alwayssplitaces
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I was playing 1/2 NL this evening. Bought in for $150 and sat for hours winning and losing some. I doubled up going all-in one hand to get about $400, then covered an all-in to increase my stack to about $700. It was a loose, wild game with a standard opening raise between $15 and $25 and frequent all-ins with marginal hands and lots of blind raises (like a straddle except without the option to raise if checked to).
So, here's the big hand, I get pocket aces in mid position and raise $25 preflop. My stack was a little over 700. Get 3 callers, and one person right before me reraises me to $75. I reraise to $150. I know that player was a donk who had gotten lucky 3 times to build up a big stack: (once bluffed $50 with Q-J with queen high, no pairs and no draws, hit a queen on the river. Then he had aces vs kings and went all in and won. Then he had A-Q and someone else had pocket queens. There was an A and Q on the flop, so both went all in. The river was an ace.)
The $25 limpers folded. The $75 raiser calls. Flop is A-J-4 offsuit. I get checked to, then bet $15 to slowplay my set, and get raised to $80. I figured he was bluffing and wanted to extract value from the bluff. I reraise to $160, low enough to not discourage a call. To my surprise, he pushed all in, and I snap-called the all-in. Turn is a 6 and river is the last ace. He flipped over pocket jacks and I flipped over my quad aces and won the $1100+ pot! I only bought in for $150 and so I made about $1300 in one night of poker! I was hoping the bad beat jackpot would hit, I was one jack away from hitting it (one of the players said that they had that jack and folded it preflop).
Karma must have rewarded me for my charity last week with this huge pot! Last Saturday I did a Relay For Life event, and a neighborhood cleanup both in the same day and was exhausted at the end of the day. Variance was definitely on my side today. I was lucky to be in the hand with a donk who couldn't realize he was beat considering all the raising. Another player at the table said after the hand that he knew I had aces at the flop. I like how I trapped him in the hand, forcing him to push all in because he had so much already invested in the pot.
This is definitely more exciting to me than winning 5 max bets in a row in blackjack, probably because I've been playing blackjack so long I don't feel any emotions about each hand. The table was happy for me to bust out the lucky donk who sucked out on 3 people. I had to get 3 chip racks to hold my money. And it was nice for once to have casino security escort me to my car after a big win, instead of being kicked out by security.
So, here's the big hand, I get pocket aces in mid position and raise $25 preflop. My stack was a little over 700. Get 3 callers, and one person right before me reraises me to $75. I reraise to $150. I know that player was a donk who had gotten lucky 3 times to build up a big stack: (once bluffed $50 with Q-J with queen high, no pairs and no draws, hit a queen on the river. Then he had aces vs kings and went all in and won. Then he had A-Q and someone else had pocket queens. There was an A and Q on the flop, so both went all in. The river was an ace.)
The $25 limpers folded. The $75 raiser calls. Flop is A-J-4 offsuit. I get checked to, then bet $15 to slowplay my set, and get raised to $80. I figured he was bluffing and wanted to extract value from the bluff. I reraise to $160, low enough to not discourage a call. To my surprise, he pushed all in, and I snap-called the all-in. Turn is a 6 and river is the last ace. He flipped over pocket jacks and I flipped over my quad aces and won the $1100+ pot! I only bought in for $150 and so I made about $1300 in one night of poker! I was hoping the bad beat jackpot would hit, I was one jack away from hitting it (one of the players said that they had that jack and folded it preflop).
Karma must have rewarded me for my charity last week with this huge pot! Last Saturday I did a Relay For Life event, and a neighborhood cleanup both in the same day and was exhausted at the end of the day. Variance was definitely on my side today. I was lucky to be in the hand with a donk who couldn't realize he was beat considering all the raising. Another player at the table said after the hand that he knew I had aces at the flop. I like how I trapped him in the hand, forcing him to push all in because he had so much already invested in the pot.
This is definitely more exciting to me than winning 5 max bets in a row in blackjack, probably because I've been playing blackjack so long I don't feel any emotions about each hand. The table was happy for me to bust out the lucky donk who sucked out on 3 people. I had to get 3 chip racks to hold my money. And it was nice for once to have casino security escort me to my car after a big win, instead of being kicked out by security.
