Interesting Week (15/30 and 9/18) Tues/Fri Part II

Alright well where we last left off our hero was hurriedly eating dinner in an attempt to get back to the super profitable 9/18 game asap. I had just finished folding pretty much every hand for the last few orbits, getting zero playable cards. At this point I was up probably $500 or so, but I was very aware that cushion could quickly vanish. More awful players = higher variance. I could very easily go up or down a couple racks when I returned.

My return to the table was pretty quiet and I remained a non-factor for a couple orbits. The game was still 8-handed with multiple players seeing flops/going to showdown, so mixing it up with junk obv wouldn't be the best idea. Also, the blinds in this game are only 9/3 or 3 chips/1 chip, so the pressure to get involved isn't as high as it is in the 15/30 game.

Alright well the first big pot I played after returning from dinner was a monster pot. It took a few orbits and a couple lost stacks for me to get there, as I was down to only about +$380 after playing blind hands and an AK hand. It gets limped around in something like four places (this had become completely standard for the table), Wilson completes from the SB, and I check my A6 of diamonds in the BB. I know on CP a LHE topic came up about raising Ax-suited hands in the BB in spots like this and then just check/folding some whiffs, but I guess I wasn't thinking about it at the time.

The flop comes Q93 all diamonds...wow...patience does pay off apparently. Wilson checks, I bet out (why slowplay here with four people behind me?), the guy in seat seven raised...*pause* Not sure if I talked about this guy in my last entry, but he was another laggy cocky asian guy, obv ~friends with seat three. It gets called by seat one and three, Sam folds, Wilson only calls, and I decided to call and see if I could trap a ton of money in on the turn. In retrospect, I'm not sure I like it...but whatever.

The turn was a good blank card, something like a black five. Wilson checks, I check, seat seven bets, Latin guy and seat three call, Wilson raises (awesome), I decide it's time to charge the two-pair/set hands if they have it and 3-bet, all fold back to Wilson who only calls. Seat seven was obviously angry that I 3-bet the turn and said "come on man why couldn't you just call?" and I thought to myself, "well I'd be pretty pissed if the board pairs on the river and I didn't charge you the max to suck out." Anyway, the river is a blank and Wilson check/called my river bet. I turned over the nuts and he turned over JT of diamonds for an OESFD that whiffed (phew!)

I think pre-flop could be a raise and I should have probably just jammed up the flop/led the turn, but I guess my head was stuck in fancy-play syndrome and I was going to make an example out of people trying to run me over. After that hand I pretty much took Wilson's desire to continue playing (he had been stuck all night and just running awful). He was actually playing pretty well all night, but was constantly falling victim to suckouts from seats one and three. He left soon after and we found ourselves six-handed.

I can't remember many hands six-handed...most were just LP raises and folding on the flops, but after awhile it was apparent that I was getting to seat three. I was folding a lot of my blind hands because of LP raises from Sam or Seat three, but I was returning the favor in LP on their blinds (mostly when I had solid hands) and was basically taking seat three to value town. I'm not entirely sure what he was looking me up with, as I was able to get three streets of value out of him one hand with middle pair...anyway, here's a two hand run set up by you guys knowing this.

I raised UTG, we're now five handed, with KT of hearts, seat six and seven fold, the latin guy has now left for the night, seat three calls from the SB and Sam defends his BB. The flop comes AT4 with two diamonds. Checks to hero who bets, seat three raises, Sam folds, I 3-bet, Villain calls. I'm thinking he has a diamond draw or complete junk...the turn is a King. He checks, I bet, and he disgustedly folded A8 face up. lol...uh oh, I think I'm getting to someone. It'd be interesting to see if he would have folded had a King not appeared, but I must have convinced him I had AK.

Next orbit I raised A5 of spades UTG, folded around to seat three who calls and Sam who calls. At this point seat seven is trying to needle me, saying stuff like "you can't just raise AK in this game," or something like that, and I just smirk at him and say "alright good to know" and then look down at my chip stack which is well over $1k. Note to those out there, if you're going to needle someone, it might work better if they're not up almost three racks for the night. Anyway, the flop comes K73 rainbow, completely dry board and fire a c-bet when it gets checked to me. I was hoping the table talk from seat seven would encourage the two villains to fold to my c-bet, but seat three called and Sam folded. The turn was an Ace (hehe). Villain checked and I decided to check behind, hoping to either draw out a bluff or get a curiousity call on the river if checked to.

The river was a low card, and again seat three checked. I bet, and he tanked for a second, then called me. I showed Ace-five and seat seven jokingly says, "that's it, next time you raise, I'll three-bet you." I laugh and ask him "Promise?" Ahhh, tilting the table is fun.

Seat six ended up busting out after his massage and we played a couple uninteresting orbits four-handed before breaking for the night. I came up $820 or so and went to 4/8-Kill to donk off $25 over the course of an hour and a half before leaving for the night.

So I think my final count was +$15 for the week, but what an exciting $15 it was lol. Extreme swings sure are freaking stressful, but fun nonetheless. Thanks for reading, hopefully things aren't so insane next week :)