Home game funnery

Got to my Tuesday night home game late. Had to work. Waited for someone to bust and finally sat down about 10:45. Played 3 hands until it broke up at 12:30. 25/50 blinds. Fold, fold and more folding. Finally limp after many limpers with QJhh. Flop comes Q82 one heart. Sb makes small bet. Three callers, so I push all in. Mookie, different one, tanks and says, "I know I am behind". Calls with A8hh. I hold up and almost double my $20 buy in. It was soooooted. He had outs. His words, not mine.

Second hand. Nearly family pot for $2 raise by utg. I look down in bb when folded to me at JJ. Call and see flop of J65os. Gin! Sb bets $10. I start salivating. I ask the other 5 people in the hand what they are gonna do with all smiles. Guy, not in the hand, who thinks he can read everybody, but can't, says I am definitely folding. I am selling that. I smooth call after a minute of table banter. Folds to button. His name is Willis. The wheels in his mind are spinning. I can smell them. He finally pushes all in. I have an erection. Very small, so not noticeable. Sb insta mucks and I insta call. I had put the button on AJ at worst but probably a slow played over pair. He had smooth called a $2 raise with AA on the button in 5 handed pot earlier. I know, horrible. Any way, any guesses as to what he had? Give up?
88. Yep thats right. Open raise for almost the pot smooth called ahead of him and he thinks his 88 is golden. Think mister know it all's banter helped me a little here. Want to play in my game? My hand holds and I am around $100.

Third hand. I call what now seems to be the standard open raise $2 with 66. Set mining. Flop comes 52J, two clubs. Checks around to button who bets $2 at the pot. 3 callers to me and I look at the board closely and realize the 5 is really a six. We were playing with an old casino deck and the hole in the middle fooled me into thinking it was a 5 and I was well into my 3rd tallboy. Little buzzed. Anyway, super cool. I bump it to $15. Fold, button folds. he had KJ and really the only other solid player there. Mookie, different one, thinks for a bit and smooth calls. He is on a flush draw. I know he is on a flush draw and he knows I know. He loves his flush draws. Turn is 4s and he checks. I put him all in for his last $55 and he tanks. He says he knows I have AJ or something. He asks if I want to be snapped off. I tell him that sounds uncomfortable. He finally calls and a harmless Td comes on the river. He mucks and says he picked up the straight draw on the turn.
Night ends with $180 in front of me. Not bad for less than 2 hours work. Thats more than my Full Tilt bankroll.

Nice.

Did I mention Mookie, different one, and Willis are brothers? In the KC area? Let me know. You can come to my game.

MT