yep. some of you probably got it: AQ vs. KK. hit the Q but that wasn't enough. it was a frustrating tournament for me in that i didn't win those medium sized pots to accumulate any chips. i won some small pots, but the big ones just escaped me. i had a couple of 2nd best hands and even with position couldn't make some mildly bad calling stations lay down 1 pair.
a hand that really crippled me was JJ. i raised 1 limper in middle position and got 3 callers including the small blind, the big blind, and the limper. the flop was ok, but not great: 2-3-4. they checked to me so i put out close to a pot sized bet. everyone called!! the turn was just about the worst possible card: 5. the only cards i didn't want to see were an Ace and a 5. we all checked around. the river was a 10 and the small blind immediately went all in and the big blind insta-shoved all in. what a sickening turn card. i tossed in my rags, and they showed some pretty quality hands to be calling raises with out of position: A-3 and A-6. the 6 high straight took it down.
i nursed a short stack for a bit and then another sucky hand came up. UTG made a pretty decent raise. 2 callers, and i look down at AsKs in the small blind. i call. the big blind re-pops it big to take it down. UTG immediately shoves for a bit more than the BB's raise. it folds to me. i have a chance to triple up, but stand a good chance of being dominated. to call was for all my chips. i folded. it was QQ vs. JJ and UTG got knocked out. i would have made the nut flush had i stayed in and more than tripled up with all that dead money in the pot.
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flip side: had just a sickly incredible cash session after busting! played 2/3 NL and logged a +5 buy in session! i can't believe how hot i've been running lately. just hitting the crap out of some flops and playing pretty well.
flopped 2 pair with 2c4c in an unraised pot and had a 2 guys call my flop raise and 1 guy pay me off on the river with 1 pair. my table was just sooooo juicy. it was a saturday night and there was the token drunk guy who was bluffing almost every time when checked to. he kept pulling money out of his pocket which was a beautiful sight. [side bar: he reminded me of "Urlacher" of oceans 11 infamy]. i got a bunch of chips from him when i flopped a set of 5s and he had top pair. he made, for him, a good laydown with top pair on the river.
i thought this would never happen again in my entire poker career, but this was a pretty amazing hand: i called a $6 straddle in the dark in late position and with a big stack. the big blind raised to $26. alright......i'll look at my cards: QQ. "okay, i call." the small blind called as well. flop is Q-8-4 rainbow. how can i flop the nuts again? and this time in position. please bet, please bet......neither of them bet. so i checked behind. turn was a 6. okay, there are some straight cards out there but i wasn't that scared. the SB lead out for $15, the BB raised to $30 and i raised to $65. they both called! the river was a 7. any old 5 had made a straight, but i didn't think either of them had 55 and had lead out with a gut shot on the turn. the small blind bets $100. without the nuts, i just called on the river. do you raise on the river?? he had about $300 more behind.
he had flopped top two pair with Q8 and the big blind had 99. nice pot.
the last big pot i played was for close to $700. i re-raised a middle position player with KK in the cutoff. the button and the raiser called. flop was J high with 2 clubs. checked to me, i bet 2/3 pot. the button called and the other guy folded. i had played with the guy on the button before, and i knew he liked to mix it up quite a bit and play position poker. he was definitely not scared to throw chips in the pot and try to take down orphan pots. but he had smooth called a raise and a re-raise, so i thought he probably had some kind of hand this time.
the turn was a 3rd club. i did have the Kc, so i had an over pair and the 2nd nut flush draw. i check-called his $90 bet. i actually thought he was using the 3rd club as a scare card to try to get me off the hand. maybe he had AJ with the Ac. the river was an offsuit Q. now the only real hands i'm scared of here are JJ or QJ for 2 pair. there was no straight, and he needed two club hole cards to make a flush. pot on the river is $380. i check to him. he fairly quickly moves all in for $135. i'm getting close to 3:1 on the call. if he had a hand like 1 pair with AJ, i would think he would be happy to show down. does he have JJ/QJ or a flush? i tanked for a bit and went with my read of this guy. i called. he showed 5s6s for bottom pair! do you really want to play for your whole stack with 56 in a re-raised pot? soon thereafter he moved to 5/5 NL. hahaha.
anywho, running hot and loving it. or maybe CG has cursed me into becoming a cash game player now!
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