First hand in seat 3 we have QQ. QQ has historically been a bad bad hand for us, but we raise to 425 and are sad to see everyone fold.
Aggressive boy raises to 325 from seat 5 (there's someone between us now). We call with 79 in the SB and BB calls to. Flop comes 29J. We check, BB checks and aggressive boy bets 525. Hmmmm, we raise to 1725. BB folds and Aggressive Boy folds. We pick up the pot happy with that result. Glad to see everyone fold this time; if Aggressive Boy had a hand, that would have hurt.
Table breaks and we move to Yellow 118. Not happy with the change. I recognize the guy to my left as someone I've played with before and don't want to play with again. Also, somehow 3 of the guys at this table have much bigger stacks than I. Finally, I had a good read on my old table and I'm coming in here fresh. Not good.
We play a few hands and are up a little. Then in seat 4 we raise to 400 with QQ and the button and BB call. Flop comes 47A with 2 hearts. Terrible. BB checks and we bet 750. It's a stab. If neither of them have an A, they should fold as we were the pre-flop better and most likely representing an A. The button raises to 1550, not good. The BB raises to 4000. We wouldn't have called the 1550. We fold.
Seat 4 raises to 375 and we call from the SB with K8h. Not a great hand, but let's see! BB, the guy to my left who scares me, calls. Flop comes 237 with one heart. Great flop for blinds. We think for a minute and then check. They check and the turn comes 9h, giving us a flush draw. We bet 625 hoping they'll fold, but they both call, putting the pot at about 3000. River comes 3 (not heart) pairing the board. The board is now 23379. We bet (read full on naked bluff) 3100. They take turns being upset and then folding. Fantastic result, but that could have badly hurt our stack. We risked 4000 on that hand to win 2000!
Seat 5 raises to 400 and we call with 88 in seat 6. Flop comes 22A. Hmmm, great unless he has an A. He bets 500 and we call. Turn comes 4. Our 88 still likely good. He bets 1000 and we call. River comes A. He pushes all in for about 15000! If he's bluffing, that's a huge bluff, because I call with any Ax. We fold. We lost at least 1000 more than we should have.
Next hand same guy, now in seat 4, raises to 400 and we call with A9h. Flop comes TTK. He checks and we check. Turn comes 9. We bet 700 and he calls. River comes rag 5 and we bet 1500. He calls with QQ and takes the pot. Time for a massage. We're playing below our grade, even the Donkey grade.
We finish Round 3 with about 13000 and start Round 4 playing 100 200.
We get up to about 15000 and then play the following 2 hands:
Seat 3, who I've outplayed a couple of times leading to the 2000 increase, makes his standard raise to 400. We call from the SB with AQ and the BB calls. Flop comes 344. The blinds check and seat 3 checks. Turn comes 5. The blinds check and seat 3 bets 500. We call and the BB folds. River comes 8. We check, he checks, and he takes it with AK.
We call a raise from seat 5 when we're on the button with JKs. Flop comes 35K. Short story is he had QK and took the pot with the Q kicker!
We limp in from seat 5 with 9Qd. Seat 6 (guy who scares me) and the blinds see the flop come 58Q. Blinds check and we bet 300 into the 800 pot. Seat 6 calls. Turn comes 3. The board is a bunch of trash. We bet 1100 and he raises to 3100. Should we fold? Our Q is prob good unless he has QT. We call. River comes 4. More garbage. We check and he pushes all in for about 11000. We're not ready to go home if he has QT. Painful, but we fold. Did he get in our fur covered head?
Later we wind up in a decent size pot with him. I don't remember the play by play, but a third heart came on the turn (giving us nothing), we checked, he bet 1100, and we check raise bluffed all in. He folded. Donkey head clear now, but chip stack has suffered. At this point in our story we're at 7000, back to where we started!
Eric Kurtzman
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