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they say they're gonna rebuild but they don't say when

2009-06-28 - 11:44 a.m.

Not much yesterday except wheel spinning.

Oh, the other day I met a man from Gentilly Woods. Don't meet many of them at the B. I asked him if he knew P. and he said he didn't, but of course I should have instead asked him if he knew the guy who went around the neighborhood dressed like the Tom Baker Dr. Who. Hard to miss that guy.

So brought up in Gentilly Woods, had a house in New Orleans East, had a house in Chalmette, just about to buy one in Slidell...Needless to say, he has decided to stay in Vegas and considering his keen nose for flood-prone properties, I assured him that he'd made the right decision.

Here's a hand history for today from 30/60 LHE, with not too many details since only the river play might be interesting. I have AA in the big blind. A kid I call the gladiator open raises early, a professional player 3 bets, I 4 bet, and it gets back to the pro who 5 bets. I haven't played with this pro too much but from recent history, I will presume that he thinks I'm a lagtard.

Flop is something like 846, two hearts. I go for bet, 3 bet, and get it, and we keep the gladiator in.

Turn is 9 of black.

I bet, call, call.

The river is the Q of spades. The pro could have pocket Qs for the trips, in which case the action goes I bet, gladiator drops, he raises, I call. So I'm losing two more bets when I'm losing. So I kinda, sorta want to make two more bets when I'm winning, and I think I can count on the gladiator to help me out here. If I check to him, he's almost honor bound to make a desperation bet at that river. So I do check, he bets, pro agonizes and finally calls as he has to for the size of the pot and then as I push out the chips to call behind with one hand I flip over my AAs with the other hand. No reason to torture these guys after all.

The gladiator actually did have one Q, which is one more Q than I gave him credit for. No idea what the pro had, but after he quizzed me on my rationale for playing the river that way, he racked up and left. Oh well.

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