New Home Game

Drove out to BFE last night.  I had been getting e-mails about this game for awhile, but never made it up there.  If I don't have other plans on Fridays, I usually come home and crash.  But, it was worth it.  I didn't have much in the way of cards, but still managed to more than double up.  The biggest hand was 78o on a flop of Q65, turn 3, river 9 (nuts) where I c/c/c/shoved.  Easy game.

My favorite hand of the night, however, was one I didn't play.  It was about 3am.  We're down to four players on our table.  I had been encouraging straddles, and sure enough, utg straddled to 4.  This guy was a solid player.  There were some things in his game that could be taken advantage of, but I hadn't gotten to them and he had chipped up steadily all night.  The button raised to 20.  She was an attractive Asian, I'm guessing late 20s/early 30s.  She was also solid.  And, also opinionated despite not really understanding some things about the game.  Later someone told me that she had introduced herself as a poker pro.  I wasn't surprised by that bit of information, but I'd be surprised if it turned out to be true.  I had made fun of her a bit for the lack of gamble she displayed, but she had trouble understanding.  Ok, enough scattershot descriptions.  I fold, Rob folds his bb, and the straddle reraises to 45.  She calls.  Flop 982r.  He bets 45 again, and she raises to 155.  He agonizes and calls.  Turn 9.  Check, she instajams, and he calls.  He has a horribly pained look on his face and asks if she has it.  She purses her lips, leaves her cards facedown and deals an Ace on the River.  Then, she proudly flips AT, a bluff that somehow got there.  He shows his KK.  She then proceeds to talk about how this was her first 'gamble' of the night.  That's not a gamble.  That's a blowup/spew that somehow caught a miracle.  But, instead of admitting luck and politely racking her new huge stack (probably close to 800), she argues with the guy who just lost when she caught her 7%.  As I'm walking out of the bathroom, the host is having to tell them to "stop, when I say stop, I mean stop it, both of you."  Apparently, her husband had defended her honor a bit as well.  

Here's the deal.  Maybe she planned it all preflop.  I'm gonna call this extra 25 and pretend I've flopped  a set and outplay this guy.  If so, it almost worked.  My opinion, however, is that she should have folded to the 3bet pre and moved on to the next hand.  My perception is that she just got stubborn when she had been challenged and tried to give away her stack.  When that happens, real poker players make a sympathetic face and say "wow, I can't believe how lucky I was."

We then consolidated and played for a bit more with a gambly table.  I treaded water, and we left at about 4.  I'll be going back.