Another solid cashgame session.
I was up forever for the last tournament, the session itself was running on 28 hours and I had been up a while before that, so when I came home I thought I was gonna pass out for an entire day of sleep. I go to bed at about 10 pm, wake up at 2am wide awake and I can't sleep. I try to get back to sleep until about 3 am when I realize I have no shot, so I call Chris and ask him to pick me up and drive me to the casino.
I go sit down in the must-move $2/5 NL game, I buy in for $1000. I win a couple pots early just playing kind of straight-forward, the third hand I play on the button and get dealt K8 of clubs, a few callers, I check my option and the small blind, who was a middle-aged asian guy with lots of money raises to $25. Four others call and I call. Flop KJ7 two hearts, the preflop raiser and all limpers check to me, I decide to test the waters and bet $80 into the $130ish pot and I take it down. Then I just play real tight and straight-forward winning me about $250 or so playing VERY few hands, I move seats so I'm on the other side of the very loose aggro asian player and I'm on the other side of the table now.
The next pot I play is a big bluff against him as he loved to raise to $25 after a lot of limpers and I decided to make a play at it. I limped in for $5 as did plenty of others, he makes it $25 out of the big blind, again four people call it's $125 in the pot when I make it $120 to go with A8 of hearts in late position. He says, "I call" immediately, everybody else folds. Flop is 973 with two spades. He leads for $80 which is a sign of weakness too to me, if he flopped a monster he'd surely check-raise, that's just how I perceived that he would play. I raise to $180 employing the "hundred on top" bet which lot of people do when they have a huge hand. Like if someone bets 60 they make it 160 and it usually means a big hand, no idea whether he'd pick up on it or if it mattered but I'm just saying! Anyway he insta-calls. Turn is a 6 of clubs putting a spade and a club-draw out there and giving me an open-ended. He checks. I am now wondering if I should take this freecard if this guy is just thinking I am putting on a play and I might have 11 good outs in best-case scenario but I thought that I probably need to bet this to give me another chance to win. I didn't think he was that strong so I wasn't afraid of a check-raise, I bet $330 and he folds fairly quickly.
Our must-move game gets shorthanded and we're playing four-handed. I'm talking a good bit to the guy on my left who seemed to be a pretty good online player, it was funny though that he was always trying to put me on hands saying outloud what I had before I turned it over on showdown. So far he was 0 for 3 putting me on air twice when I had the near-nuts once, the stone nuts the second time and last time he said I was huge when I bet the river and I had nothing. Basically, he was off every time. I raise K9 of hearts first one to act in our four-handed game to $30. Button calls. Flop is 10-9-4 one heart. I bet $40 he calls. Turn is the J of hearts which gives me a gutshot straight draw with a Q and the second nutflushdraw. I check, he checks. River ace of hearts giving me the nuts, I overbet the pot and bet $120. The guy calls and the hand-reader on my left goes, "Uh oh, I think he caught you bluffing" and I show the nuts, it gave me a laugh.
I finally get moved into the main game and I only play two notable pots really that are somewhat interesting. In one I complete the smallblind with 5-2 of spades, big blind makes it $25, UTG limper calls, I call. Flop is Q-5-2 two hearts. I check, orig. raiser bets $50, next guy calls $50 I just call because I wanted to make sure a safe card rolls off on the turn. The 10 comes on the turn which is a somewhat bad card incase the original limper had QT. I check, preflop raiser bets $75 and the UTG limper folds which made me feel better and here I opt to take a line that wasn't ordinary. This raiser didn't give me much credit, I knew this, so I didn't want to pop it up a whole lot have the ten or Q pair on the river and give up the hand. I think he had me on a flushdraw so I decided to just call this turn and if a non-scary non-heart came on the river I'd fire an overbet to make it look like a missed flushdraw that was desperate. I call $75, river is the 4 of clubs total blank. I fairly quickly lead out for $350. He thinks for a minute and says I think I gotta call, and shows AQ. Another funny thing to note, the hand-reader I was talking about earlier is now sitting on my right and before I show my hand he goes "KJ of hearts, right?" and once again he was wrong. At least I get it confirmed that I played the hand like a missed flushdraw and that I'm not easy to put on a hand, which is always good.
Then I have another pot that I played very poorly against Tim Campbell who is a semi-regular in the game who knows what he is doing. He raises to $40 on a straddle, and I call with A2 of hearts. I have about $2200 infront he has me covered. Flop is 10-8-4 rainbow, no hearts. He bets $50 I decide to float here and raise the turn if he shows any weakness. Turn is the 7 of spades making a spade-draw possible. He checks, I bet $80 and he calls quickly. River is a low blank he checks. Now that he called the turn I really had him on either 99 or a JJ type hand, or perhaps AK of spades but truthfully I didn't think too much about a spadedraw because I thought he'd lead the turn again with that hand so I kind of ruled out the draw. I also thought I'd get called by 99 or JJ both or even AT, or any overpair for that matter, so I give up the hand and check. He says, "I have nothing", and since I had ace high that sounds fairly good hoping he had QJ or something. I ask "How big is your nothing?" he laughs and shows AJ of spades. He turned a gutshot and the nutflushdraw, I wish I had bet river. I tap the table and tell him its good. :)
I cash out $1300 winner in the game and finally go home and get some sleep. Me and Chris then went over to Andys for a superbowl party which was a lot of fun, the first one I had been to. It was me, Chris, Andy, Donald, Steve and Mark and I had a lot of fun. Andy cooked some great food and had some amazing chicken wings, ribs, steak, all kinds of snacks, fruit platters and god knows what else. It was the stone nuts. Then went home after the game and passed out and finally got a good nights sleep.
