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mandatory straddle 2010-06-01 - 12:57 a.m. A swingy day. When I first sat down, I quickly doubled up by flopping a set of tens against a guy who was happy to stack off with AQ -- top pair, top kicker -- in a pot that started out five-handed for $20 each. The board was QT4 and he was in an early position, while I was in the hijack, where I just sat down after claiming my rights to the seat change button. So there's $100 pot, and he bets another $100 at it, and as I just started with my usual $350 buy-in, I stand amazed. Can I really get this lucky? "Interesting bet on that board," I say. "I guess I'm all in." He calls, and I have $700 in front just like that. The game was pretty wild and got wilder, eventually evolving from a 2/5 NL game to a 2/5/10 NL game. I said sweetly that I didn't wanna straddle, and the boys offered to chip in and pay for my $10 straddle each time, so how could I object to that? I think I made some good plays and some good player dependent reads, but I really only won one huge pot that I shouldn't have won, thanks to a tilting player stacking off with KT on a KJ6 board when I held KJ. We got it all in on the flop, and the dealer turned first a 7 and then another J. Go me. If I'd won one more huge pot, I'd be ahead for the day instead of behind, but oh well. I got a dinner comp for Noodles, ate at the bar, came back and played some more, at a table where I got my head beat in constantly. If I picked up pocket queens and got it all in, the other guy had pocket aces or kings. Yeah, like that. For some reason the featured hand of the day is actually a "small ball" hand. I was trying to watch for situations where they just couldn't "have it" on the river. For example, I caught the drunk to my immediate right in a river bluff, and he whimpered pitifully, "That's the first time I bluffed all day." "I know, I was trying to think if I'd ever seen you show down a bluff, but..." What could I say? I just didn't believe the guy had the hand he represented, and I had a good enough bluff-catcher to take the pot. But the hand I scribbled down for today's enjoyment is this one: I have $305 in front of me, and I pick up K ♠ Q ♣ in middle position. This isn't a hand I'm enthusiastic about, but I'll take a look at a cheap flop with it. I won't be calling any pre-flop raises. 5 players. $25 pot. Flop: 8 ♠ 4 ♠ 3 ♣ I'm somewhere in the middle of this mess. We all check. Turn: 4 ♦ All check again. River: 8 ♣ Small blind bets $10 at the pot. There's no way. If he had an eight, we'd have heard from him by now. We'd probably have heard from anybody by now if they had any pair. Big blind folds, another guy folds, and I can tell the guy behind me is going to fold. I would like to fold out a bare ace here, and the guy has a wider range here than gutshot draws like A2 and A5 because both the flop and the turn were checked through, so he could have pretty much any random ace like A7. I think and bet $30. Back to the kid, and he thinks for a few minutes, then says, "Nice hand," and lays it down. If he held an ace, mission accomplished. Of course, there's always the chance that all I did was fold out a spade draw that I'm already beating with K high. Hmmmm.... back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford