N'hood game.

I played my Monthly Neighborhood game on Friday. I had a lot of fun at the end of the night playing LIMIT. Who knew?

We played 2/4 limit for about 3 hours, and I seriously crushed these people. After the first few hands, I was not playing well. The hand that stand out to me is one where I get A10, cap the betting (almost every preflop was raised or capped) Flop comes 10 A 8, no flush opps. I bet out again and get 4 callers. 6 comes on the turn. (I should have seen the trouble here, but the table is so loose and SO passive, who knows. I bet out again, get a raise directly behind me and 2 drop off. I cap, and 7 comes off. Yes, the bettor called the capped bets with 6 9 off Nuts. So naturally, I've had a few beers and lay into this guy (nicely) about how shitty a call that is...etc etc. And he laugh it off, saying that why limit is so fun...etc etc, "you NL guys don't have the heart for this game." WOW, so that pissed me off a good bit. I loosened up a lot, started playing rags and catching everything in sight. Eventually I was scaring people off of hands and taking ~50% of the pots at a table full of 9. The 'joker' as I referred to him later in the session, really started to clam up when all his chips were getting shipped my way. He and his wife finally called it a night after he bought and lost another $40 worth of chips to me. My confidence was over the top, and I was up about 110x my starting stack.

I can't say that I would like to play this way again, but it sure was fun, and I can't remember (other than winning) when just playing cards was so enjoyable. I do know that I'm going to hit up some limit tables online now for sure.

The tourney's were good. First tourney had 17 people. I came in third, which I thought was a pretty good outcome. I never had a chip lead and played very conservatively. 2nd Tourney, we had to play one table with 11 people. I mucked and mucked and mucked. I didn't even play a hand until 2 people were out, when UB I get Q4 3 callers, so I play the free cards and get QQ7 flop. Checked around, I let the table see a free card. 3 on the turn. So I bet big, to just take the blinds...about half of my stack. I get a caller...ugh. Either I'm way behind or way in the lead. Another blank and make a value bet. I get raised by the bigstack, and have to call. I don't know If I really thought I had a winning hand or just didn't feel like playing that tourney...but I get taken out by Q9. I can't decide how I could have played that differently/or better, but I should have guessed I was dominated, and ignored the signs.