Two black pairs
I hosted again on Friday, September 19. I was fairly tired that night, since the three people at aikido that night were me, a shodan, and my sword instructor. We had started out with ryotetori iriminage, but then worked on maki-otoshi as a well-timed counter throw. The landing can be particularly brutal.
Perhaps because of aikido and its after effects, I was mostly in a mood to play passively and then make one large move when I actually had something.
Around the horn it was me, Radar Chris, Biotech, Silly Vanilli, High Level J, Jonboy X, Steamboat, and SEO.
I only had two big hands that night. On the first, a few people limped and I raised to $1.25 with Q♠Q♣ in the SB. Radar Chris raised to $3.50 and everyone else bolted. I called and the flop came 8♦7♣6♣ ($7.50 in the pot, $18.25 left in my stack). I checked, Radar bet $6.00, and I moved all-in for an additional $12.25. Radar tanked, looked at his pot odds (pay $12.25 to win $31.75), tanked some more, and decided to go for it with his A♣K♥. I have to admit that I was surprised to be that far ahead there ($44.00 in the pot, 71.0% equity, dollar equity of $31.24). The turn and river bricked off and I doubled through ($12.76 above expected value).
He wasn't quite getting the pot odds there, but it's not as bad as it looks.
In my other significant pot of the night, I was HJ-1 with 8♠8♣. Jonboy X raised to $1.25 from the BB, and he got a limp/call from me. High Level J check/called from the SB ($3.75 in the pot). The flop came 7♥6♣5♦. J checked, Jonboy bet another $2.50, and we both called ($11.25 in the pot, $30.00 left in my stack). The turn was the 9♦, J checked again, and Jonboy bet another $3.50. I made it $15.00 total, leaving just $15.00 behind, and both of them folded.
No slowplay there was going to fool anybody. Minraising would have insulted their intelligence. Neither of them was going to call.
I finished that night +$20, avoiding most of the craziness that Silly Vanilli brings to the game. Because each of them will call preflop with just about anything, Silly and Biotech tend to play a lot of heads-up pots against each other. It's just fun to watch the donk-on-donk violence.
Perhaps because of aikido and its after effects, I was mostly in a mood to play passively and then make one large move when I actually had something.
Around the horn it was me, Radar Chris, Biotech, Silly Vanilli, High Level J, Jonboy X, Steamboat, and SEO.
I only had two big hands that night. On the first, a few people limped and I raised to $1.25 with Q♠Q♣ in the SB. Radar Chris raised to $3.50 and everyone else bolted. I called and the flop came 8♦7♣6♣ ($7.50 in the pot, $18.25 left in my stack). I checked, Radar bet $6.00, and I moved all-in for an additional $12.25. Radar tanked, looked at his pot odds (pay $12.25 to win $31.75), tanked some more, and decided to go for it with his A♣K♥. I have to admit that I was surprised to be that far ahead there ($44.00 in the pot, 71.0% equity, dollar equity of $31.24). The turn and river bricked off and I doubled through ($12.76 above expected value).
He wasn't quite getting the pot odds there, but it's not as bad as it looks.
In my other significant pot of the night, I was HJ-1 with 8♠8♣. Jonboy X raised to $1.25 from the BB, and he got a limp/call from me. High Level J check/called from the SB ($3.75 in the pot). The flop came 7♥6♣5♦. J checked, Jonboy bet another $2.50, and we both called ($11.25 in the pot, $30.00 left in my stack). The turn was the 9♦, J checked again, and Jonboy bet another $3.50. I made it $15.00 total, leaving just $15.00 behind, and both of them folded.
No slowplay there was going to fool anybody. Minraising would have insulted their intelligence. Neither of them was going to call.
I finished that night +$20, avoiding most of the craziness that Silly Vanilli brings to the game. Because each of them will call preflop with just about anything, Silly and Biotech tend to play a lot of heads-up pots against each other. It's just fun to watch the donk-on-donk violence.