from poker and the games were pretty big. I didn’t really know many people there. I also hadn’t discovered how fun baccarat is. I was surprised about how many hookers were walking laps around the avenue between Wynn and Lisboa (where I stayed because I’m cheap) It’s probably not like that anymore.
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Lote posted:Yeah the back betting was crazy. I visited macau in 2015 to play poker. It was pretty cool but I didn’t do much aside from poker and the games were pretty big. I didn’t really know many people there. I also hadn’t discovered how fun baccarat is. I don't remember exactly when it stopped, but around 2015 there were still streets in that area completely covered in flyers with pictures of sexy women and a phone number. They clamped down on that, and they shut down on the Lisboa "racetrack" some time later. The Old Lisboa racetrack was a section of the lower floor where a bunch of women would walk around a long corridor, doing loops (and loops and loops and loops) around a couple of pillars until they got... uhhh... chosen. The ones on the streets are also completely gone now, but that's largely due to the massively lower number of tourists in the last few years. Will it come back? Who knows. ARRGHPLEASENONONONO fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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That area had a convenience store, an expensive fruit store (same one? don't remember), a nice jewelry store, and a bunch of restaurants and other retail, including a relatively expensive Japanese restaurant
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We're visiting Vegas at the end of this month and I like the idea of staying downtown, maybe at the Golden Nugget, because of price and also because even though I've visited Vegas many times, I've never actually been over there that I can remember. I'd just like to know what the situation for traveling to the Strip is. Are the buses okay, or are we better off getting an Uber or something? Or if downtown is not recommended, then ideas for a decent hotel on the strip not too far north of $100 a night.
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You can get the Linq for dirt cheap the last couple of weeks of December though it predictably blows up for new year's. The nugget is kind of a pain in the rear end unless you just like Fremont Street and the environs.
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I've posted in one of the Vegas threads about this before but if anyone is interested in staying in/visiting Fremont street: avoid the weed shops there. Selling fake oils and vapes, at the least. They have flower, and I don't know how that would be fake, but all the same if you're wanting green go elsewhere.
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Gabriel Grub posted:We're visiting Vegas at the end of this month and I like the idea of staying downtown, maybe at the Golden Nugget, because of price and also because even though I've visited Vegas many times, I've never actually been over there that I can remember. I was at the Downtown Grand about a month ago, quite liked it. Taking the Duece to the Strip isn't bad, just be aware you should probably get the public transport app and buy your ticket ahead of time. And if course you're dealing with Strip traffic, so it's going to slow down around Circus Circus. So depends on what you want to do, certainly you can get to the Strip depending on how much time you're happy to spend on buses, but it's a good service. There's also a "Downtown Shuttle" that goes to the airport that's worth knowing. I heard from a YT vid that Strat has some cheap rooms, I think TI still had their TV deal you can do via their website (no resort fees for no gym access or WiFi etc)
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my entire knowledge of Vegas comes from skimming wikipedia, so what is the general fanciness ranking of the strip hotels? Wynn and Bellagio seem on the high ends of things and Circus Circus is not, but all the others are a blob
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:my entire knowledge of Vegas comes from skimming wikipedia, so what is the general fanciness ranking of the strip hotels? Wynn and Bellagio seem on the high ends of things and Circus Circus is not, but all the others are a blob Venetian is also fancy. Caesar's and the Cosmo are upper-tier of the blob, flamingo is lower-tier of the blob. Most of them are in the blob. Circus Circus and Treasure island are sub-blob. I'm not too familiar with south strip, but under impression MGM Grand and Mirage are blob-tier. No idea about Luxor, I've never knowingly interacted with anyone who has stayed or gambled there.
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Judgy Fucker posted:Venetian is also fancy. Caesar's and the Cosmo are upper-tier of the blob, flamingo is lower-tier of the blob. Most of them are in the blob. Circus Circus and Treasure island are sub-blob. Aria is up there. Luxor is absolute poo poo tier. Velveeta at the buffet, water dripping through the ceiling, "suite" that felt like a loving wide corner hallway they slapped two doors on poo poo tier.
