Fun little pot in cash last night, made all the sweeter as I had a side bet with Adam 'MiniTFOP' Reynolds.
The bet was £20 on whether I could sit down at the cash table and double my buyin (£120) within one hour. It all came down to one hand.
I was starving, and my brain wasn't working correctly as it had been starved of sustinance, which led to me bluffing my chips off. Whatever ever ever leads me to believe that I have the image to make people fold top pair I just don't know... ah well. It's like they cling on for dear life, shut their eyes tightly and try their best not to think at all about the hand, just in case they end up realising they're beat. Not that i'm bitter about it. There's an old saying that goes something like 'never bluff a player who may not be of the highest standard'.
Anyway, I was playing cash. I won a few early pots to push my £120 to £200ish, raised a lot, so had a lovely loose image with which to play tight with. Ish.
So finally my food comes, and i'm feeling top of the world. I limp blind UTG+1for £2 with
, and the gentleman sitting next to me does the same. There are 2 more limpers, and then the button pops it to £12. Knowing full well no-one will be folding, I snap call [FISH], as do 3 others.
Flop
. I lead for £32. Gentleman in mid position (generally v.tight) pops it to £90. Original Raiser snap shoves for about £115, and I slide all of my big chips over the line, leaving around 20-25 behind in £1's. At this point, I realise that the gent who raised to £90 isn't actually all in, and has about £90 behind. Now starts some controversy. The man with £90 behind makes a case to the dealer that I shouldn't be allowed to raise, as the OR's shove was an underraise. I dispute this, believing that as I opened the betting, I have every right to reraise. The other issue is that I didn't put all my chips in, and a ruling was required to see whether I was allowed to go all-in or not.
As my raise was more than 50% of the original £90 raise and I was the original raiser, it was ruled that I was allowed to raise, and that raise had to be all in.
As this theatre was unfolding, I distinctly heard the man with £90 behind mutted "I've got a flush...." Now as you can imagine, this was not what I wanted to hear; no-one could have a lower flush than me! As I am sitting quietly, wondering how i'm going to make £120 profit when I'm about to lose my stack, the gentleman informs me that he's not worried about my hand, but that he thinks that the OR has a higher flush, as he pushed all in so fast. Now this didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, as if he was convinced he was beating me, he wouldn't have been risking any more of his money vs the OR, but I'm wasn't feeling in the mood to inform him of this.
Eventually, he folds
face up. OR had JJ for a set, and the board ran out
to send me the £400ish pot.
I run good.
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