We played SO much poker this weekend. It's going to be hard to write about it all because I am short on time. The breakdown hours-wise though is that we played 6 hours on Friday night, 11.5 hours on Saturday (wow!) and 3 hours on Sunday. Sick, over 20 hours this weekend! Since my last blog post I'm up another $878. (We also played Thursday night, 4 hours.)
Had some big ups and downs. Here were some of my more memorable hands.
AK in the blind. Bunch of people either call a small raise or a straddle, I can't remember which. I raised to 45. Decided I just wanted to take down the pot. Got 4 callers. So the pot got out of control fast. Flop was all low cards. I fire out 80. 2 callers. Damn. Turn, jack. Puts 3 spades on board. I check, guy goes all-in for 150. The other lady in the pot folds. Now I tank for a bit just thinking about the odds. I had the king high flush draw. I figure even with that, using the rule of 2, I have a 18% shot to win. So approximately 4 to 1 odds. The pot is about 200+240+150, and I have to call 150. So almost $600 in the pot. So I'm getting about 4 to 1 just on my flush draw. And I figure my ace or king might be good. So maybe I have some more outs there. I called, he had pocket 10s (just a pair) and I missed. But I was very happy with my call.
Playing against that same guy later. I get A-A and raise to 8. I had been raising a lot so it's sweet when you get these big hands. Get 2 callers. Flop A-K-x. They both check to me, I bet 10, he calls. Turn, K. He checks, I bet 20, he raises to 60. I call. River, blank. He bets out 100. I go all-in for $350 total. Big ass bet. He tanks for a while, calls. I say "ship it" when he calls and flip up the A-A. Said he had K-Q (just the king). lol. Ship it. MONSTER pot.
Sit down at a new table. Get dealt 5-5. I forget if I raised or called a small raise. I think I called a small raise. Flop 3-5-X, all lower than 10, all same suit. I call a bet. Turn, 10. Girl bets 40. I raise to 100. She goes into this speech about how she doesn't know how I play, would I be bluffing here, etc etc, and she goes all-in for 150 more. lol. Now I'm like, I don't know how YOU play either, I guess I don't know what to do but I'm going to call. So I call. She has A-10 with the 10 of hearts (3 hearts on board). River, heart. :P
Crazy table at night with a bunch of complete morons. I have A-A again and raise to 8 probably. Some guy reraises me to 26. Another guy cold calls. I reraise to 115. Probably way too much, but whatever. The original raiser folds (said he had K-K). The cold-caller calls my reraise. Flop Q high. I bet 100, he calls. Turn, whatever. I bet the rest of his chips (about 60), he calls. River, nothing. He had K-Qs. WTF???? Donation.
Funniest series of hands was on Sunday. I was getting CRUSHED on Sunday. Just everything I did was wrong, every bet I put in got raised, it was a nightmare. I started thinking about it though and realized that it was just one of those days where everyone else has the nuts 100% of the time against you. It's not like they were sensing weakness and pouncing on me. They just had it every time. Very important to realize that, so you can continue to play normal and not freak out. But I was getting killed.
I was losing, losing, losing, think I just lost a pot, then next hand I get K-Q on the button. I raise to 12. Get 3 callers. Flop Q-J-8 with 3 diamonds. I have the king of diamonds. Old guy bets out 20. I just call. Turn, 9. Old guy bets out 25. I call. River, brick. Old guy bets out 35 or so. I call. He has A-Qs, no diamond.
Very next hand I have 8-4 suited. Guy under the gun raises to 8. Couple callers, so I call. Now the blind starts stacking chips and puts out a big reraise, like 40 more. I INSTANTLY (like, nobody else has even acted yet) take my chip off my cards and walk away. I'm just on such tilt at this point that I am like I have to get the fuck off of this table immediately. Definitely rude to do that while there is action pending, but whatever. I had to get out of there because I was about to go crazy.
So I go to the bathroom, clear my head a bit during the walk, and walk back to the table. Sit back down and the guy next to me instantly starts getting on my case about it. Apparently when I left he made a HUGE deal about it too, like this is unbelievable, blah blah blah. GRANTED - it was pretty rude that I left and you should never do that.
So I tell him, "Sorry, medical emergency". He says, "I bet". It was so hilarious because once you pull the medical emergency card, what is someone else going to say? No? Haha. It was great. Guy across the table was laughing with me about it. I'm not proud of leaving in the middle of a hand, definitely not a good thing. But there were a ton of people in so my action didn't make a big difference, and like I said it was a tilt emergency so I just had to leave immediately or I was going to explode.
Pretty good weekend, especially considering the couple big hands I lost where I was a favorite or had a good shot at winning. Definitely was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to next time, which might be tonight.
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