The game was really moving far too fast to remember hands. I can only give a couple here.
Playing 50–100, seat five raised to 225. In the small blind with Jack King, we raise to 600. The big blind pushes all in for 1200 and seat five also pushes all in 1650. We call and show our Jack King. The big blind also has a Jack King. That is not good. Seat five shows Queen King. That is terrible. The flop comes 9TQ, giving the two underdogs a straight. It is a miracle flop. We will be thrilled to split the pot this time. The turn comes 9, pairing the board. The river comes another 9, putting three nines on the board and giving the hand back to the Queen King, which now has a full house. The good news is that one of the players was knocked out, but now the surviving player has a larger stack to confront us. Don't you rears up and flips him a hoof.
Playing three handed, the other two players push all in pre-flop with pocket eights against pocket jacks. The flop is a 48Q, giving a huge advantage to the pocket eights. The turn is another queen and the river a third queen, putting three queens on the table and giving the pocket jacks a bigger full house than the pocket eights has.
I remember the above two hands, because they are two of the stranger hands I've seen in a long, long time. We are now playing heads up.
The order of play in heads-up is a little strange. The button is considered the small blind and acts first pre-flop. However, post flop the button returns to being the last to act.
The blinds are ridiculously small and in light of the fact that he has about 16,000 in chips and we have about 20,000, playing 50-100, this will take a long, long time.
We spend the requisite long, long time hacking back-and-forth at each other taking 100 or 200 chips at a time. I recall only one hand where we made a bet of more than 1000. We had bet something like 200 and he raised to something like 550. He was correct to call our bluff, but we were confident that he had nothing, so he was simply re-bluffing. Not to be outdone, we re-re-bluffed for 1550. He folded.
He is on the button and raises pre-flop to 275. We have KK - giddey up. We re-raise to 600 and he calls. Flop comes 46K with 2 clubs. Giddey-up again!!!! We check and he checks. The turn comes 9d putting 2 diamonds and 2 clubs on the board. Possible big hands include open ended straight draws with a flush draw (eg 57d would give someone 6 straight draws and 9 flush draws, but it's unlikely to have in light of the pre-flop betting) or two pair with a flush draw (eg 69c would give 2 pair and 9 cards for a flush, but again this is an unlikely hand to hold). There really isn't much we realistically fear - we just have to get his chips in the pot. We bet 800 into the 1200 pot and he RAISES to 2500. We go into the tank. We ask the dealer to clean the pot up (ie move our 800 bet into the pot along with 800 of his 2500 so we can see the pot on one hand and his 1700 raise clearly on the other.). He has about 12,500 chips in addition to what he has put in. We have to deny that but not get too greedy. We raise to 6000. He thinks for a few minutes. We are geared up in sunglasses and head phones but making the nervous look every now and then to see if he's moved, and we hear him say, because the headphones are really for show and quietly playing Uncle Cracker, "all in". Glorious word! Long ears perk up and we turn over the kings. Appropriately listening to "i want to be a cowboy". He shows AK. He is drawing dead. I believe the river was a Jh, but it wasn't relevant.
We are "in the money". Giddey-up! We play tomorrow at 1pm.
Your Money Donkey
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