Crazy $5k pot in 1/2 Hand Review, WWYD?
This hand is from about a week ago in a wild, deep stack Texas 1/2 game. You're gonna like this...
It's 10-handed and stacks around the table range from $1k-$5k. I'm sitting with about $1.8k.
I'm on the button with a $5 button straddle on. I have J10diamonds.
5 people limp in for $5, then it skips me (button straddle) and it's on the small blind. Small blind raises to $30. For context, $30 was a standard open that night and routinely caused almost no one to fold. No different here. 5 out of the 6 original limpers call the $30 to continue. Now it's on me last to act.
My thoughts: I thought everyone had very weak hands. They all double limped without thought. The $30 open for this night was on the weak end and I didn't take it to mean much strength either. I wanted to raise big to take the pot down or isolate. If I get a caller, I expect people to take me to have AA or some very strong hand. So post flop, I can continue the story of my AA or my J10suited hand might have it's own value. 2 ways to win?
I 3-bet to $250. Original $30 raiser folds, UTG calls, everyone else folds. It's heads up.
This UTG player is a wild player. He is sitting with $5k currently, the big stack at the table. He just rebought that 30min ago after losing his first $5k from playing drunk and wild. He was calling everything, bluffing, betting everything and losing. However, after rebuying his new $5k 30 minutes ago he got very tight and even showed some big folds with top pairs to smallish bets, a total 180. My interpretation was that his new rebuy sobered him up and he committed to playing it tight and smart. He can't lose his last $5k is what I'm thinking he is thinking. Ok back to the hand...
Flop comes K96 with 2 diamonds. I flop a gut shot and a flush draw.
UTG leads out for $300. Small bet from this player. He usually bets wild and huge. Can't think what he has, but seems weak. Maybe just stabbing at it?
I call and decide to see what he does next and reevaluate.
Turn comes a 7 of clubs. I now have a double gutter to go with my flush draw.
He checks the turn. I think for a bit. I interpreted both his flop and turn choices as weakness. I have another $1.3k behind me. Pot is around $1.2k.
I go all in. He snaps. We agree to run the river twice.
Both rivers are bricks. He says "You're good bro. You're good." I'm a bit stunned. I say "I have jack high." He says "Queen high" and flips over Q2diamonds and all my chips go to him.
My thoughts: My learning lesson is to not jam hoping for a fold into a drunk maniac even if he changed and tightened up. That could undo at any time and the drunk maniac play could come back. That aside, if it were any other normal non drunk player, I like my play.
What do you think?