Well, I’ve got to record the big hand for posterity. I won my biggest NL pot and had my biggest night ever (NL anyway) on Sunday. Here’s how it went down:
$2-5 NL; I’m sitting on about $2,000.
65 offsuit; middle position. (I know. It makes it that much sweeter.)
5 players see the flop: 532
SB bets $25, BB raises to $50, I call, button calls, SB calls. Pot: $225.
Turn (532): 5
I figure this a card that could easily get me in trouble. Anyone calling with top pair is now getting ready to turn me upside down and shake me like a money tree.
SB now checks, BB bets $75, I call anyway because I'm terrible :), button calls. SB folds. Pot: $550. I figure I need my straight to win.
River (5325): 6. Or a full house.
BB bets $175, I raise to $350. Button makes it $800. Woa. I did not see that coming. But Mikey like. BB folds immediately.
Dealer pulls in my $350, leaving $450 to call. I really don’t have him on a hand at this point, but I know I’m winning. Or at least I’ve concluded that if he has 66 I’ll have a good bad beat story to torture my friends with.
I finally decide to bet $1,000; I’m pretty sure he’s going to call whatever I bet. I might have gotten an all-in call ($1,500 or so) but I don’t want to push my luck. So I pick up my stack of blacks and start doling out $1,000 in stacks of $300.
$300, $600, (MAN this is fun) $900 ... then I don’t know if I wanted to round out the stacks or it was just that much fun betting black like I was back playing 3-6 raising to $12, but the next thing I knew I’m thinking “fuck it, bet all $1,200.” So I did. He thinks for a minute and calls.
I don’t know what he had; he said he flopped the nut straight. If he did, he slowplayed himself straight into oblivion. Not that we all haven’t done that about 1,000 times.
I had to get up and walk around to stop the impending stroke. You should have seen this pot. Debbie was there and said it was the biggest pot she'd ever seen.
It didn't suck at all.
P.S. You know what he said?
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3 comments:
Yup, the buttom screwed up by not raising the BB raise after the flop. Like you said, we all do it. But the good thing is he never put you on a boat. Good for you!!
Thanks for the Edward Norton link, it was awesome!!
Sadly, I didn't get to play any hold'em this weekend. After the people came over the decided to play some drinking games of dealers choice. Bastards. =)
THAT'S a great reason not to slow play! that and there's a chance if you slow
play, your pot never gets built, and you cant really pound the river when you
still have the nuts, cuz the pots only got $100 in it!
About $3100 in the middle... nicely done. Good thing you found a sucker to pay you off with just the straight.... I would have been putting someone on a flopped set or at least turning trips... would have never made that call (or the initial raise to $800). Sounds like there are a few nits in this game you play... hehe.
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