Shorty's Wednesday

The Tilted Texan and I made off on what is becoming it seems my weekly journey to Shortys on Wednesday. I believe I got in the game at about 3 pm and Tex was in the same game shortly after. This was the 3rd no limit game opened already as the room was pretty packed again.
The only real hand that comes to mind was the 2nd one that I was dealt.

I bought into the game for $400 and I am in the bigblind on my 2nd hand w/ 64ss. There is a player across from me that on my first hand loss $400 w/ top pair top kicker after slow playing it on the flop a waiting for everyone to catch up to him before he decided to put all of his money in. Well he rebuys for $300 and he prompty makes it $25 to go. One player calls and I decide to get things started right away and I call along w/ the one limper from under the gun. We see a flop of Js 6H 2d 4 handed. I check as do all 3 players behind me. The 4h peels off on the turn and there is no doubt in my mind that I have the best hand. I want to get as much action as possible and I am fairly certain that the idiot that raised is trying his little slowplay maneuver again. I decide to check eventhough I would normally lead out here. I think the reason is if I bet I could likely get called by at least 2 of the players and I could easily get counterfeited on the turn. I knew someone would bet the turn behind me and it would be easier to take the pot down with a checkraise in this spot or just go to the river with 1 opponent. The under the gun limper bet a very weak $25 and the preflop raiser just called. This confused me as I was sure that he would raise the turn no matter what. Well I was right and wrong about this. The other character folds and the action is on me. I decide to checkraise to $70 trying to get action from the preflop raiser. The utg bettor folds as exepected and the other guy decided it is time to make his move. He reraises to $215 more back to me and I start to count out my chips. I know that the only hand beating me is JJ, but this is a gamble I am gonna take most of the time. I call and ask if he has the set and he looks at me like I am crazy and says " No I have kings." He said it in a tone that there is no way he does not have best hand. He turned out to be right as the Kd hits the river and he drags the pot. He said he was sure I had ace jack. I said nice read sir.

These are the types of hands I have not been getting unlucky with over the past month or so. I played for only about 3.5 hours tonight and made that $300 back along w/ almost a full buyin profit to show for the trip. I really can't remember any hands along the way except for one where I made trip 10's on the turn after raising preflop. I busted the same guy from the earlier hand for his last $200 or so as he had already given most of his money away to others.

I will possibly be playing at Harrahs tonight at some point as my wife and I are going to the city for some kind of party tonight. I am not sure what to really classify this as. If I do play is will likely be the last session before Biloxi next week. I can't wait for that. I can not ever remember being so amped up about an event before.

A friend of mine Jerrard has started a blog also. We use to his local games and casinos probably 4-6 nights a week a few years ago. For varous reasons we both took breaks over the past year and a half. I have started playin a bit more and I believe he would like to follow suit. I am hoping that he starts playing a bit more as it gets lonely riding by yourself back and forth from time to time. His first post talks about how he got started. You can find it online at http://www.thehonestplayer.blogspot.com/ . I enjoyed reading it and thinking about the past. When I get some time I may talk about some of the same stories as I am sure we have quite a few.
The few people that read this I do welcome any thoughts that would make this more enjoyable to read.
Lata.