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What's the largest 1/2 NL pot you've seen? I watched a $1,000+ pot at the Venetian last Thursday night.

UTG raised to $20, and three players called, including the SB. Flop came down AK8, all diamonds, and the SB pushed all in for $420 with a baby flush (I think he had 7d5d). The original raiser (who had top two pair with AK) folded, but the next player called. He had also had AK, and he had over $500 behind. The last player called with her remaining $120 or so, holding the Qd for the nut flush draw.

The baby flush held up, and the winner dragged a pot of around $1,050. So this guy called a UTG raise of $20 from out of position with a suited-one gap hand, overbets the resulting pot on the flop by $340, and winds up with the largest win in a 1/2 game that I've ever seen.

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Seen probably close to $1000. Played in/won was about $450.

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My bf won a $1,000+ pot at MGM with 5d7d! He hit the nut straight and two other players each had a 5 for the 6-high straight. Pretty nice. I always play 5d7d now [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Took down $1,180 pot from the hottest woman I've ever played against at the Borgata about 3 months ago. I forget the betting sequence but I pushed about $400 with the nut flush on the river and she snap called with top set. Ship it............can I have your number?

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I won a $730 pot or so at Venetian's 1/2 in April from someone holding 7d5d.

Completed A5o from the SB in a near family pot, checkraised some guy on a J55 flop and pushed over his 3-bet, he talked himself into calling by saying "he would've played AA or KK like that too"... sure thing buddy.

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I have just started playing 1/2 NL @ FW and I pretty much suck at NL.

There are two limpers and I raise to $15 with my AQ, 3 callers (pot is $63).

Flop is A99. Check, Check, I bet $30 - 3 callers (pot is $183).

Turn is a Q. Check, check, I check (I think there is a 9 out there), button bets $90, call, raise to $180, I fold, button re-raises to $270, long pause then call, really long pause then call all-in for $75 more (pot is $978) !!!

River is not an A (thank goodness), check, button bets all-in for $450, call ($1,878 total in pot).

Button turns over QQ for full house. Big stack turns over K9 and all-in guy turns over 97... My top two were good for fourth place.

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$2300

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It's a bad beat story, but what the hell...I was in a 1/2 hand where a pot of 1600 went down.

I was A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] on the Buton with $480 on a GREAT table. very aggressive donks with lots of chips. Anyway, early position donk bets $17, four callers, and I call

Pot: $102
Flop came:
J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

Original better fires out $25, three fold, and a raise to $75. I smooth call, original raiser calls.

Turn:
2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

I hate this card, but nope, orginal raiser fires out $100, MP Call!, I shove. First guy calls and so does the second!!
Both of them had me covered!

Final Pot ~1600

(first guy had K high flush and the other guy had two pair, caught his boat on the river)

All I could do was buy back in and take back $300 from that donk before he left. But pots (and plays) like that are why I love 1/2 NL live!

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I won $834 pot with 44 on a 46dQAd!

it should have been $1500~ if you know.. people actually folded KQo to a LRR for 70 and i actually hit cards..

seriously, guy to my right has 1100 (100 max buyin!)

and guy 2 seats to my left has 600!

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I won a pot of about $900 once. I have QQ at Firelake (OK). A real LAG raises to $15 UTG. I have QQ and I pop it to $40 to isolate mainly after a pretty new guy calls in the middle, they both call.

Flop is AKQ 2 spades.I'm not crazy about this flop, but we'll see. LAG guy bets $100. He has a lot behind, I have him covered (I have like $800 in front of me), tightish guy folds. We have $120 preflop, plus his $100. I figure he could be on AK with the ace of spades here, but maybe he has AA/KK, but if he has AK with the spade I gotta make him pay, so I push, he insta calls with the hand I thought, it holds up. SHIP IT!

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I apologize in advance for the tl;dr post. The cliffs notes are at the end, but when it happened 4-5 months ago I wrote an email to my brother about it, so I just copied and pasted (sans names) the email here.

