On Sunday night I came in to play cash while the final £100 bounty event was going on. We got a game started relatively quickly as the tournament bust-outs were fast and furious after the first few levels.
In an interesting hand I started with a £73 stack. There was a double straddle to £4 on, Murray limps in and I make it £17 with 99. Scott Maxwell goes into the tank then makes it £45 to go (with about £200 behind). Eddie G is in the £2 straddle and cold-calls the £45 (he has about £150 behind). It comes back to me and I ram my £56 more all-in deciding that I’m not raise-folding 99 with this starting stack in a double-straddled pot. The pot is now £173 and it is £28 more for Scott to call. Amazingly, he finds a fold! I think he put Eddie on a trapping monster to be flatting the £45 cold like that out of position. He later said he had 88. Eddie calls and the board comes something like JJ864. I show my 99 and take it. We don’t get to find out what Eddie had.
Quite a bit later I find AKo in early position and open for £7 (there was a single £2 straddle). It folds to Dr Mike in the SB who makes it £14 to go! I have about £130 behind and he has me covered. Eddie calls the £14 from the BB (with about £110 behind I think), the straddle folds and I decide just to flat-call the min-raise, quite happy that I have position on both players for the rest of the hand. The flop comes 345 or 356 (with a two-suit I think but can’t remember exactly). The pot is now £44. Mike checks, Eddie checks and I check. The turn pairs one of the lower cards on the flop. Mike checks (looking like he has given up on the pot) and Eddie bets out £45. I think that Eddie would have bet out on the flop with all his hands that connected with that board and his medium over-pairs so I think he is most likely trying to take this down with nothing thinking that Mike and I are weak. I call his £45 bet and Mike folds. Eddie has about £65 left and I don’t have much more but I fully intend to call any river bet or shove. The river is a blank, it goes check-check and I take it down with ace high. We don’t get to find out what Eddie had.
Nine players at the table were Dundee regulars and the only visitor was a player who’d been there all weekend for the festival. He was a decent player and was obviously a live poker regular. However, the deck smacked him in the face and he had a lot of chips in front of him all night. I couldn’t win a chip from him which was rather annoying as he kept saying “You just never believe me, do you?” when I paid him off. The truth was actually that I kept hitting very good second-best hands against his nuts! He rivered a two-outer house in one hand and the same card gave me a disguised straight so I paid off his £40 river bet there. In another hand I had AA and raised it pre-flop to £7 on his straddle. He called the £5 more and we went to the flop heads up. It came down 742 rainbow. He checked and I bet £10 which he called. The turn was a 2 and the pot was now £35 and he checked to me again. I didn’t think I’d be able to get three streets of value or even two streets from the flop and turn so I decided to check back the turn so I could put out a pot-sized value bet on the river which I hoped he would call. The 2 on the turn was a very good card for me as I thought it might leave him virtually drawing dead. The river came a disgusting 7 and he let out for £35. I know he has a house here but decide to call anyway as I hugely under-represented my hand plus I have to protect my reputation as a donkey calling station. He tables the old 78o, takes it down and I mumble to myself about the lack of justice in the World.
After all these ups and downs I left with a £70 loss. I don’t feel that I played horrendously in this session. However, there were a couple of hands against Dundee regulars where I could have slowed down a bit and saved some money as the signals were there that I was behind and they weren’t folding to further bets. If I was on top form I think I would have minimised my losses particular hands.