Today (Saturday Aug. 16) I roll out of bed and throw on some clothes and Rusty, Kim and I go pick up some Subway for lunch. After that its time for poker at the Mirage. I walk in and scout out the room trying to decide what to play. 4/8, 1/2NL, 5/10 Omaha8, flop around in the 10/20, too many choices. I decide to give no limit a shot because its usually pretty fishy on the weekends (despite the fact that I’ve lost pretty much every weekend since I got here).
I buy in 200 at 1/2NL and after picking up a few small pots I quickly win a good sized pot. Its raised preflop and called a bunch of ways so I call with A7 of spades. The flop is Q94 with two spades giving me the nut flush draw. Checks to the preflop raiser and he bets 40, the button calls and I call. The preflop raiser is pretty short so it was questionable but the button and me both have some chips behind to make it worthwhile. The turn comes out BAM! ACE! I don’t really know if that’s a good card or not. I check, the preflop raiser just moves it all in for like 75 and to my surprise the button calls. I contemplate my options and just call again like a station. River is an offsuit 2 and I check to see what button does, button checks. I roll my A7 and take it all down. I might have missed some value by not building a sidepot and playing this like a nit. Oh well ship it holla.
A new guy sits at our table. Possibly a Frenchman. He raises several pots to 40 or 50 and takes them down preflop. I pick up AK and open for 12. The two callers on my left both have me covered (yay) and sure enough the foreigner makes it 50 to go. Back around to me I make it a hundred more. The foreigner ships in his stack for less than my reraise. Board comes out not great for me but something like KQ984. I table my hand and he mucks. I think he had a small pair or AQ because he rebought and stacked it off in similar fashion with an AQ and 77 later.
A little while later in my SB the UTG straddles for 4. Three or four people call and I make it 40 more with AA. The straddler flat calls with about 240 behind. I just think yay because I’m the worst player in history when playing a straddle pot. Flop comes out KT5 and I lead for a hundred. He tanks for a minute and folds. I figured I was still ahead but it was relieving he didn’t raise. If you don’t know why I’m relieved to take this straddle pot down then you don’t know how bad I run and how bad I generally play with a straddle on.
The hand of the day is without this. I open it for 12 with KK. Three people call behind me and this kid in the ten hole makes it 60 to go. It folds around to me and I make it 200 which almost covers him. Folds back around to him and he instashoves and I instacall. I say “You got aces?” and he says “Nope. I’m dead.” LOL he hasn’t even seen my hand! I fade an ace on the turn and he tables two jacks.
A while later I open it for 12 with 66 in EP. Asian calls behind. Flop is something like KT3 with two clubs. I cbet 20 and he calls very fast which I really felt meant he was on a draw. It was like he knew he was behind and knew what he had to hit to win so he didn’t even think about it. Turn is a 7h and I lead for 45 and he once again quickly calls. River is a red five and I lead for 80 and he instafolds complaining about missing his nut flush draw. Raise me one time and you win that pot. Why did I lead the river? #1 I thought my hand was good, but in addition I thought maybe if he paired a 7 on his draw I could fold him out for sure.
Through the day I probably chopped out 150 in bluffs and semi-bluffs to add to my stack. Probably half the time they checked to me on the button I’d throw out 10 and take it down. Once the drunk fish on my right leaves, the game is me, Rusty and four rocks trying to bust my thousand dollar stack. I figure there’s no reason to stay so I cash out for a profit of 740 for the day. Its about time I booked a big winner because I’ve been struggling so hard in the no limit lately. I definitely ran good (and didn’t run bad when it counted) but I played better than I have in a while (including a snap call with bottom pair when the preflop raiser didn’t follow through and thought he could steal it on the river).
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