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Yeah I'm playing where you think I'm playing and agree I should be raising more vs straddle + limpers, just my first time playing in a while and not used to seeing it.
Taking a night off, for now anyways. Might change my mind later, just not feeling it atm. Went up again last night (Saturday night) around 11pm after getting home from work at noon and sleeping until 8pm. Games were really good. First table I was at had 4 of the 10 guys drinking beers/mixed drinks and obviously just punting off bb's like they didn't give a fuck.
Couple things that made me lol. 2 of the guys had their gf sitting right behind them. One was pretty good looking, really cute 5'2 110lb blonde with a great ass, the other really trashy looking brunette with a white short skirt on. I'm a sucker for trashy bitches (bikes knows) and this girl was in the perfect spot to keep flashing me upskirt shots. Wouldn't have been surprised if it was on purpose because she eyeballed me every time I looked her way and her boyfriend looked like he was getting ready to go hunting for the yeti. Nice cleavage, meh face.
Anyways, these guys with the girls there would ALWAYS show their gf's their hand when they had something decent. Just the easiest slam dunk read in the world. Unfortunately, extremely card dead and it's 1/2 and both these guys are sitting on less than $140 all night, no need to make crazy plays, especially since I'm playing underrolled. Got a couple spots to value bet that got looked up by god knows what but nothing very exciting.
About 2 hours later, move to a new table as the games are dying since its 2am. Get seated next to this awesome late 30's-early 40's black business dude. This guy is just here relaxing, getting away from wife, etc. Me and him get friendly, turns out he's a Cowboys fan, so I have to crack jokes about the Stafford leap to seal the comeback this year. We get a good laugh and keep talking. I pick up a few decent hands at this table, stack the yeti-hunter who was really just an loose-passive fish PF and an aggro fish once the flop hit. Hit TPTK IP vs him and let him bomb away with his 40bb.
We were 10 handed for the majority of the hour and a half I spent there, unfortunately I got too into talking with the 'Boys fan and literally developed no new reads on anyone. Couple of hands before I decide I'm not paying enough attention and its time to go.
Yeti-hunter straddles with $80ish behind, I'm in MP1 with AJo. I bump it to 20 and another short stack behind me (around $45-50) ships it. Only read I have is this guy hasn't been involved in a hand that I can remember for the last hour, is mid 20's and wearing earbuds. I didn't take the time to look left to see what everyone else was doing but I would be willing to bet with almost 100% certainty this kid already had this chips in hand and was ready to play this pot. If this was the case, I feel like this should be a turbo muck. As played, I have to call like $27 to win $50+ (straddle + limper). Folds to me, I sigh and call. AK. *surprise*
Hand #2, I open QQ UTG+1 to 15 after business guy limps. Folds around to a couple retirees in LP who I'm sitting fairly deep with, $400+ easily. Korea vet OTB flats, yeti-hunter flats in the BB with ~$60.
Flop comes K92r. I check because #1 I don't know shit about retiree, and we're deepish. Turns my hand fairly faceup but #2 I really don't want to see a c/bomb from the short stack aggro fish. It turns my hand faceup, but I'm just in an awkward spot being IP vs the short stack fish and OOP vs the (perceived) nitty bigstack. If i cbet like $30, old man river flats and fish ships it in my face, now I'm being given odds to call, but now I have to play for a dry sidepot vs old man, and will likely have to end up folding later in the hand. This does not seem like a profitable situation to be in.
Turn is a blank, fish checks, I check. (mistake imo) and old man fires $15 into like $45-50. Yeti calls, I call. Started to get a little lost in the hand here I think. Pretty sure if I check turn, it needs to be a c/f, especially if the kid in between calls. HU it might be a different story. I really feel like I need to fire the turn here for ~$25 to get value from smaller PPs, 9x, and gutshots from the fish that probably won't fold.
Anyways, I call, river is like an offsuit 8, nothing important. (I really need to start taking notes of hands in my phone.) Fish and I check to old man, who fires $45 into $70, fish turbomucks. I sit there and hmm and haah. Not really thinking about calling, just trying to take the time to replay the hand in my head and narrow down his range. Seems like the sort that is at the Eagle on a regular basis, so we'll cross paths again.
I don't think he's turning a small PP into a bluff. Guy has been pretty tight since I sat down. I feel like this is KT-AK 100% of the time. Leaning towards KT-KJ since I think he would bet AK almost always on the flop. Checks back because he's an old nit and might think I'm trapping. Once I check it twice, I might as well announce to table I have two black Q's if they are paying attention (I believe he is). Only other hand I believe he can possibly have in his range is 2 of whatever card was on the turn or 88 for the turned or rivered 2 outer. I wait for my bb (one hand later) and rack up and leave.
So his range would be 22, 88, KT-AK. He's not bluffing. From my huge sample size of 10 hours and some foggy memories of the past playing here, the retired guys are rarely firing multi-street bluffs and definitely not into 2 villains, one of whom is very short and spewy. Once I realize this (took me longer than it should I have) I muck and say nh.
Felt like I played ok this session, but made some very avoidable mistakes. There is no reason for me to call $15 on the turn in hand #2. I also could have potentially saved myself from punting off 25bbs in hand #1 with AJo in EP if I slow down and look around the table for half a second. I am a live fish still, these things will come with time. My game is also very rusty, the important thing is I take a hard look at my game afterwards and own up to where I messed up a hand. I will continue to improve. A year from now, I hope to be getting ready to take a trip to either Vegas (bankroll allowing) or AC if I'm a little shorter on cash to play 2/5.
Results:
Bought in for $200, reloaded for $100 early on cashed for $383. Played for maybe 3-4 hours. Really annoyed at myself for losing $60 more than I needed to my last orbit at the table with those final two hands. Glad I decided to leave.
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