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Poker can be a bitch.

PPPPoker — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:29:23 +0000

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 they’re winning, it’s so much fun playing with a big stack and with a clear head)… I pick up AA in the small blind and am happy to see a raise and a re-raise in front of me. The re-raise was to $400 and I decide not to play that hand out of position and make a BIG re-raise. I make it $3200. Initial raiser folds and re-raiser moves in for about $9000. I chuckle, tell him I know he must have KK or the other remaining aces and I call. He flips over KK.

The flop comes J87, turn K, river 2.

What.
A.
Cooler.

Decided not to rebuy due to me absolutely steaming — just got home — time for bed.

Poker’s a bitch.

Lost a huge pot after a one-outer

PPPPoker — Sat, 24 May 2008 08:45:05 +0000

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 with about $1200 in chips. I pick up AJs. The whole table fold/limps to me and I decide to open with a 6BB raise (average for the table). Two limpers and the big blind call my raise so 4 players see a A-A-T flop.

Good result. I flop a set of jacks, and I assume I have by far the strongest hand at the moment. Pocket tens beat me — but that’s it. I check, two players check behind me and one guy bets about half the pot. I call, one guy behind me calls too.

The turn is a Jack. I make the nuts. Good stuff. One of the caller bets +/-80% of the pot and I decide to just call again. The other players fold.

The river is a Ten.

The other guy leads out, I raise, he shoves, I call.

He flips over pocket tens.

He had about $1050. Second in chips at the table.

Bah.

The pain of No Limit…

PPPPoker — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:56:33 +0000

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 set — and made a queen high-flush on the flop with QJ just to see A4os beat my when he called my +pot-sized bet on the flop with nothing but the ace of hearts…

Anyway, the perfect hand to show what happened:

I picked up AKs on the button. 6 players limped (lol), so I decided to raise big — making it 15 Big Blinds. Two players call. The flop gives me a pair of kings AND the nut flush draw — talk about a dream flop. Player in seat one bets, second one in calls, I decide to raise 3x. S1 calls, S2 folds.

The turn makes my nut flush. Player in 1 bets right out again and I shove for about 2 pots more. Villain instacalls with two pair. River makes him his boat and I double him up.