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"i was just checking to see if that was one of your moves" 2010-04-07 - 12:10 p.m. We got deep fast yesterday and quit early. Seems like we spent all the day eating -- my Noodles Asia comps for lunch and our Quesadilla 2-for-1 coupon for dinner. I don't usually eat two real meals a day any more, and I had plenty of dreams and still woke up a bit stuffed. I had a very strange one that involved time travel, space aliens out to destroy the planet earth, and, at one point, transforming myself into a fruit fly -- a fruit fly???? -- so that the aliens couldn't follow my DNA signature back to earth. This proved to be a very poor choice of alternate body. The only advantage was that, being so tiny, I could go in and out of anywhere, even through closed doors, such as the pretty much invisible gap between door frame and door when it's locked and closed. The disadvantage was that, being so tiny, I couldn't do anything with the information I gained by being able to go anywhere and everywhere. Also, at one point, I came upon a soaking wet female Black-Throated Blue Warbler. At least I thought she was wet. On further inspection, I decided that she was ill and I made an executive decision not to transfer into her body, although it looked like easy pickings. I opened a new 2/5 NL table yesterday. The first time I'm on the button, it folds to me and I pick up K9 offsuit -- bark, bark! I have my original $400 buy-in. My opponent has $250. I open to $15, small blind folds, big blind calls. $30 pot. The flop is K98, rainbow. He checks, I bet the standard two-thirds pot, $20, and he calls. Quite obviously, I would like to get all-in with my top two pair hand, but I'm not sure how to do it without a huge overbet somewhere along the line. At the moment, the pot is $70. The turn is some random card. And now he donks $45. What the--? Gotta be a straight draw, right? He wants to set his own price to get there? I raise to pot $135. If he calls, I'm pot-committed on any card that doesn't complete the open-ender. He does call. Pot is $340. The river is the ace of spades, and he shoves his remaining money. I call, and he mucks without showing his hand. Yeah, definitely a busted straight draw, and I've just picked up his entire $250 buy-in. A short while later, there's a straddle, same guy has re-bought for around $400 calls, some other callers, an Asian guy in latish position calls. I pick up red kings in the big blind. I raise to $80, same guy calls, Asian guy calls and has the effective button. $270 in the pot. I'll dub "same guy" SG. He has $440 or so. Asian guy is deep. I have $730 or so. I'm aware of the shorter stack between me and the Asian. The flop is 3 low cards, 2 diamonds. I have the backdoor K-high flush draw in addition to my overpair, on a board that doesn't much look like it hit anyone. I could C-bet here and probably should, since the pot is already big enough to be worth capturing, but I'm afraid that I decide to indulge in some fancy play syndrome and see if I can get the button to put in more money than he planned. I checked, SG checks, Asian man bets out $180. Now I really should shove all-in to price out the diamond draw, but I don't think too clearly and decide to let him come along, mainly because I can use him to protect my pot from any further "moves" from the Asian guy, who will find out that his steal equity was zero all along in about five seconds. So I call, SG calls, and now we've got $810 in the pot. Wheeeeeee. The turn pairs the lowest card on the board -- a trey. I shove all in, which of course puts SG all in, if he wants to call with his flush draw, which he does, getting great odds. The button can't call now because the pot is protected. He fusses and cusses and chews me out as he folds, because he finally figures out that he got squeezed for that extra $180. "How you know I don't have set there? You don't know! How you know?" Blah blah blah. Well, of course I don't know. But I have to figure that he flops a set 1 in 8 times like everybody else. The rest of the time he's still got that same idiotic underpair that he called my KKs with in the first place. The river is again an irrelevant card, and I scoop a huge pot that takes 15 minutes for me to finish stacking. The Asian man stomps off to nag the floorperson about starting the 5/10 NL must move game, so he doesn't have to play with idiots. And, yeah, I needed to shove sooner, and lock out any chance of the flush draw sucking out on me. But oh well. At least it didn't cost me anything to get greedy this time. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford