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HOWMANY: playing Hogan HU seems like a bad idea but if he was that far gone, congrats.


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Yeah, he seemed pretty determined to leave with as close to $0 as possible.

Just got back from another great session. And by great I mean terrible. Woke up 5:30 am Saturday and fished until 6. Finished unloading fishing [censored] about 8 I guess. By 10pm I am at the casino at which point I'm already realizing I'm too tired to play poker. Oh well, I'm already there so it's not like I'm going to turn around and drive back. Turns out Crazy Mike is there but apparently we aren't allowed to start a 75. Okay that makes a lot of sense. Either that or it's retarded, I'm not too sure which. Anyway, I eventually get a seat which of course is the one on Crazy Mike's right. I run good and win like 1800 or so anyway at which point I suffer a handful of standard Crazy Mike coolers including a fun one where he straddles about 6 handed I 3bet A4, flop 468 he c/c, turn A he c/r luckily it is 3 flush card so I just call down. He has A6. So by the time he leaves I'm stuck about half a rack. yay

I come back to up about a rack until the game begins to break and only "nobody runs worse than me" Steve and I are left. As usual he is on tilt and playing the same way he always does. Very first hand he opens button I defend A5o. Flop A68 two hearts I decide to donk because nobody would ever donk an A here. He calls. Turn T I bet he calls. River 5 heart I bet he raises I think a while and realize it's [censored] HU and I'm not folding two pair. Of course he has 55 for the fantastically played one outter. After winning every pot for 10 minutes he hit and runs me up about 1.5 racks off me. Okay. Then a couple random people sit and they throw their money away to me and I'm winning a little again. Alex shows up and he wins every pot for a while to bring me back to down 2 racks.

Then God finally smiles on me by breaking the 10/10 NL and some guy walking away says "what's the min buyin" and he proceeds to absolute burn up his money. I take one adorable one from his where he raises button I defend A2s. I bet/3 and call 4 on Q22 two hearts to c/r turn. Guess what the turn is. You don't need to guess because of course it's a Q. He checks behind so I make what I now think is a bad bet on the 7h river and fold to his raise bc he is so straightforward on turn/river when he bets or raises. Luckily by the time he leaves I am up like 2700 or so which is always nice. At 6:11 I tell Alex I am leaving at 6:30 because I want to go to sleep and I have 6700 in front of me. At 6:24 I am saying "I'm done" and have 4200 in front of me. I am pretty sure 2500 in a 40 game in 13 minutes has to be a new record. I won 1 pot in this time but I did manage to get 2 outted by his JJ against my QT on a 45Q flop 9 turn in a real big pot. It was honestly hilarious, or at least it would be if there was not money involved. I started with A high or something solid almost every hand. He made a pair almost every hand plus I managed to pick up multiple completely unplayable hands from the BB against his raise.

I don't care if I lose. I don't care if I'm winning and lose. Winning then being stuck then being winner then stuck, then even bigger winner than any point earlier and then losing it all back drives me insane. BTW I'm also going to take great joy in watching Steve go broke even more after his hit and run against me today.