Question number one: Where are we? San Manuel Casino near San Bernardino, California. Some of you might remember this casino from such episodes as... I don't know. I don't remember the name of the episode or the number.
But we've been here before. And question number two is, why are we here again? Well, I needed to get out of the desert. And this casino is kind of the closest one in, like, the LA area. I think maybe Palm Springs is somewhat the same distance, but Needed to get out of the desert and couldn't really decide where to go. So just got in the car and started driving. Booked a hotel nearby, near here. And here we are play here. They have two 5/10 games running. So that's good. So I'm gonna hop in there. It's $1,500 max. I was a little bit indecisive about where I wanted to go. I really want to get to the East Coast, I want to get to Florida, I want to get to the Pacific Northwest, I want to get to Oklahoma. There's so many places. But... You know, when you're indecisive I feel like you just got to, just start. Just start doing something. So I just got my car and got out of the desert, like I said. It's the slowest time of the year for poker in Las Vegas, so anywhere. Anywhere outside of Vegas is good. Here we are. All right. Going to hop in the game. In for $1500. The usual drill. Let's go. All right, so poker is underway here. Three limps in this hand. I look down at A-10 offsuit on the button. Gonna try and punish these limpers, so I raise it up to $65. Only the hijack calls. So heads-up to a flop: A-8-3 with two clubs. He checked it to me, and... Pretty borderline I think here with A-10. I think a bet is certainly fine, but I decide to pot control here because this is one of the worst aces that I would be iso'ing here, I think, on the button versus three limpers. So I decide to check it back. Turn is the 9 of hearts which brings a second flush draw on board He checks it over to me again. So I feel like with all these draws on board and available, and him checking twice on such a wet board... Pretty sure I have the best hand here, so I go ahead and put out a bet. I put out $110. Interesting news is that he puts in a check raise. He raises $250. He's only got about $215 behind. So it's a really awkward situation. So many draws available on the board now, and like I said I feel like he would bet here with pretty good hands, just the board being so wet. So with that in mind and decide to make a call. Looking back I'm not too sure about this call here because since he's so short, and I'm probably not going to fold on a river brick or pretty much any river. It's gonna be tough for me to fold on pretty much any rivers. I feel like I should be just getting it in here on the turn. Anyway, I make the call and we see a J of Hearts on the river. Not my favorite river, but... We do have the 10 of hearts so we block flushes and straights. Seems like a fairly key card. He sticks his $215 in there, and I think about it a little bit. But it's so cheap now and I pretty much made up my mind on the turn anyway, so I call it off and... Unfortunately he rolls over pocket 3s for a flopped set. So I guess he played it pretty well and got me to give him the maximum. Got me to bet the turn. And not only that but call a check-raise. Not really enthusiastic about the way that I played this hand. So this hand I open up K-J offsuit to $30. Both blinds call. Three ways to a flop this time. 10-7-3 with two diamonds and one club. They check it to me. I decide to check it back. See what happens on the turn here. Turn seems like a good card. I make top pair on a J of clubs. Once again brings a backdoor flush draw. Two flush draws on board. They check it over to me. And even though it feels like my range is a little bit capped here because I would very likely bet 9-8 on this flop, Just going to bet it anyway. Hope I don't get put in too tough of a spot here. If I do I have to make some sort of a decision if I get check-raised. But I'm going to make a bet anyway. I bet $60. Only the big blind calls this time, so heads up to a river card: 5 of clubs. Third club on board. She checks it over to me, and... I feel like most players in straightforward games, they tend to lead out when they make their hand, so I feel like I probably still have the best hand here. So I go ahead and put in a value bet. Make it $110. Big blind thinks for a little bit and then makes the call. I show, and it's good. So I'm gonna take this one down. Alright next spot here. Open up pocket 10s from UTG+1. Only the small blind calls this time. We're seeing a heads-up flop of 7-6-3. Small blind checks it over to me. I think I make a fairly standard C-bet here of $35. Small blind calls. Turn is a 9 and small blind checks it over to me. I think a bet is certainly reasonable here but the board is fairly connected and I don't want to get to put in too tough of a spot once again. So being in position with an overpair and not wanting to be forced to call down some big bets If I do get put in a spot, I just decide to check it back. A little bit of pot control. River's a good card though; the river's an 8. So we make the straight. Not only that, but the small blind