Life in the low limits

It’s been a while since I’ve last updated, but I’ve been busy with some work and actually playing some poker, but in the absence, I had a couple good live cash results and almost saw a fight go down at a poker table.

I’m sure everybody wants to hear about the potential violence, so we can go over that first.  In my typical 1/2 no limit game at the card room across the Hudson, there was one hell of a slowroll. I’ll save the painstaking details of the action, but 4 people took a flop with one person all in preflop for $60.  With a flop of K J 6 with two clubs, the remaining three people got it all in making the total of the main pot and the remaining side pots  approximately $800.  After the turn and the river were dealt, the player who was all in preflop for $60 mucked his hand and said that he had Q high.  Another 10 seconds go by and a hand still isn’t shown.  One of the player finally gets fed up with it and turns up QJ, which is good for second pair, and something that I didn’t think was good enough to take down the pot.

A solid 25-30 seconds go by with people  starting to yell at the two other players to show their cards if they can win.  Finally, one of the players turns up his cards and shows a set of 6s and the other calmly turns over AK.  The player with QJ begins to go bizzerk, and rightly so.  He begins to yell at the man telling him that “that was the rudest thing you could ever do at the poker table and you’re lucky I don’t hit you with this chair.”  I can’t say that I blame the guy as I had never seen anybody slow roll somebody that badly.  The slow roll combined with the massive size of the pot would leave any player angered.  The player that had QJ immediately stood up and said that he was leaving and was never going to play with that player again.

I just don’t understand for the life of me why people feel it is appropriate to slow roll.  You are giving the other player false hope that they have the winning hand.  There are many unwritten rules when it comes to etiquette at the table and slow rolling has to be at the top of the list.  In essence, there isn’t much else to the story besides that this poor guy got awfully slow rolled, but after all of the players left, everybody at the table agreed that if he had taken a swing at the other guy, nobody would have stopped him (partly because he is so big) because the other guy definitely would have deserved the bloody nose.

As far as my own poker happenings, I was able to put in three separate live sessions, while I got in one session where I got to multi table some sit and goes.  The night of the slow roll, nothing really happened for me and I ended up losing ten bucks.

The next day, I decided to take the day and go to Mohegan Sun to put in an all day session at their 1/2 no limit game.  I had a good day and made $350 on the day.  Here are some of the highlights for me.

I have $450ish in front and limp with TT from second position after an under the gun limper, who was pretty tight.  We take a seven handed flop and it came 8 5 3 with two clubs.  I bet out $15 and get called by a super fish and a tight guy who had limped behind.  The T of spades falls on the turn and I check and the super fish bets $20 and is called by the tight guy.  I check raise to $100 straight and the fish folds and the tight guy moves in for $250 or so.  I snap call and hold against his set of 3s.  Felt good to be on the good side of the frosty deck.

After four limpers, a late position, aggressive player opens the pot to $12, which he had done with a wide range.  I look down at 3 3 and decide to take a flop, and all of the limpers follow suit.  Flop was 2 4 9 with 2 hearts and I checked.  It was checked around to the raiser who bet $20.  I had been paying enough attention to realize that with his big pairs, he bets closer to full pot size bets, and decided that he could not call a check raise, and I made it $70 total.  One of the limpers thinks and folds, later claiming he folded tens and that he was going to check raise the flop himself and then he got into a tricky situation.  The preflop raiser ended up folding after a minute of thinking and I take a relatively nice pot cause of a good read.

I didn’t get involved in too many big hands other than the set over set hand.  I lost a couple flips against short stacks with about $100 and was able to pick up some pots with continuation bets.  I got a fair amount of value out of AK in one hand when I just completed the small blind after six limpers and check called three streets for value on a board of Ah Jh 6h 4s Jc, which was about a $250 pot.

I also played a long live session Friday night and made $375 in a 1/2 no limit game at the card room across the Hudson (Which from here on out in my blog I will refer to as “the club” just so I do not have to continue to distinguish where I am playing).  I busted out of the $175 tourney so my profit on the night was only $200.  There were very few interesting hands as I was able to crack AA with KQ and somehow found a way to get paid on a board of Q 3 Q K 7 board after I check raised the turn and led a full pot sized bet on the river.  I also made a flush against a set and check raised the river when i made the wheel on a board of 4 5 Q K A.  When the player bet the river, I thought he had rivered aces up and would not be able to put me on a hand with a river check raise.

Hopefully I will be able to put in some more hours online but I’ve been very busy with both lives games and work lately and will most likely be able to put in a session online later tonight.

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