1-2NL, 3.5 Hours, NYC, Underground Club

Sat down at the table with 5 other players as they were still trying to build a game. the guy to my right was so nervous (or lit-up) that he could barely stand still. Another few basic grinder types just trying to pass the time are there. 2 younger 20something guys sit down, next to each other and are friends. I always hate when friends sit next to each other to play. 1. They always almost always will just check down pots to each other and more importantly, I always worry that they will change the pot odds by not staying in when they should because their 'boy' is in.
From the minute they sit down, i have already put them as on-line players with not too much table experience. This gets proven quickly with their constant aggressive play, but never in amounts that will change the play too much. From $2 to $7 or $11. Not any moves that are really meant to get people to lay hands down, just constant pot sweetners. I don't mind this as I see them as targets to get outplayed.

I sit down with $200, they have both bought in for max ($300). Both have won some early hands but both also have showed alot of weakness in their game just waiting to be exploited.

Many hands play and I am down about $50 when I look at K-9s on the button. I limp and on-line guy 1 makes it $12. 3 callers so i call to for odds. Flop comes 10c, Js and Qs. OL Guy1 makes it 15. 1 caller and then to me where I pop it to $45 with the straight and straight flush draw. Without thinking for a second OLG pushes all in. This is what I love about these type of players, they see a good hand and they think being aggressive is enough. I call for all my chips and turn over the the straight and he turns over the trip Jacks. He doesn't improve so i take down the pot for $400.

All was going well until nervous guy limps before me and I push $25 with pocket Qs. He is so nervous that when he pushes $50 out for a min raise, I come over the top all-in. He calls and shows pocket Ks. I don't improve and lost my first buy-in. I understand what he was doing in limping with kings, but i think it was a bad move. You can get very hurt that way.

I buy back in for another $200 and am up and down here and there. Funniest hand was this.

5 players in the pot. ON-line guy 2 made it $7 to go so there is a bit of action. I am holding 6-4d and am playing a bit cocky, for no reason as many of my plays have not been working. Flop comes 7d 10d Qd. I have the low straight, it is checked to me, being a bit of a dick, i say 'I will bet my flush' and throw out $35. Folds to another guy with about $70 total left. But here is the thing, he has his iPod on, so he did not hear my statement. He things for awhile and goes all-in with Ac-Qs for top pair. I call immediately and win on the river as everyone around the table starts laughing that if he had not been listening to his music, he may have laid it down as I told him what I had.

All in all, left with $210.

-$190 for the session.