This weekend I played a decent amount of poker. About 10 hours total. On Friday at the Wynn I think I played pretty well. I was frustrated because the table wasn't great and there were some people playing pretty good and aggressive. On Saturday I played pretty bad but ended up winning.
Quick note, I wanted to give a shout out to my favorite poker podcast episode ever. I listen to a ton of poker podcasts (2+2 podcast, Tournament Poker Edge podcast, Thinking Poker, etc), but my very favorite episodes are the Limon episodes on the Deuce Plays podcasts. You can still get them on iTunes for free and it looks like you can download them here as well : Deuce Plays Podcasts. Episode 37 is an episode I've listened to a ton of times, and I love all of the interviews with that guy. Just a live poker grinder and I love his perspective on things. It's a must listen episode. :)
On Saturday we got super drunk and played some at the Nugget. I bought in really deep and I was playing against others that had a ton of money as well. There were maybe 3 others at the table with over $1000 in the 1/2 game.
Right away I played a big hand. I raised in early position to $10 with two red nines. 4 callers. Flop comes 8d7d2x. I check. I think I was just confused and didn't really know what to do. Not a bad board for me, but there are a lot of people in and I want to see what's going to happen. A guy bets $30 and he only has about $100 more. Another guy calls $30. I thought he was also somewhat short, but it turns out he had about $200 total. It folds back to me and I went all-in. I had a decent hand and didn't have a good reason to think these other guys have monster hands. Reraising less wouldn't do much... there's already about $100 in there and these guys don't have that much more. So I go all in, they both call. :P The guy who bet $30 has pocket aces. The other guy has pocket 7s for a set. So I lose a big pot right away.
I misread my hand in a pretty big pot too. First time I've done that in an extremely long time. I've played a lot drunk but never misread my hand. I had 7d5d and either limped or called a raise. Flop had a 5 on it, I bet out. Flop was 8-5-2. Turn was a 7, so I make two pair. I bet out $80, guy calls. River is a 4. Makes a 1 card straight, but I went for value and bet $100. He calls. I flip up my hand and my 7d5d has turned into 5d3d. I was shocked and couldn't believe I misread my hand. As it turns out, the other guy had 6-4 and turned a straight so even if I had 2 pair I would have lost, but still. Pretty bad mistake.
Later this cowboy guy is playing insane and I got into a monster pot with him. Leading up to the hand, he realized there was no max buy-in and put his entire roll on the table - something like 4-5 thousand. I had everything I brought with me on the table as well. At that point it was probably around $1400. I had AA and raised to $20. Few people call. Flop comes T-9-2 (can't remember if there was a flush draw). Cowboy bets out $80. I thought about slowplaying it, but I decided to raise and threw in two $100 bills. Folds back to him and he immediately grabs his stack of bills, counts out 11, and throws them in.
At this point I took some time to think about it. I knew this guy was capable of bluffing. He had been doing it constantly. However, would he bluff this much? It was a huge bet and anyone is capable of waking up with a hand. For better or worse, I went all-in for my remaining few hundred dollars and he calls. We got around $1400 EACH in on the flop. Such a huge pot in a 1/2 game, it was crazy.
I flip up my A-A. The cards run out, and he says he missed. He had J-8. To be honest I can't remember if the flop was T-9 or something else like T-7 or T-6. I don't think he had an open ended draw, I thought he went all in with more or less nothing. Maybe he had a gutshot. With the alcohol and the overall excitement of the situation it's hard to remember. All I know is that I won probably my biggest 1/2 NL pot ever.
Overall I don't think it was a very good play. I got lucky and I know I was stubborn to get all in there. One pair for $1400. I'm happy I won and it was my biggest win in a while, but it doesn't mean it was a good play. That type of move should be reserved for when you flop a monster hand - a set, straight, maybe 2 pair, etc. I was just flipping a coin that this guy didn't flop a big hand. Yes, he was bluffing a lot, but I hadn't seen him bluff exactly like that for a huge portion of his stack.
Oh well, sometimes you just run good. :) I ended up winning $870 on Saturday.
I went through and reconciled my bankroll so I know exactly how much I have at this point. We spent some gambling this summer and I wasn't recording everything so I knew my records were a bit off. At this point I have almost $13k. I'll be playing some 2/5 but I think I can start playing some 5/10 again soon too if there is a good looking table. I'm looking forward to getting some hours in this week.
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