2 HU $2 + .15 1st 17 hands

This was sort of interesting and I expected that I was going to lose the final hand. I had one earlier hand where I might have been able to end it but decided to give up all my chips "just in case" they had two cards I knew would beat me. Nothing unusual the 1st few hands. I varied my betting from calling to 3 BB to mix it up.

Hand 8: I had Qs 6c as the BB, SB limped and I called. Flop was Qh Qc 5s. I decided to slow play it and checked, SB did same. Turn As. Darn, I was hoping to bet on the Turn, but with an A popping up decided to check again, SB did too. I fet if I made any bet they would likely fold. The River was a 6d giving me a FH. I bet the pot (40) and to my surprise they bet 4x my bet (160). The good news was they must have something!!

I thought maybe they had hit an A on the turn and were just now betting it having AA w/the Q's on the board.I decided to double their raise to 320 and they raised to 500, I reraised to 670 and they reraised to 840. At this point I could have gone all in on them and expect them to call (I had 970 chips to their 480 left), but decided to stop a moment and think about what might they have that they are betting so heavy on AND what might they have that would BEAT me instead of just jumping all-in into the fray and suddenly find myself chip crippled.

I had a nice full house of Q's full of 6's, BUT if they had a Q and maybe an A as well (I didn't think they'd have had pocket A's as well or they'd have bet more strongly earlier), and if they did they would have Q's full of A's and I'd lose. So I decided to just call their last bet and I'd still have 800 chips left. Not great but better then if I'd went all in and lost and had only 320 chips left. PLUS I was pleased with myself for taking the time to think it out BEFORE I acted.

Turns out they had Qd 7d, a hand very close to mine and if I'd not hit the FH they would have won! That left them with 480 chips.

Hand 10 I gave up a few chips seeing if pocket 6's might hit somewhere on the board of 8d 3h Js 5s 5h. We both checked the River and they had paired the J and won.

Hand 14 as BB with Kc 10h I raised SB's limp to 2 BB's. They called. Flop 2d 7d 3d. I made a limp bet just to see what the SB would do and they went all-in, so I folded.

Hand 17 the last one. I was the SB w/Kd Jc and bet 3 BB (90), BB called. Flop 4h Ah Kh. A scarey flop. I hit my K but there was an A out there as well as possible flush. BB decided to go all-in with the last 550 of their chips. I thought a bit about it but decided to see what they had as I'd still have the chip lead if they won. Not sure if that was reasonable on my part or not as I had no real reason to expect they didn't have something good, or did I? They were certainly good cards if they wanted to try a bluff and pick up 180 chips and by going all in they would feel it likely I would fold. Indeed I  might have, but instead I called.

They had Js 8c. Turn was 9d and the River a 10s. I won!!! They were bluffing after all. :-)