So I went down to Tampa, FL this week with my brother, cousins, and a friend of mine. I only realized when I got there that there was a casino in Tampa that lets 18+ play (until today so I got really lucky).
So I brought my brother and my degenerate gambler friend down there for the 1/2 game. The buy-in cap was kinda shitty at 50BB but whatever.
My brother went broke about 30 minutes into the game, shoving his entire buy-in with his AKs pf and getting called by a drunk A10s and an 88... the A10 caught a 10 and won a 250+ dollar pot lol.
my friend was up to around $360 making a huge river call with 77 on a board of 3 6 8 J 8 against a 44's AI at the river. Plus, he's so pathologically aggressive that he pretty much bluffed out almost every other hand after the pocket 7s all the way up to $360. Eventually though, he got caught bluffing against pocket Kings and lost about $160 in one hand. His last hand was a bad beat against pocket 10s that rivered a set against his KK.. the money did go in on a blank flop.
I was playing abnormally tight since it was my first trip to the tables, but I did try to make some strong positional plays with suited connectors, pps, and Axs+. One interesting hand went like this...
I open mid/late with A2hh for 4xBB and get one caller from the BB. The board is all low cards, all black, so when he checks, I opt to forego the cbet and check behind him. The turn comes another black king and the guy checks again. I feel like it's time to make my move so I bet out for $10, about half the pot, which he calls. Now, at the river I get my ace, but interestingly enough, the guy leads this time with $24 dollars! The flop was all low cards, so at best the guy had a pair of kings here. I don't think a two pair is in his range because I've been playing really really tight and he's no donk so I figure he would have folded his Ace-rags pf anyway. He checked the flop AND turn so a set seemed unlikely. He certainly was not THAT bad of a player I thought. Following the same logic, I figured that an AK would have bet out at the turn, and it was doubtful that he would call the turn with A9-AQ so I decided to just go ahead and call. I show my ace-rag and he mucked. I think he had like J10s hoping I would fold my pair of kings to the scary ace. It was a really quick move by him on the river so it threw me off for a minute but I ended up making the right call eventually.
But I threw out about 80 dollars a few hands later playing my AK TPTK against a set of Queens. The board was Q x K rainbow. He checks, I bet, he raises all in for wayy over the pot and I call. I should have paused for a moment considering a possible set or KQ, but I blindly called the raise and got owned. The TPTK vs. set dilemma has been the bane of my online play at 10NL, and it just decided to follow me allll the way over here to FL... meh.
The third fun hand of the table came when a young but experienced player limped in UTG in the dark. He was on some kind of a ridiculous run, esp. after he lost his flop set of 7s to a set of Qs, which improved to a four of a kind. So he was on a semi-tilt or something I guess. I was SB and I saw like five people limping in before me so I limped in with 98o. The flop came 8 9 6 rainbow and I immediately bet out at the pot amount. Amazingly enough, my gambler friend sitting on the BB re-popped me. He's extremely aggressive, so his hand ranged from at least a top pair to a straight. Considering the strength of my hand, I would definitely go broke against him with my hand. It didn't end there, however, as my decision was made a hell of a lot more difficult when the UTG reraised all in for ~60 dollars. I tanked for a couple of minutes before I made the biggest laydown of the night. My buddy proceeded to call with his bottom two and the UTG showed 5 7, giving him a flopped straight (surprise!). Rounders, anyone?
Another interesting hand, and the one that put me in the neg for the entire session was played against a fish who was sitting on a huge stack. I was BB with Q8o and five people limped in, including the douchebag on the button. BTW, he had just won a hand in which he called a 7x BB pf raise with K2s and hit a two pair, plus he played an ace rag hand so aggressively that my respect for his play was pretty much in the gutter. Anyways, back to the hand... the flop came 10 Q 3 rainbow and I checked, planning to fold to anyone except the donk, who by no surprise bet out from the button. I decided to raise him for 2.5 times his bet, after which he asked for my chip count like he was the shit. I had about 95 dollars left in my stack and he pushed me all in. ugh. As disgusting as this situation was, and as stupid as he was, I couldn't think of a satisfactory reason to call, since he could very well have a pair of Queens-higher kicker, Q10, or even a set of 3s, so I muttered "another day", folded, and gave up a pot of about a 100 dollars right there. In restrospect, I'm about 90% sure it was the right fold...
Sadly, I didn't get a chance to play the donk again except for a hand in which I flopped a royal flush draw with my Q10ss on a Js Ks x board from the BB. I was oop but it was the best hand I had seen in a long time so I thought it would be prudent to bet out, representing a Jx Kx two pair. The kid who tried to bluff out my ace pair from one of the earlier hands called, and the donk followed suit. The turned bricked out on me, but I couldn't slow down on such a pretty hand so I bet out 2.5x the flop bet amount. The guy next to me thought for like three minutes before he folded his pair of kings (lol!) and the donk silently folded (meh). I liked the guy who folded since we were both laughing at the fish together so I showed him the beauty of a hand that made him fold and the dealer, seeing this, made me show my hand to the whole table. I got a sigh of disgust from the kid, who asked to see the river card. The dealer peeked at it and announced that it was actually a club, so no flush for me. But then he went on to say that it was a nine, which would have given me the straight, not that it matters to a person who's trying to be as least results-oriented as possible  . The kid said I would have eventually sucked out on him, but I argued that it wouldn't have been a true suckout because I was the aggressor. If I had made a laughable call and still won, that would be a suckout in my book.
After about 20 more ragged hands, I found myself dozing off at the table. At this point I had been playing for about 8 hours, straight through the night. At around 7 am I finally decided to leave, down but not without hope.
I ended up down 50 dollars, my brother lost his 100, and the degen lost 260.. lol
It's a price I'd gladly pay for a night of entertainment like this, but hopefully never twice  .
I learned one important lesson though... don't overtip. heh.
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