Chris Halverson’s Blog

Pete (from Pete’s tourney) is working to setup a regular home game and the first installment was on Wednesday night. It was setup as a $50 buyin NLHE cash game with 0.25/0.50 blinds. There is some interest in a bigger game in the future (100-200 buyin NLHE), but since this was the first one, all that was spread was the lower buyin game.

There was an interesting group of people that were at the game. There was a total of about 18 people playing on 3 tables. There was some that really knew what they were doing, and some that have watched too much TV. One guy even had sunglasses.

We got started at 6:30 and drew cards for tables and seats. I, of course, got seated to Al’s right. Drac showed up about an hour into it and sat to his left. Great, I’ve got people who I know can play sitting to my left. That’s good though because I’ve got somebody to talk to. Our table is made up of a couple good players as well as a couple younger guys.

Things start out slow for me, unlike Al who got T7o three hands in a row and won twice including flopping a straight. He got up big early. I didn’t really get much for a while, and if I had a limping hand, I usually missed the flop.

I basically played away until I had to bail out of a hand on the river after putting a fair amount of my stack in the middle on a draw that didn’t hit. I rebought back up to $50 and shortly thereafter the hand of the night came up.

I’m in the cutoff and have AhKh. Three limpers to me and I raise to $1.50. The blinds fold (IIRC, but doesn’t matter), the other two guys call. Flop comes Jc6c3c. Smallish bet, call and I bail. Turn is either a 6 or 3. Bet, raise, call. River is a fourth club. Bet, raise, call. The cards are flipped over.

Nobody has a club.

MP has A7o (or something similar).

LP has 63s for the full house.

Al, Drac and I all steal glances at each other and just stare in disbelief at what just happened.

I then lost a hand to MP guy when he called a pre-flop raise with A8o.

Basically, some of these guys epitomized the “any two will do” and “but they were sooooted”. Granted, for some of them, a $50 buyin was nothing and they were having fun. Even so, some of the play was absolutely terrible. Oh, and sunglasses are ridiculous at a friendly game like this.

So, there’s not a lot of my play here, but then again I didn’t get many cards or much action when I did. I got KK three times but got no action any time. I had QQ once and got a little from Al, but he bailed on the turn when I priced him out of his draw. I had a good time, and I definitely want to go back again. It was one of those type of games where you would generally get paid off if you had a good hand. It was definitely a game where somebody with some skill could do well in.

It was my first time playing a NL cash game, and it was a bit different. Playing in a tourney where the chips aren’t “real” and playing online with virtual chips is quite different than knowing that the $25 you’re betting is “real” money. I enjoyed it though and it was nice to have a cash game to play in for a change. Tourneys aren’t really my forte (not that I’m a great cash game player), and I prefer cash games. It was a nice friendly game, although with so many people from varied groups it was a little tough to socialize, although our table had a decent time. I’m sure if the same group keeps showing up things will become more comfortable.

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