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.
