I went straight after work and signed up on the 100 NL and 200 NL games. I sat down at the 100 NL that was available first and booked an incredible $4 win in about 7 minutes. Basically when I was in the small blind, five people called and I raised it to $20 and everyone folded.
Right after that I noticed there was no longer a list for the 200 NL game. I talked to the floorman and he gave me the option of two different tables. At one table, I didn't recognize any of the players. At the other table, I recognized almost half the players and I know they are good players, so I took my chances at the table where I didn't know anyone.
Things started off somewhat slow and I grinded my way to about $600 after dropping to about $150. Then a guy showed up who was apparently ridiculously drunk. He asked "Is this No Limit?" and "what are the blinds?" etc. I honestly thought it was an act because he was so blatant about not knowing anything. He was also betting the horses and won four straight horse raises for I think over 3k (not sure). Anyways, this guy started to raise EVERY single hand pre-flop. I hit a couple big pots against him right away. One time I was in the big blind with Ks8s and he raised to $40 per his standard raise. Everyone else folded and I called. The flop came King high and he continued to bet huge. I called him down all the way to the river and he had middle pair. I tried to play almost every pot with him that I could, which meant calling his $60 raise with Ah2h, hitting the ace and calling him all the way down. The best part about it was my table really had no idea how to play against him. He was raising huge raises every hand and they wouldn't call him if they didn't have AK, JJ or better. I was making it a point to get him head's up so I could get a read on him after the flop and then make my decisions. There was also one guy, we'll call him "rasta" that was trying to play a lot of pots with the drunk. Everyone else on the table was playing pretty tight.
One big pot that put me over the 1.5k mark went as follows:
I'm on the button with 5s3s.
Drunk raises to $35 from middle position.
Rasta calls drunk for $35.
I call for $35.
Big blind calls for $35.
USC baseball guy raises to $100.
Drunk insta-calls $100.
"Rasta" calls $100.
I call $100.
Big blind reluctantly calls $100 now that the pot is so big.
Flop: KQT
Everyone checks to me. I think someone may be slow-playing a straight or a set so I check. There is only one spade on the flop so I've pretty much given up on this pot unless a spade hits the turn.
Turn: Kh
Big blind acts like he's counting his chips out and I say "Just push them all in there" and he checks.
Everyone else quickly checks.
At this point I feel that there isn't anyone who has anything except for USC baseball player that raised. I have him on JJ because he was checking so quickly. Either JJ, 99 or KK possibly for quads. He only has $100 left so I go all-in, knowing that he is the only threat to call me. Big blind folds, USC baseball player thinks for a couple minutes and mucks his hand. Drunk and Rasta both fold also.
I showed the 5-3, in retrospect I wish I didn't show but I guess I was just pumped to get away with it. I also think it made it so people called me down later.
I took a quick show after that hand, just to illustrate the blog.
After that things just got better. I thought about leaving up $1500 and going out but at this point the drunk guy had busted three people and had about $1500 in front of him as well. He called an all-in with 9-6 and beat A-Q when his 9 hit. He also caught AA on someone else who went all-in on him with K-10. He made two pairs with K-7 when the K hit the river and another player had aces. I knew that money was going to someone so I wanted to stay.
I ended up taking him out repeatedly and got into a huge pot with him when I had KK.
I raised to $100. Flop comes Q-10-4, he checks. I check, hoping he'll catch something. Turn is a rag. He checks and I bet $50. He raises to $195 and I re-raise to $400 and he folds.
I had KK on him twice and made good money on both pots.
It was a good night and I left around 2:30 a.m. after he left. The table basically broke 10 minutes after the drunk left.
Summary: 7.5 hours (7:00 pm - 2:30 am), +$3020 (first table +$4, second table +$3016)
Friday:
100 No Limit: +4
200NL: +3016
Overall: +3020
Hourly: +402.67/Hr.
To date:
4/8 Limit: +201
6/12 Limit: +170
40 NL: -60
100 NL: +265
200 NL: +7423
Overall: +7999
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