Cash Game Meltdowns
I've been putting off a new entry for a few days since I've been taking a horrendous (and mostly self inflicted) beating at the cash tables. Last week at Nautica I dropped $500 in two sessions. I went last Tuesday and only had time to play until 7PM. I got there at 5:10 and didn't get seated until 5:50 at the $5/10. I piddled away $50 until a $1/2 seat opened and I jumped in. My table played pretty solid for about an hour, I was about even when the tournament was beginning and most of my table was leaving to play in it. Last hand before they broke, I get 8-3 off in the BB. UTG makes it $10 and everyone calls back to me. "Fuck it, last hand!" I think and toss in two reds. Flop 8-5-8. I check, UTG fires $25, one call in the middle. I call. Turn 2. I check, UTG fires another $25, mid raises all-in for $100 more. I snap call and UTG folds, he shows 9-8 and I leave with a small handful of reds, completely disgusted at my own stupidity. I deserved to lose that.
I decided to go back Thursday night and make another go at it. I bought in for $200 and blinded down for a while. It sucks when you're not getting hands, because you're hamstrung. There's NO bluffing these retards. For example: On a board of 4-4-7-7 two spades UTG leads out for $10 after limping and checking around the flop and turn. I raise to $40 with AJ figuring (correctly) that UTG has nothing. I am surprised to see old man behind me tank for a minute and then call. I figure him for a 4 and kiss my $40 goodbye. UTG folds. River Q. I check, old man rolls over Q5 of spades, he hit his Q on the river chasing a flush on a double paired board. Gotta love it. I am down to about $110 when I get K10h on the button. Mid position raises it to $7, whole table calls. Flop A-K-9 two hearts. I open-shove for $100, get snap called by a guy with A-5 (no heart). I flush on river and double back to even. I then shank a girl for her $100 buyin when I turn Aces up on her. Feeling good, half hour till I gotta leave. Internet douchebag at the table is racking up his $1k and decides "one more hand". He's UTG and limps, I limp with A-10. Flop A-7-8. He leads for $10, I raise to $40. He snap calls and says "I think you're on a draw". Turn is a 6, he leads for $100. I shove and he snap calls, shows the dead nuts (10-9). I hit insult Ace on river. It was a horrible play on my part, I was so sure Douchebag was trying to push me around. I never stopped to consider why he would do that on his last hand instead of just folding and leaving. Another loss I had coming to me, I guess.
So, smarting from that I decide to play Dave's Saturday night. Rolling along pretty good when I get Timmy at my table. He's playing a bit aggressive, and at the $300/600 level he starts making steal raises. He makes it $2100 to go with A-9 off and I look down at 66. I shove, and he tanks for a minute and then calls me. Board runs K-5-7-K-7 and I lose on kicker. Disgusted, I sit down at the cash game for $150. I start out flopping huge draws, straights and flush draws. I brick out time and time again on them. The one time I turn my inside straight I have to lay it down to a huge raise by Eddie J. He just looked like he smashed the board, and I had the lower straight so I opted to fold it. He told someone else he had two pair, oh well I guess. I get down to $70ish when I make it $6 to go from cutoff + 1 with 9-7s. Eddie calls, Ken makes it $10 more. I call, Eddie folds (great). Flop J-9-7. Bingo! Ken open-shoves, I snap call and roll over my two pair. He turns up KK and I know I'm fucked. Yep, K on the turn and drawing dead. I reload and get into a stupid hand with Pyxis. She'd been raising a lot more than I remembered, and she was betting flops and pushing. She made it $10 preflop and I called with 88. Flop K-9-7 two clubs. She bets $15 and it smells like a c-bet to me. Chan even says "C'mon, you can't hit every flop". I call and the turn is the Ac. Three clubs on board and she fires out $25 without missing a beat. I think about it and decide she has to be on either AK or AQ, and I don't think she has a club. I call and the river is an 8 giving me a set. She puts out $40 and I shove. She thinks about it for a while and calls, I say "set" and she rolls over 9-9 for a higher set. I decide that's enough shitty play for me, I need to go.
My bankroll has taken a monster hit over the past few weeks, which I attribute mostly to me playing fast and loose. I'm not sure how I let it get that out of control, but it's clear I need to lay off the gas. I'm going into bankroll rebuild mode, going to concentrate on limit games and smaller tournaments until I can get my game back under control.
