Splash

I played a couple of hours of last night’s cash game at Loose Cannon in my underpants. At about 11 o’clock, I unfortunately spazzed out and spilt an entire pint in my lap, giving me a dilemma of whether to go home or play pantless. My table mates were delighted that I selected option 2.

I played fairly solid last night, ending with a little under £300 of profit. This was a fairly pleasing result, as the line up was tough last night, although the Baron put in a sub par performance, seemingly resting on his laurels after his majestic series of thumping wins across town at the Empire.

I’m also fairly sure I’m going to pop over to Vegas for a few days in a couple of weeks. I seem to be playing quite well at the moment, so have decided to play The Venetian Deep Stack Main Event. This $2500 tournament offers a 20k starting stack with 90 minute blinds…great structure (although I don’t know what the blind jumps are like). Hopefully I will put up a better show than when I played the same event in 2008, and spent the whole of level 2 vomiting in the gents after a night out on the wine with the Volcano.

Anyhow - a few hands from last night - I start with £150 and blinds are £1/£2:

Hand 1
Action preflop, but I play my button with QT. Flop arrives 2 3 T and I check raise the Baron all in. He talks himself into calling with 66 and I hold.

Hand2
I hold KJ9 in Irish and the flop brings KK6. Fluke pots and I call. I discard my 9. Turn is a Queen. Check, Check. River is 8. Fluke shoves all in for about £80 which is the size of the pot. I’m getting 2-1 but I can’t think of many Fluke Irish starting hands that I can beat. KTT perhaps. Anyhow I call and get shown KQ.

Hand3
I 3 bet QQ preflop to £20 - Nemo and the Baron call. Flop is Q, 6, 3 and I manage to get my whole stack in against Baron and hold for a nice pot.

Hand4
Omaha - I hold 2457cc on a flop of 3 4 6 double club board, giving me the nuts + club redraw. I pot and Fluke calls. Turn is Jack of hearts changing nothing. I pot again and Fluke makes an excellent laydown of 66xx for flopped top set. Fluke played strongly last night and took away over a grand I believe.

Hand5
Shazbo has a short stack and I put her all in with 4♠5♠ on a low board with two spades. She snaps with a set of ducks, but I runner, runner straight for the win

Hand6
I call 3 barrels of Dev action with KT on an A T X X X board with three diamonds. 2nd pair is good to stack him - I just had a feeling I was good there.