Back to the grind.
Back tonight after taking time off while Heather was in town.
Fold, limp, limp to me with AA in MP in the 8 seat. I limp. Player to my left folds, good TAG player in the 10 with monster chips raises to 12. Well, that sucks, because nobody is going to call. Wrong. 1 goes all-in for 13. Cutoff calls, button folds, sb calls, bb folds, utg +1 calls, utg +2 folds. Ok, I’ve got 150, and there’s now 70 in this pot. Awesome. Stove top in your faces. I expect to get it HU with over 80% equity, and hell, if I lose, I lose 13. Good TAG actually goes in the tank, but ends up folding. Cutoff folds. Then sb tanks. And calls! He’s got a total of 74. Ok, I’m good with that, too. Now, even if the first all-in sucks out, I make money as long as I win the side. utg+1 folds. I flip my AA. First all-in flips her JTcc. sb flips his K9dd. Hmmmm. And, 368 all diamonds comes right out on the flop. No, I don’t have the Ad. No, the turn is not the first of the runners I need. I pick up my remaining chips and leave. Good luck, all.
Small win at the Mirage and a small loss at the Venetian mean that this hand is pretty much my night.
May 28th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Dang. That sucks. Was there any follow up commentary?
Any thoughts as to why people fall in love with suited paint so much?
May 28th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I have no idea why he played the hand. As I was stacking my chips, I said good luck everyone and said nice hand to him. I was ok with it, and then he kinda did the shrug while he looked at me, like “what could I do?” and I had a millisecond veer towards him on my way to the counter.
May 29th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Yeh, I always feel better about sucks out like that when the donks preface their actions or even postface (is that a word?) with something like “I just wanted to gamble”.
But the “what could I do” look is rather maddening.