I have one story from last nights game that is too good not to post somewhere. I don’t have pics of the hands, as my head is always on other stuff. I can never remember to take more than a pic or two. Anyway, it helped lead to this is a significant way. Here’s the story.
First we are running the 7/2 game for $10/player bounty. We are also playing the race car game, so when you win a pot, you get a car, token, whatever. You pick up a second hand in a row, another race car. On the third car, each player pays an extra $10. If you win a 4th, it’s $50/player. The $50 has not been paid many times. In fact, only once until my story. Here’s the 4 hands…
It’s late and we are down to six handed, which helps in the race car game for sure. It’s $1/2, but we are all pretty deep at this point. There’s a straddle every single hand, sometimes more than one, so it plays more like a $5/10 game after midnight.
First hand I get dealt 7/2o UTG. There’s a button straddle to $5 and BB raises to $15. I reraise to $50. Cutoff calls, Button calls, BB calls closing the action. Flop 8
, 9
, 2
, so I pick up a pair of 2s. With a back door straight draw. Checks to me, with $205 in the pot, I jam and have the table covered. Next biggest stack is around $2,500. Folds around and I show 7/2. $10 each, and my first race car.
Second hand I get 6,7o in MP. Same story, button straddle and utg raises to $15. I smooth call and we end up 5 to the flop. Flop is 7,7,2. I slow play it and manage to get a couple guys with over pairs to duke it out and raise the pot to around $700, before I raise on the river and scare them off. That’s ok. Nice pot and my second car.
Third hand I get dealt 7/2
in the cutoff. I just limp to the customary $15 raise. Two spades come on the flop. It checks to me and I bet $100. Everyone folds to the main villain left in the hand and the table notices my two cars and points out he needs to defend them. So, he calls. Next card hits my flush. Unfortunately, this villain is short stacked to like $200 and the pot is about the same. So, I put him all in. He had top pair (Queens) with an ace kicker, but obviously losses to my flush. I take down a decent pot, stack an opponent, collect $10 from each player for the race car game and another $10 for the 7/2.
4th hand I’m on the button. The villain from the previous hand has bought back in for $500. The other players each have $1,500+. I look down at 10/7o. Shockingly, no one has straddled and no one raises. Everyone has limped for $2 and they are openly discussing making sure I don’t win the next hand. I raise to $50. 3 call. So we are 4 way to the flop, which is now $200. Flop comes 10
, 5
, 2
. Checks around to me and I jam. I wanted it to look like I was simply trying to buy the hand for the $50. Everyone is convinced that’s what’s happening, but one by one, they decide they’d rather pay me $50, than get stacked if they’re wrong. So, they fold to the previous villain who has $450 left of his recent rebuy. He’s wanting to fold desperately. The table is cheering for him to call. I say “why in the hell would I possibly over bet a $200 pot with a couple thousand dollar raise? I’m obviously full of shit and just trying to buy the pot, but you don’t have the stones to call, so it’ll work. No way do I think this will be effective. He has to know I hit something with my horrible acting. For some reason, my story made sense and he calls. He had nothing and my pair of 10s held. I take his $450, the $200 from the pot and another $50 from each player, including the dude I just stacked for the second time in ten minutes, who had to borrow the $50 from one of the other guys.
. I told him he could walk on the $50, even have his call back, as I shouldn’t have opened my mouth. But, he was a great sport and just bummed another $500 from a buddy and kept playing.
Wild 4 hands that couldn’t have worked out better if I wrote the script.
My friend Misha started referring to me as the final boss every time he was forced to fold the rest of the night. He’d say, someone else’s turn to take a crack at the final boss.
Anyway, had to share. Thanks for playing along.
