Bad Beats
Poker can be a bitch.
Seriously, poker can be a bitch — No Limit Hold’em in particular can be very very bitchy. Here’s my painful story of the night.
Cash game, $5/$10 blinds. Bought in for $1000 and quickly accumulated a lot of chips. After a couple hours I was steady at $7000, playing my best game (as everyone does when [...]
Lost a huge pot after a one-outer
One-outers always hurt. They hurt because they mean you have a strong hand — they hurtbecause the other guy/woman sucked out in the worst possible manner possible in poker — and they hurt because they’re usually part of a big pot.
I had such a painful even tonight and I feel like sharing.
I’m on the button [...]
The pain of No Limit…
Did a 24-hour session yesterday, and ended up winning under $100. It’s quite a frustrating feeling, especially when you know I was up about $1600 after like 22 hours of play.
The last hour was a typical no-limit wreck…. Two sets got all-in called on the turn and beat by flushes, had top two against bottom [...]
