Quads - Odds & Ends

Had a great 1st quarter of the year. Here's the breakdown of 2007 so far:
8/16 -330$ 4.25 hours
20/40 +4772$ 65.25 hours
40/80 +10696$ 94.5 hours

Totals = 15138$ 164 hours for an hourly rate of 92.30$/hour

Not too shabby if I do say so myself.

Played twice over the weekend. On Friday night, a new guy I have never played with before kept the 40/80 game alive and revived a short-handed 75/150. Spewed chips left and right. He runs into quad 8's, when he makes a full-house and lost the maximum. Approximately 10 minutes later, he runs into my quad kings. Here's how it went down, he raised UTG. Folded to me, I 3-bet with pocket kings. All folds, he calls. Flop come king-ten-rag. Check-bet-call. Turn king. Check-bet-call. River rag. Check-bet-call. He says I can't beat a king. I say how about two of them, and open my quads. He shows queen-ten offsuit. He chats with me a couple of minutes later, saying I really liked that king on the turn, I thought my ten with a good kicker might be good. Ummm, yeah buddy. There's no hand that I would be willing to 3-bet before the flop, and bet that flop that doesn't have your queen-ten crushed at that point. He burned up his chips faster than a twig in gasoline fire. He eventually moved over to the short 75-150 game, and as soon as he left, the 75-150 game suddenly got healthy again, as quite a few people suddenly put their names on the list for the game. As soon as he left, I racked up and took home my profit.

On Saturday night in the 40/80 game, I would have flopped quad deuces on the button if I hadn't mucked preflop. David raised 1 before the cut-off after 2 limpers. I looked down and saw two red ducks. I probably had odds to call, but I mucked it not wanting to get involved with such a piss poor hand, especially against David. David is one of the more solid players in the 20/40 and 40/80 games. Flop comes 2 2 9. David bet the flop and got 1 caller. Ace on the turn, David bet and took down the pot. Juicy, I think I could have got at least 2 bets on the flop and turn from David. Maybe more, depending on what he had.

Brenda was in the house Saturday night. She pounded on me for a while, before my cards started holding up and I started winning my fair share. Ended up on the night +1515, after grinding it out for 7 hours. Didn't get home till 5:00 am. That's too long for me, but as long as Brenda was in the game, I really didn't want to leave. Sleep is overrated I guess. If I didn't have kids and I didn't need to wake up and be functional on Sundays, I guess I would have stayed later. As they say, you never know when the fish is going to be in the pond.