Hand I played a little while back at Oceans-11.
20/40 full ring game. Bunch of bad players. Fish1 opens UTG+1, UTG+2 [tighty] 3-bets, UTG+3 [loose aggro/maniac] 4-bets, I call on the button with 9c8c, SB [Fish2] calls, BB folds, everyone calls. 4-bets 5-way action. [21 SB]
Flop comes Kc Th 7c. Bingo. I currently have 9 high however, if you are an astute reader, you will have noticed that I have flopped the mother of all draws, with an open-ender and a flush draw, and I am more than willing to shovel many bets into this pot.
Action goes:
Fish2 : check
Fish1 : check
Tighty : bet
Maniac : raise
Me : 3-bet
Fish2 : cold-call 3
Fish1 : cold-call 3
Tighty : cap
all call. [41 SB]
Turn is 8s. The astute reader now realizes that I now have a pair, plus all my draws, but clearly I am behind, and tighty likely has AA with Ac, AK with Ac, KK, or TT. Maniac probably has AA, AK, AT (Ac Tc very possible),KT, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, or 77. Other fish, likely draws such as QJ, AJ, AQ, Kx, Tx, or other weird possibilities.
Action goes:
Fish2 : check
Fish1 : check
Tighty : bets
Maniac : raises all in to 13 chips
me : call
Fish1 : call
Fish2 : call
Tighty : 3-bets
me : call
Fish2 : call
Fish1 : call
[Main pot = 57.25 SB, Side Pot = 8 SB]
River is the 6c. The astute reader now realizes that I have hit both my draws and would have preferred the 6h, 6s, or 6d, as then I would have the likely stone-cold nuts, but this will have to do. Final board reads [Kc Th 7c 8s 6c]
Action goes:
Fish2 : check (no flush)
Fish1 : check (no flush)
Tighty : bets (no way he has a flush)
Maniac : all-in, so can't do anything (might have a bigger flush)
me : raise
Fish2 : folds
Fish1 : folds
Tighty : calls
Final Pot Sizes, Main Pot = 57.25 SB ($1145), Side Pot = 16 SB ($320). I table the winner of course, and get shipped both pots. Tighty flashes a set of kings, and maniac angrily throws his red aces into the muck. I collect the huge pot $1465, of which $1120 are my winnings from the hand or over 2 racks of red birds. So from my initial preflop investment of $80, I got a huge return even though this is probably a bad call from a purely expected value perspective, but given the table dynamics and the players, I knew that if I hit a big hand, that I would get plenty of action, and it worked out just perfectly.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Discount!
So I roll into Oceans-11 late last night, get there about 10pm. I have Tuesday morning (today) off, since I need to pick my mother-in-law up from the airport, so I don't need to worry about getting up too early. As I am walking in the 20/40 is 4 or 5 handed, and two players are racking up to leave. The resident prop, who owns just about everyone heads up, but who I constantly own heads up is willing to play heads up with me. So I buy in my two racks, and away we go. Another guy that I am friendly with, is sweating the game, since he and the resident prop have a bet going on the Giants-Cubs game, where the resident prop layed 3:2 on the Giants, i.e. $150 to win a $100.
Before the game gets started, I negotiate with the floor man the drop, and get us $3 per person per half-hour, with the drop being collected at the end of the match. The resident prop and I agree that the winner of the match will pay the drop for the duration of the match.
As we are playing, the sweater blurts out, $150 of that doesn't play, referring to the resident prop's chip stack. The dealer busts out laughing, since the Giants and Cubs are tied, and the sweater is giving us running updates on the game that he is checking on from his cell phone. Eventually the sweater gets tired of waiting for the game to be resolved since they went to extra innings, and just ships the resident prop $100 and they agree to square up later if the Cubs end up winning, since he wants to leave since he has to be at work at 4:30 am this morning.
At 11:30 pm, I have procured all the chippies, including the extra $100 that was won from the baseball game, and the resident prop calls it quits on me. We call the floor over, and he indicates that I owe $15 for the drop. His math must be funny, since I figured I owed $18, but I'll take the $3 discount, anytime. So in 90 minutes of heads up play, I won $600 dollars or $400 an hour.