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Baddog posted:Aria is up there. Luxor is pretty bad. Given the lack of investment in it and Excalibur I wouldn't be surprised if there are plans to knock them down and do something else with the land but I haven't heard anything. Mandalay Bay is upper blob. Mirage and MGM are middle of the pack.
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Cromwell is supposed to be a "boutique" hotel/casino, and I do enjoy the floor quite a bit, but the rooms are already dated style-wise and prices are too high. Do get props for having windows that open in their bathrooms.
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Since it's my wife's first time I decided to stay on the Strip and we'll do Fremont next time. Tropicana any better than Flamingo? The room is just for sleeping, so I only really care about location somewhere on the Strip that's clean, and bonus if they have lowbie gaming tables on the premises. We'll be out for the rest of our activities. For cheap gaming I've heard Ellis Island is good? Edit: The Mirage has great reviews on Google for an old hotel that's about to be remodeled. Since we were planning to see Love anyway maybe that's the one. Gabriel Grub fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Dec 5, 2022 |
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Besides Vegas and Macau, what other cities are known for gambling/big fancy casinos? Atlantic City and Monaco (country, whatever) come to mind, but that's all I got
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Besides Vegas and Macau, what other cities are known for gambling/big fancy casinos? Atlantic City and Monaco (country, whatever) come to mind, but that's all I got There's some action in the Bahamas and Singapore has a couple of pretty nice ones too.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Besides Vegas and Macau, what other cities are known for gambling/big fancy casinos? Atlantic City and Monaco (country, whatever) come to mind, but that's all I got In Nevada specifically, I haven't been to Reno since I was a kid, but that's well known. However, Laughlin is a favorite of mine, though I haven't been there in a few years. It has a "strip" right on the Colorado river a couple miles or so long, maybe half a dozen or more big high-rise hotels and casinos and several smaller ones, but it's more laid back by comparison to Vegas, and still has a lot of the super cheap room, comped drinks, food, and other deals that Vegas used to have. Cheaper tables too, so if you want to have fun at lower stakes with a smaller bankroll (like myself) it's still been doable the half a dozen or so times I've been there over the years. Again, the last time I was there was several years ago, but even then it was possible to budget one, two, or a few hundred dollars for cheap gambling and fun for a few days, and still earn up enough points for some free buffets and have them send you free weeknights or maybe $15 weekend night offers at the hotels at that level. Some of that may have changed since pandemic times, but my poor cheap self always felt like I got a really good deal for a good time there. I'm sure you can go big if you want, too. There's some shows, but mostly what you would consider B or C list by Vegas standards with the occasional bigger act. They do have big events like bike week for motorcycles (pretty fun) and other stuff where it gets packed if you want that, but otherwise it's typically a smaller somewhat older crowd compared to Vegas, which means it's usually more chill, which I like. There's a few other things to do, like some shopping, resort stuff, a movie theater, a bowling alley, a really neat car museum, boats, jet skis, and beaches on the Colorado river, but to be clear, it's a really small town built specifically to be a gambling destination and nothing more. As in, there was nothing there until Don Laughlin built the Riverside Hotel and Casino, then others joined in to make it a little mini-Vegas. There's a small airport that I think some of the discount smaller airlines service in Bullhead City, the town on the Arizona side of the river where most locals live, but I can't say anything about it, I think most people drive in from surrounding states and areas. Anyhow, that's about all I can think of at the moment about Laughlin, other then it's really hot in the summer. For the record, I have no affiliation with the place or anything, I just saw the question above asked and that's the only real other destination that came to mind that I have any experience with, so I thought I'd share. Overall, I've had a good time there in the past. If anyone else has been there and wants to chime in with their experiences, I would enjoy hearing it!
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Completely forgot Laughlin existed and I've been there several times.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Besides Vegas and Macau, what other cities are known for gambling/big fancy casinos? Atlantic City and Monaco (country, whatever) come to mind, but that's all I got Bossier-Shreveport, if you’re into riverboat gambling, is pretty nice. I made about $300 there a few years ago while driving to New Orleans.
