I was invited to another live game on saturday night, my friend's parents were out of town again for a few weeks and so that meant....POKER baby!!!
I would like to thank my girlfriend for letting me go by the way :D
We had 6 players with a $5 buy-in, and most of them still unexperienced and tweaking their games. By that I mean a LOT of light calling, limping, and hero calls.
We increased the starting stack to 1000 instead of the usual 700 and the game ran better because of it. Although the blind structure is still crappy, since they insist on doubling the blinds everytime there is a bustout so we spent a LOT of time on the first level of 10/20 and ended up at 500/1000 heads-up with only 6k chips in play, you see where I am going with this?
To the fun part, the hands!
- LOTS of limpers because it's cheap and I limp with 46o during the first orbit.
The flop is a magical 235 with one spade. I bet and get one caller. The turn is a freaking 4 of spades and I puke because I might end up chopping the pot. I bet and another player fucking shoves LOL. I think for a few seconds and call, he tabled Js6s for the same straight and the flush draw. Luckily he misses the river and we chop...and he got lucky on the turn too by the way, but I still don't understand why he shoved instead of value-betting.
- I limp with As9s on the button and find a few other limpers. The flop brings two spades and it's checked down to the river which brings another spade and a paired board. I can't believe my luck and bet 100...but the player on my left insta-raises me to 300, ugh!
Obviously I am not laying this down, but my dilemma here is, should I reraise, knowing that he could possibly have a full? I know him pretty well and when he acts like that, he means business! Well I just called and he showed a K-high flush, whew.
- I raise 99 and find a few callers. Flop is low and a continuation bet of 100 is enough to clear it out.
- One player is very short and he shoves on the button with barely more than 2xBB. SB calls and I look at Td3d in the hole, which I am not too happy about. But since the blinds are 100/200 at that point, that's a potential big pot so I take a shot anyways and call. The flop is a GREAT TJ3 and SB bets. I instaraise and he folds after some deliberation. The shorter stack's hand is 99 and I hold to bust him out. I felt sorry because there is just no other way he could have played the hand, except maybe shoving earlier but you can't ask for more when it's folded to you on the button with a pocket pair.
- We are 3-handed with blinds at a huge 200/400. Lots of folding preflop and walks until someone actually has a hand to raise-shove. A short stack shoves for 900 and SB folds, and I am left to look at an horrendous 53o and 400 chips already in. I call for 500 more which leaves me with 2000+ I believe, and everyone looks stunned at my decision. Shover had a marginal hand like K8o and I explain that even though it looks bad, I am not worse than a 3-to-2 dog, but hey, what do I know? I miss and he doubles up anyway, oh well.
- On the small blind folded to me, I look at KK and fake a steal attempt by instashoving the BB (same guy I doubled up) and he snap calls with AQ. Thankfully I flop another K to cripple him.
- Not long after, that same guy is involved with the third player and he unfortunately tried to bluff/shove a rag board with QT but he gets called by KK and the turn is another K....so brutal for him!!! Running into KK twice.
- Heads-up they decided again to bump the blinds at 500/1000 and I have less than 2xBB (well yeah! Only 6k chips in play c'mon!!!). I shove blind two times in a row!!! And win both!!!
One of them was a gem, 84o vs 74o LOL. I won that hand with 8-high.
- The heads-up match lasted longer than we though, because we either shoved/folded and really, we kept exchanging leads all the time. Blinds were at 500/1000 with 6k total in chips, and we had maybe 15 hands heads-up, which is incredible in my opinion.
Finally I get shoved on my BB and I look down at AA!!!!!!
I slam my hand onto the table and he can't believe his eyes! He admitted a steal attempt and showed T8o...The flop brought another Ace and that was that.
I got $20 for my efforts and the runner up got $10.
Overall a good night, good atmosphere and I am happy about my play really.
In my last 4 live games, I have had finishes of 1st/9, 2nd/6, 1st/6, 1st/6.
ronee
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