Amazingly it's been around 3 months since I last enjoyed the confinds of the delightful Coachmakers. Starting a new job meant I seemed to be working every evening there was a game on or at best working at an ungodly hour the following day but this week I had a few days off including the Tuesday night so decided to mosey on down with John & Simon Brassington.
It was nice walking in there to be greeted by friendly faces, Kevin and Julie as usual were in attendence but I was also welcomed by a few of the locals who had gotten to know me, which was nice :-)
Squirmy did the table draw and I believe we had 18 players so 9 per table to begin with and the draw saw myself, John Brasso, Kev & Julie all draw together along with 2 friendly regulars Big Chris and Dave The Devilneck (what a character!) along with 2 younger guys who I believe were playing for the 1st time but it was a friendly enough affair. For those unfamilar with the guy its a £10 buy-in with no fee and 200 starting stacks with blinds starting at 1/2 for 15min intervals, a nicely structured friendly game, get down there and enjoy it!
The started off unsually cagey, few raises and lots of folds to the blinds. I did my usual fold fold fold for what seemed like forever, I never get hands in tournament's LOL. I think that's multitabling for ya, I seem to go hours without seeing a playable hand when back to single-table and/or live game. Eventually I found an excuse to get involved, one of the younger lads limped in from UTG and so did brasso from the middle, i was in the hijack and contemplated raising with A8o but decided to take a flop as every raise saw most folding and the blinds simply weren't worth pinching at this stage.
The flop came A, A, Q which looked too good for me, I thought I'd hit this far too hard but to my surprise the new guy lead out for a pot sized raise. I elect to smooth call in position in hope to reraise a turn bet, the turn brings an 8 so any possible concern that my kicker was weak has now gone and he continues to show strength betting 3/4 of the pot. I quickly summise that he is going to do well to get away from this but I don't want to define my head until the river and want to let him believe he is still fully in control so I again smooth call. The river brings a Q (FFS! lol), he bets the same amount as on the previous street and I simply call knowing we are splitting to save any hard work from the dealer. Bloody rivers!
Sadly that was exciting as the night got for me, as the blinds went up I made some moves at multi-limp pots to take them down and took a few small pots from position when checked around to me on the flop, I didn't get an premium hands for the evening and then overplayed the following hand against Devilneck, possibly the worst person to do this against at the table lulz.
I have a crummy 2d,4d on the button and again it's a multiway limp with blinds at 3/6 I raise it up to 25 and Devilneck is behind me in the SB and he min-reraises to 50.... I know he must have a good hand but I decide to peel off a flop knowing that if I catch i'll take his entire stack. Flop is J, 10 7 with 2 diamonds and he leads for 25 and I smooth call with a diamond draw. The turn is an off-suit 7 and he checks, I decide to try and take advantage of the scare card and bet just 35, my idea behind this is to keep the pot small and take the lead away from him. He calls.
The River is an off-suit 8, it completes alot of scary draws and I know I have to bet to try and win this... he checks to me and I bet 85 into a pot of around 215, it's enough of a bet to make him lay down any weak holding and enough for me to not over committ my stack with no hand, I'm basically trying to find a fold for the cheapest possible price here, Devil goes into the tank, puts on a fine acting job and then I hear the dreaded words "all-in". DAYUM! I've been kippered well and truly here and have to muck. I'm left with around 90 chips and I'm knocked out by Devil shortly after when I shove a Qh, 2h in late position to try and steal his BB and he finds an As Qs and to his credit deliberates over weather to call or not, he calls flops a royal flush draw and makes a broadway straight to send me out.
All in all it was nice to play again in a live environment, see some good folks and enjoy a good cheap night out. I hope to be playing again next week, work permitting of course.
Matt
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