Trip to Morongo

Well last night, fellow poker player Jeff Torres and I headed out to Morongo Casino and Resort which is about 45 minutes east of LA. It is a nice casino but not really the first choice for poker, It has a 22 table poker room which is kinda small. Anyways we started off towards the blackjack tables in an effort to juice our stacks before we go to the poker room. I turned a 50% profit at the blackjack tables and gave myself a bit more of an M at the poker room. Jeff turns a whopping 325% profit at the blackjack tables, giving him enough money to cashout some and be in the profit and have a max buy in at the poker tables. So that was exciting. We continue to the poker room and sit down to $1/$3 blinds no limit. My first hand (which I usually refrain from playing) comes AhAd, and im thinking very deeply because i havent seen one hand of how any of these guys play.
I raise 3 times the blind in the under the gun position and get one caller. so far so good. Flop comes
5 8 5 with a 8 and 5 being clubs. so i bet the pot ( mistake, i should have shoved but i think this guy would of called me anyways because he was outstacking me about 3:1, and here you have to expect fish donks to draw for anything...but if anything there is more of a chance of him not having the flush draw than having it. So he calls, and the turn comes a 10 of clubs making the flush, we both check. River comes another ten making this as bad of a board as possible, but i couldn't put him on anything. So he bets about half the pot and i shove which isn't too much more anyways. He had a flush and i lost. First hand, pocket aces, lost everything lol. It is very hard to guess what amount of money will get your opponent off of his draw. A logical player, would call if the odds are right, and i did give him odds ( i didnt have enough money to really give him that bad of odds anyways). Ultimately, I have discovered that it is a bad idea to sit down with anything less than the max buy in, you will get called / bullied and drawn-out-on unless you have the money to push people around a little bit.
Additionally, Morongo is known to have pretty terrible hold em players, and their tournament structure is probably the worst for any casino around. All together i am done with their poker, i have been drawn on to much and the last tourny i went to i got knocked out by some idiot with pkt tens while a king was on the board, I have two pair kings and eights he has his 10's and calls my shove only to hit a ten on the river...Getting kind of sick of the donkeys.
Jeff did alright only playing about three hands out of 30 or so and making another 12 percent in the poker room.
Naturally after losing to a draw with pkt aces i was depressed lol and thought the hand out in my head over and over again. I should of shoved on the flop , and had more money in the first place. What I thought were fairly large bets he considered mini bets. Live an Learn.
OmNi:)


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