Turning Stone Trip

I just got back from a Turning Stone Casino trip to New York. I played 1/2 NL with a 100 max (only a half stack) buy-in. I got very lucky and ended up +$348, and had KK run into my AA, QQ run into my KK, and took down KK with QQ once. I played for a total of 10 hours over two days, Friday night from 1:30 am to 4:30 am, and Saturday from 12-8 with an hour for food. The drunk people at my table Friday night were unbelievable; two guys sat across the table from me and continuously donated money to the pot. They called down just about every hand and played ridiculously.

I think I did well, and one play stuck out in my mind. Three limpers to me on the BT, I raise to 13 with ATo (I tend to play by the 4xBB+1xBB per limper, but a note on this later). One tight limper from MP calls. Flop comes 522 rainbow and he bets $10 into a $26 dollar pot, and I was planning on folding until I did some thinking. I put his range on 22-TT, 23s-56s or possibly Ax not giving me respect. I decided to float and hope for a scare card to come on the turn, and give him another chance to show me the value of his hand. The turn came a Q, giving a back door flush draw, and he bet $10 again, this time into a $46 pot. I thought this would be either a scared bet, or a please call me bet, and this guy was definitely capable of making a scared bet. I decided to pop it up to $25 to rep the queen, and because a huge portion of his range (mostly the 66-TT) was dominated by a queen. He promptly folded, and this was probably the only time that I made a play I had never made before.

About the PFR amount, I had noticed one player make 2 seperate raises from late position where he raised exactly 4xBB + 1xBB per limper. Surprisingly after playing with him for about 4 hours he was a pretty straight up TAG, and probably a 2p2er. That was what clued me in to varying my raise sizes a little, because that was such a large indicator for me to look for other hints, and it turned out paying off against him when I took a pot he CBed at IP with TP bad kicker (called and checked down, where I otherwise might have folded and he had high air). I also don't think that varying the size of the raise by $1 amounts changes much, and people at the casino seem to like to raise to odd numbers for some reason. No one raised to 8 PF. No one. 7, 11, or 13 were pretty much the only acceptable raises. In fact one time someone tossed in two reds, paused, and then said "9", as if he refused to be caught betting 10.

A great trip all in all, and happy to be up money.