Holy Cow! Bad table or great one!

$340 NL NEPC event. Blinds at $10-$25 45 minute rounds. Start with $1000 in chips. Line up=


1 seat= Spanish wild man

2 seat= Tight Aggressive Good Player

3 seat= ME

4 seat= tighter than tight

5 seat= Loose-Passive

6 seat= Maniac #1

7 seat= Maniac #2

8 seat= Solid Player

9 seat= Lost Player

10 seat= Don't Know-Didn't play a hand


Button starts in 9 seat. 1st 3 hands, much action, Aces, Jacks and Queens all lose to worse hands that got out. 1,6,7 pick up the chips. 1 player already out by 4th hand. I fold both my blinds. On button, 1 limper, then 1 seat grabs 2 chips ($50) but drops 1 back and just calls. I think he thought about raising. I have AJ off. I make it $100. Only 1 seat calls. Flop is Q,J,6 rainbow. He quickly checks to me. I think it missed him but I'm a bit worried that he might have AQ, maybe QQ because of his posible thought of raising. But I bet $100 to test the waters. He re-raises to $400. I muck.


I steal once with 1 limper and back to $790. Button passes me again. 3 players are knocked out in the meantime. Hand of note. 5 seat goes all-in on for $465 preflop, Maniac #1 asks for count, thinks and calls, only caller. (He had doubled thru when he cracked aces.) 5 seat shows A6off...Maniac #1 rolls over 2,2. Yuk, what a terrible call! Flop brings a 6, but river is a deuce.


I am 1 off the cuttoff, 8 seat limps, 1 seat limps, I have QJ hearts. I call. SB folds, BB checks. Flop is 9h,8c,6h Check, check, 1 seat bets $200. He has played by my count all but 2 hands, shown 1 and overbet everytime he bet, by alot!. Once he bet $275 into a $60 pot. I read him for A9 or K9. I weigh my decision carefully. Important info... after winning back to back sats, I am free-rolling this one with profit to boot and this is the only event I am playing. I really believe that I have 3 outs to nut straight, 9 outs to a winning flush and the 10h gives me open ended str8 flush draw and the good flush, and I feel my overcards are good if I hit one. So I'm sure I have 18 outs, and he might be bluffing. Seat #5 moves all-in for $750, seat #1 moves all-in. I'm still sure of my read on #1 but he might have the Ace of hearts too, so I don't want to see a 4 runner in hearts. I read seat 5 as pair with a 7 or maybe, but not likely the str8. I am getting more than 2 to 1 on my money. If I win this hand I am ok for a good 3 levels and can maybe pick up some of these maniacs chips as we go on when I get great cards. If I lose, hey, what the heck I'm free-rolling anyway. I call.


1 seat rolls over K9 clubs. Great read huh? 5 seat shows 7,8 off...another good read. Results are here cuz there's no suspense needed. Runner, runner clubs gives the 1 seat the flush. 5 seat makes 2 pair. We're both out.


Comments? I hate to go all-in on draws but I think that I needed a good stack to play this table. Is this a good table or an un-lucky seat draw? Does free-rolling play into my decision...yes, should it?


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