Weekly Thursday

Played in my weekly Thursday cash game at my buddy's house. The usual suspects were there, prepared to donate to my cause. As luck would have it, they donated $600 exactly. A nice take.
A couple of hands come to mind, particularly a bluff I pulled on one of the tight regulars:

The regular opens UTG for a weakish $10 bet and four people call in front of me. I elect to call, with a speculative 95dd, spew I know, but whatever; If I hit a flush I'm stacking someone. Two more people call behind me and we have ourselves a nice pot. The flop comes 2s 3d 4d. Nice flop for me as I flop a combo draw. Everyone checks to me and I bet $45 into $70 or something. Everyone folds except the reg who calls. Turn comes the 9 of clubs and op checks it again. This time I fire out $100. The reg quickly calls. The river is the Q of hearts. The reg checks to me again. Since he's obviously holding one pair I fire off $230 and he quickly folds. I show him the bluff because I'm awesome and take down a nice pot. One of the players says, "Ben, you know I would have beaten you, I had two pairs!" No shit sherlock, I had nine high.

The only other hand of note came after I had been tangling with my mate Antonio. Antonio is a spewy regular who plays large pots out of position with speculative holdings. Thing is, he scares the shit out of me because he can have ATC. Anyway the action went like this:

Same reg as in the previous hand opens for $15. I look down at two red aces and pop it to $53. Antonio calls in the SB and the original raiser comes along. Flop comes Qc 9d 3s. Great flop. Checked to me and I bet $115. Anthony just calls which scares me. 10J is not out of his range but I'm scared he may have flopped a set. Preflop raiser folds and I'm happy to see another 9 fall on the turn. This time Antonio leads out for $200, which is a standard move for him. I promptly ship it in for $350 more, he ho hums for a few minutes and then folds 77 face up. WTF? He almost convinced himself to call. I'm just curious how he even got to the turn. Some things Ill never understand! Till next time.