I returned to the Gay Man-Love Shack (my no life havin psycho heckler thinks the Love Shack sounds gay so I changed it)on Monday to play the tournament and a little cash. Prior to that I had played in a coupla dying cash games for an hour here and there and a coupla one table tournaments that I didnt cash in. I did play in the 10000 person double deuce $22 buyin on Sunday at FTP. I went out 2200ish. I never had a hand bigger than 99 or AK. It was a real donkament and I look forward to playing in it again sunday. Im buying in with my bonus points and I have enough for 3 more buyins. It was real maniac fest. We were in the first round of blinds 10/20 with 3500 chips each and I saw this guy raise preflop to like 60 and this other guy goes all-in for like 3400 more and the original raiser calls. They both had AQ off-suit. See what Im saying. There were a ton of players like this so expect to be crushed by the worst hand eventually.
Anyway I played the tournament at the Shack Monday. I never had any good hands but I grinded and stole my way to 7th place which wasnt in the money but getting pretty close. The cash game was lively but with mostly good players. I actually had a local guy on my right (I will call him the intimdator) who had won a world series 10K circuit event on espn a few years ago and he had some buddies at the table too who I figured werent going to be your typical weak passive calling stations. I had A10 of hearts once and flopped an Ace and a flush draw. It was just me and the intimidator who had raised preflop. He cbet the flop into me and I just called. Why did I just call? Well if Im ahead I dont want to discourage him from betting especially if he was on a heart draw too. If Im behind I dont want to play a big pot just because I have the heart draw. The turn is a brick and he bets into me again and I just call. The river is a queen and he gives up and I just check behind. He didnt have anything. He ask or commented something about why I didnt raise and I explained all this to him and then wondered why I was telling the intimidator how I think so he can use it against me. Also the way I play may be totally wrong in his mind which would I guess give him incentive to get in pots with me. There was another small hand that was interesting to me that I played poorly. Im in a pot with a guy (mr. loose I will call him) who will call loose, bet loose, raise loose. I have flopped a flush draw and I bet. He calls. Then I checks and he check. He either has a middle or bottom pair or a draw. The river is another brick and I check and he bets a pot sized bet. The pot is very small and I fold my Ace but I should have called. He isnt betting a middle pair there. He either had nothing or a big hand. Nothing was way more likely. He showed his nothing. I didnt mind since letting him get away with moves is good for the game in the long run. A little while later I limp with K3suited and the button raised to 12 and mr. loose calls so I call even though its a really high raise because I wanna play pots with mr. loose. The flop is KJ3. Bingo for me. Mr. loose checks, I check, and the button bets 15. Mr. loose calls and I raise $35 more. They both call. The turn is a 4 and mr. loose check and I bet like $80. Button folds. Mr. loose asks how many chips I got because he cant fold the river if he calls the turn. I have $90 more. He calls. I push the 90 in on the river and he calls with his AK and I win a nice pot. The button who is a normally tight good player told me he called the flop just because he knows how unlucky I am. How sick is that. Im getting action based on my unluck. The other significant hand of the night for me I had KK in early position. I raised a standard amount. I never understand why people with KK or AA open raise for too much preflop. Anyway I get a coupla calls. The Flop is K53 with two diamonds. I bet maybe 35% of the pot. Mr. loose calls. I really dont put him on anything but Im worried about the flush draw for sure. Well the turn is a diamond but its the 5 giving me a house. I bet the same amount hoping he has the flush now. Mr. loose pushes all in. Yahtzee. He had the second nut flush. I dont know how that pot woulda played out had I ever checked or bet more on either street but probably me and mr. loose were gonna get it in anyway. He was steamin from the first big hand anyway. I tried to offer mr. loose some sympathy in the form of lettin ghim know he got unlucky and coolered but he just said "fuck you". If you know mr. loose you know he is joking but really just complaining. I laugh and he gives me the fist bump and all is well and Im tripled up. I played another hour and a half and left at 11 like I told D I would in my text at 5:30. I dont hit and run. I hate that. BUT I will leave at the correct time where as if Im stuck I have a tendency to say fuck it and chase my loses after my self or girl imposed curfew. But I couldnt have done that Monday either way. I had very firm plans. My last hour and a half I played a good many hands and chipped up a little more. Oh there was one other hand that was weird and I dont know what they had but the board was 4422 by the turn and the original better bet $2 into this $15 pot and got called by the intimidator. The guy then checks the river which was a Queen, the intimidator bets $15 and the guy min raises him $15 more. It was a very weird play. The intimidator thinks for a while and fires out $85. The guy folds. I would loved to have seen those hands. I wonder if the intimidator really played a 4 or a 2 that way or if he just picked the guy off. So yippee for me I won. If I would just never play any limit games at the Belle I woulda be having a decent month.
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