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OK, so my wife has class late until about 10 on Tuesdays, and I'm off work at 4:30, so I figure, what the hell and go get in a session of poker. I'm planning on leaving about 9:00 so I can be home about when she gets there and we can hang out. I'm doing OK, up a little bit, and the table maniac (who's been donating chips to the table the entire time I was there) is almost out of money, and 9:00 is coming around when this sequence of events happen.

(1) I take down a big pot, about $120 when I hit two pair on the flop.

(2) I'm under the gun on the very next hand and on a whim, flush with chips, I make it live eight.

(3) I fold my nothing cards, but the action does indeed go crazy and it ends up all-in pre-flop 4-ways and the maniac takes it down, giving him a big stack.

Oh crap. I've got a deep stack of ~$500+ and the maniac has a deep stack of ~$400+. I can't leave now! The last shuttle to BART leaves at 11:30, so I decide to stay and try to get the maniac's chips. The getting is just too good. And now the setup.

The mark: this guys has been paying almost every hand for the 3 or 4 hours I'd been sitting down. He is nuts. Truly nuts. He will play any two cards, and will change up his play. During the evening I have seen him (a) bluff $100 into a $100 pot on the river holding nothing (b) slowplay a nut flush and make out big time (c) slowplay a flopped full house holding 93o only to end up losing to a rivered larger full house (d) take down some big pots holding two pair with hands like 73o and T6o and the like. There are 2 key moves I see him make over and over again, constantly, that are why I'm keeping my eye on him. First, he makes big overbets - $80 into a $30 pot, that kind of thing. He got caught bluffing that one time, but he has gotten called down holding a monster (usually a flush or straight) way more often. He just hammers the pot when he's got a hand, and has rarely been seeing showdown because of it. And second, and most importantly, he will call ANY bet to chase ANY draw. Flush draws in particular have been getting him in trouble, and I've watched him call some absolute monster raises only to show a missed flush draw on the end.

The history: Before the hand coming up, we've been in two hands together through the night. (1) I've got black aces in the small blind, three or four limpers to me, I make it $20 to go, and get 2 callers including the maniac. Flop is a bunch of rags, I lead for $40 and take the pot. (2) I've got JT of diamonds on the button, two limpers to me, I make it $14 to go and both limpers call. Flop comes Ad-Jh-7d, I've got a pair and a flush draw. Both other players check to me, and I bet $25, the maniac calls and the other fellow folds. Turn comes off a blank and maniac checks to me, I figure I'm not pushing this guy off a hand and I need help, so I take the free card. River is the Jack of spades, so I miss my flush draw but make trips. Maniac goes all in for about $100 more and I call. He flips up AT for a pair of aces, and I flip up my hand and say "sorry man, I've got the jack."

The setup: We've both been doing well, I've got about $550 in front of me and I think he's got about $500. The guy to my right has been SUPER tight, playing very few hands. I'm on the button and get dealt fish-hooks, a pair of jacks.

The action: Maniac limps in for $4 from middle position, super-tight player raises to $12. Time to figure out where I am. I pop it to $40, and both the maniac and tighty call me. Pot is now $120, and the flop comes:

6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]-7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]-2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

Doesn't get much better for pocket jacks. I'm worried about both other players, especially Mr. Tighty, but I've got position, so I just watch. Maniac checks, and tighty bets $10. $10 into a $120 pot and I'm trying to keep myself from laughing out loud. I bet $100. Maniac calls, and I put him on the flush draw. Tighty sighs, shuffles his cards around a little, and folds. Thank god! The pot is now $330, and on to the turn, which is 7d so the board reads

7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]-6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]-7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]-2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

