Kim left me yesterday to go with a friend to Nawleans for a few days, and as part of my boyfriendly duties I dropped her off at the Phoenix airport early yesterday evening. On the way back down I-10 I go right by the "Gila River Wild Horse Pass Casino":http://www.wingilariver.com/wildhorsepass.php, so I figured I'd stop in again. I had been there once before, and found very juicy and soft games, but didn't get any cards and left even after about an hour. This time went a little better, to say the least. I sat at an awesome $3/6 table, full of loose, passive and flat-out bad players. Perfect example was a hand which had 3 players at the showdown. There was 2 pairs on the board; 10s and 4s. Woman in the 8s turns over pocket deuces for 3 pair, and the other two players mucked their cards, and I saw the 9s throw away a king. Only the top two pairs would play, so all the woman really had was deuce high, so king high would have been the winner. Ooops, sometimes it's better to just let the dealer tell you what you have.

2nd hand I was in I was dealt 2 red kings, raised it up, got one caller and he folded to my flop bet. Ok, that was easy. No cards for awhile after that, but then I started getting some good hands; pocket 10s, then AQ which connected on the flop, followed by AJ which hit on the turn. In each case I had at least 3 or 4 callers to at least the turn, all of them apparently calling with nothing. In all those cases I would show my hand even without callers so they knew I was getting and playing good hands.

Pocket aces? Twice. Held up both times. Later in the game I had pocket kings again in the big blind, raised it with like 6 limpers, hit my set on the turn and pulled in a metric ton of chips. Had A-10 of spades, raised it and had the flop come with 3 spades. I even had a string of kill pots (ie. $6/12 hands) that I was winning with some silly cards, like 6-4 offsuit that my free look gave me a pair of 4s on the flop which held up. Yes, I thought I was playing well and being selective with my starting hands, especially compared to the ninnies I was playing against, but a monkey could have played my cards and done well. I freely admit that I was lucky in a lot of spots, especially these 2 hands:

3-4 of clubs in the middle position. Against a table this loose and passive I can get away with limping in with this one, so along with like 5 other people we see a flop that's 9-7-x with 2 clubs. Woohoo! Early position bets, one caller then I raise. A halfway decent player across the table from me makes it 3 bets, so I call. Other players drop out. I figured he's got A-9, so with my flush draw I'm going to crush him 30% of the time. Next card is a 3, pairing me up and giving me some more outs. I check, he bets, and I call. River is another 3, giving me trips. Now I have to worry about him possibly having a set on the flop, which would give him a full house now. I bet, he just calls and shows 9-7 for a flopped 2 pair.

K-8 of spades in late position. 4 people limp, I limp and the button raises. Everyone calls, and the flop comes x-8-8. Fireworks are going off in my head, but there's 2 clubs on the board, so when everyone checks and the button bets, I raise when it gets around to me. I have to try and make it expensive for flush draws, so better to get their money in now while I'm still ahead. I bet the rest of the way, keeping most of the callers. River is a 3rd club, but luckily nobody had a flush. My trip 8s were good, and that was a crazy big pot.

End result? I was there for a little less than 5 hours, and walked away $300 to the good. That works out to a little more than 10 BB/hr, which is completely unsustainable, although I'd sure like to try and do it again. Rats, I should have taken a picture of my chip stack; I had made a full triangle of 20-chip stacks, 6 wide at the base. I'm thinking I should buy in for that much every time, because it got me lots of respect.