Seneca Trip Report part 2

So this week, I decide to try again but this time the 1/2 cash game. I show up at 4pm and am seated right away in seat 1. Don't have to post as a new player and am dealt in the next hand. The action is like I remember it, raise to $10-12 preflop, get four callers, chasers going to chase, etc...

I decide I am going to play loose pre-flop, and tighten up post flop as there is no point in bluffing most of this crowd. It's an up and down afternoon as I chip up to $500 then back down to $300, never going below the starting stack of $200. I'm at a good table with only one other solid player and three real fish. The rest are very straight forward players and you can tell when they have it.

No one, except one player, pick up on the fact that when I am betting post flop, I have it.

The hand that started it all.

I am in the BB and look down at 6h-8h, UTG+2 makes it $10 to go, three callers and I call. Pot is $50 and the flop comes
5d-7h-Th, I check and it checks to the button who leads out for $30, I check-raise it to $80, everyone else folds and button shoves to put me all in, I call and it runs out Js - 6d - I say, "I missed" and table my hand. Button stares at the board and yells "I knew it, I knew you were on a flush draw !" and then mucks his cards, saying he had A-K and that I rivered him.

I didn't bother to tell him that he was a HUGE underdog after the flop.

Then three sisters, who I think used to be regulars there, came in and all sat at our table. They were friendly, having fun and didn't mind gambling. I stacked the eldest with my K-Q vs her Q-J on a queen high flop and she barreled every street of a three flush board, I just didn't think she flopped a flush, so I called her down, she was not happy with me.

When they left, things really picked up. I had just over $600 in front of me and went on the kind of heater you can only dream about for 1/2. I got paid off and held every high pocket pair I had. Hit trip 2s twice, trip 8s another time. turned straights three times.

When the floor came over to load the tray, every half hour or so, he asked what was going on at our table, then he looked at my stack and said "oh", lol.

By 6am, when I decided I had to leave for driving sake, I had $1800 US sitting in front of me ! Best 1/2 session I have ever had.
Not a bad hourly rate, I'd say.