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Gabriel Grub posted:We're visiting Vegas at the end of this month and I like the idea of staying downtown, maybe at the Golden Nugget, because of price and also because even though I've visited Vegas many times, I've never actually been over there that I can remember. Get a rental if you’re going back and forth from downtown and the strip (or other places in Vegas). Ubers are very expensive now. If you’re just staying downtown, just get a shuttle downtown and walk around there.
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Lote posted:Get a rental if you’re going back and forth from downtown and the strip (or other places in Vegas). Ubers are very expensive now. If you’re just staying downtown, just get a shuttle downtown and walk around there. I'm the only licensed driver, and I will be drinking the whole time. In any case, I decided to stay on the Strip as it's my wife's first visit, but quoting myself from another thread: "Attempted to reserve suites at Linq but website reservation failed twice. They say I canceled two reservations and have charged me $115 which I am supposed to get back in 7-10 business days. So Linq is out. Not trying that website again. I guess that means anything booked through Caesar's is not going to be an option. Lol I was also looking at Harrah's and Bally's but those are Caesar's too. So I guess someone's gonna have to explain why Sahara is so bad because it's my last option in my price range on the Strip." Very disappointing as after thinking about it a lot, I thought I had the hotel situation sorted with the Linq.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Besides Vegas and Macau, what other cities are known for gambling/big fancy casinos? Atlantic City and Monaco (country, whatever) come to mind, but that's all I got Reno. Singapore has a bunch of high end casinos. I haven’t been to Laughlin Other places I can think of off the top of my head Biloxi - would avoid Tunica - just no Shreveport - also no Lake Charles - go and you get cancer no New Orleans has a bunch of casinos but isn’t a casino town and has A+ other attractions. London has a bunch of casinos and card rooms. More than I would expect.
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Lote posted:London has a bunch of casinos and card rooms. More than I would expect. A number of European capitals have a bunch of casinos tucked away in hotels and bars.
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Gabriel Grub posted:I'm the only licensed driver, and I will be drinking the whole time. So I know this is incredibly archaic and is totally going to give away how old I am, but: it is still actually possible to book a hotel room by calling the hotel on the telephone. This might be a way to book one of those other hotels without using their online service.
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It takes some digging, but you can usually find a front desk number. However, I have no idea if front desks even take reservations anymore. And it would be an international call. 
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You can try getting a google voice number or something, the Caesar's reservation line has been helpful when their website sucked for me. +18665066586 is the reservation number.
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Gabriel Grub posted:It takes some digging, but you can usually find a front desk number. However, I have no idea if front desks even take reservations anymore. They do, because there's still lots of old people in the world, and also people calling from the airport where they just had their flight canceled, etc. If the front desk can't do it they'll give you the reservation line to call. I can't help you with the international phone charges, but if it costs you two dollars to make a reservation so you don't have to stay off strip that might be worth it
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Midjack posted:You can try getting a google voice number or something, the Caesar's reservation line has been helpful when their website sucked for me. +18665066586 is the reservation number. This ended up being the only option, but it worked. Thanks.
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Gabriel Grub posted:This ended up being the only option, but it worked. Thanks.  Have fun!
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Gabriel Grub posted:This ended up being the only option, but it worked. Thanks. I know you had a poo poo time getting the reservation done but based on what you’ve posted I think you’ll have a good time staying at Linq. If you have any intentions of returning to Vegas at any point in the next year or so be sure to grab a players club card, you get points from any of the Caesar’s properties: Caesar’s Palace, Linq, Harrah’s, Flamingo, Cromwell, Bally’s, Paris, and Planet Hollywood.
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Gabriel Grub posted:I'm the only licensed driver, and I will be drinking the whole time. Sahara is bad. We went in October for a wedding and the room reservations were all hosed up. They bumped our room up which was nice, but it wasn't anything fancy at all. Then my wife got stuck in the elevator and the fire department had to come get her out. All the elevators were incredibly jank.
