Tom has bought in for £100 and managed a ridiculously quick spin up. He is sat on about ~350 for this hand.
£1/2 Sheffield
Tom is in the straddle, I open to 14 with QQ, and get 3 flats, then Tom tanks says "This is my first mistake tonight" and peels. It felt like a 100% tanking the 3bet. T33 rainbow. 2 checks and I decide to check because the guy behind is a massive whale, he had £700 when I started and has randomly smashed various amounts of stacks in and got folds and got there etc. I felt he might open jam a ten here (weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee) and I wasn't too scared about many turns. So I knuckle and we see a
turn, completing the rainbow. This is then checked to me, I bet £36, get a foldx2 and a call from a weaker player, who was active preflop and didn't really like to fold. He would rarely valuebet unless checked to twice. Tom then calls behind. The river is an
and the first guy checks, TA leads for £137 fairly quickly. I am fairly sure the river lead was a plan for him from the turn. I am fairly confident the guy behind has a T/J and is not calling/raising or doing anything other than folding if I called behind. TA looks relatively comfortable. I am not sure if he has the same reads as me, he joined the game a touch later.
Hand 2: I am playing around ~950 at this point. TA has seen me build up from ~350. He is playing £563.
Weaker player from hand 1s river limps playing £500, TA limps behind, aggressive strange player makes it £14 playing ~400, I flat QdTd from the SB, fold, TA peels.
Flop:
(pot:43)
Checks around
Turn:
I lead for £26, TA makes it £79 extremely quickly with 3x pony and 4x £1s, fold, I elect to call.
River:
I check after ~4-5s and TA ships even quicker for £470.
On the river he did not move all his chips forward, like he expected a quick fold. His heart rate did not seem noticeably higher than before and he seemed fairly relaxed until I said I block a few hands. TA has shown he isn't afraid to limp behind, and came to play, but this was a perfectly acceptable table to do so on. I haven't seen any of his hands that have shown down after a limp I don't think. I tanked for a long time and tried to get something out of him. At one point he showed the dealer one of his cards, and the dealer seemed somewhat surprised. The dealer kept looking at the
. He wouldn't make eye contact. I have very little idea how TA perceives me as a player, someone who would make a light call here, or someone who is adequately rolled etc etc. As an aside, calling and losing wouldn't affect my hourly expectations (ev wise obv) for the session in my opinion, I felt very good and the table was good. I would have reloaded to cover certain players if they had a vast amount more than me, so any minor considerations like that can be overlooked. This was the first time we played live. He had joked about playing a £1k pot earlier in the night with another player, and spoke back a touch during the hand. Fwiw, the guy next to me has peered over and seen the
, and I have no idea if he showed anything in his face which would make TA think I have a weak hand.
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