2 Hands in 2 Hours

Posted by wynn on May 11, 2010 in Buy-in, Table Talk | 2 comments

To continue my “how to play when I am card dead” theme, I played exactly two hands in two hours the other night. Between the two, I was able to double my buy-in and go home. Here is what happened.

I bought in at 8:00 pm for $500. I folded every hand dealt to me until 9:50 pm. Under the gun, I get Q-Jc and raise to $25. I got five callers.

At this point, I could not help but laugh out loud and remind the table that this is my first hand played in nearly two hours and I raised under the gun. I finished off my pre-flop speech with, “I am fuckin’ lovin’ this!” I am trying to represent some kind of big Ace here.

The flop comes Qd-7c-2c. Top pair and flush draw. I bet $50 and get one caller.

The turn is 8h. I fire out $125 into the $225 pot and my opponent, who is a calling station, insta-calls me.

I put him on a flush draw or a better Queen.

My money card hits on the river: the Ace of Spades.

I pause a few moments longer than normal, hoping to project the image of me calculating how much to make the value bet. I am actually praying my opponent folds.

I bet $100 into the $475 pot. To my surprise and delight, my opponent chucks his cards into the muck.

As the subsequent table talk ensues about whether I was holding A-A versus Q-Q versus A-Q, I get moved to the main game.

The time is now 10:00 pm and I sit down to 9-8h, on the button.

After limping in, the small blind makes it $25 to go and gets three callers. Priced in, I call.

My opponent bets $50 on a flop of J-10-6 rainbow. Action folds around to me and I call.

The turn is a Queen. My short-stacked opponent checks. I put him all-in for another $150.

He calls.

“I think you are dead to a King,” I tell him.

“I have Aces,” he says.

“I have the ass-end of the straight. You need a King for the nut straight,” I reply.

The river was a blank.

My opponent left the table. And so did I.

Two hands in two hours doubled my buy-in.