The action starts early. Bigshot raises and gets called by deadly in the Bigblind.
Flop comes 10 8 6 and the money starts to go in. when a 7 arrives the 9 would fill a straight. Big shot makes a raise on the river and gets called. Bigshot shows down 66 and had hit trips on the flop. Deadly opts to call with the 9 in the hole and scared of the J9. My holding on this first hand J9o and I was soo close to playing it!
I raise in late position with 89o and get called by deadly. When A8x flop comes he bets out. I consider reraising to find out if he has it but decide to play cautious thinking I'll have easier spots.
I watch unplayable cards for an age and then pick up 99. I raise and end up heads up against the Malaysian Master Sham. A small bet by Sham and I reraise. He calls. The turn leaves it again just one card off a straight. Sham bets $50. Sham could be playing anything. Scared of an overpair, made straight, two pair I let it slide and he shows a compete bluff. Ouch. Nicely done but a tad risky.
Pete arrives to take up another seat and soon after Moocher finds himself in the action when he lands a dream flop with his A10s catching a mono diamond flop. Bigshot takes the betting lead and Moocher checks behind. With a non diamond turn Bigshot bets and is faced by a Moocher allin. He calls and they both flip over. Bigshot has QJ to give him two pairs leaving him four outs.
Moocher takes a sickening beat as a jack hits on the river - he calls it a night convinced the poker gods have it in for him. Two late arrivals join - Dave and Jan with his female fanclub. Dave isn't afraid of seeing some action and puts in some ballsy bluff raises. Enough are picked off though to see him having to buy-in four times in quick succession.
Bigshot starts to pile up the chips and Deadly makes some gains. Some of the money is taken off the table as Pete leaves with some cash in his pocket and Deadly leaves later $250 to the good.
Lots of showdowns now with middle pair vs bottom pair or Ace high versus bottom pair not out of the ordinary. I continue to fold some bad cards. Not seeing any pairs, Anything higher than A6o. Even two face cards or suited connectors. Not a thing.
The game starts to get a bit ragged and slows down. Breaches of etiquette occur as the turn and river are peeked at with action still playing and comments made on what had been folded mid hand.
Ol' Dave makes a bit of a comeback and Sham's pile seems to be growing slightly. I manage to limp into a couple of pots and take them down with middle pair against Dave. Mark has a city of chips and I've battled by way up to a small hamlet of $300. We decide to call it a night after one more round. The final hand sees three way action with Jan, bigshot and myself seeing the flop. Jan bizarrelly goes allin then in a moment of panic at his decision pulls it all back in. Noone calls him on it but when he bets $40 and then changes it to $60 he seems to have taken string betting to a new level.
With his panic reaction to his impetuous allin I can't see him having two pair or better. I think he has an ace and a medium kicker. I call as I still have bigshot behind and I think I have to fold if he comes over the top. He folds and when Jan leads with a small bet on the turn I decide that he probably has a smaller kicker than me. I push and he calls. He flips over A4 and with the board reading
A35 he has a gutshot and two pair possibility leaving him seven outs. The 2 lands filling his straight and I've missed my chance to finish a winner. 6 hours of play and my best three hands pre-flop were 99, KQ, A8s. I hit top pair twice and middle pair twice. For the second time in a row I'm using the same official match excuse once again. Bad cards!
Approximate +/- as follows
Big winner again: Bigshot +800
Deadly +250
Sham +200
Pete +150
Jan -150
Moocher -200
Phillberto -250
Dave -750
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I think it was an ok game - at least while I was there. The cards were a bit tough to come by though. Bigshot started aggressive and stayed that way - he then caught some nice boards later. The introduction of Dave changed the game dynamics and I thought Pete won more than that?
Jan and entourage seemed to slow things down and after I left I believe caused some protocol issues. Seems like we need a catalyst to get the big pots flowing, but not someone who is too disruptive.
Next time:
BSB,PBTO,MOOCH, DDP, Pete, Sham, Chris, Dave?
and...you're just too tight!!
I so wanted to be playing a lot of pots! Once I folded my 9s to Sham I got stuck on a small stack. I'd have been happy loosening up with more speculative cards in position if I hadn't have been stuck on seventy dollars. It might have been +ev to give them to someone and buy back in for another $200.
I called raises on the river with middle pair and gambooled with top pair with an A kicker. That's someone looking for action. I just wouldn't play 73o no matter how many times I got it! On a short stack you don't have any implied odds. I would have bluffed but I would have been called. That is a fact. Although my 73o may have been ahead! Bigshot was catching hands (at least for the first 20 mins) and he did hit some flops later too.
Like the outside box of $29 'ideal for cooking' supermarket wine it is a case of sour grapes.
Next you'll be telling me that 7-3o isn't a raising hand :-)
I tightened up a bit too as everything was getting called down...don't want to be sat there with bottom pair.
Ideally you want Chris and Dave and Pete on your left. Oh wait you had two of them....
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You wouldn't hear me moaning about a bad beat Moocher! Why don't you trying starting with awful cards. That way you can only improve and who knows by the time you hit the river and you get lucky there will be a big pot to win.
try starting with awful cards and hope...hmmm confessions of a chancer!!
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