The Biggest Called Overbet I've Ever Seen

I haven't been playing a whole lot over the last week due to being busy with other random non-poker crap. But I have played a little. On friday night I went to a local casino and played some $2/$3 NL. I won about $20, the friend I was with won about $670 in the same game due to cold-decking a couple other people (AQ vs. AK on an AxxxQ board and 87 vs. Ac9c on a 2c4c8d7d8c board). I wasn't running very well. I got 88/99/TT about a zillion times and won with them about once. I did play a pretty interesting hand, however.

I have about $220 to start the hand. UTG limps, UTG+1 limps, a new player (his 2nd hand) makes it $15 in MP, guy to my right calls, I call on the button with AhQh, BB calls, limpers call. The flop comes As2c4c, all check to the guy on my immediate right who bets $25 (pot was about $75). I don't like raising here, but folding or calling are both MUCH worse. I min-raise to $50 to try to thin the field. UTG+1 cold-calls $50, bettor calls $25. The turn comes an offsuit 8, both players check, I bet $65, cold-caller now folds (wtf?), bettor moves me in for $90 more. I put my head on the table and curse my crappy play. I decide I'm pot stuck and call, he shows AJo and I win. After the hand, here's the dialogue between me and the guy I was with.

Friend: "That was a tough one. Good call."
Me: "Just because I had him beat there doesn't make it a good call."
Friend: "I'll be results oriented and say it was a good call anyway."
Me: "I'll be results oriented and say that was a good limp with up front with the 87o earlier." (see the 87o vs. A9c hand above)


I also played some online poker today and had some fun hands in the cash games. At first I donated a bunch of money to the same donkey in 3 hands by getting him in when I was either slightly or way ahead and having him suck out. Here are those hands:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (9 handed)
UTG ($198)
UTG+1 (Donkey) ($26)
MP1 ($132.25)
MP2 ($334.55)
MP3 ($79.10)
CO ($76)
Button ($460.45)
SB ($310.95)
Hero ($196)
Preflop: Hero is BB with Td, As.
1 fold, UTG+1 (Donkey) raises to $6, 6 folds, Hero raises to $30, UTG+1 (Donkey) calls $20 (All-In).
Flop: ($57) 2h, 6c, 9h (2 players, 1 all-in)
Turn: ($57) Ks (2 players, 1 all-in)
River: ($57) 8d (2 players, 1 all-in)
Final Pot: $57
Results below:
Hero has Td As (high card, ace).
Donkey has Jh Kc (one pair, kings).
Outcome: Donkey wins $53. Hero wins $4.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (8 handed)
UTG+1 (Donkey) ($122.40)
MP1 ($225.30)
MP2 ($96.25)
CO ($200)
Button ($147)
SB ($722.30)
BB ($200)
Hero ($201)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with Ah, Qs.
Hero raises to $8, UTG+1 (Donkey) calls $8, 6 folds.
Flop: ($19) Ad, Kh, 6d (2 players)
Hero bets $14, Donkey raises to $28, Hero raises to $130, Donkey calls $86.40 (All-In).
Turn: ($263.40) 8s (2 players, 1 all-in)
River: ($263.40) 8c (2 players, 1 all-in)
Final Pot: $263.40
Results below:
Hero has Ah Qs (two pair, aces and eights).
Donkey has Th Ac (two pair, aces and eights).
Outcome: Hero wins $139.50. Donkey wins $123.90.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (9 handed)
CO ($188.50)
Button (Donkey) ($66.95)
SB ($250)
BB ($101.40)
UTG ($209.10)
UTG+1 ($75.80)
MP1 ($763.55
MP2 ($205)
Hero ($203.05)
Preflop: Hero is MP3 with Jc, Js.
4 folds, Hero raises to $8, 1 fold, Button (Donkey) calls $8, 2 folds.
Flop: ($19) 8c, 2s, 6h (2 players)
Hero checks, Donkey bets $10, Hero raises to $74, Donkey calls $48.95 (All-In).
Turn: ($151.95) 6c (2 players, 1 all-in)
River: ($151.95) Kh (2 players, 1 all-in)
Final Pot: $151.95
Results below:
Hero has Jc Js (two pair, jacks and sixes).
Donkey has 6s 5s (three of a kind, sixes).
Outcome: Donkey wins $136.90. Hero wins $15.05.

Donkey got stacked pretty quickly, giving all my money to other people. And at the other table I was playing, there was somebody who was almost as bad. First I lost a decent pot to him in spectacular fashion, where he checks and calls pot size bets on the flop and turn with AJo on a 3574 board only to river his gutshot and not bet it. Wow. I knew I was going to get this guy good if I could pick up an actual hand (forshadowing).

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (9 handed)
UTG+1 ($168.35)
MP1 ($146.80)
MP2 ($102.75)
MP3 ($51)
CO (Donkey2) ($96.75)
Hero ($231.80)
SB ($78)
BB ($141.60)
UTG ($93.85)
Preflop: Hero is Button with 7d, 8c.
5 folds, CO (Donkey2) raises to $4, Hero calls $4, 2 folds.
Flop: ($11) 7h, 3d, 5c (2 players)
Donkey2 checks, Hero bets $8, Donkey2 calls $8.
Turn: ($27) 4h (2 players)
Donkey2 checks, Hero bets $24, Donkey2 calls $24.
River: ($75) 2c (2 players)
Donkey2 checks, Hero checks.
Final Pot: $75
Results below:
Donkey2 has Ad Jh (straight, five high).
Hero has 7d 8c (one pair, sevens).
Outcome: Donkey2 wins $75.

After this the game got short-handed, then I finally got heads up with Donkey2. Here is the first hand of heads up play -- this guy calls a 64x pot bet on the river when I have the nuts. Awesome -- this pot got me almost even for the night in cash games.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (2 handed)
Button (Donkey2) ($257.35)
Hero ($318.40)
Preflop: Hero is BB with 4h, 7c. Button (Donkey2) posts a blind of $2.
Hero calls $1, Button (Donkey2) (poster) checks.
Flop: ($4) Td, 3d, 5c (2 players)
Hero checks, Donkey2 checks.
Turn: ($4) 2c (2 players)
Hero checks, Donkey2 checks.
River: ($4) 6h (2 players)
Hero bets $316.4 (All-In), Donkey2 calls $255.35 (All-In).
Final Pot: $575.75
Results below:
Donkey2 has 3c 3s (three of a kind, threes).
Hero has 4h 7c (straight, seven high).
Outcome: Hero wins $575.75.


I also played a $20+2 NL tourney on Stars and got 16th/654 for like $140. Not too much interesting here. I got a bunch of chips in standard fashion, ran AA into KK for a nice pot, beat 99 with 55 (AI preflop) by flopping quads, knocked out some short stacks, etc. I was fairly short when we got down to 2 tables, and I decided to try a squeeze play with 66 and ran into 99 and AA and I didn't suckout. Oh well.

I also saw a very funny hand when we were down to 3 tables in this tourney. We were 8 handed with blinds of 1500/3000/a150. I fold UTG, UTG+1 makes it 24000 leaving himself with about 2300 (yes, two thousand three hundred). All fold to the BB, who insta-calls for about 2/3 of his chips. Flop comes 2s8dTd, BB bets, UTG+1 calls with KK. BB has 9d6d, the river is some diamond and KK is gone. Yikes.


It's getting to be close to my bedtime so I better wrap this up. I have a bunch of work to do this week, but hopefully I'll be playing poker when I'm not working. I also need to figure out if I'm going to make a "free" sports bet before I go to bed.