25 Oct 08 Poker Recap
This is a repost from my old poker blog. I will be making these available as I don’t want to lose some of those postings. Hopefully you will enjoy these the second time around.This last Saturday I played in a $50 buy-in cash game. I ended up buying in for a total of $80 throughout the night but I walked out with $140 so it was “all good”. The most interesting part about the game was that most of these people play in a bi-weekly game that has a $5 or $10 buy-in so I thought there would be a large amount of “pucker factor” and tighter playing. I could not have been more wrong! The blinds were $0.25 and $0.50. Standard raises were between $2.00 and $3.50. Without exception there was always at least 4 people in to see the flop. It was a lovely game in that regard. Everyone just had to see the flop and they were willing to pay for it. I have never been happier to be in such a game.
The players were awful. A hand in particular caught my attention as an example of how bad the players were:
The button is on Player “X”. Five people limp in. Player “X” makes it $3 to go. As usual most of those that limped called the raise as well. The flop is something like 3-8-A of hearts. Everyone checks to Player “X” who bets $5 (about 1/3 of the pot another regularity at that game). He only gets one caller, Player “A”. The turn is the 10 of hearts (yes four to a flush on board) and Player “A” checks. Player “X” bets $10 (about 1/3 of the pot :rolls eyes:) and Player “A” calls. The river is the 9 of spades and Player “A” checks again. Player “X” bets out $50 and Player “A” goes into “the tank” to think it over. Finally after much pain he says “Well I call but if you have a heart you have me beat” he then flips over A-10 off-suit for 2-pair. Player “X” has an odd expression on his face that says to me he wasn’t even aware that there were 4 to a flush on board. He looks at his cards and flips over 7-9 of diamonds for a middle-pair on the river. Man how I wish I had better cards against these guys!
All-in-all it was an entertaining night. I look forward to many more to come! 
Tags: Hold 'em, Poker, Ring-Game
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