Pub Poker Night

So I made it to my first pub poker night. I was weary going into this night because I'm a semi-rock. What this means is that I don't raise as often as I probably do and since the average player skill that will be in attendance is lower than that of the casino, I probably wont' do as well.

The first event comes. I fold the first 5 or 6 hands. When I get to play my first hand, the blinds had already moved up to 100/200. I get dealt A/Q mid position. I raise to 600. The small blind goes all in for about 2200. I call, he has QQ and they stand up. I then proceed to never see a hand better than J7off until my last hand. I get dealt A10, go all in and Bahr has QQ and they hold up again.

I was pretty bummed at this point, but I sit at the loser's table and proceed to slow play trips twice and triple up and play rock. The loser's table is more loose than the regular tournaments so the bigger hands were more playable and paid out more. I end up taking first and get the points and then I play in the 10pm.

My table is me, drunk, poker kid, older poker kid, biker guy, poker guy, boyfriend, girlfriend. The boyfriend deals and is helping his gf with the blinds and bets, etc. Blinds are 25/50 and first hand I get dealt QQ. Five callers before me and I raise to 200. They all call, flop comes Q78 skittles. I check, poker kid bets the minimum, they all call, I make it 500 to go. Chase everyone out but the bf and gf. Turn is a 3 (the 4th suit). The gf makes a bet, I make it 1500 to go (start with 4000 chips). BF and gf call. So now I'm thinking to myself that I have to have this hand thoroughly dominated and they are both on draws. River comes a J. The Bf leads with a bet, the gf calls. So what do I do here? ...
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Well, I still think I'm best and by a long margin, I push all the chips in. The bf thinks for a second and then folds and then the gf says something to the bf and he replies with "yea, that'll be all your chips". She folds. I show the Trips and get respect.

I take down another couple pots and get moved tables a couple times and each time have to come in right on the blinds. I'm down to about 2500 when the blinds are 400/800 and moved to a table where a drunkish, TW Lewis shirted guy is raking in chips of the 1000/500 variety, he had just knocked out two guys. I come in on the big blind...again. get dealt the Jack Bauer, Bahr calls and TW Lewis guy calls my big blind. The flop comes 245..bink bink...bink bink. I push, Bahr folds and the big chip stack calls with Q2. The Bauer holds up and I double up. I double up again and make it to top 5. It's me, bahr, short stack, TW Lewis guy, poker guy. I'm big blind and get dealt A2 crubs. Bahr calls, short stack pushes, TW Lewis calls, poker guy calls. I decide to push here. I'm putting the poker guy and Bahr on paint. Bahr folds, TW Lewis calls and poker guy folds. So there are two of us all in, flop comes paint34, turn 5. The wheel gets me a big enough stack to make it to top three. I have the second biggest stack, bahr is 1 chip behind me (they are all 5000 chips now) and TW Lewis has about 8 more than me. I'm the big blind and get dealt the speed limit (55). Bahr makes a modest raise (about 3 chips over the big blind). TW folds. I push. Bahr contemplates and pushes as well. He flips over K7off. Flop comes Kblankblank. The 3rd 5 never came and on the next hand I was out. TW ends up winning in heads up and Bahr and I finish 2/3. So Bahr final tabled in both events and I won the first scrub event and final tabled in the 10pm event.

I think I'm going to try and hit 2 of these pub poker nights a week. The points that I got are pushing me on my way. The big tournament is the first week of December, they are taking the top 100 people in points standings. A big screen TV to first.

Plus, this is probably cheaper than me trying to make a run at Casino AZ...but that doesn't mean I won't go.