Also, as has been noted elsewhere one of the local cash games was robbed last night. I don't normally play this game, it's a very loose/open $1/2 that plays like a $5/10 by the end of the night. The incident reminds me of why so many hosts like to say "No New Players" and why no matter who you're playing with you should always keep one eye on your chips and one on the door. I expect a show of force at Dave's this weekend, plenty of people with CCW's will be there and will be ready if trouble decides to show up.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Vegas Trip Report (Possibly long and boring)
Got back from Las Vegas yesterday morning, actually had a pretty decent trip this time. Vegas is getting better for me now that I know where to go to get in the games I like and avoid the never ending procession of douchebags.
We got in early and after sleeping off the plane ride decided to head over to Venetian to play $1/2. I sat down and got mauled early for my first buy-in. I limped with 77, 5 to the flop. Q-10-7 two diamonds. SB makes it $10. BB pops it to $25. I shove $200 in. Button says "I KNOW you have a set, I'm here to gamble" and shoves his money in. Folds around and he flips up A8d. Turn? Flush of course and brick on the river.
Played some more Venetian and was stuck about $600 and pretty frustrated when I decided to take another shot at the $1/2. I sit down at a very tight table full of nits who are limping every pot and check calling. I get A-8 in the cutoff and pop it to $10. One caller. Flop 8-6-3 rainbow. Caller checks, I toss in $20. He calls. Turn 2. He leads into me for $25. I can't imagine he has a set, he certainly would've checked and tried to induce more betting from me. What could the 2 have done for him? Not much. I decide to test him and pop it to $80. He tanks for a minute and then shoves. I can't figure out what he's on so I call and he tables 9-9. Hurf! Rebuy! I muck and tell him nice hand and he starts acting like a dick, telling me I'm an idiot who overplayed my AK. I slowly run my stack back up to about $300 when I get 8-8 in mid position. I limp and Asshole there makes it $12. I call and the flop comes K-8-4. I check and he fires out $25. I pop it to $60 and he gets mad, slamming his chips on the table and yelling at me "Do you really think I'm bluffing?! ALL IN!". I call. Turn a 4 and I fill up. River a blank, eh rolls over AK like he just won the lottery. "Boat" I say, tabling my 8s. He blows a fuse as he counts out my $300. A few hands later I get KK and raise to $10. Same guy calls. Flop A-3-2. He checks, I look at him and am sure he has an Ace by how he's sitting. I check behind. Turn Ks (two spades now). He checks, I fire out $25. He just calls. River 3s. He checks again, I fire out $60. He snap-shoves all-in. I call and he flips up AQs for the flush. He's pleased as punch until I say "Boat." again and turn over my KK. He goes beserk, screaming about how I was so dominated on the flop blah blah. He ships the rest of his chips and continues to berate me. I tell him "You know what, sir? Your chips and I are leaving". I rack up and cash out +$444 as the table begins to give the guy shit for driving me away.
I decide to go play some .05¢ video poker to kill time while I waited for Kirsten to finish her game. I had a $25 voucher I put in, and I meant to bet 4 nickels but I fat fingered the machine and bet 6 or 7. I tried to cancel out but it wouldn't let me. I decided to run it up to the 100 bet max and try to get it roll back over to 1 but it didn't. Now stuck, I just decided to blow the $5 and deal. I drew two deuces on the deal. OK, cool, trips is break even so I won't lose any money. I keep the deuces and draw, WHAM! Two more deuces. I win 20,000 nickels. I decided to go ahead and cash out the $1000 and leave while I was ahead. This was my best day so far.
I played a lot of limit at Mirage in between, killing time and keeping my variance low. When I was stuck bad I played a 13 hour session and made $13, but getting all those hands in helped to keep my head straight and profit is profit. I played in the $150 mega stack tournament at Harrah's on Wednesday and was completely unimpressed. First off, the payouts are top heavy and they pay too few spots. Secondly, the Harrah's floor staff is loaded with assholes. I caught two Brits colluding with each other in a hand. One raised, the other calls. They bet at each other on the flop. On the turn, the first one bets half his friend's stack and gets called. On the river, they both check and one rolls over the dead nuts, an Ace high flush. I called them out on it, asking if they had a deal to soft play each other. I made a stink about it but nothing happened to them and the dealer mucked the hand so we couldn't get the floor involved. Then there was a spot where I had $100 in the SB and tossed a $500 chip on top as a raise to $600. The dealer said "Call" and I stopped him, saying I had raised because there were two chips in. He replies "No, that's a single oversize chip. It's a call". I argued that it was two chips, but the floor agreed with the dealer and ruled it a call, and then rolled out the WSOP rule book to show me the rule. I busted to one of the cheaters when I flopped top set, check raised him all in and he bit with QQ and caught running spades to flush.
