I wasn’t expecting to play anymore live poker for the week, but I guess I was wrong.
Driving up on Friday afternoon, I headed to the airport to pick up my cousin and his girlfriend from the airport. It was part thank-you for letting me stay at their house, part another reason to play at Crown, and part I didn’t want them to shell out the money to grab a cab.
After unloading the car once back at theirs, I made my way to Crown and found a seat on a $2-3 NLH table.
I had chipped up to around $250 on a table that featured a bunch of weak passive players who really struggled post-flop when this hand came up. Everyone limped in, and I did so on the button with to see a flop of
fall and a bet of $10 follow from one of the limpers. This player had turned over a few ‘unique’ hands where he had barrelled bottom-pair etc, so his bet didn’t seem overly strong to me. A first time player made the call, before I bumped it to $37. The flop aggressor called as did the noob before I dinged the
on the turn.
Very comfortable with where I now sat in the hand, it shocked me to see the aggressor fire out (after just calling on the flop) $25. The noob called and I thought for a little before making it $68 to go and was instantly snapped off before the noob passed.
The river landed the and I was met with an instant announcement of a bet of $100 as my now lone opponent in the hand fumbled while cutting down the amount to call.
I sat in the tank for around three minutes trying to decipher the whole hand. I couldn’t factor him to have a better nine, but more likely held a busted draw or even just a Queen. Eventually I called and internally puked when he rolled over his for a rivered gutshot to leave me with just $40 and send me to my wallet to top up.
Reviewing the hand, I think I bet the turn way too small, but either way I managed to add a further $200 to my stack the next hand when my two-pair held up against two players top pair.
Eventually though I got my now favourite opponent back when I opened from late position holding and was flatted by the button and my nemesis from the big blind. The flop fell down
and I was faced with a donked out $20 bet in which I just called as the button folded. The turn landed the
and he fired out $30 in which I just called. The river landed the ugly
and my nemesis fired out $25. I exchanged some friendly banter before splashing the pot with a bet of $140.
He immediately called, rolled over , and I scooped the pot to put my stack upwards of $650.
I decided to call the session to an end when I double a short-stack up with a weaker top-pair to eventually cash out up just under $200 for the session before Mat made his way to Crown and we decided to see the new movie Daybreakers . . . if you like Vampires or need an occasional startle in a dark room then go see it.
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I headed into Crown at the early time of 10am to test my luck in the Saturday morning $25 rebuy donkament.
I tried to enjoy the rebuy period and was all in at least ten times with five of them being without looking at my cards. After the rebuy period was over, I had spent $100 and had just over a 3,000-chip stack courtesy of a late triple up holding .
Once we returned after the break, the levels picked up and facing a short-stack’s all in, I pushed with and was called by the big stack’s
. The short-stack held tens, and once a Queen flopped, it was over as I was bundled out in 45th of the 72 starters.
Heading to a $2-3 NLH table I played for nearly five hours getting up $50, then losing $100, getting up $50, then losing $100. Eventually I decided that it wasn’t going to be a good day and walked out (thankfully) up $50 and made my way back home.
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