brick, brick

Lets see if i can recount the happenings of last Wednesdays 1-2.

Bought in for 200 as usual. Won the first hand I played when I turned the wheel against someone I knew would pay me off. Nice start....won about 50 from a limped preflop hand. Then things slowed down for awhile. Lots of folding after limping or putting in small raises pf.

At one point, early in the night, Pdoggie and the 6 seat got into an interesting hand. The hand and past encounters with the 6 seat actually effected a few decisions in hands I played later with him. The short story goes 6 seat makes a normal pf raise, gets around to Pdoggie who pot size pops it. 6 seat takes awhile but makes the call. Flop brings an Ace and 2 diamonds. Ultimately 6 seat moves all-in for a little over a 100 and Pdoggie folds KK face up. When 6 moved in it looked shaky and fishy. When he turned 7d 2d's over I wasn't to surprised but pretty shocked at the same time. Needless to say 6 seat is liberal with raising and calling.

Not to long after that I pick up AK close to the button and raise up a few limpers who all call. Flop brings 8KJ rainbow. 6 seat leads out, folds around and I just call. 6 had about 150 behind. I think calling was probably a bad play here but 6 doesn't need a K to lead out. Raising could of saved me some money, if he reraised me, but I pretty much decided I wasn't folding to him and wanted to see what he was going to do on the turn. On the turn I think he bet 80 and I decided I still wasn't folding and moved in over him. The river left me with TPTK and 6 seat turned over top 2p.

This is taking way too long let me make this shorter.

Added on 200 sitting with about 250 after that hand. Bled 250 back down to 200 then got involved in another hand with the 6 seat. Basically 6, me and a couple others see a flushy flop, I think I bet after everyone checks. Only the 6 calls so I put him most likely on the flush draw. Turn bricks, check, I bet, he calls. River no flush, he checks, I fire once more and he calls. 6 seat declares Ace high and I tell him I have one of those too, but his Q kicker beats my 7 kicker. That sucks......got about 100 now.

Fold for awhile then pick up KK in early position. Open raise it and get reraised to 50 from behind. Shove in the rest and reraiser is pretty much committed to calling my shove min-rerasie. No theatrics and I double with KK.

From that point things went well. Won some hands without show downs and then caught back up with the 6 seat. Can't quite remember how the hand went but I think I reraised him pf with QQ and we went to the the flop heads up. J high flop and 6 seat check/ called a big bet from me. Turn brought a K and when 6 checked I moved in for a pot sized bet. He called and when I turned over QQ on the river he mucked.

I won a few more decent sized pots without show downs after that including flopping a set of A's and hit a high point of about 650. From that point things went downhill. When I'm sitting that deep in a 1-2 game I usually open things up quite a bit. No sense waiting around for big hands now. I like to do a lot of pf raising and taking shots at flops right after hitting big hands. When new people see me at another game they remember when I was playing fast and forget about how I spent 2 hours folding every hand.

Anyway managed to run my stack back down to 300 by having the second best hand a couple times and running some terrible bluffs. Then I ran into the beginning of the end. I call a pf raise with 6c 9c, flop a pair of 6's with a flush draw and when the original raiser shoves the flop and the new guy behind him puts his stack in there I decide I'll call too. Both of them shove in less then 130 on the flop which helped with my decision. Also raiser loves TP/ over pairs and new guy was stacking off left and right. Definitely bricked the flush, trips and 2 pair. On top of that I thought raiser had the 2nd guy covered and ended up mucking my side pot winning pair of 6's. Only cost me 27 bucks but was completely my fault....should of turned my hand over.

Managed to run my stack up slightly again after that but the end came pretty soon. I raised the monster that is 6c 4c up was called in a few spots. Then new guy who I gave the free side pot to min-raised to 30 in the blinds. "I bet I know what you have". Everyone calls and 4 of us see the flop which is J high with a 6 and two clubs. Another pair of 6's with a flush draw. New guy leads out and I'm pretty sure he's got QQ-AA. I move in looking to gamble or pick up the pot which has over 100 in it. Folded to the new guy who called and after, I again, failed to hit the flush, trips or 2 pair my 6's lost to QQ.

I definitely ran a few bad bluffs against guys to short to get away from their hands but other than that I don't think I'd play many of the hands differently. Oh well better luck next time.

Post a comment and let me know if you'd play the pair and a flush draw hands differently.