Smash & Grab

Had another quick blast at $50nl 6-max on Pacific over the weekend, making almost 2 buy-ins in less than 100 hands. Usually when I first sit at a table I'm trying to figure out who the fish is, at Pacific I just assume everyone is a fish and look for the good player...I'm still looking. The most interesting hand came when I raised AJo from the cut-off and the fish in the BB calls, flop is AQ5 two-tone and the fish blasts $40 into the $4 pot! Now I've seen people do this with the nuts before but this guy had only played 2 orbits and he had done a similar thing once already so I was very suspicious. Anyway, I called instantly, he flips over Q2o(?!) and I hold. I was happy with how I played, adjusting well to the calling-station sitting to my left by increasing my pre-flop raise size with bigger hands becuase he would just call anyway. He had $125 when I sat, I managed to get him to donate about $50 to me, as he gave away his entire stack and quit within 15 mins. I raise AcKc to $3.25 and the fish I just mentioned calls (6.5BB raises FTW against this dude), flop comes 2 clubs and I think we both checked, turn is a very pretty club giving me the nuts and I get $8 off him on the turn and $30 on the river. Would love to know what he had but the stunningly awful software on Pacific doesn't let you see even if villain calls the river bet.

The only other poker I played was a $22 sit-n-go on Party as they gave my a free $20 for some reason, I managed to get it in ahead but got sucked out on and busted in 5th.

Not had much time to play so I have put a bit of my roll into action by staking that fish Amatay, who is having a very impressive month playing MTTs, maybe he will take down the $300k guaranteed on Party and ship me the 5%, gl Amafish, no pressure ;-)

gl all

Simon

Bankroll: $1091