Playing 25 50 with 3000 chips and 2 add ons (resurrection chips), we fold our first 5 hands and then call a raise to 150 from the SB with 79JK. Not a good hand, but the pot odds with 3 players in ahead of us are good enough to merit seeing the flop. We see the flop, a 24J with 2 hearts. Original better bets 600 and gets one caller. We fold. The J isn't too impressive, and with straight and flush draws on the board, we'll wait for something better.
With 5678 in seat 5 we call seat 4's raise to 125. Seat 6 and the BB call. Flop comes 78T with 2 spades. BB checks and seat 4 bets 350. This is a good flop for us with 2 pair, but there's a good chance of high flush draws and even made straights out there. It's unlikely that Seat 4 has a straight, but still possible. We take a stab with a 900 bet; if Seat 4 missed and is trying to buy the pot, he should fold. Seat 6 pushes all in, BB folds and Seat 4 pushes all in. Hmmmm, seat 6 may be trying to buy the pot, but Seat 4 clearly has a hand. Likely they both do. We fold and lick our wounds. They show their hands. Seat 4 had TT underneath for top set and Seat 6 had JQKA including the AQ of spades. A spade turned, the river didn't pair the board to give Seat 4 a boat, and Seat 6 took it down with his flush.
We fold for a while and then call a raise from seat 4 to 150. Seat 6 called and we are in the SB with 89JQ. Flop comes 4QQ rainbow. We check, seat 4 checks and seat 6 bets 500. He bets 500. We only have about 1500, so we push. Seat 4 folds and seat 6 calls with 8QKA. Turn comes 5 and River comes 7. He takes it with QA. Time to use our first resurrection chip.
We call a raise to 125 from seat 5 with 2345, but toss that after the flop of 79Q. So far no good hands, and the flops have moved them downward in value.
We raise to 175 in seat 4 with 4QKA with AQs and get callers from the button and the BB. Flop comes 55Q with 2 diamonds. BB checks, we check and the button bets 375. BB calls and we fold. No 5 and no diamonds makes this a bad place to be.
After approximately 20 hands at this table we're batting 0%.
Seats 3567 limp in, so we limp in with 223K (K2c). Not a good hand, but great pot odds and I love big family limps as post flop play is my strongest arena. The blinds limp and 7 of us see the 268 flop (2 hearts). Everyone checks to seat 7 who bets 300. We raise the pot. Someone has 2 hearts and someone has a great straight draw - no need to give them a new card to look at. Everyone folds. Our first victory.
We limp in from seat 6 with 3457 and see the flop with 5 other players. I like this friendly play. Flop comes 67Q rainbow. Great flop for us. A 345 or 8 will give us a straight. Seat 3 bets 300, seat 5 raises to 1100 and we push all in for 2200. Seats 3 and 5 go all in. Just what we wanted. Our straight will likely win and we have 13 chances, which is roughly 47%. Turn comes J, but river comes 4. Giddey-up; we triple up! Now we have some chips to play with.
We enter Round 2 with 1 resurrection chip and about 7500 in chips, playing 50 100.
We get up to 8700 in chips and then seat 3 and 4 limp and seat 5 raises to 500. We call from the BB with 4789. Seat 3 calls and the pot is about 1700. Flop comes 289. We like top 2 and bet 1200. Seats 3 and 4 fold, but seat 5 raises to 3000. Hmmm. Unlikely he has a set. He raised pre flop so unlikely to have 22. I have an 89, so unlikely he has the other 2 of either. He could have a huge straight draw, but unlikely he would raise preflop with 67TJ. More likely he has TJQQ or something of that nature. Hmmm, we're probably ahead right now, so let's get the chips in. We push and he calls. He shows 9TKK. He needs a TK or 2 to beat us. He turns a K to make a set and takes it down. Ouch. We were about a 60% favorite.
Resurrection chip 3 in play. We are in seat 4 with double suited 78KK. Seat 3 raises to 300 and we pot bet to 1050 and get a call from seats 6 and 3. Flop comes 49J. Seat 3 checks and we pot bet all in and get a call from seat 6. I don't recall what he had, but I do recall his chips pushing toward me at the end of the hand.
Again, we have chips to play with. Over 6000.
Seat 4 limps and the SB limps. We're in the BB with 9JQA (JQc) and raise the pot (to 400). They call and the flop comes 4dTcKc. We have a second nut flush draw, an open-ended straight flush draw, a 9JQ or A gives us a straight. All good things. SB bets 800 and we raise the pot (to 3600). Seat 4 folds, but the SB pushes all in with more chips than we have. We call, knowing we could be heading home soon. He shows A4c and 89. He looks at our cards and says he's way ahead. I'm confused by that and want to ask what he means, but the Qs turns and I can't make myself point out that he was wrong as it's rather moot now. The river is not a club and we take the pot down. Note that he had a higher club flush draw, but we had 6 clubs in our hands and on the board. Of the 7 that could give him a flush, 2 gave us a straight flush. He only had 5 good clubs.
We close Round 2 with 13300 in chips, but no resurrection chips. Overall, that's a good spot (the resurrection chips are worth 3000 each).
Eric Kurtzman
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