Happy Thanksgiving to all...Winning session at Shorty's

I want to wish everyone a Happy Turkey Day. I was suppose to go to the camp and go duck hunting with a buddy of mine and play a tourney at Coushatta, but I came up sick Thursday night with a sore throat and sinus problems. I felt like crap.

I had a good sessionat Shorty's Thursday night. I bought in for $400.00 and cashed out 4 hours later with $1450.00 a cool $1050.0 to the bankroll. There were some real gamblers there that night that were "slinging chips". I just stayed patient and had one guy make a $400.00 bluff on the river when I held 2 pair. Hand went this way.

I have J4s and call a small raise of $25 from "Action Guy". We have 3 callers. Me, Spoon, Billy and Action Guy. Flop comes AdJh4d. I got 2 pair , and I am imediately putting Action Guy on AK or AQ. I check, and he bets out $50.00 and Billy Folds, Spoon calls and I raise it $100.00 more for a total of $150.00 to go. Action Guy calls, as does Spoon which spookes me as Spoon is the chip leader at the table with over $3000.00 in front of him. He can take some chances where normally he wouldn't. Turn comes a 8h. I loved this card as it could not have helped anyone. I bet out $200.00. After Action Guy goes in the tank for about 5 minutes, he calls. To my delight, spoon folds. River card comes 5d. A scare card for me as it puts the flush and a low wheel out there. I check and he announces "OH No...not now...I bit 300.00" and he slams 3 stacks of reds in the middle of the pot. Now its my turn to go in the tank. My thoughts were below:

--He would never had played the hand that way with a wheel from the Ace. He was not even open-ended...Nah...no way
--He would have played Ace-Jack like there was no tommorow. He would have re-raised me.
--I did not believe he would have played the flush this way also as the Ace is on the board. What did he raise with originally? KdJd...QdJd...unlikely but possible.
--He did the "Classic" rookie tell of , "Act strong is weak" when he slams the chips in the pot...and vise-versa.
--No...I had to go with my original read on big slick, possible suited. He hit his ace on the flop, and the way the hand played out fits.

I call and show my 2 pair, and he shows AQ. I almost had him with the big slick read but hey, I still won the hand, and a huge hand it turned out to be.

I am heading to my little nephews B-Day party and I just left K-Mart. What a fiasco. Retail stores during the X-mas rush. It is maddening.

"I am going to let you in a little secret, Ray, Kmart sucks!!"
Tom Cruise's character Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man