Jon-PokerVIP: Would love to play a good deepstacked cash game right now!
Then you shoulda been with me last night, buddy. Game was 1/2, max BI 300, 10 handed. My name is called, 2 seats are open, floor says take table 8, I glance around, and I'm like "can I have 7 instead?" Couple of faces I didn't recognize, but the table didn't look that much different tbh.
As per the norm, Cycle knows nothing. Table turned out to be the wildest table I've ever played.
One shortie, maybe $35 or so, jams 3 straight hands. Wins with 65o, chops the next one with T8o, 3rd time a reg otb who hasn't been here in a few weeks ("I needed a break," he told the dealer) decides to call the now $80-ish shove...with J7o.
Across the room one of the Omaha tables hits the bad beat. It takes about an hour apparently for the payout to all get settled, and that table has to go on break until it's sorted. The table share was about a grand, they get paid in quarters ($25 chips), and one of the players, I'm gonna call him TiltMonkey moves over to our table. Button-down shirt from work, sunglasses hanging off his collar, the type of guy who looks like he's a jerk to waitresses and old people. Over the next 4 hours he proceeds to piss away Every. Last. Chip. . He dumped his first BI, very next hand he opens to lol 25 over one limper. Btn calls, I call in BB with AK cuz I want him to catch a piece and gii. Sure enough, Kxx 2 spades, I c/r, he shoves and tables 63s for a FD, which naturally he hits.
So Cycle tops up, into the game for 5 bills but down to 225 and no more quids in me pocket and I hate playing short. With pfr this large, 110 BB definitely feels short. Anyway, AQs, flop top 2, two FD on turn, let the J7o guy fire the river when one FD gets there, but he had 99 and I'm back over 400. Stuck a wee bit but now I have a stack that I can play. Cuz by this point, my $400 stack was just the 5th largest at the table. There's an 800, a 550, and 2 stacks over 2 grand...at a max BI 300 table. One of the big stacks is an action player, so this table is bumpin'. Everyone has a stack over 100BB, there are no shorties, which never happens in live low-stakes. I kid you not, a new dealer comes over to push into the box (replace the old dealer), and actually asked if this was Omaha or HE, he'd never seen so much money on a 1/2 table. The dealer's bank has $100 in it, and twice we re-bought him out of chips, chiprunners couldn't even come close to keeping up.
Soon I'm back at it with TiltMonkey. He makes it 10 from MP, reg otb (d-bag bro type, earbuds, berates other players for bad play) raises to 26, I've got AJ spades in BB, pop it to 76, a 38x pf raise! TM calls, d-bag folds, flop is Kxx all clubs. People stack their chips (usually) in stacks of 20, so I peel 2 chips off a stack, push it forward and announce to dealer "$90", all totally transparent reverse tell shit. TiltMonkey get snarky, "oooh he took 2 chips off the stack, I'm so scared,"...and folded anyway. Turned over T7 hearts and said he only called pre cuz it's a bad beat hand.
Over the next hour there's about 5 hands that feature pfr's over $75, most of the showdowns feature garbage. One reg got 3bet out of a pot by a $75 3!. Heads up, pot almost $200, and a non-scary board gets checked down, where a guy wins it with pocket 3s.
Drunk old guy sits next to me, really nice guy actually. we have a couple of good laughs. He dropped $600 in less than 20 min. Wandered off into the night.
At this point half the regs in the room are on the waitlist for our table. One of the 2-3 nittiest regs gets the call, reg next to me is like, "Why would he want to move to our table, it's way too aggressive for him." Nit plays 3 hands, wins 2, took down a $500 pot when they gii on a 9-high flop with JJ. That's why!
Cycle's got pocket rockets, makes it 15 over 2 limpers, 6 to the flop. Six! Board ended up 742tt42, I fired 3 streets and was called down by Q7. God I am such a schmuck for not betting bigger on the turn.
Deep waters, bro.