For this installment of the weekly home game we had five players, Wardy, Mrs. Wardy, Baby Shoes, the Neighbor and myself. After about an hour of play, the Neighbor busts out to Baby Shoes and the remaining four players play for another 2 hours before there is anyone knocked out. Mrs. Wardy says she’s tired so I was only a matter of time until she pushes with nothing. I get dealt the hammer and I raise 3x, which Mrs. Wardy calls, Wardy folds, and Baby Shoes calls. The flop is 332 and I flopped 2 pair. Mrs. Wardy pushes all in and Baby Shoes insta-calls. This doesn’t look good to me, but then again, he might have AK or QT, I have Mrs. Wardy covered and Baby shoes has me covered. I raise all in, to which Baby Shoes insta-calls. I know I’m dead. Mrs Wardy turned over 38 for trip threes. Baby Shoes flips over 3Q for trip threes with a better kicker. I flip over my hammer, laughing. Unless I get runner runner sevens or twos, I’m out. No one improves and Baby Shoes takes a monster pot. We are now heads up with Wardy and Baby Shoes and Baby shoes has a major chip lead, close to 10 to 1. Baby Shoes tells Wardy that if he wins, he will double the winnings. Baby Shoes took the games in a few more hands, when his AQ held up against Wardy’s AJ.

Afterwards Wardy, Baby Shoes and I played a small game, when this hand came down:

Wardy is SB, Baby Shoes is BB and I’m the button.
I look down and see A♥ 3♠ off.. I’m the short stack, so I raise all in.
Wardy folds.
Baby Shoes calls and flips over A♦ 8♦.
Oh well.. out again.
Flop comes 5♦ 8♠ 3♦
We both flop two pair and things do not look good for me.
The turn is Q♠.
The River.. 3♣.

I sucked out on Baby Shoes to stay in the game and double up. Later on I took out Baby Shoes with a better kicker. Eventually Wardy took the game away from me when I didn’t hit my flush, but had a pair of sevens and he had a a pair of Aces. I had the odds, but I didn’t hit my diamond. Oh well.

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