Another U-Turn
Decided to work on my NL game a bit last night so I picked a juicy looking $50NL table and went to work. It was looking donkalicious when after 2 orbits one player had already handed out $110, and had reloaded a third time. Unfortunately, I could not get a single playable hand. I had not seen a single flop during this time. Grrrrrrr.
Then I managed KQs on the BTN. It folded to the C/O, and he raised to $1. I decided to just call (he had been overly aggressive and I thought I might get to trap him). The SB raised it to $4, and the BB (Mr 3 reloads) called. The C/O called, and getting 11 - 2 odds on that pot, so did I.
The flop came AKQ two suits, and while I managed two-pair, I am not liking that flop too much at all. SB, the pre-flop raiser, comes in for $6, and is immediately raised to $16 by the fisherking. The C/O re-raises to $26 and all-in, and I know I am way behind to somebody, so I lay it down. SB dumps his hand, and fisherking calls, showing a KTo. Ah me. C/O had the JTo, and took in a nice pot. So, it was a good laydown by me - something I need to appreciate more in NL.
I finally got my chance with fisherking a few orbits later. The table was now 7-handed, and I called first in from the SB with Q8s. Fisherking, now in my BB, checks. Flop comes QQ8, and it checks around on the flop. Turn is a T and fisherking bets $5 into a $1 pot after I check it. I smooth called. River is a 9 and I check (fisherking likes to bet people off the pot). Sure enough, fisherking bets $12 and all-in into an $11 pot. Drat that I got to him when he was short-stacked! I called and he showed K9o. He would have called a pot-sized re-raise with his hand on the river, but NO-O-O-O, he's already out of chips when its Bull's turn!
That busted him for the fourth time in an hour, and he quit the table - which immediately broke. I was up $2 at that point, and called it a night - it was 10:00 and I was tired.