I know I ripped the title “It was a Crazy Game of Poker” off of the band Oar, but that song is befitting of our weekly home game this week.
I haven’t written alot about particular hands the last few months because there really hasn’t been that many amazing hands worth talking about. This week, there were so many crazy unbelievable hands I might have trouble remembering them all.
Everyone was in good spirits, probably because the spirits were flowing, and we had a couple of new faces at the table. Because I am lousy with names, lets just go ahead and name them Roller Coaster Jimmy and the Lucky MoFo. It was pretty apparent early they seemed to be a little over their heads playing against such superstars as myself, but they hung in there long enough to have the deck hit them in the face. First was Roller Coaster Jim, who had won several hands in a row with ace high and a pair of shit (threes) to take the chiplead, and then comes the biggest hand of the night.
After a preflop raise which was called by half the table, I dealt the flop of 3-9-J with two spades. The action went something like this, bet…raise…all-in, all-in, all-in, all-in, all-in. So 5 players all in on this action packed flop. What could they all possibly have?
Surfer Dude turns over pocket 10’s. AAron was AAslowplaying and in AAnotsoenvious multiway hand with his AA. The short haired ex-hippie threw down the top two pair, jacks and nines, and Neildot.com had something relevant that I don’t remember. Of course the Roller Coaster was in there as well with the 7-8 of spades! The queen on the turn gave Surfer Dude an openended straight draw and some hope, while AAron was hoping for a non-spade 3 or a non-spade Q for two pair, while the top two pair hand was hoping for an absolute brick. With the tension in the air so thick you could cut it with a knife, the 4 of spades came crashing down sending 4 players to the rail in one hand as the Roller Coaster flushed the competition down the drain.
Roller Coaster continued to play loose and pretty much let everyone at the table double through him by calling with king high on a whole bunch of hands. The major recipient was none other then the player formerly known as Blake J. Nolan but now known as the “Angle Shooter”. In fact, after the Roller Coaster pushed nearly his entire stack his way, he decided to board the Roller Coaster and give all his chips away to the rookie, Lucky Mofo. In back to back hands, Blake J. Nolan made trips on the turn and had the Lucky Mofo in trouble with his pair, but the river both hands paired the board with the two-outter Lucky Mofo needed to win with a bigger full house then Blake J. Nolan had made.
This whole time I am playing phenomenal shortstack poker, biding my time waiting to pounce like a lion hunting his prey. One of the winning hands I had tonight was when I limped with a 9-3 offsuit on the button and the flop came 9-3-3. Everyone checked to me on the flop and so I abliged by checking as well giving everyone a free card and hoping somebody would make a hand. The 4 on the turn got Neildot.com interested as he fired 300 into the pot. With everyone folding in front of me I decided to keep the trap wide open so I just smooth called. The river 6 sent fireworks flying as Neildot.com threw a 500 chip into the pot which I quickly reraised all-in. Without hesitation he called all-in for 1,700 more while proudly flipping up his 2-5 for a runner-runner straight (2-3-4-5-6). I interrupted him while he was reaching to scoop the pot with my table shocking full boat!
Later, I finally get on a roll and win a few hands and become a factor three handed with AAron and Lucky MoFo. I am then dealt ladies (pocket queens). A preflop reraise to 3500 was enough to get the initial raiser AAron out but not the dangerous Lucky Mofo. On a flop of 9-6-4 I move all-in on Lucky Mofo for over 7,000 chips. Lucky Mofo doesn’t hesitate with the I’ve already called 3,500 so I have to call this bet while turning over the K-2 for what appears to be a total of 3 outs (any of the three kings). No king on the turn or the river, but the 5 on the turn and the 3 on the river makes everyone do a double take and notice the wicked straight Lucky Mofo just pulled out of his ass, (2-3-4-5-6). gg (good game) me.
Four Crazy Midnight rebuys by Wifey, the Angle Shooter, Neildot.com, and myself proved to be a waste of money and we were all reeliminated.
After a few minutes of heads up play, AArron and Lucky Mofo split the pot and put an end to the Crazy Game of Poker.