Huge comeback - story about my latests live session
It's 4 am here and I just got back from a 12 hour live poker session, I'm in a very good mood cause of how the session ended, being down to only $500 in chips and turning it into a winning session, so I felt like sharing the story. Maybe it'll be a good read, maybe it will be interesting and maybe it'll be boring, but I will have fun writing it anyways so I don't really care, and gotta brag now and then after all :D
Ok, it's the 5-5-10 NL game that I have been playing in for a while, it's a $20 to limp game, wich can be killed so it's $40 to limp. I have 5k with me to the casino, first putting 3k at the table and after loosing some pots, I rebuy and get up to 3.6k. Then comes my first big hand.
7 handed.
UTG raises to $40.
Folded to who calls the $40.
I reraise to $160 from SB.
2 calls pot is $480.
KT3 2 diamonds.
I bet out $400
UTG moves ALL IN. He has $2,200 more chips.
Every time he's done stuff like this before that I've seen it has been draws, so I make the call.
River: KT359 rainbow.
Results in white:
UTG wins JQs for straight.
I show AKo.
I'm down to like 1.2k in ships, wich is kinda shorstacked in this game, since it's basically a 10/20 NL game, I get moved to a 9 handed table and I really tighten up, since playing tight works well with small blinds. I loose some pots and stay around $600 in chips for an hour or so, kinda feels like a tourney cause I don't have more cash with me and I can't get more unless I travel home wich takes too long time. I push hands now and then to steal limpers chips, and then eventually I get called and double up when I have AA.
Same stuff happens again, I don't hit the flops when I raise and my continuation bets gets called, and I also loose a lot of chips when I raise a flush draw in position and the other player goes all in on a blank turn and I can't call. Then I get in a hand where UTG raises to $60, 2 callers, and I push $550 from BB with 99, UTG calls with AJo and I double up again. I was staying shortstacked for hours, and I was pretty certain I'd bust sooner or later, but fortunately that didn't happen.
Next doubleup I raise with KQs in MP3 to $60, both blinds call, and I bet out $180 on a flop of Q94 with 2 clubs, 1 caller, 1 push turn and he calls with a flush draw for some reason, and I get up to 2k in chips. Ok, now I'm bored of writing, so I'll just post some more hands and go to bed, I thought the hands was pretty interesting.
We're now down to 5 handed game, stacks are:
Button: LAGG $13k
CO: Loose passive $3k
MP: Me $2k
SB: TAGG $3.5k
BB: Loose fish $1k
I raise to $60 with A9s
CO, Button and SB calls.
Flop: A53 rainbow.
I bet $200
Only LAGG calls
Turn: A536
I check
LAGG bets $360
I make the call.
River: A5367 rainbow
I check.
LAGG pushes
I fold.
Think it was the correct laydown, but I'm not sure, LAGG is very loose and aggressive. A while later after I get some chips back this hand comes up.
CO: LAGG $13k
MP: Loose passive $3k
BB:: Me $2k
Button: TAGG $3.5k
SB Loose fish $1k
LAGG kills it in the CO. (Makes it $40 to go and him acting last preflop)
Button calls $40
SB calls $40
I call $40 with ATclubs.
LAGG makes it $240 - he's doing that a LOT.
Button calls
SB calls
I call.
FLOP is 89J - 2 clubs
I check
LAGG bets $560
I got all in, he calls with KK and I double up when I river my staright, lucky me, but we're like 50/50 anyways.
I start really running well after this, it gets down to 3 handed and I win a pretty big pot vs. the Lagg with top 2 pair, so I get up to $6000 in chips, then this hand comes up, wich is pretty much the last hand for the evening, and it's the biggest call I've made so far in poker.
Button: LAGG: $10,000
SB: Me: $6,000
BB:Loose passive $3,000
LAGG raises to $40 as usual.
I call with JJ. - I don't reraise cause I have not reraised OOP before, and don't want to make it easy for him to put me on a hand, as well as I would prefer not playing a huge pot OOP:
BB call.
FLOP is 368 - 2 spades.
I lead out with $80.
LAGG quickly reraises to $280.
I make the call.
TURN is 3693 - 2 spades and 2 diamonds though. POT: $700
I check
LAGG bets $600
I make the call.
RIVER 36936 - None of the flushdraws hit. POT: $2,100
I check
LAGG bets $2,000
I take a lot of time, and finally make the call, he says good call and mucks his hand.
I dunno what you think of this hand, I kinda like it though, I don't think playing like this vs a aggressive player I know will try to push me off hands is a bad idea. He's a very good player, probably the biggest winner in the game. Playing deepstacked with a very aggressive player is real hard, especially OOP, it's something I'm working on getting better at, input on this or general comments about the hands appriciated.
Next hand he busts the other stack getting all in and hitting a set, and I decided playing HU vs. him would be a bad idea, so I go to cash out $9,300, turning a probable $5,000 loss into a $4,300 profit. Would be cool hearing other live game stories, comments or whatever.
