Pub Poker Night - 11/3

I still have the cough, but do you think that's going to stop me from playing some "home game" poker. Absolutely not.

First session -

I drag 2 of the first 3 pots and then proceed to not catch a hand until I go all in with A/J suited with about 2500 left when the blinds were 400/800. I got put out by Bahr's friends girlfriend (I'm absolutely horrible with names).

Loser's Table -

I drag two rather large pots and the guy who kept proclaiming that this was his first live table game were 2/1 respectively. Nothing really exciting here. I slow played flopping a set till the A hit on the turn and put two people out with that hand.

Second session (10pm) -

First hand, I get dealt jacks. I hate jacks...a lot. I raise to 350 (300 raise). I get two callers. The flop comes three low cards, skittles all two offs. I'm in mid/late position and it gets checked to me. I bet 650. Everyone folds and I drag the pot. Second hand in I get dealt 33 in mid position. I raise to make it 100 to go, and the same callers call (5 in the pot). Flop comes AA3. Guy in first position bets 500, guy behind him raise to 1000. I stop and think for a minute, it couldn't be this sweet. I raise to 2000. The lady to my left calls (this is the second hand and you dont' start with that many chips to begin with. The next guy folds, then the first guy contemplates for a moment. Shoots me a look and then folds. The guy who raise to 1000 goes all in for the rest of his chips (a lot, I don't know about another couple K or so). I call, he flips over his Ajunk and I show my pocket 3s. I dragged that pot and one more and then proceeded to rock for awhile. Tables collapse a bit and I put 1 or 2 more people out. One of those times, the other player had QQ to my KJ suited. It was for about 1/3 of my stack and I was contemplating not calling. I make the call and make my two pair on the river.

Get down to the last table, and it's me, with a female to my right and a tempe police officer to my left. I have about 50k or so and they are both well over 200k. I post and fold for awhile and then get dealt KJd. I push for my remaining chips, he shows 99 and a 9 comes on the flop. Not much I can do.

So I points again, 2nd in the losers game and 3rd in the 10pm game. It was an interesting final table, me and the female (I didn't get her name) chatted with the guy who runs the shindig about the major differences between online poker, casino poker and pub poker. Pub poker is more like a home game, people are there to have fun and about 80% of the people there don't really care if they win or not. This leads to a couple interesting types of play styles. It creates players that will call with any two suited cards, any two connectors, any paint, and AJunk is a raisable hand. To make it in pub poker, you should drag enough pots to make it to 400/800 with a healthy chip stack (about 5-6k or so) and then you can change styles because most the players that are left are more restrictive with what they bet/call with. I don't know if I'm completely comfortable with pub poker yet, but this is my 2nd final table in 3 trips to the NativeNewYorker.

I missed Ray. There was a really really hot chick at my next to last table.