Sorry, wanted to give a more detailed report yesterday afternoon but the wife and I went out for the night and I didn’t have time…
It was a wild game, pretty close to the dream set-up... two players who simply refuse to fold preflop and would call just about any CB were to might right and had pretty decent stacks when I sat down. They would call down on pretty much any draw and if they got even a small piece of the board they were in until the showdown, they were so predictable and since I had position on them I could play nearly perfect against them. Add that on top of the fact that I got hit in the face with the deck over the ~2 hour period and it makes for some serious fun
Early on I had pocket 2s and pocket 3s, flopped a set on each, one turned into a boat to and the other held up for some nice sized pots. Also flopped the nut straight on one hand and got paid off. Then with AA in the BB, I took down another nice pot.
Biggest pot of the afternoon was when I held the Kiss of Death
UTG and raise it to $12 (standard) get 2 callers and then the BB raises it to $50 (this is one of the loose guys to my right, at the time I probably have a stack just over $350 and his stack is probably around $320). I decide he could be doing this with a fairly wide range so I shove, he nearly instacalls which makes me think, 'crap, he's got aces.' But he flips A
K
and the board winds-up having nothing buy harmless low cards with no
.
Also, took in another nice pot near the end of the session when 7
8
made a flush on the turn and I got paid off by someone holding middle pair... priceless.
Anyway, if you guys think the 50BB buy-in is wack, how about this... they just started running a $2/$5 NL game with a max buy-in of $100!!
Sick, but these gamblers down there just love it. I'll stick to the $2/$2 game and while the 50BB set-up is obviously not optimal, these players are such pay-off monkeys that it just doesn't matter.