Wife’s water broke…

It’s a lot calmer scene than how they portray it in the movies. Heading to the hospital now.

Developing…

Playing with the Lord Admiral Club- December Game

At the last session, I was introduced to Razz, 7 Card Stud, and Omaha. We played both stud hi and Omaha hi and high-low as well. After the session I asked the Lord Admiral as well as “The Man” for good books to read and they pointed me in the right direction.

I got to the game with a bit of a loosey goosey attitude. We started off with Omaha hi, and in my first hand I had a draw to the nut flush. There was a bit of raising and re-raising, but unfortunately, the river was not kind to me. A little while later, playing 7 card stud, I was heads up against the man. He had a J and a 10 showing, and I had a low pair. I was pretty sure he was on a straight draw, and I ended up making two pair. Once again, I did not get there, and it turns out he made the straight on 5th street.

After these two big losses, I was almost $40 down, the big loser on the night at that point. And then I began to hit. The Admiral had begun to whittle away his stack as well. We were heads up, and then with my QJ I flopped broadway. We rereaised each other so that he was all in and then flipped our cards over. He had A-10. There were two blanks, and I took down a fairly large pot.

I took down a couple of decent size pots, and then I had another large pot that managed to take down. It was Omaha an the board was Adxdxd??. I had the Kd. There was a blank on the river and then the river brought the 4th d. I reraised the raiser and he folded. At which point I showed my Kd. I then felt sheepish as the Admiral pointed out that I had to use two cards from my hand. So I kinda got away with one there…

So at that point I had managed to get myself to close to even. The next hand was a monster pot, the largest of the night and what ended up putting me fairly far ahead. It was Omaha High, and I had QdQs8dx? Both the Admiral and the Man were in the hand. The flop came QxAd6d? I checked, there was a raise, and then I reraised. Next card was a blank. Another round of raising with another reraise. The final card was another d(low one). There was a raise and then two calls. Mentally I had already allocated the money I was spending to the Man to see his hand. I knew he had a flush, and I was 75% sure he had the king.   The Admiral flipped over two pair, while the man showed his Jack high flush.

The rest of the night I managed to retain what I won, and for the last 1/2 hour we played no limit hold-em. All in all, I had another awesome time with the Lord Admiral Club. Great guys, great atmosphere, and I managed to draw even overall (-$20 first session, +$20 this session). Couldn’t have asked for more…