Aggressive player to our right raises to 175. We call with 9TKK and 2 other players call. Flop comes 57K rainbow. Beautiful! Two players check to us and we check hoping to get the last player to bet or someone to bet after the turn. Our only fear is a straight using the 57. Last player checks and turn comes 2 completing the rainbow again, perfect. Aggresso bets 500 and we raise to 1000. Everyone folds. Good pick up.
Next hand same start. Aggresso raises to 175 and we call with 9JJA double suited. Two others call and the flop comes 7JQ. Love it, but we're middle set now, not top set. BB checks, Agro bets 500, we raise to 1000, a player folds and BB pushes all in. Soon we're all in, Agro with a straight draw and BB with QQ. Donkey needs the case jack. It doesn't come and we just lost everything we picked up. We're back to 1600 (we had more chips than the BB).
From seat 3 Agro raises to 175. We have AAJ8 double suited in seat 4. Phenomenal hand. We call, hoping a later player will raise. Seat 8 raises and seat 9 pot bets. Agro calls and I push all in. Soon, 2 people are all in and 2 live. Flop comes 88Q with 2 hearts (we don't have hearts). Who would have thought the 8 would have been our good card? The remaining 2 players go all in, but our 8 takes the lion's share of the pot.
We continue to grind up to about 8000 in chips, knocking Aggresso out along the way. Then seat 4 min raises to 100 and we call from the button with 44QQ, just to see if we flop a set. The blinds call and the flop comes 24K with 2 hearts. We made the middle set, again . . . The blinds check and seat 4 bets 300. Does he have KK? Maybe, but that's all we're afraid of. Let's not let someone cheaply draw a straight or a flush. We raise to 800 and the blinds fold. Seat 4 re-raises the pot and the question now comes do we want to risk 3000 more chips to try to win about 5000 with our mid-set? Yes. We wind up putting him all in with about 4000 of our chips in. He doesn't have KK, but he has A356 with 35h. Not good. Any heart, A356 gives him a straight or a flush; of course the board pairing gives me the full house. His crazy hand is built for this flop against a set. We're actually a slight underdog, something like 45%. The turn comes Jh and the river doesn't pair the board, so he takes the huge pot with his flush. Shame. That's a few races we've lost.
We raise pre-flop from seat 5 with AAQ7 and get three calls. The flop comes 78T. Pretty tragic. The blinds check to us and we bet 600. The button and BB call. Turn comes 5 putting 2 spades on the board (we have 7Qs). We all check. River comes Jc. BB checks and we bet 1600. It's a stabbing bluff. Button folds, but BB goes into the tank and then calls. No good. However, he can't beat the AA, so very good! We finish Round 2 with our extra life and about 8000 in chips.
Hopefully more in 80 minutes. Going on break now.
Eric Kurtzman
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