Casino Arizona Poker Room Continued Post

     Back home and it’s later, around 10:30pm, and I get the feeling it’s going to be a good night to hit the $5-$150 hold’em spread game at the local casino. So it’s kisses all around and off I go.  I’m not letting the days bad run effect me, I have full confidence I’m going to come out a winner. I even tell my wife on the way out that I think I’m going to win $500 tonight.

     I get to the casino and get on the list, 2nd name from the top, but I don’t have to wait long. the table has the usual maniacs and a couple unknowns. There is a lot of money on the table and one of my favorites has most it (we shall call him Mr. T and he has what looks to be $2,600+) Mr. T is very aggressive and is raising every pot. It is throwing off some of the non regulars but I’m used to it and better yet I can tell when he’s got it or bluffing.

     Right off the bat I get involved in several hands but must lay them down. In one hand I had Jack, seven of diamonds on the button and call a small raise along with six others in the hand. The flop comes seemingly perfect with seven, four, two and two diamonds, so I got top pair and a decent flush draw with position on everyone. Well everyone else must like it too because they go crazy with betting and raising. I may have the best hand now, I don’t know, and a nice draw but I’ve got a bad feeling and lay it down without putting anymore in the pot.  Mr. T makes a straight, nobody believes he has anything and he gets paid off with a huge pot and best of all I didn’t let myself get trapped in the hand and lose a lot of money.

     Now I’m down a bit but I’m still feeling good. I win a couple pots, with pocket Jacks no less (made a set) and squeezed as much as I could out of the players. I got nervous in one hand when one of the tighter players kept calling my big bets (I was on a Queen high flush draw and trying to win the pot without a show down) and I really couldn’t figure out what he had but he seemed determined to stick with it. My flush didn’t appear but I hit my six kicker for a pair, bottom pair but a pair no less. I can feel he wants to bet after I check on the river but thankfully he can’t pull the trigger and I take down a healthy pot. The guy told me he had an Ace high flush draw, no pair. (Glad that spade didn’t come). Another hand I have pocket two’s in my hand and call a raise in late position (come on deuce I pray). Bam! right on the flop, Ace , eight, two… beautiful. There is two to a flush so I raise Mr. O to try and narrow it down to heads up. We end up getting all his  money in when he makes two pair on the river (Aces and Kings) and I take down a six hundred plus dollar pot. Mr. O is a restaurant owner and doesn’t seem to care much about money, he bought everyone breakfast soon after that hand.

     I call some big bluffs from Mr. T and make some really good value bets and now I am the big chip holder at the table. I play till about 5:30am miss a flush draw and decide it was a good time to cash out my $1,200 and book a bad ass win.

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5. Showed No Mercy at No Limit Hold’em Shootout

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