Midweek Flurry
After keeping my head low for the first half of the year, this week saw a veritable flurry of activity on the poker front, as I managed to play Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Monday was an online HA cash session at $0.5/1 and I gave Baron and the Nits a trouncing in a virtual home game, leaving with a stack of $700. To be fair, I ran very good, and hit flops left and right and its hard not to win when that is happening.
Tuesday I had dinner booked at Gaucho, but with two hours to kill I sat down in the Empire 1/2 cash game with the plan of sitting with £150 and playing tight. However, it soon became apparent that the table was fairly passive pre-flop, so seeing cheap flops was the order of the day when possible, and betting out when flopping a big hand. I walked away £200 in profit, which paid for great steak at Gaucho, wine and taxi home.
Wednesday I attended a SNG night organised by Ioannis. There were only 6 of us playing, but the turbo structure made it a fun event. I won the first game, with a fair bit of luck in a key hand.
With 3 of us left, UTG raised to 300 and SB made it 1050. The SB had been doing this a lot, so I decided this was a good spot to shove for 4200 with my . Unfortunately for me, the initial raiser had AK and obviously called, but I managed to pull a flush out of the bag to eliminate him. I then went on to grind out the win heads up.
The second game saw me eliminated in the 3rd level, when I ran 99 into JJ. Maybe a bit wreckless, but with only 3k starting stack I don’t think you can get away from much once you have 3 bet.
The cash game was short handed, due to the non arrival of some players and I lost a little over £100 so no damage done. I hadn’t seen a premium hand all night when this happened:
£1/£1 blinds so I straddled to £5. Ioannis super straddled to £10. Luke, Hass and Dev all called. I STUPIDLY called dark even though I am last to act as the Ioannis straddle is not live.
Flop is TT4
Checked around
Dev bets £15 on the blank turn. I check my cards and find KK. I call. Everyone else folds and then Dev bets tiny again on the river. It looks much like a Ten being milked but I call more out of frustration than anything else and luckily my hand is good.