Opening hand. Seat four limps for 50 and we have Q9o. In s7. Not a good hand but we raise to 250. We are trying to buy the pot thinking seat 4 will fold because he is an older man, which generally means that he will hold. Long story, but true.
The bb and seat 4 call. Flop comes 56Q w 2 clubs. They check and we bet 525 wanting to pull it down before another club or A or K fall. They fold.
We win a similar hand and have about 6500 in chips when s4 raises to 175. We flat call from the button w AK. Blinds fold and flop comes 459 with 2 clubs. He bets 300 and we raise to 600 to see where he is. If he has a big hand he should raise. If nothing fold. He calls. Hmmmm. At least the raise should stop him from betting the turn. Turn comes 9c putting a pair and 3 clubs on the board. He bets 1500. Hmmm. Flush? 9? We have the Ac so we call hoping for an A K or club. River comes 2h. He pushes all in and we fold.
We don't play for a while and then wind up calling a very short stack all in with AJo. He has QK and rivers a Q to take it down.
Now we are short stacked and wondering whether to line up for the 7pm start!!! Wow this has started badly.
Seat 4 limps and we raise from seat 7 w AA to 175. Everyone but seat 4 folds. Flop comes 237, all hearts and we have the Ah. He checks and we bet 225 hoping for a call, which we get. Turn comes As. Amazing. He checks. We check hoping he will hit something on the river. We only have 1400 in chips so hopefully we can get it all in on the river. River comes 7 pairing the board. He bets 400. We doodle with our chips counting them for a bit and then push all in. It's now 1000 to him to call a pot that is about 2700. He calls and shows 23? Yes he flopped 2 pair, but on the river they lost a lot of value. Oh well, we have aces full and we are back to 3700 in chips. Still down but at least we have a little ammo.
Seat 9 (the 23 guy) raises to 150 and we call from the bb with k5s. Not a great hand but it's only 100 to us. Flop comes K72. We check and he bets 300. We min raise to 600. Let's see if he has a K and in any case bet before an A falls. He calls and the turn comes 5. Giddey up! 2 pair. Perfect turn. We check again and he checks. River comes 4. We bet 700 and he calls. We show and he shows a 74. He rivered a second pair. Lucky for us as ours is larger. Strange he didn't raise though? Could we have bet more? 700 seemed like something he would call with one pair or a weak king, we couldn't have hoped he had 2 small pairs. Could we?
Okay - back to 5000! Play ball.
To be clear - we have had some great luck for a couple hands and have no right to be sitting here save for the fact that luck swings a lot. Calm Donkey - go fishing.
Round 2 playing 50-100. Yep, all of the above happened in 40 minutes!
In seat 4 we have 56h and raise to 200. Button and bb call and flop comes 89J with 2 hearts. We have flush and gunshot straight draw. A 7 would give anyone w a T a bigger straight. Bb checks and we bet 350. Button calls and bb raises to 1100. Hmmmm. Any T destroys our straight and he could have hearts, which would certainly be bigger than ours. We fold and the button calls. This was an amazing hand to watch. They went all in on the river so we saw everything. The turn was 7s, which would have given us a straight, but the big blind had the 7 10, so he already had not only the straight, but the bigger straight. The river was the four of hearts, which would've given us the flush, however the big blind's 7 10 were both hearts and the button had the Queen King of hearts. The king and queen of hearts took it down. Lucky we got out!
Seat 4 and the button limp. The SB calls and we check w q9o in the bb. Flop comes 8QK. Everyone checks to the short stack button who bets 400 of his 1400. Probably a bluff. Prob doesn't have a K, but a decent Q beats us and he will push the turn even if he's bluffing. Not worth 1400 To find out. We fold.
We play lightly and fold a few hands and are down to 4000.
Playing 8 handed seat 7 limps, sb limps and we raise to 400 from bb with 9Js. Seat 7 calls and flop comes 9TJ w 2 hearts and a spade. Fantastic flop. We bet 450 on our 2 pair and he calls. Turn comes Qh. Worst possible card. Brings flushes and easy straights. We check and he bets 1200. We fold. He shows the Kd as he scoops the pot. Amazing flop went to total crap . . .
We are down to 3000.
Round 3 - playing 75-150.
Seat 4 min raises to 300 and seat 7 calls. Sb folds. We are in the bb with QQ and raise to 1150. They both call and the flop comes 35T with 2 clubs. Great flop for us. We push. We only have 1800 in chips and can't afford to let them see a card. Wish we didn't have to act first. Fine if they fold and we win 2400. Fine if someone rolls the dice looking for an over-card. They both fold, one showing a jk. Alright, back up to 5000!
Everyone folds to us on the button and we have AA. Wow. 4 premium hands so far. We raise to 350 and the blinds fold. Sad. Wasted aces.
Strange play we weren't in. Two players see a flop of 68J with 2 hearts. First player bets 500 and second player raises to 1300. First player says "re-raise call" and puts in a 1000 chip, sufficient to call but not raise. What? Was he trying to call the raise? Floor comes and makes the obvious call which is that he has to raise. He puts another 600 in to complete the raise and player 2 seizes the moment to push all in. Player 1 calls with TJ. Player 2 had TQh and turned a heart to take it down with a flush.
In seat 7 we raise to 375 with TJh and get called by the button and SB. Flop is a terrible 23k with one heart and two clubs. Everyone checks. Turn comes Tc giving us a mid pair but putting a flush on the board. Sb bets 1100 and we fold.
Seat 3 limps and 2 others limp. Sb calls and we check from the bb with Q3s. Flop comes 56J with 2 spades. We think about betting the flush draw but wait to see what seat 3 does. Seat 3 was player 1 from the weird hand above and now has about 1700 in chips. He bets 500 and everyone folds to us. Strange he didn't push. We call looking for a spade and get the 4c. We check and he checks. The river comes 9h. Did we have a 9. Think so, but strangely can't remember and don't want to look at our cards. He probably has nothing and wants to play another hand so we push. He folds and we check out our cards. Nope. It was a 3. Now we remember.
We end round 3 with 5700 in chips. Five people got knocked off of our table, which is likely consistent with the rest of the room. So the average stack is likely close to 10,000.
Hopefully no more for two hours.
All the best,
El Donkey
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