Which is great for me as that card doesn't fill any draws. Maniac checks to me. I'm thinking either he's got a 7, or I've got the best hand. Since its unlikely he's got a 7, and the board really couldn't be better for me, I bet $200, the maximum bet allowed in this game (its not *true* no limit). Maniac starts thinking, and thinking, and thinking. Eventually he picks up a couple handfuls of $20 chips, at which point this old crazy asian guy between us say to him "can you beat aces?" Dealer says to him "sir, please don't talk during a hand." So the guy takes it up with the dealer, "but he's doing to call that with a dr..." but the dealer cuts him off "its a rule you can't talk if you're not in the hand. That's just how it is." Old crazy asian guy seems displeased, but shuts up. Maniac throws his two handfuls of $20 chips into the pot, and it looks to me like we're going to the river. "How much does he have left?" I ask the dealer. Old crazy asian guy turns to me and says "four hundred". Now I KNOW he doesn't have $400 left (I can see that he's out of $20 chips and only has $1 chips left, somewhere north of $100), so now I'm thinking that the maniac ALSO made the max bet and its $400 to go back to me, and I start freaking out. My head is going a million miles per hour - I've got $300 invested in this pot but I can't call another $200 because I'm almost certainly drawing to 2 outs if I'm behind yadda yadda and say out loud "did he make it $400?". I'm about to freak the [censored] out when the dealer says "no, he called." and the crasian says "wait, what did you ask?" GRRRRR!! We sort it out and he has $170 left which I cover. There's $730 in the pot, and we're off to the river, which comes 9 of clubs, making the board

9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]-7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]-6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]-7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]-2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

I still think he's on the flush draw, so that's good. But it does fill some straights, and that's not good. Maniac checks to me, and I start thinking it through. I've seen him slowplay, so the check doesn't mean anything. If he has the flushdraw, like I think he has, he won't call my final $170 bet. If he has the 7 or the straight he will, but both are rather unlikely. I think I have the best hand. I'm tempted to bet, but the more I think about it I realize that he will fold worse hands and call with better. I've never seen him play aces - maybe this is how he plays aces and I've been dead all along. Eventually, I figure I only get a call of the $170 when I'm losing it, and just turn up my jacks. Dealer announces "two pair, Jacks and Sevens" then turns to the maniac, waiting for him to turn up his hand...


























































..and get this. He rechecks his cards three times, then flips up and tosses away 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] and 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. I wasn't the one drawing to two outs on the turn, HE WAS! And he called $200 with second pair, no flush draw and no straight draw. Dealer says "two pair, sevens and sixes. Jacks and sevens wins," and I get pushed the $700 pot! I start to regret not putting the last $170 in in the river, but I console myself that it was the right decision at the time, and besides, I'm too distracted stacking all these chips to worry about it.

Some postscripts - I tipped the dealer $5 and told him "thanks for keeping it one player to a hand." Mr. Tighty told me later he had AK of [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]s. After this hand I fold my cards for the next 15 minutes so I don't look like I'm hitting and running then leave to go home, only about an hour and a half late, but with mission accomplished.

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I've played 2 other pots larger than $700 since this hand, but none larger than the $730 in this one.

Cliff's notes: I win a $730 pot against a maniac.

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$3500, downtown, at Binions

I took it down with 3rd pair, against a busted flush draw.

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$3500, downtown, at Binions

I took it down with 3rd pair, against a busted flush draw.

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would have loved to play in this game

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$3500, downtown, at Binions

I took it down with 3rd pair, against a busted flush draw.

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Level or the all-time greatest call in a live 1/2 game?

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$3500, downtown, at Binions

I took it down with 3rd pair, against a busted flush draw.

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Level or the all-time greatest call in a live 1/2 game?

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I'm picturing a betting war between A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] and 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] on a 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] flop, and two overs fall on the turn and river.

That or the afore mentioned greatest read ever.

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I lost a ~1500 dollar pot at Mandalay in 1/2 when my flopped boat got beat by runner-runner quads by some donk with an overpair. Got it all in on the flop.

That was maybe 6 months ago and I still feel sick thinking about it.

