There is a theory in poker that barring some unusual hands, chips move to the left, which is why you want to take a seat to the left of the big stack at the casino.
Theory meets reality on Thursday night.
The game is kind of impromptu, the boys all played on Wednesday night anyways but we got another game together on Thursday and we sat around in the cold November rain with nothing else to do. Its a small game, Woody, J6, Rapper and the Mouth all make it and it starts off fast. J6 sits in position 1, the Rapper in 2, Woody in 3 and the Mouth in 4.
No raise and it is just the two blinds in the hand, the flop is a rag tag of nothingness, T86, small bet from J6 and a call from the Rapper. Turn is a 2 and goes check, check. River is a 3, cue fireworks. J6 leads at the pot with a smallish bet and gets popped by the Rapper, J6 re pops the bet and the Rapper moves it in the middle after about a minute or so. J6 goes in the tank.
“do you have 7-9?”
“did you play 7-9?”
“i can’t believe you played 7-9?
“i think i might be good here”
“do you have 7-9?”
“i hope you don’t have 7-9?
“i call”
The Rapper turns over 45 for the rivered straight and J6 turns over pocket threes for a set on the river. Any other card than the 3 on the river and it probably goes check, check and J6 takes down the pot. Tough break and the Rapper doubles up.
Hands go back and forth for a while with some traction. J6 starts to get a little aggressive and leads at pots with big bets, sometimes winning and sometimes losing. J6 starts to get a little lower in chips and pushes, Rapper lays the hand down not sure if he is playing AK or a pair, dominated by AK he lays down his AQ. J6 runs into it again later and gets all his chips in the middle, the Rapper calls him this time and J6 turns over pocket Tens, an Ace comes out on the flop and J6 can’t catch up. Another buy in for J6 and the Rapper is now playing with a nice stack.
A nice raise from J6 on the button gets called from the Rapper in small blind and Woody in big, the Rapper checks in the dark and the flop is AA4. Woody leads at the pot and J6 raises 4x, the Rapper pushes and J6 goes into the tank again.
“do you have an ace?”
“i don’t think you have an ace?”
“why did you push?”
“call”
The Rapper turns over AT and takes down the pot, J6 never shows his hand but we are assuming he had a medium pair.
A quick walk around the house for a while and J6 reloads.
Woody quietly builds his stack taking down pots with Quads, straight flushes, and pocket Aces twice. Later he gets hooked up with the Rapper on a huge hand. Raise from the Rapper on the button gets calls and a family pot. Flop comes down AQ9 all Hearts. Checked around to the Rapper who fires at then gets 6X check raised by Woody. The Rapper thinks for a while and pushes over the top, Woody thinks for a bit and calls with 48 of Hearts for the flopped Flush, the Rapper turns over A9 for two pair and needs help, which he doesn’t get, a huge pot moves to the left to Woody on a bad push by the Rapper who could have gotten away from that pretty unscathed, two pair is not a good hand.
The rest of the night is back and forth until Woody tries to bluff a big pot on the Mouth with a large river raise. The Mouth makes the call with a middle two pair and picks off Woody’s bluff. Chips move to the left where they stay for the rest of the night and the Mouth goes home before the chips can make the full rotation back to J6.
Mouth is up, Woody is flush and the Rapper wins the showdown to make a couple on the end, J6 continues his slide, opening day at the restaurant can’t come fast enough for J6.