Day 2 summary: coin flips, Michael Bolton, playing big pots open-faced, and luckboxing.
I spent the first couple hours of day two folding hand after hand. Then I finally got 1010, which I raised preflop, got two callers, hit a set on the flop and got one street of value from one caller. Then I raised utg with 99, which was 3bet, then shoved, so I folded.
Then came the game changer. Matt Salsberg was at my table with a short stack and hadn't played a hand in about an hour. He raised in the CO in what looked like an effort to steal the blinds to 2.5bb, then I 3b in the SB to 7bb with AKxx. And then the BB shoved ~25bb. Salsberg folded and I had to decide whether to call off 3/4 of my stack. I made the call, the SB turned over QQ and I lost the race. After that I was crippled and ended up shoving A3, and called by 1010 which held (after I hit two pair on flop and watched a 10 fall on the river).
So I'm out. Looking back, I guess I could have folded AK and preserved my chips, since Salsberg likely folded one of my outs, and the BB's range has to be JJ+ given the dynamic, but IDK. Regardless, it was a great time.
As I was walking out of the tournament room towards the cash games, I ran across this ad. No.
The cash game was fun. The following insanity went down right after I sat down.
There was a very drunk guy at my 2-5 table who was giving away chips chasing hands. Completely spewing. And then this hand happened: he called a preflop raise, and accidentally flipped over his hand of 22. The SB reraised and drunk guy called and said he'd play his hand face up. OK. Flop comes Q high. SB bets, drunk guy shoves 550. SB hesitates, sheepishly shrugs and says "ok, I call I guess. I have a queen", and board runs out and the Q holds. The SB said he hesitated because the guy has been running hot and hitting hands and he was worried about a 2 hitting. After that hand, drunk guy put down $50 to hold his seat, but never sat back down. Staff took his chips and we found his phone under the table.
Here's a (bad) pic of the guy as he was getting up to leave:
The table slowed down considerably until a couple new players sat down and helped drive the action. Then came the big one.
Eff stacks are ~$1400ish. UTG (a whale-ish type who spewed trying to bluff several times) raised 15. EP called, I called with 24dd, MP raised 175 (a middle-aged local/regular who had been playing tight). Table went silent since that's the least likely move we expected from him. Then it started... HJ called, button called, utg called, EP folded. It's on me.
I know I should fold, but we all knew the guy had AA and I'm getting some pretty good odds to call. So I find a way to justify it and call. We go to the flop with a ~$880 pot. Yes, a nearly $1k preflop pot in 2-5.
Just before the dealer spread the cards, I heard angels singing, and then saw the glorious 2h2x8h flop!!!
UTG checks. Knowing my image was aggressive, someone who is capable of pushing draws, I went for it right away and bet $790. Again came a dramatic, silent pause from the table. And then MP shoved!
All else folded. I turned over my cards, but MP didn't show. Board ran out and hit the third heart. But then MP mucks and my hand is good.
Damn, poker's easy when you're lucky. Amirite?
As if the table hadn't seen enough crazy action, we had another open-faced large-pot clash.
There were two players at the table who were friends and playing against one another when possible, with a bit of soft play mixed in, with player A nearly always getting the best of player B. The hand was very confusing, but I've reconstructed it to my best memory.
Eff stacks about $700ish. I didn't see preflop/flop action, but on 66710 turn, player A bet, B raised, A reraised. And then it went weird.
Player B just said "snap!" and turned her cards over, showing 89 for the straight, and put them over the line. The dealer mucked her cards and the table yelled "woah!" and the girl yelled at the dealer, saying she said called, saying that "snap" equals "call", and the dealer gave her back her cards which were easily identified on top. The floor came over and heard what happened and let things stand. Nobody objected at the table.
The river card didn't change anything. Player A - who could see that Player B had a straight - pulled out about $700 in bills that were behind his cup holder (but clearly visible), and put her all in, and said "any money you push across that line is mine", basically letting everyone know he had a FH (A & B had both, in previous hands, warned the other when heads up if they had the other beaten). She looked surprised and pissed, made a slight push forward of her stack (but never crossing the line), and said something like "fine, you can have all my money" and got up and left the table, with everyone yelling at her to come back. Chaos ensued. Did she call? She never said call, and the casino uses the table line rule (which they enforced strictly the day before, in a pot I was in). We needed a ruling.
The floor manager said that because she made a shoving motion and said you could have my chips, that it's a call. Her friend, Player A, was very cool about it and explained to the floor that she probably was just embarrassed, might not have seen his bills, and that she never said call or crossed the betting line. If strictly enforcing their own rules, I didn't see how the floor could rule against her, but they did and said she "definitely" meant to call. But there was nothing definite about what happened.
I don't know about yall, but I see people do all kinds of stuff that makes the "look" like they're doing something, but until they actually act, it's not binding. For example, how many times do we see people initially start to shove their stack, only to jokingly fold? I know the floor had to make a ruling, and would be criticized regardless of their decision, but I probably would have gone the other way.
After that, the action players left the table, so I decided to pack up. Here's a little CP for ya:
Last edited by Naxetami; 08-03-2015 at 11:43 AM.
Reason: changed Eff stacks in hand with 24