At the Borgata, playing 1/2NL. I have been card dead, in addition to bleeding some chips when I flopped a straight flush draw that left me with A high and another hand where I ran AQ into 72 (shout out to Kenny) on a 2Q2 flop. I've been playing for about 1.5 hours though, and even with these hands I am only down around $100. I've been playing well and not getting crazy.
In MP, I look down and see pocket threes. Several limpers ahead of me, so I limp too. Rock in the cutoff raises to $12. I'm all set to fold until everyone calls behind. Oh look: flop is 7x3, all hearts. I bet out at flop, about half the pot. Rock thinks, then raises. Fold, fold, fold... I think. Rock has not been raising AK or AQ type hands. I put him on big pair with a heart. I shove, he calls. I'm happy to note that he does not look happy about calling. Even happier when he turns over AdAh. NO HEART!
I'm thrilled to see a black 7 on the turn, until the river is also a 7, and then I want to puke. One guy at the table says: "What happened??? Why didn't you get that pot? I thought you had a boat?" Yessir, but 7's full of aces beats 3's full of sevens, according to Hoyle.
I have about $50 behind, and steal some calls of a small raise when I shove with AcQc a few hands later and everyone folds to me. I'm up to around $75 when I look down about an orbit after the disastrous 3's full hand and see Ah7h...lots of limpers, so what the hell, I raise. Get 4 callers. Flop is Ac2h8h. Guy in EP bets out, I shove for the rest of my small stack. Everyone folds except for EP guy. He turns over AQ of black. I'm really liking the black 7 turn...until a black 8 rolls off on the river.
"That's two hands you've been counterfitted right in a row," says a guy who means well but is annoying the crap out of me. ORLY? I didn't notice. /sarcasm
Well, I set out to play good this trip, and I have, so far. Hopefully I can turn it around. Gonna finish submitting my students' grades and then head to Caesars or the Trop. Hopefully I can turn my luck around...at least I can say I'm happy with my play.