We returned yesterday from our trip to Turning Stone, and it was a blast. I had the chance to do everything that I wished to. The food was great, the poker turned out to be so-so for me, but great for others, and the golf was amazing. Without a doubt the highlight of my trip was the amazing golf course and the relaxing that came with it.
The main reason for going was obviously the poker, and for this particular trip, the Heartland Poker Tour was at Turning Stone and brought a large amount of players to the casino. One of my friends was staked in each of the tournaments that Heartland hosted but failed to cash in any. Another of my friends did well on the cash tables and left up around $400 solely from cash games. And the last member of our group ended placing 6th in the $220 deep stack turbo tournament that Heartland hosted for just over $2000. He had a very profittable trip leaving with over $3000 after coming with only a few hundred dollars.
My poker play ended fairly quickly, the third day or so. I was running terribly on the cash tables as I tended to get my money good on large pots and then proceeded to be drawn out in the three major pots I was in. The first of which was with pocket fives; I called a normal preflop raise of around $12 along with around 3 other callers including the raiser. The flop came 3 5 7, two diamonds. I was first to act and checked, the raiser C-bet the flop for about $30 and I raised all in after one behind me called the $30 for an additional $65 or $70. The initial raiser called the extra $70 with AK of diamonds, a flush draw, with the 9 of diamonds obviously coming on the river without pairing the board.
Another hand with AA left me with a loss of a $400 pot against a woman with KQ who called my reraise preflop to about $20 after she min-raised before me to $4. The flop came Q 4 2 and she lead out $40 on the flop, I raised all in for an additional $110 or so, she proceeded to call and the turn came a queen to end my poker playing trip. I decided then that I would rather do other things this trip than play poker.
The golf was amazing, we played the Shenendoah course for around $120 per round. The $120 included a cart for the 18 holes along with the top of the line rental clubs, all Titleist. I ended up parring 8 out of the 18 holes which I was happy with, but missed a great eagle opportunity on a par 4 after driving the green. That golf session was worth the entire trip to Turning Stone as I'm sure that will be one of the finest courses I will ever play.
Along with the golf the food was very good, we tended to order room service far too often and should have gone to more restaurants, but it was very good anyway. Rodizios was everything it has been in the past, but next time I expect to visit the steakhouse and Asian restaurant we planned on eating at this trip.
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