At Turning Stone

Posted by Nat
May 16, 2006

I left my house at around 11 AM today, picked up Ozzy at the Syracuse airport around 3:45 PM, then arrived at Turning Stone around 4:30 PM. We met up with Ansky/supernova9 (my roommate this trip) and went up to the room. Ozzy is staying in our room the first night, then moving out to his own tomorrow, so we dropped our stuff off and went to the Chinese restaurant here — I think it’s called Peach Blossom.

After dinner, we went over to the poker room and signed up for some of the NL games. The $200 max 1/2 NL game had an open seat, so I jumped in, then Ozzy jumped in a few hands later. I was in the two seat, Ozzy was in the one seat. There were a bunch of really deep stacks… multiple people with $500+ when we sat down. Within 30 minutes, Ozzy was up to $650 from his $200 buyin.

But here are some of the hands I played…

1. In BB, limped multiple times pre-flop, unknown SB makes it $25 (!), I look down at JJ, decide to call and re-evaluate on the flop (I seriously considered folding for a little bit, then just decided to call — because I had JJ! Anyway, I felt like a fish for thinking like that), another MP player calls. Flop is A73, SB leads for $25, I fold, MP min raises to $50, SB makes it $30 more, so $80 total, MP folds. And yes, that really happened.

2. Folded to me on the button, I raise to $8 with AQo, a steaming BB calls (Ozzy had just stacked him). Flop is QT4, BB checks, I bet $15, he calls. Turn is a low card, like a 7. He checks, I bet $20 (I think, I’m not sure why I bet so small… I probably just didn’t keep good track of the size of the pot), he calls. River is a Q, he checks, I bet $40, he folds. I would normally play it a little more cautiously, like check behind on the turn, but he was steaming so his range was much wider to check call a flop bet.

3. Early-mid position player opens to $15, folds around, I have black AA on the button. I call because I hadn’t re-raised yet and I didn’t want to let the table know that I had AA. The flop is J9x with two to one of my suit, he leads for $40, basically the size of the pot. I ask for a count, he says $110 more very confidently, so I’m very sure I’m up against KK or QQ. I didn’t think he’d lead for that amount in that spot with much else. I decide the best play is to push because I didn’t want an overcard or a club coming to scare either one of us, so I verbally declare all-in and he calls pretty quickly with QQ. The 2+2 crew saw this hand… Ray (Exitonly4), Clayton, etc. He blanks off and I win a pretty big pot.

I left up about $160 after an hour or two.

Now, we’re sitting in our room… here are some token pics

supernova9 with his crappy old-ass laptop
Ozzy playing 50/100 NL on UB. He’s still playing as I write this…
supernova9 and Ozzy

We have to go to sleep relatively soon, the $200 tournament starts at 10 am.

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  4. hahaha
  5. yep, it happens at 200/400 PLO also…
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