I had quite a session at Foxwoods - I got a room offer for 40 points and couldnt turn it down - a very satisfying run of cards and good reads, where I did not lose a single confrontation - won several buyins but never got all my chips in the middle (well I tried once but got called for a string bet after a brutal river on a guy).
I sat down at a $1/$2 No Limit table - a table full of regulars with very consistent play. Very solid regulars, not usually the kind of game I like to play. Where I number myself as maybe the 5th or 6th best player at the table and usually will jet after a couple of orbits.
But here's how they went.
1st hand - Limp with 5 7 s after 2 callers. Call from Big Blind. Flop is 6 4 2 and a 2/3 flop bet by my neighbor is easily called by me and also the BB. A very nice 3 of diamonds hits the flop and my neighbor tanks and raises pot. I raise to $100 and get a caller and a call from him. I have a flush diamond draw and nut straight. Blank river and turns out I chop with the BB who has 5 7 clubs (semi-win)
2nd hand - about 5 hands later- 7 9 s, and I again limp and hit a 6 8 Q flop. Called a 3/4 pot bet with one other caller. 5 hits the board and I raise pot $40. Called by the same BB guy. Yep, another chop and I again had a flush redraw (semi win)
About 5 minutes later, I get KK UTG and I raise 6x ($12) - sort of the standard "I got something" raise. I get 4 callers. Flop is K J 6. I check on a slow play and the MP position puts in $35, another caller and I call as well. A blank hits, I bet $60. and I get 2 callers. Q hits River, I decide to check, see what the action is. MP checks, Button bets $120. Didn't make sense, so I call (MP folds - later says he had K J!!). The other guy missed his draw and was positioning. Win $560 pot.
I then hit a set of 4's and slow played a nice $350 pot against a top pair, top kicker and a gut shot draw, and an AA over JJ cutoff 10x raise and I repop to $40. Low flop, I bet $75 and he calls and on a Q, I bet $100 and he tanks. Finally folds after figuring my hand?? Guy seemed a very solid player who ran into hand after hand and lost about $600 in an hour and a half.
Very solid session and I am happy with the results.
