NLH

Contrary to the typical pattern, in rounds seven and eight we inched downward and jumped upward. Two hands of interesting note.

Early seat big stack raises to 700 and gets called by the button. We are in the small blind with AJh. We raise to 1800 and early seat raises to 3800. Button folds. We consider pushing or folding but decide to call and see the flop. Flop comes 56J with 2 clibs and we quickly push all in with about 5000 in chips. He goes into the tank for a couple of minutes. We call the time clock, so that the dealer will call the floor manager and ask to put him on a time restriction. He takes About another minute to fold his hand. Once he went into the tank, we can be pretty sure that we had him beat. However, it's always nice to take the pot down without having to watch the turn and river.

Everyone folds to the small blind who raises to 1050. We are in the big blind with a 95. Terrible hand, but for 650 we call. The flop comes 66T. He checks and we check and the turn comes five. He checks and we bet 1600. He calls. The river comes Q and he bets 2200.

So here is the problem. In order for him to raise the flop, he should have a better than average hand. An average hand is a Q8 off suit. There is a very good chance that he has a queen with something like a jack or a king. Do we want to spend 2200 to make sure that he does not have a queen or a 10 or a pocket pair larger than five? At this point, it is better to fold and see another hand, so we do. I showed him the five we are folding and he shows AK. We would have one at least called. But, that of course, is monday morning quarterbacking.

We close round eight with 11,000 chips and 490 players. We are 200 players away from the money. There will be a short break after round 9 so hopefully no commentary for an hour.

Up-n-down Donkey

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