Big Dance 2

Playing 100-200 8-handed.

Seat 6 raises to 525 and seat 7 calls. We are in the bb with Q6h. Seat 6 raises a lot on our bb. We call. Flop comes 38Q rainbow. We check. Seat 6 bets and everyone folds.

Seat 7 raises to 525 and we have KT in the sb. We fold. We are out of position and if we do hit we have to worry that our kicker is too weak.

Now playing 9-handed.

Everyone folds to us on the button and we have KK. We raise to 525 and the sb calls. Flop comes 459. He checks. We bet 750 and he folds. He is the guy who earlier claimed to have KK when we flopped aces over queens, so we socially mention that we had the pocket kings that time. He immediately asks what suit and we respond that they were black. He then calls us a liar. This is a very strange conversation. Of course it is possible that we misremember the suits, because the suits were not very important, but anyone who knows me would know that calling me a liar is about the worst thing that you can do. Moving forward we will refer to him as Mr. douche bag.

We bet 425 in seat 4 with 45c and Mr. douche bag calls. Flop comes AK6 with one club. Not good. Only options are admit defeat or bet out with our fictitious ace. We bet 750 and he calls. Not good. Turn comes Kc. We check, consistent with the ace representation. He bets 1100. Hmmmm, a club is probably a winner for us and the pot odds are right to call. We call. River comes 7c. Giddey up. No way he has clubs bc the Ac and Kc are on the board. He wouldn't have called the flop bet with lower clubs. He could have a boat, but that's highly unlikely. If he had AK he would have pre flop raised us. K6 or K7 doesn't make sense. So really all we are worried about is 66. We bet 3000 and he calls and mucks when we show the clubs. We resist the urge to yell, "believe me now douche bag!"

Seat 5 raises to 600 and we call from the bb with TJ. Flop comes 368. Generally a good flop for the blinds. We bet out 550 to try to take it down and she min-raises to 1100. She could have any 2 big cards and do this. We call hoping to turn a pair. Turn comes 5 and we check, ready to exit. She checks and gives us a free card. River comes 8 pairing the board. We bet out 1200 hoping she will believe we have an 8. She doesn't - she flat calls and shows KK before we show our cards. We muck.

We fold what feels like 62 hands in a row.

Seat 3 raises to 525 and gets calls from seat 6 and the sb. We call from the bb with TQs. Flop comes 59J with one spade and 2 hearts. Sb checks and we bet 1025 with our open ended straight draw hoping everyone will fold. They do. Very nice.

We go back to folding.

We raise to 600 in seat 8 with AJ. Mr. douche bag raises to 1400 and we call. Flop comes 78K. We check. He bets 1300. We fold.

Seat 5 limps as does seat 7. We limp from the button with J2h. For 200 let's see the flop while we are in position. Blinds limp and 5 of us see the 29Q flop. They all check and we bet 600. The bb calls. Turn comes 6. He checks and we take one more crack at it betting 1300. He raises to 3000 and we fold.

Seat 4 raises to 550 and gets calls from 5 and the sb. We are in the bb with Q8. For 350 we call and see the flop. Don't remember it. It sucked though and we folded.

Next hand seat 5 bets 525 and gets called by the button. We call from the sb with 77. Bb folds and flop comes 255 with 2 hearts. We are probably good here. We bet 800. They both call. Turn comes 8c. That didn't help anyone. We bet 2050 and they fold.

I don't remember exactly how this one played out but here's my best guess. Seat 4 raises to 525 and seat 7 calls. We call from seat 8 with 8Ts and Mr. douche bag calls from the button. Flop comes AK2 all spades. Giddey up. We have a flush. Seats 4 and 7 check and we bet 900. Mr. douche bag raises to 2500. He has another 11000 more or less behind. What does he have? Can't be a set of kings or aces or he would have pre flop raised. Could be a set of dueces, in which case we don't want him seeing more cards. Could be 2 spades, which would be bad if he has the Js or Qs. If any of those cases are true we could go all in now or see more cards and he will only go all in with a high spade if a spade hits; so letting a spade turn minimizes my value if I have him beat now. That promotes three betting. Or he could have Qs with anything else hoping i will fold or he will hit a spade. Can't let go of this hand and don't want to let him see a spade. So that pushes for three bet as well. We are dead if he has 2 spades with the J or Q. Otherwise we are way ahead. We raise to 10900, essentially putting him all in. He thinks for a moment and goes all in. We call and show our cards. He shows 34s. He has a smaller flush and only one out, the 5s would give him a straight flush. We are about 96%. Mr. Bag literally stands up and is half way to the door before the river hits. Turn comes something meaningless and river comes an equally meaningless Qd. We take it down and say bye bye.

Seat 6 raises to 600 and seat 7 calls. We call from BB with 79c. Flop comes 6KA with one club. We check and seat 6 bets. We fold.

We end round 2 with just over 50000 in chips. As we said at the end of round 1, just looking for one good flop. This time it was a great flop giving me a second player with a great, but not great enough, hand. His play, however, would have been consistent with QJ, Q9 or J9s so we were lucky we didn't run into a bigger flush.

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All the best,
Kicking Donkey

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