5/T At The Sun
As I mentioned, this session below capped of an amazing month where I was lucky enough to go 10/10 winning sessions, had my best month, and my best $ session, not in terms of BB, just straight $ won. Ran super hot, but the game was so above average up until just about the last 45 minutes. Blessed to be in this position, it’s been a hell of a year so far. First 5 figure month, which I never expected to accomplish as a rec player. Just have the chills writing this to be honest. It’s humbling to think back to years ago in my college days when I was grinding 6 tables of 5 cent 10 cent, to now playing 100 times as big.
Some hands below.
Our session got off to an interesting start when a tighter recreational player who is prone to making mistakes post flop, but is quite selective preflop opens to 50 UTG. (Standard open size for the table and him has been 35-40). It folds to us on the BTN and we find A
Q
and decide to call.
We go heads up and the flop comes Q
4
2
. Villain decides quickly on a potsized bet, wagering 105. As Jamie Gold once said - WE HAVE TOP TOP, and while alarm bells are going off we can’t fold now, and we call. The turn is the 2
and villain does not stop there. This time he wagers 210, and we call. The river is the 7
and he goes with 400 this time. We decide to give up to the triple barrel. Villain shows us his hand, but we,lol save that for later as I’d like to hear thoughts on this.
In the next interesting hand we find 3
3
on the button. We see a limp from a recreational in EP and then an ISO from a good reg to 45 that we have tons of history with. I know his game and he is hoping to iso a weaker player here, and he could be wider than usual. We call OTB and the limper comes along as well.
The flop comes 8
5
6
and it checks to us. I don’t see much meet in betting here so I decide to check back. The turn brings a very interesting 2
the limper leads out for 85, and the good reg calls. Now this brings up and interesting spot. I thing calling and folding are both not terrible here, probably would fold before calling, but there is a 3rd option as well. I don’t expect the recreational to have too many strong hands here, and I know the reg I have history with should be raising most of his value hands against this opponent. I also know the rec is not a fan of playing but pots with marginal hands, and is playing this stake for one of his first times. Anyways, for those reasons and the fact that we ain’t no nit, we make it 305 to go. As expected the limper folds and it’s onto the rec. one thing I considered but did not factor in enough is what my hand looks like to v2. I know that he knows my value range is so thin here with this line, and he makes the call.
The river decides to save me, and brings the 4
giving me the second straight. I would have most likely taken a showdown here without that card, but it did come and he wager 405. He thinks for a short while and tosses in the call, and we’re good. The only credible hand I can put him on knowing his game in this spot as played is 98s. But we’ll never know.
Later on in the session, one of the spots at the table limps in EP (playing 90/5), and it folds to us in the CO and we make it 45 to go with A
9
Only he calls and we go to a flop of J
9
2
he checks and I check it back expecting to be ahead most of the time. Hes pretty tilted, he ran up 500 —> 3k at 2/5 earlier with me and has since given it all back at 5/T. He leads out as I expected him to do a lot of the time for 100 on a J
turn. We have an easy call and we see a 7
river. He surely has heart, and wagers 300, but we have two hearts (in our hand) and make the call, and are good.
About 4 hours into our session an Instagram pro sits down in the game and gets in the mix. The game has gone from a 6/3 rec/grinder ratio when it started to a 4/5, which for a 5/T game in my experience isn’t too bad. The game was still above average. Anyways, insta gets involved after a decent reg opens to 40 from UTG, we flat with 8
8
and he also calls from the CO. We see a flop 3 way of 8
5
Q
. UTG checks and we bet 50. Instagram calls and the original raiser folds. We go to a lovely 5
turn, and ramp up the sizing to 175. He calls again and we see a 9
river. This time we go for the gold, and wager 525. He thinks for a bit and calls again, and mucks. Chalk one up to team 2+2.
In our final hand of the day, as the game has gotten significantly worse and it’s just about time to leave we decide to get into the mix in the BB with T
7
after a good reg opens the BTN (he’s literally opening 90% of hands here I’m sure a villain from hand 2) We make a speculative, very loose call and go to a flop of T
6
3
. We check and he goes quite large, 70. We of course call and we see a turn of Q
. This time he goes 200 after we check to him, and we call again. The river is the 5
and this time we check again, and he hits us with a 600 wager.
As I mentioned we have a ton of history... and I think it’s a close spot. Thoughts?
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