leads out for $110. Definitely not fearing a J-10 type hand in this spot with this run-out and having two 10s in my hand, so seems like a pretty obvious spot to go for some value. I put in a raise and make it $325. She calls pretty quickly. So I roll my hand over and... We're scoopin'. Next interesting hand here, another good-looking hand from early position. This time we find pocket Ks from UTG+1. Raised it up to $30 again. There's a middle position call, and the blinds call. So four ways to a flop this time. 7-6-4 with two spades. The blinds check it over to me, and I think if we were heads-up I might entertain a check back here, but I just don't want to give any free cards. There's so many hands that I can get value from, so many draws. Gonna try and thin the field a little bit if possible. So I bet $70. Only the small blind calls. Turn is the 9 of spades. So not exactly my favorite card, but we do have the K of spades for some potential backdoor possibilities here. Small blind checks it over to me, and I think I'm just happy to check back here and see what develops on the river. So that's what I do. I check it back. River's an offsuit K. So we end up with top set on this board. The small blind leads out for $130. I think with top set, pocket Ks too good. We do have the K of spades and eliminate some flush possibilities. We beat everything except for flush and the odd straight here in this spot. So having top set, having the K of spades and being well aware of the fact that folding is boring, I'm going to toss in the call here. Small blind rolls over A-2 with the A of spades. So we're going to win this one. Top set. Top set coming through. Would have been interesting... Would have been in a little bit tougher of a spot if we don't river the top set and the bet size is a little bit bigger. But I think with the the bet size there and the holding... Pretty straightforward call there on the river. All right, in this hand the UTG+2 player limps in. Fair amount of limping going on in this game. Lots of open limping. Definitely more so than, like, the 5/10 at the Bellagio for example. The cutoff makes it $35. I look down at pocket 5s in the big blind. Getting a pretty good price here, having a pair. Happy to make the call here, and the limper calls as well. So three ways to a flop. 9-7-3 rainbow. Check it over to the initial raiser. Who puts out a C-bet. $65. It's tough to improve with this hand here. I could very well have the best hand here, and that's definitely to be the case some percentage of the time but... It's tough to improve with an underpair to the board, so I'm just going to go ahead and let it go. Especially with a player behind me. That player also folds. We don't get to see any showdowns in this hand, but I know how much you guys like your nothingness hands, so there you have it. All right guys fast forward to about... Ten to five in the morning here. A little bit before 5:00 a.m. There's one limp. We look down at pocket aces. Pocket As at 5:00 in the morning. Doesn't get much better than that, does it? So... We're going to raise it up here and make it $40 to go. Big blind and the limper call. So three ways to a flop. 10-9-4 rainbow. Action checks to me and I go ahead and bet $80. Big blind calls and the limper folds. Heads-up to a turn card which is 5. A pretty safe card. Big blind checks to me. Going to keep firing here. this time. I bet $170. He's only got about $350 left though, so not too much action left to be had here in this hand either way no matter what he decides. Turns out his decision is to jam all in so obviously a snap call. River, offsuit Q. He rolls over K-10. So pocket As come through just in time here. Wrap up somewhat long of a session. Take this down. Always good when pocket aces hold up at 5 a.m. [Chip porn music] So we were actually in the game for $2,000. We added on an additional $500 when things went not so great right off the bat. But things turned around pretty quick after that. We made a bunch of hands. In for $2000, out for $3860. That's a profit of $1860 according to my math. Currently about 5:30 a.m. I have to check out of my hotel between 6 & 7 hours from now. I only got it for one night because it was somewhere around $85 for the one night, for tonight. For tomorrow it's like $260. So... We're going to be moving on. The question is, where are we going? And I don't have an answer at the moment. I really don't know. Everywhere around Los Angeles is obviously pretty expensive particularly on the weekends. So I'm thinking I'll probably stay like Out in the periphery if that word is applicable in this instance. So like, you know, maybe out here, like Palm Springs or maybe somewhere that I haven't been to yet. At this point it's still a mystery even to me. Speaking of mysteries... So I got the drone back from the repair shop. Looks brand-spanking-new. I go to fly the thing off the roof of the parking structure at my hotel. It takes off perfectly fine, but then... Instead of just hovering in place like it's supposed to do, this thing just starts meandering away, and not slowly.Do you know how terrifying that is?
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