Weekend Update

Good weekend, I suppose. I played Friday night and the casino was hopping. I roll in a little after 9:30pm or so, and there is a full 20, 40, and 100. I get an immediate seat in the 20. Played two interesting hands in this game. One hand I flopped a straight with Qc9c. I limped on the button after 3 or 4 other limpers, 5 or 6 way action to a flop of J8T 2 spades. BB bets, everyone folds to me, I raise, he calls. Turn is a low spade. He checks I bet, he raises, and I fold. This player was new to me, and I thought he was donking a spade draw on the flop, or some kind of combo draw like J9 or T9. When he checks the turn, my plan is to bet/fold both streets. Once he raised, I mucked and he showed Q9o. Not sure if I made a mistake on this hand or not.

Later against the same player, he raised in EP, and it was folded around to me in the SB, and I 3-bet pocket aces. BB folded, he 4-bet, and I just called. Flop comes K3x. I checked, he checked. Turn comes a Q, I bet, he raises. Here is my mistake in the hand, as I resolve to call down, even though the only hand I am reasonably beating here is AK, which is pretty unlikely at this point, considering the flop play. River pairs the 3, I check/call and he shows pocket queens for the turned set. I guess here's one I should have bet/folded on the turn.

I ended up winning a hundred bucks in one hour, before getting a seat in the 100/200 game. I played an absolutely ridiculous hand against the resident fish in the game. He limps in EP, everyone folds to Mike Landucci in the cutoff and he raises, then I 3-bet Qh Jh on the button. Blinds clear out, EP calls, and so does Mike. I flop the nuts when the flop comes K9T, 2 diamonds. Everyone checks to me, I bet, EP raises, Mike folds, I 3-bet, fish 4-bets, I 5-bet, fish 6-bets, and now I am afraid of possibly being free-rolled so I just call. Turn is a black J. EP bets, I raise, he just calls. River is a 2d, and he donks of death right into me. I cry-call, and he shows Ad9d. Nice, what an absolutely horrible turn bet by him. Like I am ever going to fold on the turn after going 6 bets on the flop. So this hand kind of deflated me, but I ended up turning it around, and booking a $8500 win in 6.5 hours.

Yesterday, my wife gave me the day off and I rolled into Oceans-11 around 3pm or so. I get a seat in the 40/80 game and don't really do much. Eventually the game gets short, and then I played Helen heads up for a while. I win a ton of bets off of Helen heads up, a little over 3 racks in something like an hour and a half. The floor was letting us play for free, when they suddenly filled the game, with Chuck the casino manager playing just to make it 5-handed, so that the other two players would play. WTF? I had Helen right where I wanted her, and was about to soul-crush her, when the game went from HUHU to 5-handed just like that. Then LAGtastic Doc Jose shows up and the game dynamics change dramatically. I ended up quitting a loser after 9 hours of play. I could have played longer, but I decided to just pack it in, since it was a little after midnight, and I was pretty tired.