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$2000 at the next table over at the Excalibur.

$1800 at Casino San Pablo, lost with KK vs 3 others, winner had 8 10 sooted.

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The Wynn recently had two 10k pots at their 1/3 tables within an hour between two of the same people. They bought in for reallll deep. (Wynn is uncapped) I didn't see it, but multiple dealers confirmed it.

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What was more remarkable about the $1800 pot at Casino San Pablo is the game is $100 max buyin. Yes, there were some people there that did a lot of stacking off before that hand came up.

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I lost a ~$3,600 pot at Motor City casino last year.

I'm embarrsed to even tell the story but...

Me and another were about 1.8k deep, if you can believe it. There was a lot of money on the table because this was back when they had must move tables and the main game got VERY deep for 1/2. Like $500+ average chip stack.

Anyway, EP raises to $15, MP calls, I call from SB with 55 and villain in BB calls.

Flop comes AcQ5c.

I lead out for $60.
BB calls.
Fold.
Fold.

Turn card comes a 9s.
I bet $200
He makes it $600. I tank, and eventually push because I am a greedy SOB and was playing for 18 hours and so on...

Anyway, his Kc9c holds up and I went home and threw up.

The next day everyone was talking about it.

Worst poker experience of my life.

Ugh.

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2 weeks ago I lost a $1650 pot at a 1/2 $200 max buyin.

I had aces and a chance to shut out a bunch of people behind me and go heads up with an allin (who had 63o) for a $300 pot. But I let them come in behind with bad odds for a much much bigger pot with almost no implied odds and I got outflopped.

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I lost a ~$3,600 pot at Motor City casino last year.

I'm embarrsed to even tell the story but...

Me and another were about 1.8k deep, if you can believe it. There was a lot of money on the table because this was back when they had must move tables and the main game got VERY deep for 1/2. Like $500+ average chip stack.

Anyway, EP raises to $15, MP calls, I call from SB with 55 and villain in BB calls.

Flop comes AcQ5c.

I lead out for $60.
BB calls.
Fold.
Fold.

Turn card comes a 9s.
I bet $200
He makes it $600. I tank, and eventually push because I am a greedy SOB and was playing for 18 hours and so on...

Anyway, his Kc9c holds up and I went home and threw up.

The next day everyone was talking about it.

Worst poker experience of my life.

Ugh.

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river club?

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$2200-2300 at Borgata

There were two guys with over a thousand in their stack. I can't remember the exact action or board but it was along the lines of K-3-7 7 K. On the river the pot was no bigger than 75 bucks. The first guy checked, and the second guy moved all in. The first guy called right away without even thinking. He shows his K, and sure enough the other guys shows pocket sevens.

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BB raises to $20 after a bunch of limpers. Everyone calls.

Flop is QQ9.

BB pushes all in for 600+!! Next person beats the BB into the pot with his entire stack of 600+. Everyone else folds. Total pot $1300+.

BB shows QQ for flopped quads. Caller shows 99 for a boat.

She pushed all-in, first to act with quad Qs - and got a call from the only hand that could really call. How lucky is that.
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Not as big, but limped pot. Flop is all hearts.

UTG bets $5. UTG+1 raises to $20. UTG+2 calls.

UTG re-raises to $100. Call. Call.

Turn pairs the board.

All-in. All-in. Call. Total pot ~$1000. Apparently the board pairing scared no one.

Everyone flopped a flush. Q-high takes it down, to J-high, and a 6-high flush that missed redraw to a low straight flush because both outs were in the other players hands.

Three flopped flushes, all next to each other.

Only way this could be weirder is some one had a K-heart draw and the straight flush got hit on the river.

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3700 dollars @ Naples fort Myers dog track, late Sunday night
7 all in on flop.
Nut straights (2) chopped

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biggest i've ever seen is a home game.

