TL;DR - I took some flu drug before going to a poker room with my buddy and somehow got a heater lololol
There are a couple things that I don't like about my state:
1. no online poker
2. live poker has no NL (only spread limit, although big casinos do something like $2/$5-$500 spread limit, which kinda feels like NL)
3. there is an admission to go to strip clubs and you cannot buy alcohol there (although dancers can be bottom-less :O)
But anyway, so my buddy Tao likes to play poker. He is more of the gambler type, but recently he said he started to read some tournament books and wanted to try it out. More importantly, he just quit today for another job in Calif. and this is his last weekend here. Despite the fact that I had been sneezing all day and didn't feel too well (left work at around 2pm because I didn't wanna just sneeze in the office and somehow get everyone sick), I decided to go with him and play a $50 small tourney (4-5 tables MTT) because that is the only NLHE you can get. Before I go I took a pill of this flu drug I got from China, and it is called Contac NT in English (picture in spoiler).
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At about 6pm, we arrived at this poker room we usually go to. Interesting to see there are a bunch of holdem cash games running (usually there is only one game going because tournament starts at 7pm), and when we asked to join the tournament we found that it is the poker room's 6th anniversary and there was only cash game for the week with awesome high hand bonuses and whatnot. With only $50 in my wallet hoping to play a tournament, I was like, dang it but let's do it. Went to ATM and got $300 and sat down at a $1/$3-$20 spread limit holdem game.
If you haven't played these kinds of low spread limit poker before, it feels like a shit show. You don't really want to bluff much because you can't raise enough to get people out of the pot. $20 raise? ez pz call. by the time we get to turn/river, it is just like a $5/$10 limit game where you just do $20 big bets lololol. I didn't have much success prior to this, breakeven at best. But today I sat down at this juicy juicy table. Oh boy, this guy with a sick mustache is a real drooler with sick luck. He would get in with some A2s and got trips on the turn, and he pretty much turned the game into a $10/$20 limit game preflop. Fun times! From 6-9pm my whole table was just juicy. My cards were pretty good as well, flop went to my way quite a bit when I opened/called in preflop. My buddy Tao and I took a couple of huge pots vs the mustache drooler guy and I was up about $200 by that point, while Tao was up $300. (he has tighten up a bit and applied what he read into the game which I think it is a big step for him haha). chip counts in spoiler:
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Around 8:30pm I felt a very weird high, didn't do anything but staying hydrated with water and getting some Chinese food by the table. My body felt warm and I was a little bit dizzy, but still pretty concentrated still. I put my hood up and just sat there folding hands, waiting for another big pot to come. At the same time I was just enjoying myself, chit-chatting with people around me, etc. but the droolers started to leave one by one, and more and more grinders started to join the table. Had an interesting hand with this big nerdy dude, he called my EP AQss open with pocket pair and made a set on the flop. I had one spade and two overcards on the flop so I decided to c/c, but bricked turn so I decided to give up. He was suddenly all excited and was like 'good fold buddy'. I was like, 'well sure'. About maybe an hour later, he opened from MP and with 2 callers, and I decided to 3bet squeeze with AKo. He called 3 streets and was like "woah I have never seen people 3bet AKo before, I thought you didn't have the ace man". I lol'ed. I was so into arranging my chips at one point in time for some reason. chip counts in spoiler:
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The high was still going on, and my hands were going strong. But I started to play small because of the table is full of grinders now. Taking down a couple of small pots here and there, but the weird high started making me feel sick, so I decided to stop playing at around 10:30pm. Cashed out with $777. Didn't try to make that number, just kinda happened haha. Then I was just waiting for Tao to finish his game (he was my ride because I am a cheap-ass). He moved to another table because he recognized some fish he wanted to catch. At the end of the night he was up about $200. Not a bad day at all. final chip counts in spoiler:
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When I got back home, this weird high is still going strong, so I decided to look up the drug I took, and realized that it was pseudo LOL. Apparently the drug is an upper and I was playing my A game because of it, while I thought I was sick and playing my C game and got insanely lucky :O (or maybe a bit of both because I am fish). Fun night! 8/10 will do it again (without the drug next time LOL)
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