Earlier this month, I was at Foxwoods for a few days with Jon, my grandmother and my parents. Jon and I both played the Saturday tourney. I went deep, and ended up bubbling with 20 places paying. In any case, my grandmother went broke pretty quickly on the slot machines the first day. About an hour before we had to meet my parents for dinner, my grandmother came down to the poker room to find me. She ended up sitting behind me for the hour before dinner, watching me play the 2/5. It was very cute. As a side note, my grandmother, "Nonna", is a cute little old grandmother with a strong italian accent. She watches poker on TV all the time, and while she does not really understand the basics, she knows ace is the best card, and what a full house is, etc.
In any case, the following hand came up that she observed. As a preface, my table was super aggro. There was a raise/re-raise almost every hand. It was playing more like a tourney table than a cash table. At this point, I was around even, as I had been up and down in a few pots. In the bb, I find pkt 10s. There is a raise to 25 and five callers in front of me. The original raiser was a pretty tight player, so I decided to play my hand like a small pair and just call for a set. I really did not want to be committed preflp. Since I had under $400, I did not think a reraise pre was called for. The flop came down 10 J Q, rainbow. Third to act bets out 35, original raiser folds, second person calls, big guy in the 8 seat calls, now the super tight guy on my right, announces raise and makes it $100 to go. I am in a tough spot, because although I am sure that no one has AK (99% of this table re-raises pre with AK- the virtual nuts, even without a flop, he he). The hands I am worried about are 89 and K9, and further, Qj, which, while I am ahead, has outs to fill up. In my head, I have decided I am committed to this hand. I have about $375 in front of me. If I just smooth call the $100. My reasoning is this. I have a chance to get more money in the pot, if there is additional raising in front of me, and then I win a bigger pot if I fill up. I smooth call. The big guy says "holy shit", which, if I didnt have a set and there wasn't so much action, I would have laughed out loud.
Now the original bettor, who led out for 35$, a good player (but not as good as i thought), asks tighty next to me how much he has left, and he responds "about 700". Original bettor says. "ok, I raise $700 on top". He had about $1k in front of him. Now the big guy, between original bettor and tighty, mucks, and says, that is the tightest fold I ever made, but I think I am dead because of the girl. LOL. Tighty now tanks. For a good two min and eventually mucks QJ. I call all in. TEN on the turn. Weeeee! Q on river, so tighty wouldve filled and I win a $1,300 pot instead of $700 pot. Turns out big guy mucked 8-9, which is what original bettor had. I dont think he can play 8-9 there, as third nut straight. Not a good play.
The punchline is, I turn to smile at my grandmother, and she excitedly remarks "Connie, what a big jackpot you got!"
More later about my trip to California and trips in the near future.
Good luck and peace,
Lucky C, and her sidekick Ace.
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