I played a lot at Flamingo after that and got into the hand of my trip there. I was playing a pretty tight table and had $545 in front of me when I limped in with K2h from the button. BB is a tight/solid player with a $900 stack who hasn't been in many pots. He makes it $15. UTG calls, he's an idiot who's been in every hand, he has $180 behind. Flop is 4-5-7 with two hearts. BB checks. UTG leads out for $30. I call, BB shoves in $130 on a check raise. UTG flat calls. Now there's $330 in there and I have to call $100 for the next call. I flat call. Turn is a 3, giving me the open ender and the flush draw. BB open shoves. So, now I have to call off $415 into a pot of $845ish. I tank and finally call, river is another 4. BB rolls over 7's full and I am stuck $500. I don't regret my call, I didn't read him as being that strong. I put him on a big pair, and was wrong.
We played at Binion's for the next two nights, not much happened there except for me dropping another few buyins and finally giving up, finishing my trip at the $1 video blackjack while Kirsten played out. I will note that Binion's is really trying to get more players in - they are offering $2/hr comps (double what everyone else is doing) and a 10% max $3 rake (+$1 for high hand jackpots). Kirsten hit two different high hands while there (quad Jacks for $50 and a straight flush for $150). She also won two seats to their Playboy giveaway tournament which she sold for $22 each.
All told I finished -$800 for the week but had fun and was generally satisfied with my play. We're thinking of doing a CardPlayer cruise next year, can't wait to see. Until then, back to the home game grind.
Got back from Las Vegas yesterday morning, actually had a pretty decent trip this time. Vegas is getting better for me now that I know where to go to get in the games I like and avoid the never ending procession of douchebags.
We got in early and after sleeping off the plane ride decided to head over to Venetian to play $1/2. I sat down and got mauled early for my first buy-in. I limped with 77, 5 to the flop. Q-10-7 two diamonds. SB makes it $10. BB pops it to $25. I shove $200 in. Button says "I KNOW you have a set, I'm here to gamble" and shoves his money in. Folds around and he flips up A8d. Turn? Flush of course and brick on the river.
Played some more Venetian and was stuck about $600 and pretty frustrated when I decided to take another shot at the $1/2. I sit down at a very tight table full of nits who are limping every pot and check calling. I get A-8 in the cutoff and pop it to $10. One caller. Flop 8-6-3 rainbow. Caller checks, I toss in $20. He calls. Turn 2. He leads into me for $25. I can't imagine he has a set, he certainly would've checked and tried to induce more betting from me. What could the 2 have done for him? Not much. I decide to test him and pop it to $80. He tanks for a minute and then shoves. I can't figure out what he's on so I call and he tables 9-9. Hurf! Rebuy! I muck and tell him nice hand and he starts acting like a dick, telling me I'm an idiot who overplayed my AK. I slowly run my stack back up to about $300 when I get 8-8 in mid position. I limp and Asshole there makes it $12. I call and the flop comes K-8-4. I check and he fires out $25. I pop it to $60 and he gets mad, slamming his chips on the table and yelling at me "Do you really think I'm bluffing?! ALL IN!". I call. Turn a 4 and I fill up. River a blank, eh rolls over AK like he just won the lottery. "Boat" I say, tabling my 8s. He blows a fuse as he counts out my $300. A few hands later I get KK and raise to $10. Same guy calls. Flop A-3-2. He checks, I look at him and am sure he has an Ace by how he's sitting. I check behind. Turn Ks (two spades now). He checks, I fire out $25. He just calls. River 3s. He checks again, I fire out $60. He snap-shoves all-in. I call and he flips up AQs for the flush. He's pleased as punch until I say "Boat." again and turn over my KK. He goes beserk, screaming about how I was so dominated on the flop blah blah. He ships the rest of his chips and continues to berate me. I tell him "You know what, sir? Your chips and I are leaving". I rack up and cash out +$444 as the table begins to give the guy shit for driving me away.
