How To Write Off a Weekend

Well this weekend wasn’t much fun. The cash game on Friday night went on continuously till midday on Saturday, and since I’m an old fogie these days I didn’t see much daylight between then and this morning. In fact I’m surprised I made it out of LC at all - I was passed out on the sofa at midday, and Smalls revived me not with smelling salts but by cramming an After Eight into my mouth.

I woke up at 6pm on Saturday, and after making it in front of the TV for 3 hours, I retired again for the night in front of the NFL, then woke at 10am but couldn’t really manage much more than lying like a beached whale for all of Sunday before going back to sleep. I’m glad I used my spare time so constructively :(

The cash game didn’t go well. My outdraw with 42o from Chrismas against Smalls’ Aces has somehow found its way on Youtube (type “1300 outdraw” if you want to see it) and a fair few of the Friday night tournament crowd were watching it when I arrived at Loose Cannon. Thus my reputation is in tatters (deservedly some might say!) and things didn’t improve.

The game was wild indeed, and I was actually thankful to escape with an £800 loss after being in for about 2k at one point. Everyone was playing fairly aggressively, so if you made a hand you invariably got paid off.

Hand1
Can’t remember the betting but final board was TT555. I led for £75 or so, Baron made it £225 and I shoved for £600 odd. Baron calls with quads, and unfortunately I was playing the board. Marvellous.

Hand2
I 3 bet on the button to 6♠8♠ and Ioannis and Smalls come along. Pot about £50.

Flop is a rather encouraging 6, 6, 6 to give me the quads this time.

Ioannis bets £50, I call.

Turn is Ten. Ioannis bets £75, I call. Pot is £250.

River is another low card, and Ioannis checks to me.

My current table image is “village idiot”, so I decide to overbet shove for £550 more on the end with my quads. Ioannis tanks for ages and eventually calls with JJ for the flopped house.

Seeing as I was marginally up after these quads encounters, I’m not sure where the rest of the money went. I imagine a significant proportion was filed under the category “river bluff picked off”. The session was just so long that I can’t really remember many other hands as they have all blended into one.