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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.

Funny story… :D

PPPPoker — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:38:43 +0000

Okay, so we’re playing a home game tournament and I’m down to 400 chips with 50/100 blinds. I’m in the big blind and I decide to shove/call whatever happens as I can’t really just ship off 25% of my stack, right?

Anyway, I decide not to look and just go for it. Guy in middle position makes it 500 and I’m like alright let’s go!

Everyone folds, I say — Guess I’ll stick to my plan — and he turns over KK. I look at my cards — and see two black aces.

We took a pic of the cards for the sake of the books. Enjoy — I sure did! Too bad it got lost in the server hack…

Think you’ve seen a cold deck?

PPPPoker — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:43:12 +0000

This Youtube movie has been around. Why? Because it’s absolutely amazing. The coldest deck I’ve ever ever ever seen. Five pocket pairs, including QQ KK AA — that’s pretty sick, no?

Well, excellent laydown with the Kings — too bad it turns out to be a ace-cracking hand…