More fun in Indiana

I played last night in Indiana. $1/2 NLHE. I made some marginal calls and ended up stuck $100. Then I picked up Jh8h on the button and raised 2 limpers to $12. The BB and the limpers called. The flop comes Jd 8d 2h. I bet $30 and one guy calls. On the turn another diamond falls and he checks with a big sigh (like he hates that diamond). I bet out $35 and he makes a big deal about thinking about it and then calls. The river is a fourth diamond and he hems and haws a bunch and then checks. I’m no idiot so I check behind and he flips Ad 3d. I look over and give him a “nice Hollywood”. He drops me some smug look. I don’t like him.

So we call him Hollywood all night. There’s a good player on my right and he’s got it out for the guy to the left of Hollywood (who we’re calling Spud) and I’m gunning for Hollywood. Both Spud and Hollywood are in a lot of pots, so my friend and I are too. The whole table gets into a limpy pattern and we’re playing a ton of family pots.

UTG I get AA and limp (which is not a play I would normally make). There are 6 people in the hand and it never raises. The flop come Ac 2s 8s. I check. Spud bets $10, Hollywood makes it $20 (I fight the urge to do a little dance). I make it $40. Spud folds. Hollywood makes it another $100 with about $120 left behind and I shove. He thought for like 8 minutes…

and folded face up 2 8. I can’t believe he folded. I really thought he was committed. I guess I rushed it. But I got a little over half his stack. So that’s good.

My friend took the rest a little later and my satisfaction was complete. Spud got stacked twice too, but not by us.

Good times.

I end up down $30 and feeling like I mostly played very well. I would have ended up except my second to last hand at the table I got QQ in the BB and raised the limpers to $15 and got re-raised all in by a short stack to $27. He flipped ATo and spiked an ace on the flop. It would have been nice to finish up, but oh well. It was 3 in the morning and I had an hour drive still, so I had to quit.