UTG (with 1200 behind) bets 50.
1 fold.
Big stacks(about 2400) raises to 200
Next guys is all in for 300
All fold to UTG who shoves AI. Big stacks calls and turns over QQ. guy with 300 shows KK and UTG shows AJs lol. big stacks makes his set and drags down the $2700 pot.



And yes...it is 1/2 [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I took down a $2,100 pot in Council Bluffs when the WSOP circuit event was going on last year.

Some guy had been running over the table. He'd built his $200 up to just over a G in the first hour. Along the way, he'd gotten it all in with top pair twice (to flush draws) both held up.

I managed to pop him by slow playing Q-Q preflop when it was just the two of us in the blinds. The sweet [censored] justice of it all was that it folded around to us, and I'd asked him if he wanted to chop before I looked down at my cards. He said no (the dude was a world-class dick), I looked, limped and he popped it to $20.

Flop came 10-9-2. I checked. He bet pot. And I tripled his raise. He pushed. I called. He showed J-J.

Brick – Brick and I’m $1,100 richer. Too bad I went on to play for 17 more hours over the four I’d already played. At least I booked a $10 win.

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I won a $900 dollar pot at the Taj on Memorial Day.

I was sitting with about $350 dollars when I started the hand. I was dealt K9 suited and limped in on the button after a few callers. The Big Blind raised it up 7 or something else just as dumb. Everyone called and we saw a flop of K 7 9 rainbow. The SB checks and the big blind bets 15. Everyone folds and I make it 50. the big blind then check raises another 50. The big blind fold and I think about it for a minute or two. I'm worried about a set but i'm sure it's more likely he as AK or something. I call (I'm sure I should have raised) and the turn is another 9. He instantly goes All-in and I instantly call. He has me covered and looks pretty upset that I called as quickly as I did. He turns over his slowplayed aces and doesn't hit the river.

It felt so awesome taking 3 hands to stuck up that huge pile of chips.

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I lost a 1.4k and won a 1.1k and a 1k pot and was only in Vegas for a little more than a week.

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I lost a ~1500 dollar pot at Mandalay in 1/2 when my flopped boat got beat by runner-runner quads by some donk with an overpair. Got it all in on the flop.

That was maybe 6 months ago and I still feel sick thinking about it.

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his turn card was enough to win him the pot, DUCY?

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I'm sitting with $1100 in bb, fish in LP has me covered. Three callers to me and I make it $22 with AJ. Call, call, fold. Flop is JJ5. I underbet - $22 to try to get aggrodonk in LP to raise. Reasonable player in the middle minraises. Aggrodonk overpushes for $1100+. It's about $1050 more for me to call. I think for about 10 seconds and realize I'm almost guaranteed to have the best hand and I call. MP player folds and fish turns over QJ. I hold and get shipped a $2250ish pot. This was en route to a +$3010 six hour 1/2 session.

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I lost a $1,400 multiway pot with the nut flush vs a boat at the Borgata..hated making the river call but had correct odds and the old guy with the boat had been paying prtty bad...

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no he flopped it.

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3200 at Wynn's 1/3 NL. utg (1300) raised 8bb w/ JJ, UTG+1 called, UTG+2 called, button, tightest player(also 1300) on the table bumped it to 40bb w/ AA, utg called, utg+2 called.

flop AJ2 rainbow
utg check
utg2 bet 60
button flat called
utg c/r to 180
utg+2 called
button push in
utg called
utg+2 called

turn miracle J
he one outted the button's top set of Aces
and scooped it all.

I wish wynn had a bad beat jackpot..
that tightest player def. deserved that.

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I won a pot over 8k at Gold Strike in Tunica a few years back. The 1-2 is uncapped there.

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I took a beating in a 1/2 NL game a few months back against an agro/donk big stack. I had my stack built up to $1900, and agro had me barely covered. I was 2 seats to his left, so I always had position on him. I was just praying to get involved in the right hand against this kid, because I knew I could score a big hit under the right circumstances.