I go sit down in the must-move $2/5 NL game, I buy in for $1000. I win a couple pots early just playing kind of straight-forward, the third hand I play on the button and get dealt K8 of clubs, a few callers, I check my option and the small blind, who was a middle-aged asian guy with lots of money raises to $25. Four others call and I call. Flop KJ7 two hearts, the preflop raiser and all limpers check to me, I decide to test the waters and bet $80 into the $130ish pot and I take it down. Then I just play real tight and straight-forward winning me about $250 or so playing VERY few hands, I move seats so I'm on the other side of the very loose aggro asian player and I'm on the other side of the table now.
The next pot I play is a big bluff against him as he loved to raise to $25 after a lot of limpers and I decided to make a play at it. I limped in for $5 as did plenty of others, he makes it $25 out of the big blind, again four people call it's $125 in the pot when I make it $120 to go with A8 of hearts in late position. He says, "I call" immediately, everybody else folds. Flop is 973 with two spades. He leads for $80 which is a sign of weakness too to me, if he flopped a monster he'd surely check-raise, that's just how I perceived that he would play. I raise to $180 employing the "hundred on top" bet which lot of people do when they have a huge hand. Like if someone bets 60 they make it 160 and it usually means a big hand, no idea whether he'd pick up on it or if it mattered but I'm just saying! Anyway he insta-calls. Turn is a 6 of clubs putting a spade and a club-draw out there and giving me an open-ended. He checks. I am now wondering if I should take this freecard if this guy is just thinking I am putting on a play and I might have 11 good outs in best-case scenario but I thought that I probably need to bet this to give me another chance to win. I didn't think he was that strong so I wasn't afraid of a check-raise, I bet $330 and he folds fairly quickly.
Our must-move game gets shorthanded and we're playing four-handed. I'm talking a good bit to the guy on my left who seemed to be a pretty good online player, it was funny though that he was always trying to put me on hands saying outloud what I had before I turned it over on showdown. So far he was 0 for 3 putting me on air twice when I had the near-nuts once, the stone nuts the second time and last time he said I was huge when I bet the river and I had nothing. Basically, he was off every time. I raise K9 of hearts first one to act in our four-handed game to $30. Button calls. Flop is 10-9-4 one heart. I bet $40 he calls. Turn is the J of hearts which gives me a gutshot straight draw with a Q and the second nutflushdraw. I check, he checks. River ace of hearts giving me the nuts, I overbet the pot and bet $120. The guy calls and the hand-reader on my left goes, "Uh oh, I think he caught you bluffing" and I show the nuts, it gave me a laugh.
I finally get moved into the main game and I only play two notable pots really that are somewhat interesting. In one I complete the smallblind with 5-2 of spades, big blind makes it $25, UTG limper calls, I call. Flop is Q-5-2 two hearts. I check, orig. raiser bets $50, next guy calls $50 I just call because I wanted to make sure a safe card rolls off on the turn. The 10 comes on the turn which is a somewhat bad card incase the original limper had QT. I check, preflop raiser bets $75 and the UTG limper folds which made me feel better and here I opt to take a line that wasn't ordinary. This raiser didn't give me much credit, I knew this, so I didn't want to pop it up a whole lot have the ten or Q pair on the river and give up the hand. I think he had me on a flushdraw so I decided to just call this turn and if a non-scary non-heart came on the river I'd fire an overbet to make it look like a missed flushdraw that was desperate. I call $75, river is the 4 of clubs total blank. I fairly quickly lead out for $350. He thinks for a minute and says I think I gotta call, and shows AQ. Another funny thing to note, the hand-reader I was talking about earlier is now sitting on my right and before I show my hand he goes "KJ of hearts, right?" and once again he was wrong. At least I get it confirmed that I played the hand like a missed flushdraw and that I'm not easy to put on a hand, which is always good.
Then I have another pot that I played very poorly against Tim Campbell who is a semi-regular in the game who knows what he is doing. He raises to $40 on a straddle, and I call with A2 of hearts. I have about $2200 infront he has me covered. Flop is 10-8-4 rainbow, no hearts. He bets $50 I decide to float here and raise the turn if he shows any weakness. Turn is the 7 of spades making a spade-draw possible. He checks, I bet $80 and he calls quickly. River is a low blank he checks. Now that he called the turn I really had him on either 99 or a JJ type hand, or perhaps AK of spades but truthfully I didn't think too much about a spadedraw because I thought he'd lead the turn again with that hand so I kind of ruled out the draw. I also thought I'd get called by 99 or JJ both or even AT, or any overpair for that matter, so I give up the hand and check. He says, "I have nothing", and since I had ace high that sounds fairly good hoping he had QJ or something. I ask "How big is your nothing?" he laughs and shows AJ of spades. He turned a gutshot and the nutflushdraw, I wish I had bet river. I tap the table and tell him its good. :)
I cash out $1300 winner in the game and finally go home and get some sleep. Me and Chris then went over to Andys for a superbowl party which was a lot of fun, the first one I had been to. It was me, Chris, Andy, Donald, Steve and Mark and I had a lot of fun. Andy cooked some great food and had some amazing chicken wings, ribs, steak, all kinds of snacks, fruit platters and god knows what else. It was the stone nuts. Then went home after the game and passed out and finally got a good nights sleep.
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