I decide to go play some .05¢ video poker to kill time while I waited for Kirsten to finish her game. I had a $25 voucher I put in, and I meant to bet 4 nickels but I fat fingered the machine and bet 6 or 7. I tried to cancel out but it wouldn't let me. I decided to run it up to the 100 bet max and try to get it roll back over to 1 but it didn't. Now stuck, I just decided to blow the $5 and deal. I drew two deuces on the deal. OK, cool, trips is break even so I won't lose any money. I keep the deuces and draw, WHAM! Two more deuces. I win 20,000 nickels. I decided to go ahead and cash out the $1000 and leave while I was ahead. This was my best day so far.
I played a lot of limit at Mirage in between, killing time and keeping my variance low. When I was stuck bad I played a 13 hour session and made $13, but getting all those hands in helped to keep my head straight and profit is profit. I played in the $150 mega stack tournament at Harrah's on Wednesday and was completely unimpressed. First off, the payouts are top heavy and they pay too few spots. Secondly, the Harrah's floor staff is loaded with assholes. I caught two Brits colluding with each other in a hand. One raised, the other calls. They bet at each other on the flop. On the turn, the first one bets half his friend's stack and gets called. On the river, they both check and one rolls over the dead nuts, an Ace high flush. I called them out on it, asking if they had a deal to soft play each other. I made a stink about it but nothing happened to them and the dealer mucked the hand so we couldn't get the floor involved. Then there was a spot where I had $100 in the SB and tossed a $500 chip on top as a raise to $600. The dealer said "Call" and I stopped him, saying I had raised because there were two chips in. He replies "No, that's a single oversize chip. It's a call". I argued that it was two chips, but the floor agreed with the dealer and ruled it a call, and then rolled out the WSOP rule book to show me the rule. I busted to one of the cheaters when I flopped top set, check raised him all in and he bit with QQ and caught running spades to flush.
I played a lot at Flamingo after that and got into the hand of my trip there. I was playing a pretty tight table and had $545 in front of me when I limped in with K2h from the button. BB is a tight/solid player with a $900 stack who hasn't been in many pots. He makes it $15. UTG calls, he's an idiot who's been in every hand, he has $180 behind. Flop is 4-5-7 with two hearts. BB checks. UTG leads out for $30. I call, BB shoves in $130 on a check raise. UTG flat calls. Now there's $330 in there and I have to call $100 for the next call. I flat call. Turn is a 3, giving me the open ender and the flush draw. BB open shoves. So, now I have to call off $415 into a pot of $845ish. I tank and finally call, river is another 4. BB rolls over 7's full and I am stuck $500. I don't regret my call, I didn't read him as being that strong. I put him on a big pair, and was wrong.
We played at Binion's for the next two nights, not much happened there except for me dropping another few buyins and finally giving up, finishing my trip at the $1 video blackjack while Kirsten played out. I will note that Binion's is really trying to get more players in - they are offering $2/hr comps (double what everyone else is doing) and a 10% max $3 rake (+$1 for high hand jackpots). Kirsten hit two different high hands while there (quad Jacks for $50 and a straight flush for $150). She also won two seats to their Playboy giveaway tournament which she sold for $22 each.
All told I finished -$800 for the week but had fun and was generally satisfied with my play. We're thinking of doing a CardPlayer cruise next year, can't wait to see. Until then, back to the home game grind.
Saturday, October 03, 2009
More Ups and Downs
Started my poker weekend off very, very wrong. Went to Eddie J's $1/1 game and sat down with $150. I got bloodied, bad. I lost half of my first buy-in on two stupid bluffs (I know better than to bluff ProWest, even though I read him correctly and he was weak he still called and picked me off). I didn't get a single pair higher than 9's, flopped no sets (had trip 5's once with 5-4 in my hand), no straights, no flushes, only one boat (the 5-4 hand). Every single time except for one when I raised a hand I missed the flop completely and was forced to fold to post flop action. Each time I got my money all-in I had the worst of it and lost all but one all-in (I cracked Bill's KK with Q9 for $70). Throw in a public fight with Kirsten about me sitting at the same table as her and you have a -$450 night.