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Regarding the booking issues, I assume it was for reason of loyalty schemes etc that you didn't go through Booking.com or something? Although I couldn't say for sure that would sort it as I've not stayed at the hotels brought up.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Regarding the booking issues, I assume it was for reason of loyalty schemes etc that you didn't go through Booking.com or something? Although I couldn't say for sure that would sort it as I've not stayed at the hotels brought up. If you're replying to me, we booked 6 rooms for guests months in advance through Sahara directly. When we got there, the rooms were in a guest's name and not mine. One of the rooms we were told was cancelled by the guest but the cancellation date was in March, months before we even booked. We had to sit at the desk and give them all the confirmation numbers for each reservation one by one and redo all the booking fees which took about an hour due to the weird Back to the Future moment. It was a headache from the moment we got there and the janky elevators didn't help the experience especially after wife got stuck in one half way through our stay. I can shrug off most weird stuff about stays and computer glitches and stuff, but this was above and beyond annoying to deal with. It was by far the worst hotel experience I ever had by a huge margin.
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poemdexter posted:If you're replying to me, we booked 6 rooms for guests months in advance through Sahara directly. When we got there, the rooms were in a guest's name and not mine. One of the rooms we were told was cancelled by the guest but the cancellation date was in March, months before we even booked. We had to sit at the desk and give them all the confirmation numbers for each reservation one by one and redo all the booking fees which took about an hour due to the weird Back to the Future moment. It was a headache from the moment we got there and the janky elevators didn't help the experience especially after wife got stuck in one half way through our stay. I can shrug off most weird stuff about stays and computer glitches and stuff, but this was above and beyond annoying to deal with. It was by far the worst hotel experience I ever had by a huge margin. Mostly Gabriel Grub, but that's crazy in this day and age. Must admit Sahara is in a big blind spot for me, I think it's the only main strip casino I've not been in at this stage besides Trump.
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I used to work front desk at a hotel and it's one of the reasons I always book direct. I never use third part bookings because they are far more likely to get hosed up without recourse. My guess from reading various horror stories is that Vegas got hit particularly hard by the pandemic and labor shortages and starting fraying at the seams even more than most places. In my particular case I think it was some combination of trying to book a suite, from abroad, using a foreign credit card that caused something to glitch out along the way.
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Lote posted:Reno. Singapore has a bunch of high end casinos. I haven’t been to Laughlin Pretty much any medium+ sized city in the UK is going to have a casino of some kind, but nothing compared to the scale of American ones. If you just want somewhere to gamble for a few hours they're great, but don't expect to be able to make a holiday out of them alone unless you really just like gambling. On London, I finally got round to going to the Hippodrome recently and it's gorgeous. Plus it has the Stars card room
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I took a couple days to write this out, turns out its a lot of words and the formatting may make people glaze over and not read it.. I totally understand.. PLAYING POKER IN PHNOM PENH TL:DR; don't fly all the way here for poker but if you're in Asia it's... also probably still not worth it to fly over here just for poker. It's kinda just a nice extra if you happen to be in Phnom Penh. I ended up only having 1 full day (that I spent doing touristy stuff anyways) in the city so I ended up just playing cards for one night at the safest (and legal) place to play Intro ----------------- First, Phnom Penh is in Cambodia. The government here technically views gambling as a moral sin.... for its citizens. However it has no qualms about letting foreigners come to the country to gamble their money away to pick up some sweet sweet taxable revenue so lo-and-behold, NAGAWORLD was born. Nagaworld is a large all-inclusive Casino Resort located just south of Victory Monument near city center. This place is so huge and successful that they built out another Hotel (with extra floors to put down slots), called it Nagaworld 2. This was so successful