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 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.
:(
Sit & Go Madness
Went on a little sit & go madness last week when I entered a $300 buy-in s&g at the local casino. Ten players signed up, all got 200 in chips, and quickly started battling it out.
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. :)
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