Saturday brought another live session once again back at casa bigshot.
With many regulars away it ended up just five handed and with the reintroduction of a shuffling machine the hands per hour ratio increased greatly. Salty dave was first to have to buy back in when his flush proved no good against a well disguised full house from Sham. Sham proved himself on fire when phillberto backed his pocket kings to the felt on an uncoordinated board only to find sham sitting on pocket aces. It was bigshots turn to be felted next as Sham's incredible winning run continued. His stack continued to increase when Phillberto opted to slow-play pocket tens. A low uncoordinated flop and with a small raise and few callers I ramp it up to 45 hoping to take it down to one caller at least. I get my wish and sham is the man to call. A scary king and Sham bets into it but just 20. I can't lay down to that so opt for a small reraise. It gets called so I'm happy to have the option to check down the river. Sham shows the big slick to take down another juicy pot.
With Trump Towers in front of him at the end he proves the big winner. Deadly cashes in $220 getting the best of the little action he saw. Bigshot after being felted is looking to recover his losses to keep his winning streak alive. Short stacked he moves allin after a weak bet from Salty and a raise from Phillberto. After pondering I fold my weak top pair, thinking I have the odds to call as I'm probably up against a draw but with others left to act decide to fold. Bigshot again overbets a big draw on the final hand and is called by Salty Dave with top pair shit kicker. Bigshot has 17 outs though and his flush hits on the river to felt Salty for the second time on the final hand of the night. That took him to an $8 profit and another winning performance. So it ends up.
Sham: +$532
Deadly: +$220
Bigshot: +$8
Phillberto: -$360
Salty Dave: -$400
Kudos to the man from Malaysia who just keeps winning.
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Was interesting playing Short handed - Dave seemed a nice guy sober! I purposely didn't play too many hands as with the calling stations on either side of me (one of them being the Petronas towers) I feared any raising was going to get called. Which on my one hand of real significance was the case as Dave called 50 on every street with pair of aces and no kicker against my AK. Otherwise trips was ok for a medium win - also v Dave and I didn't tangle too much with Sham the man, yourself or Bigshot.
In terms of profitability it was probably the right tactic - if a little dull.
Yeah I liked your play on the AK hand. Against Dave I think any weakness and you would have seen a raise. Normally it might be wiser to ease up on one street in case you are facing two pair or trips but you kept the pressure on nicely and were willing to fold to any aggression i believe. I also liked your play against Bigshot when you had top pair top kicker(AJ). I think that may have been a bad spot for bigshot to push allin with the draw because you were pretty much pot committed and had to call with TPTK. With more fold equity it would have been a nice play by him but I believe you called suspecting you were beat but just couldn't fold given pot odds. If he had TPTK beat it would have been perfect bet sizing by him though to stack you! Maybe if he had held back the bets on earlier streets he could have finished with a successful big bluff.
Ouch, I'd forgotten about that hand with Bigshot. I was working on the principle that I would throw away quite a lot on the turn after c-betting on the flop and getting called when i had nothing. Remember the goal is to take all their money etc etc save it for a better spot.
Chinese guy at work says he played on the weekend and won $1000+ going all in every time he hit a flop......similar stakes to our game.
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