Our table breaks and we move to the amazon room, purple 437 seat 6. When we sit down an argument ensues over how player 5 is seated - specifically whether he is truly in the middle of the table. Sitting next to him it appears that he is but i stay out of the discussion as it turns toward angles of vision. Back to poker.
Playing 150-300.
Seat 4 min raises to 600 and gets called by 6 and 7. We call from the button with 79d and the BB calls. Five players see the flop AQ2 with AQd. Everyone checks to seat 6 who bets 1100. Seat 7 folds and we raise to 3300. Everyone folds. Great!
We raise to 850 in seat 6 with JJ and get called by seat 8 and the BB. Flop comes 25Q rainbow. BB checks and we bet 1300. Seat 6 raises to 3100. BB folds. We have no experience with this table. If he had a Q, would he raise or slow play. Two more betting rounds coming so best to decide now what to do. We fold. He shows 33. It was a bluff or a semi-bluff and it worked.
Seat 7 raises to 900 and we call from the button with ATh. The BB calls and the flop comes A86 with one heart. They both check and we bet 1600. The BB folds but seat 7 raises to 4200. Oiy! 2600 more for a pot over 10k. We call looking for an A, a T or a heart, or at least hoping he checks the turn. Turn comes Jd. He bets some large amount and we fold. Ouch. We have just under 20,000.
Seat 3 limps for 300 and we limp from seat 8 with 77. The SB calls and the BB raises to 1350. Seat 3 calls. Do we call? We like 77 in a four way pot because if we flop a 7 we should get paid. However, the only strong hand is the BB so maybe we raise to 4900 and try to steal it? However, if the BB pushes we will never see the flop. We call and the SB folds. Flop comes 3TA. Not good. BB bets 1600. Seat 3 calls and we fold.
Seat 4 raises to 800 and we call from seat 5 with A9s. Seat 7 and the BB call. Flop comes 57K rainbow (no spades). Everyone checks to seat 7 who is short-stacked and bets 2500. Seat 4 calls. We fold. Seat 4 took it down eventually with AK. Seat 7 had 78s. Wish the spades had come . . .
Sensing a pattern here? We are getting slowly cut down. We have 16,500 now.
We raise to 800 from seat 3 with JQs and seat 4 raises to 1750. Oddly small raise. Everyone folds to us and we call. Flop comes red 57K and we fold to the first bet.
Play that last hand a couple more times with minor variations. This has been a brutal round filled with predominantly unplayable hands interrupted only by the hands that are playable until the flop hits. We are down to 13000 in chips.
Everyone folds to the SB who raises to 750. We are in the BB heads up with T2. These chips mean a lot to us. We've been folding everything because we cant get a hand. We raise to 2700 advertising our first big hand in 2 hours. He goes into the tank and folds. Good.
Seat six races to 700 and we call from seat seven with JQh. The button and the big blind both Call, making a pot of about 3000. The flop comes 27Q with one heart. The BB and seat 6 check to us. We bet 1500 and they all fold. Good result.
We close Round 3, after six hours of play, with 15,075 chips. That's half of what we started with, but in light of some of the horrible luck we have had and the litany of bad cards and flops for the last two hours, I'm frustrated but not upset with the final number.
Off to dinner break. Hopefully no commentary for 3.5 hours.
Donkey
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