Description: I played a lot during this week as my work is shut down over the holidays. I’ll only describe 1 hand because it was my first royal.
I was at the cardroom in Ventura at the 4/8 table in seat 3, seat 4 had been killing the table and was in lots of hands. Seat 8 was in lots of hands but calling down with some rather weak holdings (sometimes getting lucky and picking off a bluff, sometimes getting taken for value bets that he frequently called). A kill was in effect (making this hand 8/16 rather than 4/8) because seat 4 just won his 5th hand in a row (yes, that’s right – 4 straights and 1 flush). I had ~$75 and looked down at AQ hearts and popped it to $16, 4 called the $8 more from his kill button and seat 8 called $12 from the BB. Flop was a very nice Kh, Jh, Tc for a flopped straight and royal flush draw. 8 bets out $8 and we both called, the turn was the Th giving me a royal and a heart-rate of ~200 beats-per-minute. 8 bets $16, I called and 4 popped it to $32, we both called. River is a blank (I wasn’t really watching at this point, I’m just thinking how can I get the most money into the pot) – and 8 bets $16, I considered raising my last $4 all-in ($20 total) but figure that 4 would call the $16, but I just might lose him if I came out of the woods and raised, even just $4… So I call, as does 4. 4 shows the 4h 2h for a baby flush, and 8 had AQo for a flopped straight. I showed the royal and scooped a nice $200+ pot.
Bottom Line: The poker drawer started the week at $500, but ended at $1000 – pretty cool.
Lessons: Like the week in Vegas, there were too many lessons this week to list – some learned the hard way, some reinforced from previous encounters. My main lesson was to continue doing what I could to protect my vulnerable hands, usually via check-raising – as there always seemed to be someone who would raise when I checked it (I would go on rolls where I would increase my check-raising frequency so people didn’t know if I was checking weak or checking to raise).
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