Had a really boring session on the 2/5 the other night. It was only ever going to be a spin until we hit a wall. Hit a wall earlier than expected but it was nice to get 8 hours in before dropping back down for another 1,000 or so.
Never got anything going really. Had aces once where I opened the cutoff, got a call from the small blind and Simon the limper peeled and we went three ways to the flop of
. When Simon bets flop I should really know he has a set, but I peel because I think the small blind is going to raise here as a bluff a huge percentage of the time. He squeezed and Simon called pretty quickly so I binned it. Small blind instamucked at showdown.
Here's one, though. Alex described it as "a nice pot," but basically a number of things had to occur for him to win this pot; let's start from the beginning. The hand previous I flopped top two against Rich on
. I know I was going to get three streets from most of his range, so we bet the
turn and the
river, where he instantly moved in for another 70% or so. So event #1 was it had to not come this exact board run out, otherwise I call and I'm good and have a ton of money in front of me, or I call and he had me crushed off the flop and I have no money in front of me. So I'm sat with £480, about the only stack within 10% I go broke with here. Alex opens to £20, I 3bet Ah
to £65 and he peels. Here's where events #2-4 occur. I has to nail my hand, his hand and come a two-tone board for him to get the lot, but it's Alex and nothing is impossible.
gets the job done. The three paired on the turn so we had some outs, but it was not to be.
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Then I got Mitch'd when I stuck it in pre with KK against TT with a £175 overlay, and he pinged a tenball on the river. Not played with him for a while so I forgot about his incredible ability to make sets in giant pots. Nevermind. I'll grind it all back incredibly slowly at 50/1 tonight at Gala.
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