Table 2 - Levels 3 thru 5

When my table 31 broke I wound up at table 55 and it was playing very differently. Whereas my first table was pretty passive pre-flop with some raises below 3x BB and few pre-flop re-raises, practically every pot here was being raised and for a lot. With just over 6k in chips a standard raise was almost 10% of my chips so I had to be careful.

But what's worse, they regularly were raising above average. At 100/200 the raises were coming at 7, 8, and 9. So not only was it more than 10% but any re-raise on my part has to be for all of it. A standard RR would be 2500 to 3k (depending on initial raise, limpers, etc.) So half my chips or close to it. I soon realized limping was practically impossible and the only real defense was snapping someone off with a hand - if I could get one of course.

My first all-in of the day came at 300/600 - and it was accidental. It's a positive attribute that I went that long without being at risk. I tried to limp with A6d because the table had settled some and seen some flops. But, instead of throwing in a 5 and a 1 I threw in a 1k and 100, which made it a raise. I made a big deal about asking if I had to raise trying the reverse-move of ah shucks I didn't mean to raise with my aces. Quiet guy in the 2 seat didn't believe me and moved in. Folded to me I had 15% to 20% of my chips in the pot I decided to gamble and wound up against AQ. I was in bad shape until I flopped the nuts and he was drawing dead.

Insult to his injury, Adam to my left noticed the pot didn't look right. We stopped the dealer and reconstructed it and figured out he shorted me the blinds - 900. He got it back from the change he gave the guy with the dominating hand and had just been sucked out on. Eric (6 seat) mentioned if he had protested I would have been screwed because the pot had been disbursed. Don't know if that's right but rings true.