After staying up until 7am watching Season 3 of Nip/Tuck (which I highly recommend, by the way), I sleep in until late afternoon and make my way over to Crown for a cash session since there are no tournaments on today (it’s 1b of the $550 event i’ve already busted from).

I find myself at a fairly soft table. The first time I get involved is with an effective stack of ~$190 at 2/3NL. Villain is an incompetent player who continues with way too many hands postflop.

Dealt to SwoopAE: 3d 3s

One limper, I make it $10 from MP, four players call.

Flop: 8d Th 3h

Cool.

Checked to me, I bet $25, CO calls, everyone else folds.

Turn: 7h

I feel villain is very light here even though he coldcalled with several players to act behind and since he should have me on air, I check with the intention of checkraising all in since he very rarely has a flush draw and should be betting most of his range if I check. Also, if he bets it should be half of my stack so by checkshoving i’m getting paid by any pair and any draw. Leading is probably also fine here. Anyway…. villain checks behind. Well then. That plan didn’t work.

River: 6h

Oh now why would you do that to me… wait, I did it to myself. I check and villain checks his cards then bets $25. Well, i’m not good here very often but I call anyway since i’m getting over 4-1. Villain tables Ad Qh and I feel really stupid for not betting the turn. To be fair, I expected him to bet hands like that when I checked the turn.

After the hand, villain says he put me on AK which is why he called on the flop. I’m not sure whether he called to chase his 3 outs against AK or to bluff me on the turn, although since he didn’t bluff the turn when I checked, i’m pretty sure he’s just a retard. I probably have bet the turn though, I had my read on villain a little off since I expected him to bet single heart hands on the turn if I checked.

Anyway, I then manage to get my last $140 or so all in three way on the flop with AA against AQ and QT on a Q63 board. Unfortunately, the board runs out 6Q and I get stacked as the villains catch one of their few outs to chop my money.

I rebuy and build my stack up to $400 when I flop a set of eights againt a guy who turns two pair to stack him. I get three streets from a straight draw that becomes a straight on the turn then get two streets with a set of tens a few hours later.

I get involved in another amusing hand when a drunk, loud, young guy who doesn’t seem to understand the game and raises every hand elects to raise to $25 by throwing out a single $25 chip without announcing it. The call stands. He’s been doing this with hands like Q9. I find Ad Kc so I figure i’ll raise to $15 and give him a chance to make a mistake and repop me. Three players call behind me and then villain asks if he can raise and then says he wants to raise to $25. Ship it. He has approximately $230 in front of him, I cover easily. I repop to $165 and villain elects to (??) call with $70 behind.

Flop: Ac 2d 4s

Villain checks and I elect to check behind since I basically have the nuts now and villain is bad enough to fold if I bet here. I want that last $70.

Turn: 9s

Villain checks again, which is unexpected because he’s very aggressive. Anyway, I can’t give him another card so I bet $75 and he folds. LOL, Donkaments. Well, Cashgameaments at least.

I find myself sitting above $700 so i’m up a buyin and a half now. It’s close to 3am and I get involved in one last hand.

Incompetent guy from the previous hand (who has rebought and has ~$190, SB has ~$280, BB has ~$700) limps in, I find Ah Kh and raise to $15, BTN calls, SB calls, BB calls. Again, incompetent guy minreraises to $25. Cool. I decide that none of the players behind me are capable of flatting AA or KK so I simply move my $700 into the middle since villain’s range is like the top half of hands AND he’s calling.

BTN folds.
SB goes into the tank. What? SB eventually announces call. I guess it’s AQ or TT-JJ then?
BB goes into the tank. What the fuck? She’s over 200BB deep! She eventually folds and the incompetent guy announces call.

The board runs out JTT97 and I know i’m pretty screwed but i’ll get a sidepot if SB has AQ. SB shows QQ. What? Okay then. Incompetent guy shows KTo to more than triple up to over $600 as SB rakes in the $150 or so in the sidepot.

[x] Lost a flip for 3BI

I’m down to $430 and I play around to my button, set mining unsuccessfully once and hitting middle pair once and firing then checkfolding a bad turn. I cash out $401, for a profit of $1 and wander over to hand out with Michelle who has turned up at Crown at 3am after a night of drinking and a guy whose name I can’t recall. I get KFC and then wander back to the hostel to watch some TV.

By the numbers

Tournaments: $0
Cash Games: +$1

Ship it, I made a dollar. That’s like 14c/hr. Ballin!