Monday, January 14, 2008

Styles Smashes Lightning Poker

I popped in at Star on my way home from Newcastle and I went up to register for 80NL as I had a bit of spare cash. I saw on the side there was a lineup for "Lightning Poker" the PokerPro style electronic card tables. I'd played on it before with Matty when it was just a free trial (and we'd already lost our real buy-in to the 80NL donks).

Anyway, putting my username in as Willskis (duh) I sat down with two random guys who were keen to play. They seemed nice enough and we played for very small pots early on. Then I got Js 7c on the SB and flat called, 3 to the flop. The flop was As Jd 7h rainbow. beautiful. I bet out around 1/2 pot, get called. Turn is 7s. I check and the guy bets 17 dollars. I raise to 37 and he immediately shoves. Instacall by me and he goes "do you have a seven" pressing the "show cards" button and showing 7d 2d. I'm like "I have a seven and a pair of jacks, is that good?" (gotta love the donk image) and he starts swearing and going off. So like four hands in I have around $155 in my account.

Heres a couple of golden hands.

I limp at a very soft 6-handed table with Kh9h. The flop is one that I love, 6h7h5d. I have overcards, flushdraw, and gutshot. I bet, this guy raises all in and I pretty much instant call. The turn is a blank but the river is a Ks. He shows a lower flush draw with a 5 (5h2h) and says "I had you till you rivered me". LOL. Owned.

But here is the hand of the night. This hand is something you'd see in some big budget Hollywood movie. We're around 1.5 hours in. 6-handed. It's limped to me on the button. I raise to $10 with 2d3d. 4 callers. The flop is.... wait for it... Ad4d5d. Yes, you are right. I flopped a straight flush. They check to me and I shove. (JOKES) I check behind obviously. The turn is so hot that I want to have sex with it. Ah putting two Aces on the board. Checked to the guy on the cutoff, and he bets $25. I instacall, hoping they will put me on a draw. Unluckily, I get no other customers. When I see the river, I want to cheat on the turn and have a meaningful relationship with the river. It is the As. That's right shoppers, I hold 2d3d on a board of Ad4d5dAhAs. The best part is, the guy overbets $83 into the pot. I obviously put him all in and he calls, tabling Ac 6s! I swear I am not making this up. God I love running good.

So I left Star city with $420 profit after 2.5 hours work. That's how the HATS ball.

4 comments:

Raabs said...

Thats my boy!
As usual always playing solid!
And always keen to felt some n00bs money!

That's How 5 Hats Rolls!

Matty P said...

HAHA that's my man!!! Nothing better than beating quads with a straight flush :-) Nice to see the real ballers finally getting rewarded at star....

The Punisher said...

Nice use of the smilies :P

Anonymous said...

Good for people to know.