What a comeback!

After that -£290 session that I played a while ago I had a sweet return to the felt. I was absolutely card dead all night but managed to bring home a tidy £674.50 profit. Yes! At my highest point I was sitting in this 0.5/1 game with a £1k stack. Sick. Most of the profit came from two hands which I would like to put down here. Reading through will reward you with a look on a picture of my roll nicely put scene within some Christmas decoration and another picture of some fine ham in it's original packaging ;-)


Hand 1:

I'm about 230bb deep and limp/call a raise with T8cc. We are heads up.

Flop: Jc 9s 10s

Hero: checks
Villain: bets pot
Hero: flat calls

Pot: ca. £90 now

Note: From what I know he could have anything here as in the past he was relatively week when pot-c-bet and I think I have a chance to win the pot on the turn as he tends to 2nd barrel a lot and I would check/raise a lot of turn cards. Any T, club, 7 or 9.

Turn: Js

Hero: checks
Villain: bets £35
Hero: calls

Pot: £160

Note: This has to be a scare card for him but he suddenly leads really week. I don't think he has got the J because he doesn't pot-c-bet the flop with TP. I am not entirely sure about this but I have never seen him doing that with a TP hand and I am trusting my read there. Now his turn bet is polarizing his range and makes it a nuts or nothing story.
I decide that I've got outs at least and actually may be ahead and take the bargain on the turn to play a river card as I thought this board left me some room for bluffing him of something like KK or AA which he didn't want to check behind on the turn because he may be has a spade with one of them but didn't feel secure either and went for a smallish bet. He plays overpairs very straightforward normally so this might be in his range.

River: 9d
Hero: bets £105
Villain: folds

Note: Now this is the absolute bingo card for me as it crushes 95% of his range. He can only call with a J or 9 but as we know I was very certain he didn't have either of them, this was a great spot. I said before that his range was polarized and against his air range I would have show down value and could check/call the river.
I decided to go for a donk-bet here as only with that I make him fold all his pocket pairs and his flushes as well. The J fitted perfectly in my hand and I don't even think he is clever enough to rule out me having a 9 in the hand so he probably puts that in my range as well. He folds and shows me AKss for the turned nut flush.

Because everyone was begging and I got offered a fiver to show my hand, I showed him my bare pair and he went steaming.

Hand2 (Villain is same person as above. This hand happened about 90 mins later.)

I found AA utg in that hand and had the option to limp or raise. Problem with a raise is that I probably get about 4 or 5 flat callers behind and have to play that hand OOP in a big pot which is nothing I particularly wanted to do.

I thought limp/raising is a good option. My utg limp/raise range is completely unbalanced but the table was thick enough to not realize that. To my surprise a single raise from MP1 (same villain as before) (although it was a 12bb raise) gets folds and it is back to me UTG. Now I decide to play that hand strangely and only flat my AA here. Given the history between us I think he might go broke very light if I don't appear strong PF. I am more than 400bb deep in that hand and he has about 700bb.

Flop: Ac, Qc, 9c

Hero: checks
Villain: bets ca. £25
Hero: raises to £61
Villain: raises to £175
Hero: raises all in.
Villain: calls ca. £290 more

He shipped his second raise in within milliseconds and looks as if he really wants to win this hand there. I return his raise with an insta-all-in and try to look the same way as I did when I bluffed him about 1.5h ago. "We had that before, didn't we Hannes?

He ends up calling and then mucking when sees my top set. He claims he had KK with the K of clubs. I do not believe it. No one mucks the nut flush draw in a almost 900bb pot. I think he went broke pretty light there due to our history. I didn't put any flopped flush in his range.

So, what do you think about hand 1 and hand 2

5 hands later I got KK in vs the table donkeys KQo - £150 stack. Was very relaxing to sit with a 1k stack in that game.

Here are the promised pictures: