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today is June 18th 2020 and the Bellagio has reopened its poker room with some different
guidelines much much more space in between the tables that's a bonus and six handed the tables
will also have Plexiglas on them much like a bank teller window separating the players and
the dealers but still giving ample room to receive your cards and place bets with your chips I figure
although this is a dangerous proposition you guys want to see some live poker I haven't
brought you any live poker in over three months so here's our best opportunity to 5 No Limit is
the game will be playing $500 max buying the goal is to get up to 1500 a cool $1,000 profit within
the next two hours it's just after midnight so it's officially the 19th but we're gonna
do some work hopefully we get a lot of action at this six max table let's see what happens
five hundred and fifty dollars in my stack we're five handed I'm under the gun with pocket fives
two black ones I make it 15 Asian male AIDS 21 to 40 on my left makes it 45 pulls back around
to me what's you rubbin aces I don't think so Tim we're definitely gonna be set mining for
this price so I put in the call Bob comes Jack six deuce two hearts I check and he bets $50
when this happens there's one thing you want to consider and that's if I do a set turn set
mine you want it to be clean if the five of Hearts hit it's going to be an action killer
so I wish I had the five of hearts since I don't I fold any shows and pocket visas
five handed I'm under the gun with four or five of diamonds make it 50 to go button calls big blind
calls flop comes east Queen five rainbow now there's two schools of thought when this flop
arrives we do have range advantage we have all the Aces Queens ace queen etc Ace King but you
know they could have some of that too some worse aces some Queen acts that they're not gonna fold
the one bet so I think the best course of action here is to bet and hopefully they all fold if they
don't we can continue betting on deuces threes fours and fives sorry about $20 guy on my right
calls and the other guy folds the turn is a three this is one of the cards were gonna barrel I bet
$60 and he calls if a deuce comes off on the river that's gonna be jackpot he's never put this on a
straight and if a five comes he's never putting us on a five he probably thinks we have like East
King or each jack or something at this point I'm putting him on a East Jack East ten type of hand
anyways so when the river brings a ten that is not a good card I don't think he has King Jack
that often but he could have a lot of east ten and just aces that he is not going to fold to
our third barrel so I eventually just check it over to him and he bets 110 dollars clear value
bet these guys are not getting too out of line all pretty ABC from the time I've spent playing cash
games nothing too crazy a lot of tight solid play and I fold so we lost 100 bucks there
with blinds in it $2 $5 action folds rounded me in the small blind I am on a no walk policy either
way so we're playing I make it 15 to go with Jack 9 offsuit same asian male puts in the call on my
left behind the Plexiglas of course fob comes Jack Jack six rainbow since we have the deck demolished
I don't think there's much merit and betting MLCs specifically a six by checking we can induce
Bluffs this is the player type that likes to bluff so I check and he quickly bets $20.00 love to see
it no reason to spring the trap yet we just put in the call repping a hand like ace high the turn is
to Jack quads Oh baby if he's got a six he might go for three streets of value we check it and flow
any bets $40 still don't think it's good to spring the trap we're gonna wait for that big river bet
and keep Bluffs in his range our hands still gonna look a lot like ace high a stubborn ace high I put
in the call for $40 the river is a seven don't think he should assume I have many sevens in our
range if he has a six he's definitely gonna value about his boat we checked to him and he quickly
checks I show the quads and he shows three four off suit so we played great that's all we can do
I'll lose a few small pots to get down to 420 dollars so I give the dealer 100 he gives me a
black chip and I take 20 bucks off the table max buy-in is 500 the very next hand just in
time I look down at pocket aces the weapons of mass destruction the greatest hand ever
created American Airlines we raised it up to 15 our standard small blind folds in the big
blind folds we take it down the very next hand I pick up pocket aces I can't believe
it they're getting tired of my shenanigans I'm playing almost every hand I make it 15
to go small blind calls and the big blind do i three bed earlier makes it 70 to go we're both
500 deep do we flat or do we put in a small four bet that is the question I think either
play is fine this time I elect to put in that four bet make it look like I'm making a move
170 dollars to go the old live Pro one black chip on top move small blind folds and the big
blind tanks and folds and we take it down pretty anti-climatic I was very excited my heart was
beating already envisioned a $1,000 stack in front of me but it wasn't to be not this time
and I quickly rack up and leave on a high note in for 600 out for 663 a profitable trip overall I'd
say the mask cutting off the supply of blood to my earlobes this is due to the fact that I
have a very large head and the mask doesn't fit properly I may need to look for a hack
because this is not sustainable my ears are beet red and it hurts overall six handed five
handed four handed awesome for action you get to play a lot more hands you get to get a lot more
reads on your opponents and in the end that's what it comes down to I wish more places were
six handed without masks although master optional at Bellagio maybe 50% of the people were wearing
them they were required for the floor man and the dealers the plexiglass really took a lot of
the human element out of it a woman to my right was talking to me and I didn't even notice it
and she just kept tapping on the glass like I'm a bank teller before she was asked for some change
everything is muffled you can't hear what people are saying in any small talk is misinterpreted
because you can't see some fantastic people's faces not a very social environment people want
their fix they came and got it I don't see this being a sustainable business model for
the poker rooms something's got to change I'm not sure what the vaccine will find out until
next time this is jeff Boesky reporting from the Bellagio 2/5 No Limit six max cash game
stay safe out there stay strong and of course stay hard we are all very fragile this world
we have to know that when we die we die with some me is some purpose in this world stay hard