Ghazban
09-24-2004, 11:29 AM
So I'm playing my usual tight-aggressive game of .10/.25 blind no-limit on UB and these few hands come up:
Hand 1
AA in EMP, I raise preflop, get 2 callers, flop is QT5 rainbow, I bet the pot and take it down
Hand 2 (literally, the next hand)
I get AA again, now in UTG+1, I raise preflop, get 2 callers, flop is very similar: Q83 rainbow, I bet the pot, get one caller, turn is a 7 completing the rainbow, I push all in (little more than pot size at this point) and he calls w/QJo. I figured him for AQ so, while this suprises me, I'm perfectly happy he's calling. River is a Q and I go broke.
Winning next to nothing with AA followed by losing my whole stack with AA in the very next hand is just too much so I leave the table, do some work, try to cool off, yadda yadda yadda. About an hour later, I sit down at the same stakes game (different players, though) and get the following hand:
Hand 3 (an hour later)
Dealt 88 in MP, 3 limps in front of me, I limp, button limps, SB minraises, BB and all the limpers call. Flop is Q83 rainbow (huh, lot of Q-high flops in this story... well, whatever). Yay for me! SB bets the pot, 1 guy in front of me calls, I do, too, everyone else folds. Turn is a ten of some suit I care not about, SB bets $2 of his $13 stack into a ~$10 pot, guy in front of me calls, I raise it up to $10, SB pushes all-in for ~$13, other guy calls, I do, too. River is a J and other guy pushes all-in to the dry side pot for ~$5, which I obviously call, hoping for the poetic justice that would be if he had QJ and just made 2 pair. SB shows down KK, other guy has AQo, and my set rakes a ginormous (yes, I did just invent that word, deriving it from gigantic and enormous) pot, more than making up for the bad beat earlier with AA.
Thank you, idiots, for playing so poorly and ensuring that, as a group, the bad beats you lay on me are compensated for by the equally poor play of your compatriots /images/graemlins/grin.gif
Hand 1
AA in EMP, I raise preflop, get 2 callers, flop is QT5 rainbow, I bet the pot and take it down
Hand 2 (literally, the next hand)
I get AA again, now in UTG+1, I raise preflop, get 2 callers, flop is very similar: Q83 rainbow, I bet the pot, get one caller, turn is a 7 completing the rainbow, I push all in (little more than pot size at this point) and he calls w/QJo. I figured him for AQ so, while this suprises me, I'm perfectly happy he's calling. River is a Q and I go broke.
Winning next to nothing with AA followed by losing my whole stack with AA in the very next hand is just too much so I leave the table, do some work, try to cool off, yadda yadda yadda. About an hour later, I sit down at the same stakes game (different players, though) and get the following hand:
Hand 3 (an hour later)
Dealt 88 in MP, 3 limps in front of me, I limp, button limps, SB minraises, BB and all the limpers call. Flop is Q83 rainbow (huh, lot of Q-high flops in this story... well, whatever). Yay for me! SB bets the pot, 1 guy in front of me calls, I do, too, everyone else folds. Turn is a ten of some suit I care not about, SB bets $2 of his $13 stack into a ~$10 pot, guy in front of me calls, I raise it up to $10, SB pushes all-in for ~$13, other guy calls, I do, too. River is a J and other guy pushes all-in to the dry side pot for ~$5, which I obviously call, hoping for the poetic justice that would be if he had QJ and just made 2 pair. SB shows down KK, other guy has AQo, and my set rakes a ginormous (yes, I did just invent that word, deriving it from gigantic and enormous) pot, more than making up for the bad beat earlier with AA.
Thank you, idiots, for playing so poorly and ensuring that, as a group, the bad beats you lay on me are compensated for by the equally poor play of your compatriots /images/graemlins/grin.gif