Best Post-Nightclub Poker Ever

After stumbling out of Pure last night Ads, Ades, Will, and I all went straight to the poker room for 1/2 NL. The players were practically salivating at the sight of us. Ads didn’t stay but the other three of all were all up more than $1,000 after about five hours. I dumped about 150 to Will as soon as he sat down bluffing off with AT. After rebuying I got slow-rolled by a guy with a boat who showed a pair of 8s before flipping over his other card.

My big hands:

Pocket 8s, flopped a set on an all-spades board. I check-called a bet from Dragon Lady. Turn is the case 8. I checked and she bet a $100 bill. I pondered it for a minute mostly for show but also trying to figure out what exactly she had. The river was a three of diamonds and I paused for affect, then led for $150, and she flat called. Nice pot.

QJ diamonds with a raise in front, and a sizable one. Leather Ass had over 1500 in front of him when we showed up. He also thought it was funny when I got slow-rolled. He made it 16 which was pretty sizable with just one limper. I had over 800 in front and called as did one other. Flop was KQx with two diamonds. He bet $100 stiff, straight away. After some thought the only hand I was really worried about was AK with the ace of diamonds. I decided a flush would take it down if I hit it. I also expected another queen would be good. Turn was a deuce of diamonds and he bet again, I shoved, and he insta-called.

River was the ace of hearts and he showed pocket kings for flopped top set, and the loser. Here’s where it gets weird. He started whining about not realizing how much money I had (whoops, whose fault is that?). At first it was reasonable, “I’ve been playing for 14 hours,” (kudos, Leather Ass), but then he said “you had your bills in your hand” and I was out of my chair in a flash. The floor was called a couple of times in the verbal melee that ensued. He also said “I didn’t call you a cheater, idiot.” Awesome, I’m being insulted by someone without sense enough to know that hiding cash is cheating.

Here’s a lesson for the kiddies – when someone shoves on you there’s no shame in asking how much they have. The fact is he’s probably not getting away from a set of kings there, but if there’s some amount of money he would fold for it’s easy to ask. You’re not giving away any information by not acting right away since there’s nothing left for the all-in to do. Now he has a great “beat” story to tell about the donk who hit out on him with two unders to his pocket kings. Of course, I put in $16 as a 4-to-1 dog and $100 as a 2-to-1 dog, but he put $700 in as a 4-to-1 dog. So far, he’s the lead nominee for the Douchebag of the Trip.

I started to pack up my chips and leave but the floor begged me to stay and Leather Ass changed seats. The only consolation for me was he spent 14 hours building up that stack and two minutes to dump half of it to me. Our table broke and I was able to take my cash off the table, $500 in the pocket and took over $1k in chips over. Will and I played together at that table for a couple of hours. Nothing too exciting except a bluff-raise to $150 on the river with king-high that I showed when the guy insta-mucked to my bet. When we cashed out around 9 am I had over $1400 in chips to go with the five bills.