My 2nd Home Game Went Great

On Saturday I decide to have a few people over for a home game. I have done one once before back when I lived in Va, and figured it was time for another one. I invited a few people from school over, including my buddy that got me back into poker, my wife, and her parents, and younger brother. There ended up being a total of 7 people in the SnG style game. The buy-in wasn't much, only $10, and the top two spots were paid; 70% for first and 30% for second. I had a nice array of munchies for everyone and a few people brought some things also. Apparently the pulled pork my wife made was AMAZING. One of my buddies today said he can't stop fantasizing about them.

The Game itself went pretty good. Around like the 4th or 5th hand, I picked up AK of spades on the button and of course raised to about 4*Bb. I got one caller, my brother-in-law, the flop came Kxx of spades and I had TPTK, and the nut flush draw. The bet around 1/3 of the pot and I re-raised all in. He doesn't have a whole lot of experience with poker and I knew if he had anything he would call. Fortunately for me, he had started with JJ and called. I ended up making the flush and he didn't catch anything. That had set me up to play some pretty nice big stack poker and bought a few pots and kept my chip lead up for a good while.

It got down to me, my wife, and her father. They were both about even and I had a good bit more than the two of them. I don't remember the exact hand now, but I busted my wife out next with a higher two pair then she said. She was getting to the point where she was just tired and didn't really want to play any more.

Finally down to heads-up it was my father-in-law and me. We went a few rounds with me pretty much throwing my stack around and bullying a good bit. The last hand he had pocket threes, I had position and raised up about 3-times his bet with 67s. He called and we went to the flop. The flop was A7x and he checked, I raised about 3/4 the pot. After a little bit of thinking he called. With the action I figured he had maybe two connected broadway cards, or maybe a middle pair. Luckily the turn was a 7 and I made my two pair. He checked again, and I once again made a raise which just about put him all in. After a quick chip count he ended up shoving the last few chips in. I called and he turned over his pair of 3's and didn't get lucky on the river.

It was a good time. I had fun playing and made a few quick bucks along the way. My friends from school all agreed we should make it a regular thing. So once we get a few more people (I don't think the in-laws or my wife want to play regularly) we'll start setting something up. If one of the probably 3 people that have read this blog are around Phoenix, Az., hit me up and lets get something going.