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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 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.

In the third hand my AT turned into the nuts and got doubled up by a guy holding 9T to make the sucker end of the straight. He bet big on the river and instacalled my all-in. Can’t blaim him, I suppose.

Couple minutes later I flopped a set of nines that got counterfeited on the turn. I managed to get away from the hand without too much damage which I believe was the play of the tournament considering my pretty big bet on the flop. One other guy got knocked out of that hand with two pair — he couldn’t lay it down and ran into the nut flush.

I ended up finishing third when my back to back AJ & AQ ran into 77 & 33, twice losing the race. Too bad, but at least I cashed out — $650.

Good fun.

Will obviously be back in full force in a few days once I’ve had a little more sleep (I’ve been pretty much awake 20 hours a day for a week now) — and I’ll have some hand reports (if I can keep my head together on those).

See y’all soon!

My first hole cards were: AJKT double suited, which I knew were good. Decided to play them strong and attack right off the bat. Raised pre-flop, got re-raised (assumed I was up against AA or KK as that’s what Sammy’s book said) and just called. Flop was…. QJ9 with two diamonds. I had two diamonds. Bet out right away, got re-raised, capped it — same on 4th street when a blank came up — and made my ace high flush on the river. Other guy had a set of queens.

According to the book — that guy made a donkey play with his queens. I ended up winner for the game mainly because of this massive first hand. Ha!

Well — it turned out great. Went down about 30% of my stack before doubling up with a set of jacks against a guy with top pair, and then doubled up AGAIN when the donkey tried to bluff off all his chips, in which he succeeded when I called his ace high bet on the river with my flopped straight (which I checked to him twice, smoothcalled twice).

I lost about 10BB’s before I decided to quit. Had fun, made some cash. Good times!

I feel I need to take a little break. Not only was this an expensive night — it also made me unhappy. I play poker for fun, not to feel bad. I’ll be back in a couple weeks, for now — I’ll be enjoying some blackjack.