Kick it Up!

What an interesting night this last Saturday evening.  My Saturday was filled with mundane life things.  I got home from my Friday night session around 4am and go to sleep and wake up around 10:30 am.  Wife does her workout with her trainer and I need to drop my car off at the dealership for some maintenance and recall issues to get fixed.  After lunch with the family get home and nap a little while the baby naps and the wife spends some time with the middle daughter bonding.

Dealership service guy is supposed to call me at 4pm to let me know status of my car.  Instead I get roused by my wife around 4:45pm and I realize that the service adviser never called me.  I am of course slightly annoyed and call him instead to find out the status of my car.  Fortunately, my car was done and I was still able to get over there before the place closed.

After picking up my car, the wife and I decide to go to Saturday evening vigil service at our church.  I like going to Saturday evening mass.  It makes Sundays a bit easier to deal with, but my favorite mass is actually Sunday evening, since that's when they have the best music.  But it's tough with the kids, since they have school the next day and it makes dinner unusually late and gets them in bed later than normal.

In any case, I get a text from Andy during mass that the 40/80 game has gone overnight from Friday night well until Saturday!  CC the poker playing animal played well over a 36 hour session and simply cleaned up.  Turns out the game played through Friday evening into Saturday morning until lawyer David showed up and started playing the 40 game with Cecil and I believe it was JA.  As it turns out they kicked it up to 80/160!

Now I don't normally play Saturday evenings anymore since there is usually no game on Saturdays, but after getting this message from my bird, I sweet talked my wife into letting me go.

I did ok in the the 80/160 portion of my night.  I won 1k, was up more, but gave some back after David rage tilt felted quit, playing 3 handed with CC and Andy.  I did get to 5-bet David with the nuts holding QT on a J893 two diamond board on the turn.  He had a set of eights and the river was a the ten of diamonds and he check/called my river bet and then went super tilted and started mumbling to himself.

Eventually he quit, after he short bought for $100 so he could play his button.  He folded and then his under the gun hand, he went all in and I tried to 3-bet the AT but since he didn't have enough for a "complete" raise, I only got to complete the bet, which meant that CC was going to able to come in.  Not to worry I flopped top pair and a gutshot draw on a AKJ rainbow board.  David quit, and the three of us continued to play, as it is bad etiquette to break the game as soon as the fish quits.  Plus David has been known to "quit" and come back within 20 minutes plenty of times.  Playing 3 handed I lose 2 racks of my 3 rack profit to break the game up only 1k.

Cecil eventually succumbed to the bodily need for sleep and went home looking much worse for the wear.  Not sure how that guy can repeatedly do that to himself.  It's really not good for your health and its really hard on your body, particularly your heart.

After Cecil quit, Andy and I kicked the stakes down back to 40/80 and played heads up for about 3 hours.  I won a little over 2k before Andy needed to go home since he had an early am flight this morning.  Was an interesting heads up session, and I ran well and won the first meaningful hand where he raised the button with QQ, and I defended with KJs, and proceeded to flop top pair.  I check/raised the flop and bet turn and bet river.  There were some hands where Andy played a bit unconventionally that I don't necessarily agree with.  Andy for sure defends his big blind a lot more than I do (he got me with 32o on a 764 board when I had 65s, and he check/raised the flop!), and opens his button relentlessly.