I got up Saturday morning and, after cleaning a furnace for a nice old lady, I decided to try and make some money back at the $5/10 at Nautica. I got there at ten till 3 and got on the list. At 3:15 I was still only halfway up the list and they weren't opening another table. Itching to play, I decide to accept a $1/2 seat when they ran out of waiting. I sat down at a table with some deep stacks, one guy (Mr Aggressive) had over $800 in front of him. Hand 3 I get pocket 10's and raise to $7. Six of us take a flop of 6-7-8. Mr. Aggressive leads into me for $15. Guy in the middle calls. I raise him to $45. He calls the $30 and so does the other player. Turn is a J and both players check to me. I fire out $100 (leaving $42 behind). Mr. Aggressive mubles something and folds, middle guy (with $136 left) says "I got an open ender, I know if I hit it I am good". He tanks for a minute and shoves the $100 in. River is another 7 and he checks. I bet the $36 and he calls. I show the 10's and he shows 9-8, ship it! I debate cashing out now but it's only 3:30. I figure I'll wait for the seat fee again. A round later, I am in the BB with AK. 8 others limp, and I decide a raise here won't do much good because I am out of position and have been missing flops. I check and the flop comes K-10-3 with two diamonds. I fire out $10 and Mr. Aggressive snap calls. He's on tilt now because a player at the end of the table took half his $800 stack in two hands. Three other players call. Turn is the Kc. I fire out $50. Mr. A snaps calls. Everyone else folds. River is a blank. I fire out another $100. He sighs and the throws the hundred in and declares "I have a K". I say "Ace King" and table my hand. Ship it again! I'm up to $650+ right now. Seat fee is closing in, I look down at 5-7s in the cutoff. Middle position guy makes it $7, one caller, I call, button makes it $28. Button is very tight/solid, I know he's on a top 5 hand. First raiser calls, and I decide if the other guy calls I will too. Of course he does, and I do. Flop 4-6-A with one spade. First raiser checks, middle guy checks, I check, and button...checks. OK, he's got KK, QQ, or JJ. Turn is the 9s. Now I have straight and flush draws. First raiser bets $40. I know he's got an Ace. Middle folds. I call and button languishes and folds. He told me later he had QQ. River is an 8. Yahtzee! Checks to me, I fire out $100. Guy goes in the tank and finally calls and shows AJ and I scoop another huge pot. I am sitting on $886 when I get tapped on the shoulder to pay my fee. I decide to cash out, filling two racks and salvaging my weekend in less than 45 minutes.
Saturday night at Dave's was not so kind. These up and down swings are seriously aggravating. Sit down 4 handed with Jewish Andy, Dave, and Kirsten. Plod along for a bit and down to $75 of my original $100 when I get AJ suited. Dave raises to 3, I re-raise to $8. He calls. Flop Q-10-Q. Check check. Turn A. He checks again, I bet $15. He shoves on me. I really think he's either on a weaker Ace or a 10 and he doesn't believe me. I call and he shows me the Q-10 for a flopped full house. Total idiotic misread by me, and I reach in the ole pocket. Second buy-in bleeds away to about $60 when I get 10-10. I raise preflop to $6. Flop comes K-7-3 all diamonds (I do not have a diamond). Andy bets into me, I shove. He reluctantly calls and asks if I flopped it, I show my 10's. Turn is a 5 and he turns up 4-6 for the inside straight. Rebuy! I screwed myself in two big hands against Dave. The first one he raised preflop and I called with 6-8. Flop comes 2-3-4. Check check. Turn a K. I bet out $10. He raises to $25. I shove and he tanks, and I realize he has a hand. Oops! He turns a K face up and asks if it's good. He seems to be convincing himself that I have a straight, so I turn up the 6. He finally folds and I show the bluff. Jeff runs the board out, I hit the 5 and would've doubled up if I hadn't been bluffing. UGH. Later on, I get 6-7. Dave raises preflop again, I call again. Flop 3-4-7. I bet $10. Dave makes it $20. I put another $50 on it. Dave tanks, and I declare I have $120 behind. He counts out $170 and sits there discussing the hand. He says he has an overpair, so I tell him pick a card. He picks the 7 and I turn it up. Now he's really confused, do I have a set? 2 pair? He asks for a deal - he puts the $50 in and we cap and run it out. I decide to accept and turn the straight. Dave said later he wouldn't have put any more in if I refused the deal, so I guess I got as much as possible. Later on, about $100 from even I dump about $60 to K in a hand. I get 9-7h, she raises and I call. Flop A-10-8 2 hearts. She bets, I raise her $40 more. She tanks and I show her the 9h. She's still deciding what to do so I show the 7h and she's really sick. She asks for the same deal as Dave, call the $40 and run it out. I offer to run it twice, she refuses. I agree and she turns up KK no heart. I brick out (of course, too many outs) and she scoops. Total for the night: Down $175.