Since it was still early, I played 8/16 till about 2:00 am, and called it quits and came home. I won $40 playing 8/16 or $16 an hour, and I was extremely bored and playing marginally crazy since I was so bored. I probably should have just left at 11:30 pm, but at least I got to eat an ice cream.
Before the game gets started, I negotiate with the floor man the drop, and get us $3 per person per half-hour, with the drop being collected at the end of the match. The resident prop and I agree that the winner of the match will pay the drop for the duration of the match.
As we are playing, the sweater blurts out, $150 of that doesn't play, referring to the resident prop's chip stack. The dealer busts out laughing, since the Giants and Cubs are tied, and the sweater is giving us running updates on the game that he is checking on from his cell phone. Eventually the sweater gets tired of waiting for the game to be resolved since they went to extra innings, and just ships the resident prop $100 and they agree to square up later if the Cubs end up winning, since he wants to leave since he has to be at work at 4:30 am this morning.
At 11:30 pm, I have procured all the chippies, including the extra $100 that was won from the baseball game, and the resident prop calls it quits on me. We call the floor over, and he indicates that I owe $15 for the drop. His math must be funny, since I figured I owed $18, but I'll take the $3 discount, anytime. So in 90 minutes of heads up play, I won $600 dollars or $400 an hour.
Since it was still early, I played 8/16 till about 2:00 am, and called it quits and came home. I won $40 playing 8/16 or $16 an hour, and I was extremely bored and playing marginally crazy since I was so bored. I probably should have just left at 11:30 pm, but at least I got to eat an ice cream.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Justice is served!
Played about a five hour session on Saturday night, from 10pm to 3am. I won my first two hands, in the big-blind, and the small blind, so I thought it was going to be a good night. After that, things fell apart, and it was a very good game. Eventually I had to buy another rack, and power my way through it. There was one guy, sitting two to my right, who was getting insanely lucky all the time, although I did overplay a few hands against him, but still J5o, T7o, 74s, ok let's limp under the gun. Of course he was winning, while I was getting pummeled, particularly when I 3-bet him with AQs, after he opened raised with J9s somewhere in the EMP. Don't worry he peels the QJ5 flop, and binks a 9 on the turn.
However sometime around 2 am or so, justice was finally served. My hands finally started holding up, and him limping will all manners of trash, and calling in spots he's not supposed to. By 3 am, he was busto, and I was up $800. Since I had bought in for 3 racks, I have almost 6 racks of chips in front of me. Justice, isn't it sweet?
However sometime around 2 am or so, justice was finally served. My hands finally started holding up, and him limping will all manners of trash, and calling in spots he's not supposed to. By 3 am, he was busto, and I was up $800. Since I had bought in for 3 racks, I have almost 6 racks of chips in front of me. Justice, isn't it sweet?
Monday, August 2, 2010
$500 an hour, sustainable?
Played a shortish session last night, after my San Diego staycation. Family and I stayed at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego for the weekend, even though it's only like 15 minutes from my house. Funny thing is, Saturday night, I went home and slept in my own bed.
Sunday evening, after dinner at Tsuruhashi I rolled up to Oceans-11 a little before 10pm. Played 8-16 for a little while and lost a little under a benjamin. Then get seated in a new 20/40 limit game that started 6-handed. By 1:30 am, when I quit, I won 1545, in little over 3 hours. Would have been more if my AJ had beat Q7 SB versus BB, where Q7 peeled the J92 rainbow flop, and binked a queen on the turn. Or if my TT beat A2o, which peeled on a Q74 rainbow flop, and binked an ace on the turn. Both hands I had position and got to 3-bet preflop. Oh well.
Sunday evening, after dinner at Tsuruhashi I rolled up to Oceans-11 a little before 10pm. Played 8-16 for a little while and lost a little under a benjamin. Then get seated in a new 20/40 limit game that started 6-handed. By 1:30 am, when I quit, I won 1545, in little over 3 hours. Would have been more if my AJ had beat Q7 SB versus BB, where Q7 peeled the J92 rainbow flop, and binked a queen on the turn. Or if my TT beat A2o, which peeled on a Q74 rainbow flop, and binked an ace on the turn. Both hands I had position and got to 3-bet preflop. Oh well.
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