What a weekend!!

Finally got around to writing up this trip report on AC last weekend. Overall it was one of the most fun trip's I have had up there, spending less time grinding it out at the poker tables and more time partying and checking out new things AC has to offer.

I arrived Thursday night and checked into the great-priced room at the Tropicana for $55 a night. After settling in I went down to the poker room and was seated at a 1/2 NL. After watching the game for awhile it was very weak and I was able to make $250 in no time, there was a 2/5 NL directly behind me that I eyed up every hour or so but it was full of some solid-local-regulars that I did'nt want to mix with in my tired state. I hit the sack +$250 and look foward to tommorow.

I wake up around 11am and decide to use my ticket for the free winter buffer special that came with the room, not a chance! The line is a mile long full of old people who just can't miss up a free meal. Instead I go to the poker room which is a ghost town on a Friday morning, I sit down at a 4/8 Limit table order some food, move over to the 1/2 NL as soon as I can. The action is dead and I say I'm outta here off to Taj which I know will have mid day action.

Taj Mahal was packed with people as usual, I love the Taj for its good people (alot of old school guys and average joes) and open poker room. I sit down at the 1/2 NL and make a mistake of playing VERY LOOSE in an already loose game. Next thing you know im in the game for -$700 and thing's are'nt looking good, the weak-deep-stack's have stood up but somehow I build my $150 back up to $630. A friend from college call's me say's he is on his way up, and I grab a poker room rated room at Taj for $88 and go upstairs to take an hour nap. I come back down after my nap sit at a 1/2 NL and make $200 in an hour. Overall +$130 for the day.

We head out around 10pm to go hit up the Babes of Borgota party at the MIXX. We arrive at The Borgota and decide to play some floor games to grab some free drinks before we go in, every game is completly packed and they have bumped the stakes of all games to a $25 min on a friday night. I find a roulette table plump down $200 and pray for a waitress that never comes. After 15 mins we decide Roulette is no fun sober and we make are way over to the $7 drafts at BAR. BAR was a good time but around 12am we head over to MIXX. If you have never been and are a frequent AC'er I HIGHLY RECOMMEND checking this place out. The Babes of Borgota party was off the hook. Beautiful, Grade A, girls were dancing on the bar, boxes, and were wearing barely anything. The DJ for the night, DJ AM, was one of the best DJ's I have heard in a long time, he had a talent to mix hip-hop with cliche bar rock songs and it sounded great. You can download his CD for free "Concorde" from his site.

Around 3am'ish I am hammered and we decide to head back to the Taj. We grab a cab, mess around with the driver, make some drunk phone calls, and then decide we are going to see the Bill Cosby show tommorow as we see a billboard for his show at the Showboat on the way to Taj. We get to Taj which felt empty but I dont know things begin to blur right about now. We get lost in some long hall way with a Horse and finally find Casbah which felt like it was on the other side of the world from the poker room. Before we even get in we are both patted down by P.Diddy bodyguard look-alikes and we get a feeling this place won't be anything like MIXX. And it was'nt.... The club itself is small, a wierd crowd, dancers were ok, and the bartender could have been my dad. Cashbah was beat and we hit the sack.

Saturday I headed over to the Borgota to play some 2/5 NL. I sit down at a new table and I could'nt be happier. It was the weakest 2/5 NL I have ever sat at with $15 raises pre-flop (what is this 1/2 NL or 2/5 NL) and a handfull of guys who have no idea what they are doing. An older guy sits down a rack of green ($2,500) and says he wan'ts to play while he is waiting for the 10/25 NL . He puts $500 in play and $2,000 on the rail. While this seems intimidating at first, it turns out the guy is loose-weak and I am sure the 10/25 guys lick their chops when he comes into play. It just goes to show, no matter what the level there are occasional fish. Moneybags drops -$500 and is called for his high-stakes game, oh well I never got a shot. About four hours into the game the deadmoney has busted and is replaced by some AC regulars but it is still semi-weak with $15-$20 as the standard raise pre-flop. I end up cashing out +$105 and did'nt see much action with my tight play.

Here is two hands by a very good AC regular, we will call Mike, against a tourist we will call "Meathead" and another tourist we will call "Online Pro Live Donkey (OPLD)".

Hand 1
Meat head is just that, a big offy football looking guy, well Meathead raises $20 pre-flop gets two callers, the button and Mike in the small blind. Pot $60

Flop 652 (rainbow) - Meathead pushes all-in for $130, folds to Mike who drops in the think tank and finally calls with K6. Turn is a blank, River an 8. Meathead shows A8. Good call by Mike as he knew he had nothing, luck card for the donkey.

Hand 2
OPLD raises it to $20, called in 5 spots Mike calls in BB with 92os (loose but a good player). Flops - 924. Checked to OPLD who bets $40 into a $100 pot, folds to Mike who bumps it to $140. OPLD thinks for about 5 minutes and then finally calls. Turn is an 8, Mike goes all-in for $300'ish, OPLD says I don't think you have it and calls. Mike show's 92 vs OPLD AA??? River A. Wow Mike takes two brutal hits back-to-back, poker is a sick game!!

I leave Borgota go drink in the Quarter at Tropicana with some friends and call it a weekend. Up around $500 for the weekend, around $300 after expenses. A last note: I never got to see Bill Cosby, tickets were sold out but I still had a great trip.