Lucky Chances, Lucky Indeed

On Saturday a friend talked me into going to Lucky Chances Casino in Colma. I had never been there but had heard about their 1-1-2 No Limit Texas Hold 'Em table. The maximum buy-in is $100 and apparently this is the only casino that offers this kind of table, I guess you are rewarded for building a good chip stack when people can only buy-in for $100. So I met up with him at LC's, thinking that I was just about to lose the quickest $100 ever. They only have two tables for the 1-1-2 NL so I had to wait a good hour before finally getting my spot, not at the table my friend was at. As soon as I sit down I am asked if I want to be dealt in, I of course reply that I do and a second later the dealer asks me for $6, so like 5 seconds in and I'm already down, sweet. I tried to get a good feel for the table and went in wanting to play disciplined. I picked up that there were a lot of unwarranted raises and lot more calling than I expected. People were raising with unsuited Ax in early position and calling with worse it seemed. I was frustrated as I found myself folding two hands that would have been the nuts on the river (both straights) but I couldn’t call the raises with these kinds of hands, KTo etc. Before I know it, I’m down to about $55 and find myself looking at QQ in mp. I raise to $20 and get 4 callers! I figure one of these people must have an Ace or K and my Queens can’t possibly hold up. I needed the perfect flop and I got it, all under cards with no draws whatsoever. It gets checked to me and I go all as there is already enough money in the pot and I don’t want people drawing out on me. I get two very hesitant callers. The turn is another Q and now I feel pretty good about my hand, one of the callers bets the other one out of the pot and shows T8, he had flopped top pair (8) with a Ten kicker, I was shocked these were the hands that called me. Anyhow, after that win I was well over my buy-in and went on to win a couple of other hands and decided to cash out about 1.5 hrs at that table for $205. I’ll definitely be going back to that table in the future.