Last of the Mohigans

The day is a bit of a blur at the moment but there were some great hands. I got lucky early when I picked up AA and the big blind checked raised me on a k106 two diamonds flop. I called and folded when another King hit the turn. He showed 1010 and I would have lost more chips if the second King hadn't come.

Shortly after I raised 43 off suit UTG, blinds 200/400, one caller and we saw a K 6 4 flop. I bet and thought I was finished with the hand until I binked another 4 on the turn. He called again and also a pot sized river bet. The poor guy was fairly dejected when I flipped my hand but it didn't do my table image much good and I was snapped off about the next six times I opened.

I was happy enough when the table broke towards the end of the fourth hour of the day. The new table was interesting, a guy to my right sporting a bracelet and to his right a Norwegian who seemed to be getting a lot of press attention, it turned out he was a double Olympic gold medalist at cross country skiing. There were also two older guys who were total mongs but were hitting everything.

The first hand I played on the table I called 66 on the button, the 876 flop looked good, the 6 on the turn looked even better. The UTG raiser had check called flop and turn, when he checked his remaining 18k on the river, I decided to chance a shove. The fact that he tanked for five minutes with AK for ace high told me it was probably the right move.

At dinner I had 43k; within 4 hands after dinner I was down to 22k. I had raised all four and connected to three flops. Unfortunately the old guys were calling me down and I knew I was fucked when the river four flushed two of the boards and another four straighted.

The next hand I picked up 88 UTG but decided to just fold them as I didn't fancy the fifth open in a row, obviously the board came 853 rainbow and two guys go to war.

A bit steaming now, I knew I had to buckle down and hang in to pick the right spot and try to double up. I was quiet over the next 90 minutes, picking the odd spot to maintain my short stack. Coming towards the end I shoved 33 on the button for 22 bigs after two limpers. Then with five hands left I flatted 44 after a raise and call from the small blind, the big came along. The Q 8 4 two spade flop brought a tear of joy to my eye, the 10k bet from one of the older guys wasn't half bad news either. I knew he wasn't for folding so put my remaining 28k in and was delighted to see a red QK. The Q on the turn did give a bit of a fright but thankfully I didn't take a bad one.

66k at the end of the day and looking forward to Monday.

We never did find the car keys, so we decided to ring the rental company. Within an hour they had towed away the keyless car and replaced it with a new one Including an apology for taking so long. I was impressed.