We are playing a friendly .25/.5 cash game at
Ugarles. Everybody is laughing, we are having a good time.
Alceste,
Mary and
Dawn are playing. We haven't played together since Vegas. Ugarles' kitchen is now the last victim of Mary's Baconfest. I don't eat bacon. Everybody is having bacon except me. I am already denying any bacon-abuse allegations. Fun night!
Pokerwise, It was a great night for me. I was happy to be back to NYC live poker cash game action. (Last time I played in such games was back in October)
A fun night with one incident...
I am on my second buy-in. ~$33. I have KTo one off button. It folds to me I raise to $1 (min. raise was part of the "we were having fun" game). Button calls, BB calls as well. So, three players see a K9J two diamonds. BB checks, I bet $2 w/ top pair no diamond. Button raises to $6. SB folds. Now, Button was playing well enough throughout the night. So I am putting him on a big hand. J9, K9, Adragd, AK. (Couple hands earlier, I saw him grabbing some chips ready to raise big before I min. raised w/ 84dd, he thought for a while then flat called. He later won that pot with AQs., so him holding AK was quite possible). Q10? I hope not. AA, 99, JJ definitely not. I thought for a while but I am not good enough to fold top pair and a gutshot. I call. Turn is 8x which, I am thinking, gives me 4 more outs because I refuse to put him on Q10. Unless he goes all-in, I was very much ready to see the river card. I check. He bets small $6 leaving him with ~$15 and increasing the pot to $21. I rule-out the nut flush draw for him. Because I call his raise I don't see why he would bet again with a potential free card to come. Now, I am thinking if I call he might put me on a flush draw. I am of course still rooting for a Q and 7 to suckout or chop but any diamond card is good for me too. River 2d. There is no way I can win this pot without betting it. A check was out of question. If I check, he checks, I lose. If I check, he bets and I raise that would leave him pot-committed I think and he would have to call and I lose. So, I stick to my plan and I insta-push while the 2d was still in the air. He goes into the tank; I am trying my best to look as confident as possible. Over and over I am hearing him saying: "Really on a flush draw." I can see that he is very annoy/upset by the fact that I call with a flush draw. The longer he is thinking, the more upset he is getting. And I can feel him calling donkey in his head. I try to help the cause by giving my speech telling him that I will show him why I was calling him on "a draw". Half true statement. He folds K9 face up.
I showed my cards, hand was over and then... Dawn apologized to the host and to the button on my behalf. To me, it was a joke (maybe it was) but button was very quiet the rest of the game which makes me now believe that he was very mad at me showing my cards.
I joked with Dawn on our way home that I rather being a dick than a donkey but I don't think showing my cards was that bad for a fun home game. For all I know I was trying to show him that I had every reasons to call his $4 raise and $6 bet and to push on the river.
Lesson of the day. TO NEVER SHOW MY HAND UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. (I was told that many times but I never listen) So, next time you ask me if I will show, the answer will be NO!
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