Hi all, it’s been a while but that’s because I have to teach my students about all the cruelty in the world lately. But don’t worry, they’re having a good time. How different is that for me when sitting on the online poker table.

I played some tournaments on Pokerstars and I had some issues with pocket kings to say the least. Let’s watch the first hand:

So I make a very decent raise preflop and some guy calls with Q9 and hits two pair. Not much I can do there I guess, could easily have been AQ or the A high diamond draw. Another tournament:

So these are the situatons that are SO important in poker: most of your money is in the middle and you’re an almost 85% favorite to double up. Because the guy with KK has two different suits, he still has 10%. But they throw the freakin’ case King in front of me…