The bottom line is CC had the sickest run of cards I have ever witnessed. He flopped sets 3 times in less than an hour when I was watching and got paid every time. Apparently he had this hot hand the whole night because his stack was a small Eifel Tower of 25 pound chips by the end of the night.
My night was really simple: I had three hands in 6 hours that were noteworthy and was card dead the rest of the time.
Hand #1: Maniac loose player raised to 11 from the button after I limped from mid position with 7h5h (yes it was a slow night for cards and I was forced to play some really weak hands just to stay awake). Small blind folds, big blind calls, and I call for value. Pot is 32. Flop comes 468 rainbow, the nuts. BB bets 25, I raise to 75, button maniac raises to 200. BB calls all-in for 150 and I move all-in for 350. Button calls with 84 off suit (like I said, maniac) and BB turns over the set of 666's. My nut straight some how holds up and my stack is up to 800 (from 300 buy-in).
Hand #2: About 5 minutes later I decide to mix it up a little and from late position raise the pot to 23 with pocket 33's after someone had straddled for 5 and there were 3 callers. The button calls me and the limpers check out. Heads up to the flop of J53, two-suited. With the set of 333, I lead-out with 25 in the pot of 60, looking like a weak continuation bet. He raises me to 50, I re-raise to 200 and he pushes all-in for 400. SICK, I have a sinking feeling as he turns over his 555 set and the all-too cliche´ "set over set" costs me all of my profits up to that point.
Hand #3: After a stretch of 2 hours with hardly a playable hand, I finally got moved over to the main game, which CC had reported was action-packed with at least one deep-stacked fish to fillet. On my second hand I found KK and called a guy down to the river after a flop of 852 rainbow, only to find he had flopped the 52, two-pair "monster" and my slow playing KK was actually a milk job by him. Anyways, that's not the hand I wanted to talk about, but I did go a little on TILT after that. Fortunately, I got my typical-for-the-night run of 92, 73, 62, 25, J4, Q3 and didn't play a hand for half an hour until I found AsQs UTG. I limped, knowing this table would raise the action. Fish Fillet raised to 11 and middle position (semi-loose pre-flop raiser) raised the pot to 28. Folded around to me and I decided my AQ was at worst a 50/50 in the hand and re-raised the pot to 100. Fish Fillet calls and middle position throws his 100 in with only 50 behind. Fish Fillet had about 500 behind. FLOP comes QdJd8c. I push all-in for another 175 into a 300 pot, unable to protect my hand. FF calls and middle throws his last 50 in the pot. The TURN is another 8, which I wasn't too worried about. At this point, FF turns over is pocket 10's, conceding defeat as does middle, who has pocket 9's. RIVER comes the 10, which makes the straight for middle and boats-up FF. I lose the 700+ pot on a 9:1 favorite after the flop/turn.
Not a very fun night and another example of why poker can really be a love/hate relationship.
1 comment:
that was a sick beat at the end!! And your Fish Fillet label made me laugh. hahaha
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