Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Hit the Trop NL500 again on Saturday, good session

Was cloudy at the beach on Sat morning, so drove down to the Trop for some NL yesterday. 3 hands that were semi-interesting, one I'd love to hear thoughts on.

Hand 1, 8 limpers in pot, I limp with 92h. Yeah, probably a bad move.Flop comes t92o. Nice flop. EP bets 15 MP calls, I raise to 35. EP who is a tight rock quickly flods, MP reraises me all-in for his last $133.What do you do here?I thought, called the Asian kid, he flips QJo for the pure semibluff raise with outs.Turn J river J. Ouch.

A hand that got misplayed by both players, imho.Mp limps in, 3 limpers, button raises to 30, button is fairly decent, MP reraises to 60 with KhKd. button just calls with AQo.Flop comes A53o. MP checks, button bets $60. MP thinks, calls. Turn is the Ten of hearts.MP bets all-in, has button covered, button has about $252 left. Good or bad bet?
Button goes into tank for about 5 minutes, asks for another minute, thinks for another 3 minutes, plays with his chips and stars down the MP. Just staring and playing with chips, finally talks himself into calling. River is harmless and he rakes large pot. Who played that worse?

Final big hand. Tight EP raiser again raises to 20, 7, count em, 7 callers. Including me of course, on the button with AhTc.Flop comes QhJh4h. EP raiser bets $130 into $127 pot. MP calls. I re-raise all-in for last $380 or so with nut flush and straight draw, figure I'm about 50% equity. [good, bad, ugly?]
I have EP outchipped and MP as well.EP has like $300 left and calls as he is basically priced in. MP folds his set of 4s face up. EP flips QJd for top two pair.Turn is a 7c.River is the Ks. The lovely, lovely Ks.I sucked out, but I think EP did not play this well, leading into like 7 people with a flush on the board.
Anyway, I won two more hands where I got called down with top set by one of the players who beat me above, and a set of 5s on another hand for nice wins. Finished up about $850 in less than 4 hours. Helps after the horrendous cards I've been getting there this year.

criticism and glad-handing is welcome.