that they are now further expanding it to a Nagaworld 3. Cambodia runs a dual currency economy, the US Dollar and the Cambodian Riel. You can use both interchangeably, and even though the Riel has weakened against the Dollar, you generally trade 4000 Riels for $1. Of course when the transfer is favorable for them, it suddenly becomes ~4100-4200 Riels per dollar. So when you cash out, you may not get any US denomination below $10 because the government has recently declared that no businesses be allowed to give change in USD if its under $10. After thinking about it, my advice for money is: bring your bankroll in $100 bills. The rest, if you don't care about using Riels, just bring $20 and get change locally. One thing that is really cheap in Phnom Penh is the Tuk Tuk rides. Sometimes a ride is probably $1.50 and you would be overpaying if you gave them $2 so unless you have Riels to give them it'll be hard to get them to agree to $1.50 (or 6000 Riels). If you want to avoid this issue, you can use the Grab app (there is also PassApp that's specifically for Phnom Penh but I didn't use that one). I had some issues with Grab app but I'll leave it out of this unless someone wants me to write about it. Also note: people complain that stores won't take folded/ripped US dollars.. that they all need to be super crisp. That wasn't my experience. As long as there are no rips and it didn't look like you crumpled it into a ball several times I found most stores will take it. My $100s were crisp though but my $10/$20s weren't as nice. Also if they try to give you an older version US bill, I would politely ask for a newer one since almost no other store will accept the older bills. Technically Nagaworld also holds the only official poker license in Phnom Penh, yet there are a couple of poker clubs here you can play at. However all but Nagaworld and another poker room (River Kings) were raided a couple months ago. Even the foreigners were detained. River Kings also has now changed its name to Poker Kings. I asked on the 2p2 thread and it seems like the only reason River/Poker Kings was not raided was because they bribed the local officials to keep them out of trouble. Since I wasn't going to be in town for long I didn't really want the slightest risk of going to Cambodian jail I opted not to go. It's also kinda far from Nagaworld2, and I didn't want to carry that much money around late at night. Nagaworld is a massive casino, unfortunately its poker room is not. Depending on where you stay it is also a bit of a walk (to be fair the walk is completely air conditioned so not as bad as if it was outside). The poker room is located in the original Nagaworld, and I had a room in Nagaworld 2. In order to get there, I had to take the elevator down to the Lower Ground Level, (not to be confused with the Ground Level, which is above LGL), walk through their smallish Food Court, take an escalator down again to their Duty Free (China Only) Walking Mall that contains 200+ Luxury Brands(!), take another escalator back up to the Ground Level of Nagaworld 1. Get Wanded/Metal Detector, take yet another escalator, and make a left past one of their many exclusive lounge clubs before you can finally find their "Sports Bar and Poker Arena" which has 9 poker tables available despite Poker Atlas saying there are only 7 tables. There was also an additional sign at the cashier that they ran out of bills below $20. Luckily when I cashed out they did have $10/$20 bills but keep this in mind when you play. Aso note that the ATM withdraw fee at Nagaworld is 3% for anything above $200. My bank pays for my fees so I didn't care too much. The Poker -------------------------- I went into the room at 10:15PM on a Wednesday Night and they had two tables running while trying to start a third. I eventually ended up on the new third table. By the time I left just before midnight, seven of the nine tables have been filled. The desk was dealing with two young Koreans who looked to be itching to play way higher stakes. They wanted 5/10 I believe, but I never sat with them and I'm pretty sure the biggest table that night was still the 2/5 table. 2p2 says there are 5/5 games running. Rake is 5%, $15 max and the pot is not raked until it hits $15. I actually don't know if they rake if there's no flop as that rarely happened. All tables are 9 max. Dealers were competent, all knew how to deal and how to determine winning hands, etc. You can both straddle UTG and also straddle the button. My table had people from all over. I had an Older Korean Guy (OKG) who was willing to bluff but really didn't know how to, a couple Japanese tourists that both played relatively tight. A few locals (or at least spoke Khmer), a Ukrainian/Russian guy and near the end of the night there were a couple French players. Let me just that player ability wise: extremely soft, on par with sitting at a