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When it rains, it Pours

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

I couldn’t do anything right tonight on FTP (or should I say I couldn’t do anything to prevent continuously receiving ridiculously bad beats).  These are the nights that I honestly wonder what the deal is with the absolutely stupid amount of bad beats in online poker.  I understand that you are seeing more hands therefor you are more likely to see bad beats, blah blah blah.  I’m not buying that reason.

Besides the bad beats, you might as well not even play a pocket pair of 10s or lower.  The number of face cards that hit the flop in online poker is unbelievable.  Online, I give hands like QK, JQ, etc waaaaaaay more worth than in real life, because it’s almost a given that you are going to flop some face cards.  It’s utterly ridiculous.

If it weren’t so convenient to play online, I wouldn’t.  I promise you that.  It’s like you are playing a completely different game.  A lot of the skill goes out the window because it really doesn’t matter if you have the best hand, because that’s probably not the one that is going to win.  It’s kind of like playing bingo.  And the players online are willing to chase all the way down to the river.

On my final hand of the night on FTP tonight, I was short stacked with pocket 3s.  I limp under the gun and it folds to the BB, who raises it.  I call.  The flop comes 4 7 8.  I check, he bets, I call.  The turn is a 2.  I bet, he reraises me all in.  I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have anything so I call.  Sure enough, I made the right read, the right call, as he had K 6.  Nothing but a gutshot.  Then the river came.  All together now…… a 4.  He hit his gutshot straight on the river to knock me out.  Nice.

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Folding the Nut Flush

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

When you have a bad night, you really have a bad night.  Last night I was playing a local live tournament and everything was going wrong for me.  One hand in particular really stuck in my mind:

I am dealt K9 of clubs.  Two players limp into the pot and I follow.  The flop comes Ace of clubs, Jack of clubs, 5 of hearts.  The first player bets out $250 (bb is $100), second player calls, and I call with four to the nut flush.  The turn is the Jack of clubs.  This gives me the nut flush, but also pairs the board.  Both players in front of me check.  I decide to check to try and trap, since I know that they both have a piece of the board from their previous bets.

Soooooooooooo…  The river comes and it’s a good old JACK.  That puts THREE JACKS on the board.  I didn’t even need to wait to see what the other players were going to do.  It was quite apparent that I had just slow played my nut flush right into two full houses.  The first player bets out and the second player calls.  After professing to my table how sick this hand was, I sadly threw my nut flush into the muck.  The other two players both flipped over an ace for Jacks full of Aces, and split the pot.

Sometimes I hate poker.

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My bad luck continues in the Sunday 200,000 on PokerStars

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

I started doing pretty well in the Sunday 200,000 on PokerStars just a little bit ago.  After about 30 minutes I had my stack up to about 6000, which was well above average.  Then it starts…

I’m in the big blind (blinds are at 75/150).  The person two spots to my left (UTG+1) raises it to 450.  Everyone folds around to me.  I wake up with 55 in the big bling so I call the 450.

The flop comes K 5 K.  I just flopped a full house.  Now I’m just trying to figure out how to get some money out of this guy who actually has a bigger stack than I do.  I am first to act so I check, and he checks as well.  So now I’m thinking that I’m not going to get anything from him other than his preflop money.

The turn is a 6.  I bet out 400.  He calls.  The river is a 7.  I bet out 600, trying to get a little more out of him.  To my surprise, he reraises me to about 2000.  YAY!  I reraise and push all in and he calls.  Wouldn’t you know it…He of course has pocket Kings.  My flopped full house was CRUSHED by flopped quad Kings.  What a joke.

I’m not sure what I did to the online poker Gods, but they have really had it out for me for the last week or so.

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Horrrrrrrrible Night Online

Friday, February 13th, 2009

I can honestly say that tonight I think I am having the worst night of online poker in my life. It’s seriously one sucky beat after another (I just had one as I was typing this). This is one of those nights where I really contemplate why I am even playing online.

Earlier in the Midnight Madness Tournament on Full Tilt, I was short stacked from a previous bad beat (I can’t remember it at the second because I’ve had so many tonight) so I had about 370 left in chips and was UTG.  I woke up with AJ suited and raised to 120 (3 X big blind).  I get reraised by the person two seats to my left.  So I go ahead and push all in.  HE HAS QT OFF SUIT.  He reraised me preflop with QT offsuit.  Obviously I was going to push all in with my short stack, so this “player” wanted me to go all in when he had QT offsuit.

So anyway I’m feeling pretty good about it.  Flop is 7 5 7.  Turn is a 6.  And yep, you guessed it, the river is a Q.  Out I go.

So then I get in a $24 + $2 tourney ($17000 guarantee).  About four hands into it I get KQ off in the big blind.  One person raises it to $70 (2 1/2 X big blind).  The small blind and I call.  The flop comes 7 K 8 rainbow.  I min bet.  One player calls, small blind folds.  The turn is another K.  I hit trip Kings with a Q kicker.  I bet, he calls.  The river is a blank.  I bet, he reraises, I reraise all in and he calls.  Of course we all know what he has….  AK.  That’s right.  4th hand of the game and I lose 3000 chips because my trip Kings with a Queen kicker get crushed by trip Kings with an Ace kicker.

Here’s one that JUST happened to take me out of a tournament.  I have AT suited with a short stack of about 1700.  I raise to 800.  The player to my left reraises to put me all in.  I call.  He turns over Aces.  So I’m done right?  The flop comes T J T.  I hit trip Tens to crush his Aces.  Oh but wait, the turn is a Jack.  And the river?  Oh you know it was another Jack, giving him Jacks full of Aces to my Jacks full of Tens.  It really is BS.

I don’t care what anyone says, stuff happens online like that much, much, much, much more often then it does in real life.  I’m not saying that bad beats don’t happen in real life, but online they always tease you by letting you hit your hand, and then giving the other person an even bigger monster hand.  If they’re going to put a bad beat on me, just let them do it and don’t give me false hope.  It’s BS.  Honestly.  That is by far my biggest complaint with online poker.

I haven’t cashed in a game yet tonight.  I never go a night without cashing in something.  I haven’t been taken out of a game tonight yet where I went into the hand the underdog.  I literally just lost two hands where I held AK and someone went all in on me with an underpair, and of course I lost both of them.  I understand that those are just coin flips, but it just goes along with the kind of luck I’ve had all night.

Sorry for the rant, but sometimes stuff sucks, like online poker.

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