Poker Night

I've come to the conclusion, I suck at talking about our monthly poker night. I don't put the effort into keeping track of the key hands. I really should keep notes, but it's just a friendly home game so I don't think I ever will.

Anyway, last night was a small group, but still fun. Only eight of us total. A few people forgot, a few couldn't make it. And one guy, Mike C, broke his toe, he lives outside of the city so he couldn't drive in for the game.

So it was really a one table sit 'n go. I was getting the cards which is always nice. I was dealt KK three times. AA once and a few other pockets, one of which hit a set after several limpers. It also helped that while I was getting dealt hands, I was getting some decent hits to the flop. Especially since one of our regulars, Chantel, was fairly predictable in her betting. If it was checked to her on the flop, she'd bet. She was pretty consistent on 3-barreling it too. So, with my weak and medium strength hands, I would mix it up with calling down, or leading the flop. And with my strong hands, I would call it down to the river, then check/raise.

It ended up her, myself, Brett and Rob in the final four. The money and points bubble. We played at that stage for a while. I did most of my chipping up here, slowly taking the chips from Chantel. She was the first to go out of the four. I forget how the hand played out, but, later, Brett ended up really short, he had literally seven chips in front of him. Except for blue (which he had one of) that was pretty much only a couple of each denomination.

Then Rob and I get into a big pot. He raises in front of me. I look down and see KK so I think about smooth calling, but decide to reraise. Actually, I had reraised Rob a few times during the tournament and I think he was getting tired of it, so he pushed. I insta-called and he shows AT. Surprisingly, my hand holds and it's down to Brett and I.

First hand HU, Brett goes allin. I look down at KQo and insta-call this too. He shows KT and it doesn't improve. Woohoo!! First league of the year and I take it down and with two kills!

There was a cash game going, but I wasn't in the mood for it. It turned out that Rob and Brett didn't either, so we suggested a $5 buy-in turbo. We would halve the length of the blinds and lower the number of starting chips. Everyone decided to join, so we had another 8 person SnG running.

The game was definitely set up to go fast. Within a couple hands, there was a allin and Mooney was out. The players were dropping like flies. It played almost as fast as a Turbo online. This time the final four were myself, Brett, Rob and Mike H. Almost the same players as last game. I don't remember the specific hands, but Rob goes out first, I then suck out on Mike H and I'm heads up with Brett again.

This time, there's a few more hands. Both of us trying to steal blinds from each other. The final hand came when I had KJs. I raise and Brett goes allin. I immediately call and he flips A7o. We both cross our fingers and watch the cards come. He spikes a 7, but I pull ahead by hitting my J. Then, I think it was Mike H, who says something like, "Well it looks like Nikki has won this again, unless the another 7 comes!" So, as if on cue, the 7 comes and I'm out. Brett just barely had me covered. A second is almost as good as first and it was tons of fun too. I'm definitely looking forward to the next months.