Gregg “Bunky” Williams
07-22-2006
The last couple sessions have been interesting to say the least. Mansion has started to get some customers, and they are very action orientated players. They are very LAG and very bad but I was in a couple limit games and a couple NL games (2/4 and 3/6 limit HE) (3/6 limit O8) and (2 NL100)
Things were getting hairy on the 3-6 limit HE. I dropped around 200 and kept running into monsters 3 handed turning straights against flopped full houses in an aggressive game will drop you some chips quick. This was a game where A high was winning 40-50 dollar pots When you start getting coolers in a game like that be prepared to dump some chips. My opponents in this game actually played well, but it was a very aggressive game. I played there like 2 hours and left.
The 3-6 O8 was a really good game. Early on I had little to work with. I would get some really good scooping hands (2nd lock low and nut flush) only for the river to pair up and boat my opponent to counterfeit my high hand. So it was an hour of grind grind grind. The rakeback on a table like that though is enormous so it was well worth it. The game finally got down to 3 handed where you can open up and take the gloves off a bit as you aren’t staring down the nuts all the time. I proceed to go on a tear and rattle off a $120 profit in the game.
The final hand which broke the game up was where I had 789T double suited and called a button raise. This is a hand that you can get away from rather easily even three handed but can make a lot of things happen. (though much mores o in PLO (high only)
Flop came 679 flopping me top two pair and the nuts straight with no low draw. Flop went two or three bets (forgive me I was 5 tabling) turn was the 9 hitting my big full. Went three bets and the river bricked high. I scooped the pot against A266. The game broke.
The NL100 games were your routine games except for this one game where there were some contributors. I had several hands where I stacked medium stacks but the one hand of the night was against a big stack.
I’m in the BB and have AKo. EP raises to 5, short stack pushes for 19, 2 calls of the 19 and they are deep. I decide its an easy call figuring that the original raiser will not pop it back I call the 18 from the BB and if an ace or King hits, its an auto push. Original raiser does not reraise and flop comes K high with three spades. I still push and get called by the donater (Please no spade)
Board bricks off and he shows Kd Js. Very nice pot. So things are turning around.
The 2-4 limit game was insane. It featured one complete maniac who was hitting and some really bad regulars that were calling down with very weak hands. There were also a couple solid players in the game. After some beats that would make the baby Jesus cry and dropping $100 or so I maintained my composure and ground it out. Finally the regulars drop away one by one and I’m down 70 bucks an I’m finally left alone with the fish HU. It takes me just over 20 minutes to clean out the fish and turn a $100 loss at that table to a $15.00 gain after the fish busts out.
So in short after being down over 350 on some low limit tables, when the games are good, you have to push yourself to stay (I finally closed out my session at 1:30 AM EDT.) The games were +EV and things finally turned around and came back. I posted a total of $120 profit on the night.
It goes to show that the “experts” can be right when they say as long as the game is good, its +EV to stay. I fought off sleep and ground it out to make things work. When the soft spots went broke, I then went to bed. 3 1/2 hour session playing 4-5 tables. Not a bad night.
-Gregg “Bunky” Williams
