[Quads]

Today I got to catch up with Scooter who made some corrections to the numbers in our betting. (I was dead ass tired, didn't clearly remember the number, but had the basic action down), so as an edit, here is how the hand played out with better detail:

From Scooter:
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We announced that we would play two final hands before ending the night. At this point I was on major tilt from folding the best hand several times, and also Quads rivering a 2-outer, tripping up his bottom pair (IE he showed down 3/8 offsuit for a rivered trip 3s.)

So, on to the final two hands. I folded the first one preflop. The last one, I look down to see KK. Quads raises to $400 with $25/50 blinds. I repop it to $1100, which was the biggest preflop raise of the night. He calls.

Flop comes QJ7. He leads out for $2200 (IE quack quack X-22 Paul Magriel style). I raise to $6600 (triple quack!). Quads calls with AQ for TPTK.

Turn comes a blank, but I check, figuring he might have QJ or JJ to have called such a huge raise on the flop, especially relative to our chip stacks and considering the amount of money involved. He checks behind me.

River comes another blank, and I check again, with still only one pair (after taking 5+ minutes in the tank). Quads bets $10,000 on the river, which I call considering the $15,000 already in the pot.
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So, basically the same result, but he got the numbers correct.

Looking back on it, I really didn't put him on an over pair, and didn't figure him for KK or AA, or setting up with the Q/J on the board. Obviously, knowing what he had, the correct play was to fold when he repopped it for $6600. Bad play? Perhaps. Heads up, TPTK, I was defending my hand. Something to learn from it, for sure.

I will say this about the heads up match. James (Scooter) and I have played cards together in card rooms, Tourneys, WSOP events, local home games, etc. for several years. He is also one of my best friends, and off the table, we are like brothers and old drinking buddies, and on the table, there is no friend, every chip is in play and we are fierce enemies.

That being said, I've never had as much fun playing heads up, or playing poker for that matter than I have last night in our 5 hour session.

He and I (I think) are pretty closely matched as far as poker playing goes, there are some things about his game I admire, and I think that goes both ways, in that he is a pretty solid and predictable player and always tells me how he wished he could mix up his game like I do. (for example, trying to make a move on a pot with bottom pair on the flop and then rivering the 3 for tripps)

So, the match between us, seems like we are on pretty level ground to one another, and after the one session, I can see already that this isn't the first time we do this.

More to come from the next session which will likely be this weekend. Hopefully I can grind back to 20K and feel like I've got some chips to play with.