So the £2/5 never happened. We had a £1/2/4/8/16 for a bit until the Dealer's Choice game opened up, then we had a really nitty £1/2 game. I wanted to help liven things up a bit, but I was so incredibly card dead all night and it's hard to get that momentum going without at least a few cards, 'cause you have to win some of those pots else they just start bluffing you or putting the cape on. Eventually found the
and that was more than enough to start shovelling with. UTG+1 makes it £15 with the straddle on, I make it £50 playing another £300 behind, now Mitch flats and the original raiser moves in for £300 or so. I promise I thought about folding for a bit, but figured I was flipping with the guy to my right and Mitch just loves to overcall, I mean he can have aces and kings here but he can also have 97s. Anyway I put it in and so does Mitch. The flop is
and everyone looks like they just lost the pot. Turn was a
and the river bricks. The original raiser shows
for jacks full and scoops the £1k pot, Mitch did indeed have aces and takes the rest. That was worth waiting for.
I started picking up hands that flop well and getting stuck in, but I wasn't flopping so well! Just felt good to get my brain out of the muck for a bit. At this point, the cap is off, everyone is starting to gamble a little bit, I'm warmed up but I'm stuck £700 and I'm only sat with £450. I decide now is the time to top up another £300 and start getting busy. I immediately get dealt
and open her up for £15, we go four ways to a flop of
. I know, flop a set on an ace high board with a flush draw there, run better right? I bet £40 on the flop and the straddle checkraises me to £110. I think for a while and make it £225 hoping to get him to go crackers with his flush draws and call with his Ax hands so I can happily jam the turn. He mashes it in right away, I call and the turn and river brick to get me exactly even.
Moved to the £2/2 dealers choice game where we had a lot of fun gambling, but didn't win so many pots! Had a 6 hi-lo pot where it's been 3bet pre (they're gambling in this establishment, call the floor) and we've called the hijack with AKJ234 with two suits. The flop is K Q T rainbow, we pot get it in against the same hand but he backdoors a flush, sigh. There was a PLO hand where called the cutoff with 8765 d/s and flopped a wrap and a flush draw on Ah
, and lost to the bare second nut flush draw. Got some redemption in a superstud pot where three of us make the nut 7 low, but I paired my 4 which was good enough for the other half of the pot! I'm not sure how mathematically unlikely that is, but it felt a little bit dirty to be honest! I pot and pat three streets in padooki with the nut 5 flush and hold against two players, one of whom was all in on the first change, the other guy folded the river and we held for a nice pot, to end up a small loser for the game.
The DC broke, but Rob's £5/5 game was still going, so in a small corner of the club they're still playing a £1/1 texas game at 5am. I sat down and immediately got to peeling. Called a small raise with the
, flopped trips on
. The original raiser pots it for £15, the other player calls, I make it £50, original raiser ships it for £180, other player folds and I call immediately. A spade lands on the river and I sheepishly turn my hand over. Must have been aces. The guy goes like this, "I thought you had moves, but you just play shit. How do you even win money at this game?" Might make that my signature actually... Jack Allen called me "waxy." Still don't know if that's a compliment or not. Finished the night by losing a £200 pot with KK on 7 3 2, where the guy declares it's time to go home and moves it in with the 65, and unfortunately doesn't go home when he pings the 4 on the river. Ended up even in the this game too.
Ten grueling hours of poker, lost a couple hundred, but had a fun night. I've been left feeling unsatisfied lately, be I a winner or a loser, my mood just hasn't changed, I've just been stuck in this lonely position of neutral. The night before this I lost £300 and was a little irked by it, and immediately smiled at the wonder that is feeling something.
I left as a loser for the day feeling absolutely on top of the world.
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