NLH

After a long haitus, the dinkey trots to the table with 3000 in chips for no lomit holdem.

Second hand of the day is AQs in seat 7. We raise to 75 (playing 25 25) and get a call from the button and a raise to 225 from the big blind.

Do we call or do we raise? We have a premium hand, but we could face an ace king, or under pairs from either player. Either way, it would be nice to see the flop before getting too committed. More than that, in a three way hand, if we beat one of them, we should beat both. So we don't want to scare anyone out of the hand. So we call him the button calls.

Flop comes 9s Ts Qc. Wow! Top pair and nut flush draw. To make matters better, the big blind bets 350 into us. To keep the button in the game, we call instead of raising, but the button folds. That's okay, hopefully our slow play will lead the big blind to bet into us after the turn. The turn comes king of spades. Could this get any better? We now have the nut flush. The big blind bets 600 into us just to prove it can get better, and we raise to 1200. If he has a set, we want him to commit now, before he has a chance to get a full house. He pushes all in, much to our delight. We call and he shows JK. Poor guy flopped a straight and got killed on the turn.

Mental note - Donkey is not alway on the losing end of colossal hands

We play a series of small hands losing all of them except one where four diamonds flop and turn, three players check to us and we peek under our cards to confirm we have a diamond. Seeing 2 black cards we throw a solitary 100 chip into the 300 pot and everyone folds to our imaginary diamond.

Playing 25 50, seat six limps and we limp from the button with 5T of clubs. The small blind, oddly, folds, and the big blind checks, so three of us see the flop. The flop comes 458 with two clubs, what a great flop for us. The big blind bets 200 and seat six folds. We raise to 400 and he calls. The call means he likely doesn't have a set or a straight or a big 8. The turn comes Td giving us 2 pair and he checks. We want to make him pay to see the river bit not scare him away. We bet 425 and he calls. The river comes A. His post flop call makes it unlikely he has A8 but he could have A4 or A5. He checks and we bet 950. He goes into the tank and calls. He mucks when we show 2 pair.

We play a few medium size hand and lose, including our first pocket pair 66 losing to a 22.

We close round 2 with 9450 in chips. We have not yet had AK or any pocket pairs except the losing 6s, but the flops have been great for us. Great lucky rounds against a relatively weak field.

Hopefully the next update is 2 hours away!

Dancing Donkey

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