Freeloading At Winstar

Using a two nights free coupon to get some live cash and tournament experience at Winstar. The last time I stayed here they put me in the less desirable offsite hotel, although it was certainly acceptable (I'm no baller). But the north tower rooms are nice and apparently new.

I played some $1\2 for 4 hours tonight after running through some Instapoker hands. Took $300 and was eventually down to $100 at one time, but doubled up on a silly hand (KK vs J6 with a J on the flop. He was drunk and incapable of folding.) Then I got alot of action with AA that improved to trips on the flop, and AAA88 by the river.

Was about $50 up at one point but finished the session at an even $300.

Going to play the $60 tourney tomorrow at 1pm, and maybe the 7pm for $115.

Watched the Sunday $230 tourney wrap up when the chip leader lost the advantage on a flip (A6 vs A9) and the villain gave him a last offer to chop. He agreed and they split around $8500.

Hope to run and play well tomorrow.

EDIT: Sorry for the huge grainy pic. It's a nice view in person.

Cool man, like a poker vacation! Good luck!

good luck on holiday

Thanks for the luck! Gotta love a freebie.

Busted 36th of 82 in the $60, but am happy with how I played. Went out with QQ vs AK when he turned an ace for the win.

Saw a disturbing amount of limp-folding from shortstacks (<5 BB). It's ok though, they just need to join Cardschat some day and read up. :icon_stud

Time for a nap, then will decide on the 7pm $115 tourney or grinding $1\2 later.

Rifflemao, do you go to the Winstar often, or was that the first time you've been? I'm moving to within an hour of that casino and was hoping to get a good idea of the play that occurs there.

jmill said:

Rifflemao, do you go to the Winstar often, or was that the first time you've been? I'm moving to within an hour of that casino and was hoping to get a good idea of the play that occurs there.

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I've been there about 5-6 times, and I think the $1\$2 cash games are juicy (lots of rec players on the weekends = plenty of opportunity to profit). I haven't played higher than $1\$2, so can't comment.

On the weekly tourneys, I plan to only play the $60 from now on, because the structure jumps at one point from 100\200 to 200\400, fairly aggressive and too early imo, after starting with only 5000. So you have to chip up early and shove a ton to stay ahead of the blinds. It's just not worth spending more than the minimum imo, due to high variance.

The weekend tourneys have a higher buyin but more reasonable structures with antes.

Here are a couple of reviews that give a better picture of the play there:

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