Decided to head to Nautica and make another withdrawal from the $5/10 donkeys. I bought in for $200 and was up and down a little. I took a nice $80 pot off of a rock early on. He hadn't been playing any hands, and suddenly raised to $10. Most of the table called, as did I with 4-8c. Flop Q-4-7. He leads out for the $5, 5 callers. Turn a 6. I have 4's and a gutshot. He leads for $10, everyone folds to me, I call. River a blank, he leads again and I call again. He says "No pair" and I table my 4's. Ship it! The wildest hand happened when I was getting close to leaving. I had bled down some more, kept getting playable hands but missing flops. I was the blind with 3-7d when someone in the middle made it $10. Someone else three bet it to $15 and two callers. I decided to cap to prevent an extra turn around and I had a feeling on this one. Flop 6-7-8 all clubs. Check to the three bettor, he makes it $5 and is sickened when everyone calls. Turn is the 7s. Yahtzee! Checks to him, he puts $10 in. I raise to $20. Three callers. River is a Jh. Checks around to me, I bet the $10. Three callers. I table my 7 and they all piss and moan and fold. Ship it! After three seat fees and parking I profit $77. Not spectacular but not bad either. I'll take a win.
Final weekend tally: +$97. One week till Vegas.
Started my poker weekend off very, very wrong. Went to Eddie J's $1/1 game and sat down with $150. I got bloodied, bad. I lost half of my first buy-in on two stupid bluffs (I know better than to bluff ProWest, even though I read him correctly and he was weak he still called and picked me off). I didn't get a single pair higher than 9's, flopped no sets (had trip 5's once with 5-4 in my hand), no straights, no flushes, only one boat (the 5-4 hand). Every single time except for one when I raised a hand I missed the flop completely and was forced to fold to post flop action. Each time I got my money all-in I had the worst of it and lost all but one all-in (I cracked Bill's KK with Q9 for $70). Throw in a public fight with Kirsten about me sitting at the same table as her and you have a -$450 night.
I got up Saturday morning and, after cleaning a furnace for a nice old lady, I decided to try and make some money back at the $5/10 at Nautica. I got there at ten till 3 and got on the list. At 3:15 I was still only halfway up the list and they weren't opening another table. Itching to play, I decide to accept a $1/2 seat when they ran out of waiting. I sat down at a table with some deep stacks, one guy (Mr Aggressive) had over $800 in front of him. Hand 3 I get pocket 10's and raise to $7. Six of us take a flop of 6-7-8. Mr. Aggressive leads into me for $15. Guy in the middle calls. I raise him to $45. He calls the $30 and so does the other player. Turn is a J and both players check to me. I fire out $100 (leaving $42 behind). Mr. Aggressive mubles something and folds, middle guy (with $136 left) says "I got an open ender, I know if I hit it I am good". He tanks for a minute and shoves the $100 in. River is another 7 and he checks. I bet the $36 and he calls. I show the 10's and he shows 9-8, ship it! I debate cashing out now but it's only 3:30. I figure I'll wait for the seat fee again. A round later, I am in the BB with AK. 8 others limp, and I decide a raise here won't do much good because I am out of position and have been missing flops. I check and the flop comes K-10-3 with two diamonds. I fire out $10 and Mr. Aggressive snap calls. He's on tilt now because a player at the end of the table took half his $800 stack in two hands. Three other players call. Turn is the Kc. I fire out $50. Mr. A snaps calls. Everyone else folds. River is a blank. I fire out another $100. He sighs and the throws the hundred in and declares "I have a K". I say "Ace King" and table my hand. Ship it again! I'm up to $650+ right now. Seat fee is closing in, I look down at 5-7s in the cutoff. Middle position guy makes it $7, one caller, I call, button makes it $28. Button is very tight/solid, I know he's on a top 5 hand. First raiser calls, and I decide if the other guy calls I will too. Of course he does, and I do. Flop 4-6-A with one spade. First raiser checks, middle guy checks, I check, and button...checks. OK, he's got KK, QQ, or JJ. Turn is the 9s. Now I have straight and flush draws. First raiser bets $40. I know he's got an Ace. Middle folds. I call and button languishes and folds. He told me later he had QQ. River is an 8. Yahtzee! Checks to me, I fire out $100. Guy goes in the tank and finally calls and shows AJ and I scoop another huge pot. I am sitting on $886 when I get tapped on the shoulder to pay my fee. I decide to cash out, filling two racks and salvaging my weekend in less than 45 minutes.
