Crushing the Valley

Friday, February 15th - Green Valley Ranch

On Friday I went up to GVR after work.  My wife was hanging out at home doing homework, so I figured I'd get a couple quick hours of poker in before she was ready to go out and play later on.

I ended up running so f-ing hot during this session, it was ridiculous.  Of course, most of my hot streak was when I was waiting for the 1/2 NL game, playing 3/6 limit.  :P  Regardless, it was a ridiculous run of cards.  It is almost easy to go on tilt when you are running that hot at a MUCH smaller game than you normally play.  "Why doesn't this happen at the 1/3 NL table???"  But it's all good.  I'll take the cards when they come without complaint.  :-)

3/6 Limit 

3/6 at GVR

I won't even go into too much detail on these hands because who cares, it's limit and I just pound the bets in when I have it in limit.  It's like playing video poker, max bet all day.  But the hands I had were just so sick.  And they came in rapid successsion.

Pocket 4s, flop a set.  Get 3 callers on the flop, 2 on the turn, 1 on the river.  Win.

Raise with A-Q, get 3 callers.  Flop ace high, bet, 3 callers.  I think I got 2 callers on the turn, at least 1 on the river (when I hit my queen), win.

Guy raises under the gun, I call with 8-8 in the blind, flop a set.  Win.

Get pocket jacks and end up losing to flopped trips, but who cares - this run is sick.

Check with K-9 in the blind.  Flop K-9-9.

I'm in with J-9.  Flop nothing but one of my suit.  Turn a gutshot straight flush draw.  River the straight.

That all happened in a 40 minute span.  So sick!!!  I left the 3/6 game up $70 and got moved to the 1/2 NL game.

1/2 NL

Moved over to the 1/2 game.  I was only there for just over an hour before I left to go home and pick up my wife to go to the Wynn.  I only played 2 hands really, both with pocket jacks.  On one, I raised preflop, bet the ace high flop, and took it down.  The second one ended up being a lot bigger.

Free Paycheck Cashing, lol

My one big 1/2 hand : Two people limp in.  I raise to 15 with J-J.  Both people call me.  I started with a full stack, $300 (the max buy-in at GVR).  The flop is good.  K-J-10 with 2 clubs.  Guy checks, I bet $30, and the guy in position calls me.  This guy started the hand with around $250 total.  Turn is a an offsuit 5, perfect.  I bet $75, he calls.

River is an offsuit 8.  Another great card, because that won't help you get a straight unless you are already there.  Haha I guess you could have had the bottom end double gutter, 9-7, lol, but that would just be so sick.  :-)  The pot is huge at this point so I just go all-in.  He has to call about another $150.

He is sitting there thinking about it.  Obviously I'm thinking at this point, I'm good and 100% want a call.  Then he starts talking.  "Do you have ace queen?"  Then I seriously started thinking this guy might have flopped it with Q-9, and just been scared so he called down.  It sounds ridiculous but the way he was talking and asking if I had A-Q, it really felt like he might have the low end straight and be thinking about whether or not to call.  So then I'm sitting there with my money in the pot, and no clue of if I want this guy to call or not!

Not scared of A-Q and here is the proof.

He eventually calls.  I flip up my 3 jacks.  "Set?"  I'm still not sure if I won.  Then this guy starts going off, like he was disgusted by my hand.  He says, "Weren't you scared of ace queen????"  I am just thinking, weren't YOU scared of ace queen?  lol.  I have no idea what he had or what he was thinking. But he mucked his hand and I won a nice pot.

That was pretty much it for the GVR trip.  Just shy of 2 hours, and I won $328.  My next blog will be the continuation of that night up at the Wynn.  There was some INSANE action, definitely some things I haven't seen in a long time.