We are still playing 5-handed which is a little strange. They are slowly filling seats with late arrivals. In any case, for now it means weaker hands play stronger.
Playing 100-200:
We are now playing 8-handed. People are flooding in i guess.
new player in seat 8 raises to four hundred. Everyone folds to us in the big blind and we raise to 1200 with 9 10 of clubs. He folds. Good.
We also won our small blind with pocket eights and a flop of 247. Guy with K7 paid us about 1500. I don't remember the exact play because the next hand took all of my mind.
Everyone folds to us in seat 8 with KK and we raise to 625. New player on the button calls and flop comes 7KA with 2 diamonds. We bet 600 with our set and he calls. The turn comes 7. Amazing. We were just hoping to avoid a diamond but now we have a full house. We check and he bets 1200. We call hoping the river is a diamond for him or something good (just not an ace or seven). Jd hits. Hopefully he made a flush. We bet 2400, hoping for a call and he RAISES to 6900. We go in the tank and fiddle with our chips. We only lose to two hands - pocket aces, which probably would have pre-flop raised or raised on the flop to avoid Letting us see a diamond. We also lose to pocket 7s but we cant play afraid of quads. We have to know we have a winner here. We only have about 13000, so 6900 is over half. As if to say, why not?, we push all in. He calls and shows A7 for a smaller full house. WE DOUBLE UP!
That was a ferocious beat to deliver to someone. Donkey has gone from some blood on the lips to full on bathing in it.
Note that shortly after this we lost a hand with 2-pair to someone who also had sevens full of aces. Strange that our opponents had that twice in rapid succession. Still, at the end of it we had just over 34,000 in chips. Back in the saddle!
Seat 8 raises to 400 and we have AKh in the SB. We raise to 1050 and he calls. Flop comes 889 with one heart. We bet 1200 and he calls. Turn comes Tc. We bet 2400 and he calls. River comes 6. Unless he has a big ace, cant really see him folding now, so we check. He bets 5200. We cant beat anything but a bluff, so we fold our premium hand.
Very next hand we get AKs. Crazy. We call an early raise to 500 and see the flop with the raiser and the BB. 25Q all clubs. Oiy! They check and we semi-bluff 700. They fold. Good result.
Seat 6 raises to 400 and we call from seat 8 with 57d. BB calls and flop comes 3TJ with 2 diamonds. Seat 6 bets 700 and we call as does the BB. Turn comes 4d giving us a flush and a straight flush draw. They check. We can't let another diamond come (unless it's the 6), so we bet 1650. They fold. That's fine.
In seat 4 we raise to 625 with TKs and the BB re-raises to 1600. We call to see the flop, which comes 89K with one spade. Good flop. He bets 2800 and we call, afraid of AA or AK, or even KQ. The turn comes 7s giving us a straight draw and a flush draw. There are literally 20 river cards that give us a flush, straight, set or 2 pair. He checks and we bet 4200. He calls and the river comes 2h rag. He checks and we check. He shows AA to take it down. Ouch. Back down to about 23,000.
Seat 5 raises to 400 and we are on the button with KK. We have had crazy good starting hands today. That means a lot of betting but too many of them have gone sideways. We raise to 1250 and he flat calls. Okay, he probably doesn't have pocket aces. Flop comes 9TA. Terrible. He checks and we take a stab with 1300. He calls. Turn comes 8. He checks but he will likely continue to call so we check. River comes 7 putting 4 straight cards on the board. Bluff? He checks and we check. He shows AQ to take it down. We are being slowly cut up.
There are also some small hands we've won. We called a raise to 600 from the BB playing an absurd 69h to see a flop with seat 5 and the SB. Pot odds might justify the call in light of the deep stacks (Sensei?). The flop came A38 with 2 hearts. SB checked and we bet 800. They folded and we took it down. Nice 1200 profit.
We end the round with 22,075. Much better than we started the round with, but about 14,000 shy of our peak!
Head in the game -
Donkey
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