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June 4, 2004
AC Day 2
Well day 2 went pretty well. I played about 9 hours of NL and won about $1000. What great fun NL is. I had 2 favorite hands of the night I will share with you. The first one occurred about 5 hours into the night. I had just won a big hand a round or 2 earlier to get my stack up to almost 600, which was how much I was in for. I caught A6 of clubs UTG and limped in for $2. One guy made it $7 (after another couple limpers) and another guy made it $12 right behind him. I could see that the original raiser had pulled a $5 chip off of his stack so I knew it was just going to be $12 to see the flop, and all 3 of the other people had $250 or more in front of them so I called since there was a decent amount of money to be won.
So the flop comes down with 3 raggedy clubs, giving me the nuts. I check, the other limper checks, the first raiser bets $10 (into a $50 pot, nice bet dumb ass) and the $12 raiser goes all in for about $300. At this point I had figured there was no longer any reason to disguise my hand so I gleefully say “I’ll go all in as well” and simply watch out of courtesy waiting for the 2 players behind me to fold. So imagine my surprise when the limper calls all in for about $250. The other fellow folds and the raiser rolls over AA (no club obviously) and the limper rolls over Q7 clubs. So now I had built a $900 pot where I was a 98% favorite to win, the only way I could lose being if the aces runner runnered a full house on me.
My second favorite hand was this pot where I had pocket 8s, limped in, and then called a small raise. The flop was 3 ways and came 6, 7, 10, all diamonds (I had the 8 of dimes) and it checked around. At this point I was positive the preflop raiser had overcards (and not the Ace of diamonds) just from looking at him, but the other guy I was not sure of. The turn was an Ace, the other fellow and I checked, and the preflop raiser made a small bet (less than half the pot). The other limper folded so I called, thinking a 9 was definitely good, an 8 probably good, and a diamond maybe good. So the turn was a 9 of clubs or some such and I bet $100 (which was about the size of the pot) and the guy thought for a second and went all in for about $350. I was pretty sure he hadn’t flopped a flush so I thought maybe he had rivered a set or somehow had an 8 or something. So I called and he rolled over AQ, which made my initial guess of overcards correct. Why he would ever raise all in here is beyond me, since I could easily have a straight or a flush and certainly couldn’t call the raise with anything worse than what he had. I would have checked any hand like 2 pair or trips, so I either had to have a bluff (in which case he would make the same amount by just calling since I would fold to his all-in) or a straight/flush.
So anyway we got back to the room and decided to extend our hotel so we could sleep all day here on Saturday. They make you check out at 11 a.m. which is about when we go to sleep normally, so what we are going to do is just play Saturday until 2 in the morning or so, then check out and drive home when there is no traffic. So I will be back in less than 2 days. The “broadband” is a little slow out here so I have been neglecting my internet duties, but slow broadband is much better than the usual none at all so I will keep the trip reports flowing.
Posted by themaroon at June 4, 2004 7:10 AM
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