Saturday night at Dave's was not so kind. These up and down swings are seriously aggravating. Sit down 4 handed with Jewish Andy, Dave, and Kirsten. Plod along for a bit and down to $75 of my original $100 when I get AJ suited. Dave raises to 3, I re-raise to $8. He calls. Flop Q-10-Q. Check check. Turn A. He checks again, I bet $15. He shoves on me. I really think he's either on a weaker Ace or a 10 and he doesn't believe me. I call and he shows me the Q-10 for a flopped full house. Total idiotic misread by me, and I reach in the ole pocket. Second buy-in bleeds away to about $60 when I get 10-10. I raise preflop to $6. Flop comes K-7-3 all diamonds (I do not have a diamond). Andy bets into me, I shove. He reluctantly calls and asks if I flopped it, I show my 10's. Turn is a 5 and he turns up 4-6 for the inside straight. Rebuy! I screwed myself in two big hands against Dave. The first one he raised preflop and I called with 6-8. Flop comes 2-3-4. Check check. Turn a K. I bet out $10. He raises to $25. I shove and he tanks, and I realize he has a hand. Oops! He turns a K face up and asks if it's good. He seems to be convincing himself that I have a straight, so I turn up the 6. He finally folds and I show the bluff. Jeff runs the board out, I hit the 5 and would've doubled up if I hadn't been bluffing. UGH. Later on, I get 6-7. Dave raises preflop again, I call again. Flop 3-4-7. I bet $10. Dave makes it $20. I put another $50 on it. Dave tanks, and I declare I have $120 behind. He counts out $170 and sits there discussing the hand. He says he has an overpair, so I tell him pick a card. He picks the 7 and I turn it up. Now he's really confused, do I have a set? 2 pair? He asks for a deal - he puts the $50 in and we cap and run it out. I decide to accept and turn the straight. Dave said later he wouldn't have put any more in if I refused the deal, so I guess I got as much as possible. Later on, about $100 from even I dump about $60 to K in a hand. I get 9-7h, she raises and I call. Flop A-10-8 2 hearts. She bets, I raise her $40 more. She tanks and I show her the 9h. She's still deciding what to do so I show the 7h and she's really sick. She asks for the same deal as Dave, call the $40 and run it out. I offer to run it twice, she refuses. I agree and she turns up KK no heart. I brick out (of course, too many outs) and she scoops. Total for the night: Down $175.
Decided to head to Nautica and make another withdrawal from the $5/10 donkeys. I bought in for $200 and was up and down a little. I took a nice $80 pot off of a rock early on. He hadn't been playing any hands, and suddenly raised to $10. Most of the table called, as did I with 4-8c. Flop Q-4-7. He leads out for the $5, 5 callers. Turn a 6. I have 4's and a gutshot. He leads for $10, everyone folds to me, I call. River a blank, he leads again and I call again. He says "No pair" and I table my 4's. Ship it! The wildest hand happened when I was getting close to leaving. I had bled down some more, kept getting playable hands but missing flops. I was the blind with 3-7d when someone in the middle made it $10. Someone else three bet it to $15 and two callers. I decided to cap to prevent an extra turn around and I had a feeling on this one. Flop 6-7-8 all clubs. Check to the three bettor, he makes it $5 and is sickened when everyone calls. Turn is the 7s. Yahtzee! Checks to him, he puts $10 in. I raise to $20. Three callers. River is a Jh. Checks around to me, I bet the $10. Three callers. I table my 7 and they all piss and moan and fold. Ship it! After three seat fees and parking I profit $77. Not spectacular but not bad either. I'll take a win.
Final weekend tally: +$97. One week till Vegas.
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