I'm in the cutoff with 2 black queens. Agro raises to 12 in mid position. 1 caller, and I just call. Both blinds fold, so it's 3 to the flop.

Pot is $39

Flop is Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 3 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

It gets checked to me, so I overbet the pot, betting $75. Agro kid check-raises to $250. I just call.

Pot is $539

Turn is the 9 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

Kid checks to me. I'm thinking he just filled up 3's full of 9's, or possibly 9's full of queens. I verbally declare my bet of $325, and before I even get the chips cut out, agro kid check raises all in. I insta-call and table my hand. the total pot is just over $3800. The kid looks at me and says, "Nice hand, but I've got outs"

River is the K [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Kid just looks at me, and then starts giggling like a little school girl. After giggling for a full minute, he gleefully takes his cards and slooooooooowly turns them over, 1 at a time.

10 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] for the rivered straight flush.

It took every fiber in my body not to deck the kid for laughing and then slow rolling the ever living sh*t out of me.

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Bally's 1-2 (300 max buyin).
5 players take a flop for $15
Flop 7 5 2 rainbow.
Bet raise raise .. 3 allin when all said and done.
Pot is about 1300.
Hero set of 7s
Villain one AA
Villain two set of 2s
turn .. blank .. river deuce

To add insult to injury the quad deuces win a high hand jackpot for another $599.

I died a little bit that day.

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over $2000 at El Dorado in Shreveport

AA vs AA all in PF

four clubs on the board and ship it

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$3500, downtown, at Binions

I took it down with 3rd pair, against a busted flush draw.

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Ok, here's the story as best as I can remember it.
I used to work at Binions & was playing on the clock.

Game was wild & deepstacked (downtown 1/2 NL has no cap), a few of the local action players were playing, & it was wild as hell. Avg stack was about 1k-2k, with Sean (the guy that owns a few of the vending carts on Fremont St) sitting on about 2500 as usual, and Sergio (short stocky Spanish guy that used to own the Ferrari) sitting on a few thousand.

Im in MP with about $1700 and pick up QJc, and make it something like $20 to go. 4 way action onto the flop.

Flop K J 5 with 2 spades.

Sergio was in one of the blinds, and checked to me. I bet something like $45, CO calls, button folds, Sergio CR to $200. Suspecting (or maybe hoping?) he has a FD, I call, CO folds.

Turn, a red A.

Sergio instabets something like 7 or 800. I tank, & try my best to put him on a real hand, but his play just wasn't making sense to me- a set was highly unlikely since he would have almost definitely reraised me PF with any PP whatsoever; a gutshot of QT was also extremely unlikely since he'd know better than trying to bluff out 2 other players on the flop with that flop texture. Only thing that made sense at all was a FD- 2 pair was extremely unlikely, since he bet so quickly on the A that came on the turn. If he connected with the Ace, why would be bet so quickly without thinking about how to get my money in. He then started the table talk, saying how he liked me and didn't want to bust me, etc. I've seen him do this routine a million times before when on draws, he started saying crap like "we can even run it twice if you want since I really don't want your money but I 'have to bet it', that'll give you one mone chance to catch up", etc., so I eventually call.

River was some trash like the 5h, he puts me all in, and as I start counting my money, he says something like "How about we just chop it up now?", at which point I called.

He showed some trash like 78s, missed his flush, and didn't even have a pair.

Total pot was something like $3480.

Best part was the guy in the CO was a nit who laid down AK on the flop, after it got checkraised. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Re: Big 1/2 NL Pots
 

Horseshoe in Shreveport a couple of weeks ago. I won an $1100 pot when I turned a full boat with ducks and two guys called my all in with trip tens. Then the guy next to me, who had already rebought for the max three times, asked why my three twos beat their three tens. Yeah, that was a nice table.

I also once lost a $1200 pot at the Borgata when I flopped the nut straight and a guy called with top pair and went runner runner full house.