Quadruple Dipping, no not really

Sunday was an interesting day. My wife took the kids and me up to North County and dropped me off at the casino while she took the kids shopping.

I played the 5/5 NL for 20 minutes, played 2 hands in the blinds that I check/folded either the flop or turn, and then left for the 20/40 that just started. I played for 3 hours and booked a 515 dollar win. Then my wife called and we left and picked strawberries at the fields in Carlsbad and then went home for dinner.

After dinner, my wife gave me her blessing to return. So I played 20/40 again, some of the same people were there, some new faces too. This time I played for only 40 minutes and picked up $68, when the game got short handed and broke, so I'm not entirely unhappy with that. Since it was early, I decided to play 8/16.

I got into a very interesting game. There was a TAGfish nit, a maniac, a couple of calling stations, one other solid player, and some other randoms. The other solid player had about 5 or 6 racks in front of him. He eventually went busto when he moved 2 seats to my left to try and get position on me and the maniac who was mostly 2 to my right for most of the time, and then on my immediate right after the nit TAGfish moved to my left.

This maniac was a true maniac, check raising bluffing the river with air, 3-betting the river with bottom pair top kicker, etc. So of course, I run into his aces twice when I have big hands as well and he gets lots of bets out of me.

In a couple of pots I nailed him good. In one pot, he limped UTG, I 2-bet QsJs UTG+3, and got it heads up. I flopped the nizzles, when the board came 89T rainbow. 5-bets went in on the flop, 3-bets went in on the turn, and 4-bets went in on the river, with me holding the nuts at the end. Another time I rivered a full house with QQ on KT44Q, 3 club board on the turn, with me holding the Queen of clubs.

He did however, get atrociously lucky in a kill pot against me. I had 48 suited in the big blind in a kill pot. Unraised preflop I put in the 4 chips and saw a flop of A88. I bet, only he called. Turn was a blank, and I bet/3-bet him and put him all in. River came the case ace, as the TAGfish nit told me he folded an ace preflop. Joy, he should have been busto at that point. Unfortunately he seemed to take those chips and sprinkle them around the table. I ended up losing 2 racks in the game, but I would love to play with this fella again.