Chris Halverson’s Blog

Friday night was my best night of poker I’ve ever had. Played two tables of 50/1 for a touch over two hours (see, I’m keeping up my “play two hours a night” quest). After a rocky start on both, down 5BB on one, 3 on the other, things started to turn around.

On one table I kept going down, -10BB at one point, but it was a crazy table so I thought I’d ride it out. The guy two to my right voluntarily put money in 75% of the time. He was very passive after the flop, but he was wild. When I first joined he was close to busting out, then he did and rebought. He proceeded to runner runner people for about an hour, going up 20BB or so. Then the poker gods had had enough and put the smack down on him and he went bust again. It was beautiful. I worked my way back up to being just -2BB on that table when it started to break and I left. I think part of my bad start on this table (which thankfully didn’t transfer to the other) was that I got on tilt after throwing away pocket twos on my first hand to a raise and a re-raise. Flop was 2QQ with a flush possibility. Lots of betting as the flush was made on the river. I got frustrated that I missed out on that. It wasn’t my best play ever, that’s for sure. I got it back under control, but it threw me for a bit.

The other table was a different story altogether. Pocket pairs were my friend again. On two consecutive orbits I was dealt QQ on the button and was paid off handsomely with both. I eventually worked my way up to doubling up my buyin when I went a little on “happy” tilt. I had just won a 15BB pot which put me over the doubling up. I tried to click the “Leave Table” button (it was about 10 mins until my two hour time, so it was semi-planned), but the cards were already being dealt. I got AQs so I stayed in. The end result was some over aggressive play and lost 5BB. I then decided I was going to stay in until I got my “double”. It took a little longer than I planned, but eventually it happened. In-freaking-credible.

So things were going well, then I got chatting, and then watching some other games, then I decided, what the hell, let’s play, and proceeded to lose 7BB (generally beat by bigger hands, ie. I still had good odds, I didn’t play too badly, not great, but not too bad). Oh well, the upside is that the night was still up quite a bit. I can’t complain at all, plus I got to watch a classic case of putting somebody massively on tilt. It was a great night all around.

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