Vegas 1/3 table. The biggest difference is that while there was definitely limping going on, people were more willing to open raise and even three bet (but also 3-bet ~= probably big hand and not some balanced 3-bet). But overall not super strong. I was never put into any real difficult decisions, almost no one raised after the flop. Overall though it really didn't matter as I got hit with the deck and people either didn't believe me or caught too much of the board to fold. As someone who had not played live in over three years (even before the start of the Pandemic it had been at least 6 months since I had been in Vegas) I got major shaky hands starting out. I was pretty embarrassed because the situation wasn't even that tense but because I had made a hand my brain got excited from it all. The hand was this: Hero has Qh9h in BB. MP raise to $10, 3 callers (including me). Flop is 9 high with 2 hearts. I check/call a $20 bet from the opener. Turn 9. I lead $50 here now and get called. River K, I bet $100 and get called and win. Line bad? C/R flop? Since it was like the 3rd hand that was played, I felt very rusty but felt he most likely had a big pocket pair since he bet flop into 3 players. I'm pretty sure he had hands more weighted to an overpair than K9/A9 combos. Anyways, like I said, I was pretty much getting hit with the deck. I think I got AA twice and KK once and I think they all got paid off. One of the AA hands someone opens to $15, 1 caller, I 3-bet to 60 get called in one spot, flop is K-high, the remaining caller doesn't have much so I just bet enough for him to be all-in. He calls, I win. Second AA hand, I raise $15 after UTG limps. Get 4-5 callers(!!!) including the limper. Flop J53 rainbow and it checks to me. I bet $50, everyone folds. KK Hand, there's a UTG straddle. I raise $20 UTG+1. Get 2 callers in the HJ and BB. Flop is JT9, I cbet $50 and the HJ has $220 left and shoves. BB folds. I call. Turn A, River blank, I hold and win. OKG who was BB laments about folding b/c he had an Ace. I also missed a couple of spots not paying attention. I flop a flush on a 3 club board w/ 7c5c in a raised pot. the BB leads out against 2 others (inc me) so I just flat. Turn I check/call another bet. River brings another club, he checks I check. He shows QcJc, I say smaller flush and show but I actually have a straight flush. Real dumb poo poo by me. This was early in the session and everyone saw that I didn't pick up the straight flush draw so maybe that's why I kept getting paid off. I am jenius. Another hand I may have missed value. I have black AK. I raise $10 UTG+2, get 3 callers. Flop is Qs3h7d, I c-bet $20, 2 callers. Turn 4 checks through, River 8 checks through. Someone wins with a 7. I'm pretty sure I should bet against 1 player but was unsure if it's good to bet against 2 players. I think the funniest/best(?) hand I played in the night was against the OKG. He wasn't playing bad but he ran some weird bluffs that didn't make much sense. Seven players at the table, Hero has ATo UTG+1. I raise to $10, there are 2 callers including the OKG in the SB. Flop is J73. I cbet $20, only OKG in the SB calls. Turn is a K. Check/check. River is a brick. OKG thinks only a little bit before betting $30. I think it's obvious OKG has air. He might be holding a 7 or something but that seems really bad to bet, right? Thinking about it now it might be better to raise instead of calling on the river here... maybe? Regardless I take a while to think because I don't want to make it obvious that I know he doesn't have much. I do some hemming and toss $30 into the pot. He says, "nice hand, not much." I tell him, "neither do I" but I show the AT. He sees it and I guess is somewhat surprised that I called him with that. "Good call" he says as I collect the pot. He mucks his hand so I actually don't know what he's floating against me on the flop. Anyways, I play until right before midnight. I bought in for $300 and ended up with $1080. While the table was pretty passive, some people got up and left and it seemed like it was mostly tight/passive players left who I probably wasn't going to get much more easy money out of. For the most part though I didn't play that well and only ended up so much because people were just unwilling to fold against me. I was probably the most aggressive person opening but even then I was never that out of line. Summary -------------------------- Play here is pretty soft. I only played one night but didn't really play anyone that would make you actually think about a decision. Almost everyone is a tourist and the locals don't seem to be that great. Maybe they're all at the $2/$5 table. I think if I ever go back to Phnom Penh I would bring more money and try to play the $5/$10 or $5/$5.
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Dec 29, 2022 02:45
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