Huge weekend, some sick suckouts

I had a great weekend of poker.  Results-wise, anyway.  Did I play well?  Sometimes.  I also made some questionable moves and got rewarded handsomely for those mistakes.  :-)

I'll try to write this quick because I have some stuff to do at work.  I'll just highlight a few of the big hands.  These were all at 2/5 NL.

Call 10 more out of the blind from a middle aged lady on the button.   I have 98s.  Flop comes 8 high, I call a bet.  Turn is an 8.  I fire out 100, which was actually a really huge bet, probably more than the pot, so I'm not sure why I bet that much.  She raises me to 300.  I think it over in my head and really the only hand I can beat is something like pocket aces, but I honestly didn't think she would do that with pocket aces.  So for basically no good reason at all, I end up moving all in on her.  It was only 150 more for her to call (and I certainly wasn't expecting a fold) and she calls.  She has 10-8 and the 10 will play.  River... 9.  SICK.  1k+ pot there.  Such a bad move on my part.

Next, I'm at Red Rock 2/5 and have JTs.  I raise in early position, get a couple callers.  Flop is 9-8-4 with 2 spades (I don't have spades).  I bet out 25.  Another guy calls, and the next guy goes all-in for 60 total.  I figure the other guy in the pot might be on a spade draw so I raise to isolate : 160 total.  he calls.  OK.  Turn is an offsuit king.  At this point I have 450 left and I decided to just push all-in to get him out of the pot and play for it heads up against the other guy.  I go all-in, he calls me.  GULP.  Worse yet, he has basically the worst hand for me possible : K-3 of spades.  So he hit a pair over my two cards, and he also kills 2 of my straight outs.  River, offsuit queen.  SICKKKKKKKK.  Another insane pot.  I don't think my move was all that bad in this one, but I did have to get incredibly lucky to win the pot.

2 stacks of green

Got all in preflop this weekend with AA vs KK and won, that's always nice.  I was in the big blind and had just shown down a small bluff the hand before, not sure if that made any difference.  But some guy made it 20, I raise to 75 with AA, he makes it 220, and I shove for 550.  He thinks and says "I don't think I can fold the 2nd best hand preflop" and eventually calls, and doesn't hit.  That feels awesome.  :-) 

Lost a couple decent size pots with AK.  The first was stupid, the second was kinda standard I think.  In the first I was at 1/2 at Venetian.  I call a raise out of the blind with A-K.  Flop comes A-Q-x.  I check, preflop raiser bets 22, next guy raises to 45.  I think about it a bit and decide I don't want to fold, so I reraise to 110.  Preflop raiser folds, other guy goes all in for like 80 more, I call, he has pocket queens.  I should have just folded to the 45. 

The other AK hand, I reraise out of the blind at Red Rock 2/5 from 15 to 55.  The original raiser folds, and a short stack calls.  He has about 125 left.  On the Q-x-x flop I just push all-in and he calls with Q-J and I don't improve.  I think that's fine.

My best hand this weekend was with A-Q.  A kid who looked like he was pretty good raised to 15 in early position.  1 other caller, and I reraised to 50.  They both call.  Flop comes A-6-5.  Checks to me, and I check.  I'm thinking, pot control, and also it might disguise my hand a bit.  Turn comes a 4, and now the original preflop raiser bets out 120.  I had seen him make some kinda big bets when he c-bet earlier, so the size didn't really bother me too much, and I figured he might try to pick it up thinking I have K-K or whatever.  So I call.  Now I think this basically turns my hand face up, letting him know I have an ace.  However, I didn't really consider that he might still think I have K-K or Q-Q or whatever.  River is a blank.  Now he fires out 300.

Mr. Incident Report

Really big bet, and I didn't want to just throw the money away.  There was like 390 in the pot and he's betting 300.  And I felt like it was very obvious that I had an ace.  I thought, if he did have something like a set or a straight, would he bet 300?  Seems like too big of a bet to get me to call if I just have A-K or whatever.  And I thought that he might have thought that if I did have A-K, he could probably push me off of the hand if he made such a big bet.  So I took a long time and really thought about it, and decided to call.  He had QTs - total bluff.  And I won a sick pot. 

Quick funny story.  This guy (pictured left) sits down behind the button at Venetian.  The dealer doesn't deal him in for some reason.  So this guy starts going insane, "I'm going to file an incident report!!!!"  He tries to stop the action and the dealer is like, uh, no.  So he calls the floor over and eventually leaves the table, I think without even playing a hand.  Maybe he did end up filing an incident report, whatever that means.  What a freak of nature.  Yeah, the dealer messed up.  But who cares, it's one hand.  Get over it!