Thanks Empire!

Very interesting session tonight. When I first get home, I can’t log into Empire. The thing’s just hanging. I do some errands that I had been meaning to get to (thanks Empire!) and try again an hour or so later. Bang! I’m on. But there’s only six 6-max games being spread and maybe 4 full games (at my preferred level, $5/$10). Huh? Ok, so they open up two new tables and I get seated at a completely fresh game. I don’t catch much on the one table but the deck smacks me in the face at the second (thanks Empire!). First hand KQo from MP. Limp, limp, I raise, cold call, call, call. Four players see the flop which comes AJT with two spades (the ace and the ten are spades and I have the queen of spades in my hand). EP bets, MP calls, I raise, button cold calls 2, EP re-raises, MP calls, I raise, and everyone calls. The turn is a spade. EP bets, MP calls, I think about raising but against three opponents I’m probably dead to another spade, button mucks. River is another spade. EP bets, MP calls, I raise, EP re-raises, MP mucks, and I call hoping I didn’t just run into the K of spades. Nope. A7 with the seven of spades (thanks Empire!).

The table just kept going like that. Another hand I limp in with 9Ts on the button and catch a TTx flop and fill up on the turn against a guy who decides I don’t have a ten and makes it a rasing war on the turn and the river. Turns out he slow played aces (thanks Empire!).

Within 1/2 hour I was up 30BB. That’s including the 7BB I was down on the other table. Then Empire freezes up and kicks me off. I try to log back in again but it just hangs so I call it a night and think about the fact that that was probably the fastest 30BB I’ve ever won in my life (thanks Empire!).