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Friday, March 5, 2010

Crazy Swings at the Venetian/Big 1/2 Hand

Played about 5 hours of cash in the 1/2 NHLE game at Venetian yesterday. Ended up meeting some fellow AVPers, Grange 95 and Poker Grump who were at my table. Good guys to play with.

For the day I ended up .33 of a buy in ($300) after being down 1.8 buy ins. Ran AK into Aces twice early and finished off my first buy in when I pushed with AK on K -7-5 flop, into a guy who had pocket 5's, quickly had to rebuy. Go stick my ATM card into the kiosk and all the screens start flashing and it breaks, at that point didn't think it was going to be my day.

Was down another 1/2 buy in with a stack of roughly $180 when the following hand occurred. I was in MP and looked at QQ, popped it to $13 and both the button and BB called. Flop was 9-10-J, (2 clubs) Big Blind makes it 125 to go, I push for my remaining $165 or so , button calls and BB dumped his remaining $40 or so in. We are three to the turn pot of $560 or so, big blind and myself all in.

BB turns over 78 for the made straight, Button turns over two clubs for the flush draw. Turn is a blank and I am down to 3 kings or 3 eights, plus need to dodge clubs. River is a beautiful K diamonds and I scoop. Its about time that I actually river someone instead of being the one who is rivered.