NLH Shootout Part IV

The action was simply moving too fast to take notes or even make too many mental notes. I can only relay two hands, the first and last hand played before the break.

In the first hand, it looked exactly like a hand played in my last blog. Seat five, the guy who raises with lots of random things, min raised. Two people called after him and when it came to us in the small blind we raised significantly. They all folded. Seat 5 asked me to show the bluff, accusing me of stealing the pots. He actually said there is no way that we could have that many good hands and around. I thought about showing the off suit four seven, but decided just to muck it.

From a 30,000 foot level, we turned into a poker bully stomping with all four hooves on everyone hand after hand. We built our stack to become the chip leader playing five handed. We had about 140,000 chips.

Playing 500–1000 with antes of 100, seat three raised to 3100. We called from seat four with 23 of diamonds. The reasoning for this is the same as it was on my last blog. The button, the guy who had the three four in the last blog to beat our full house with a bigger full house, calls, and the three of us see the flop. The flop comes 456 with the four and six of diamonds. We have flopped a straight, hey got shot straight flush and a flush draw. Phenomenal flop. Seat three checks, we check, the button checks and we see the turn come. It is a seven of hearts. Horrible card for us, because now anyone with an eight beats us. Slow playing did not work well for us here. Seat three checks and we bet 6000. The button pushes all in for 27,600. We call and he shows pocket fours. He has 9 outs. The river comes seven of diamonds giving him a full house. He takes it down.

We have only lost two big hands. We lost them both to the same player, who was all in both times, and faced us with a suited deuce three that flopped or turned a monster. It is somewhat frustrating, but we still have about 110,000 chips, leaving 250,000 for the remaining four players to share.

We are still in good position, but there are a lot of cards left to play, and as the last hand exemplifies, Lucky still a huge, huge factor.

Stomping with all four hooves,
Donkey