Don’t try this at home.
Published January 22, 2012LOL. Epic Hand. I don’t know how to describe this hand better. It was one of these rare moments that I was tilting. I know, I should never do this and you shouldn’t either. But let’s face it: EVERY poker player tilts, steams or does whatever stupid at some point. At those moments, it’s very funny when the dealer backs you in your steaming action with a fantastic suck out against four (yes, lol) players. Especially when you’re holding the magnificent 63 off.
So I’d just played 2,5 hours in a tourney, I was close to the money and subsequently eliminated when my QQ was cracked by AK. I was really mad, because I had been playing a good tournament. So I just opened a random 9 handed $5 sit and go to lose some temper. When I see a raise, a reraise and an all-in in front of me, I decide it’s time to shove with my 63.
I tried to convert the hand into the player, but apparently it couldn’t handle this chips explosion^^. So here’s the report:
| Dealt to Hero | |
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Preflop (Pot:45)
| whitebeauty | FOLD |
| samson1965 | RAISE | $120 |
| hukau vitali | FOLD |
| phil-andijvie63 | RAISE | $405 |
| mixfood | ALL-IN | $1,500 |
| ac10dc | FOLD |
| pejerrey32 | FOLD |
| Hero | ALL-IN | $1,485 |
| krupniok | ALL-IN | $1,470 |
| samson1965 | ALL-IN | $1,380 |
| phil-andijvie63 | ALL-IN | $1,095 |
Showdown:
| mixfood SHOWS |
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| Hero SHOWS |
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| krupniok SHOWS |
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| samson1965 SHOWS |
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| phil-andijvie63 SHOWS |
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| Hero | wins the pot: $7,500 |
So I beat Aces, Kings, Sevens and Ace Queen ROFL. I won the tourney. Obviously.
Hitting quads, not getting a bad beat!
Published October 1, 2011Yes ladies and gentlemen, you read that well, I flopped an original four of a kind the other day and I was not sucked out by a better four of a kind. However, the river gave me the creeps for about three seconds.
Three was the magic number in this hand, because it was quad threes I made right on the flop, playing in a big field tournament (+600 players). Look at my gem of the month:
“You gave the guy with QQ a bad beat”, I hear you say? Not exactly, when you make a minraise under the gun with this kind of hands you deserve a punishment. On the flop he makes a pot sized bet but his story’s already over right there: I of course just call his bets, I want this other fella to donate me some chips too. I think I make a perfect value bet on the river to extract some more chips and I am completely happy after this hand: hitting quads is one, making as much profits out of it as possible is two. 1+1=5 590 chips.
JOKERSTARS FLOP &^%$#*%!
Published August 3, 2011I already showed you a lot of bad beats and cold decks over here. But I think I faced one of the sickest poker jokes in my young career as amateur poker player just the other day. It certainly wasn’t a bad beat, and it wasn’t even that good of an example of a cold deck as far as the hole cards were concerned.
Of course, AA vs KK or KK vs QQ: obvious cold decks. AA vs AK? Not really. But how can I escape from my hand after this flop??
Probably the sickest thing of all is the fact my opponent plays this so good, after he hits Aces full on the flop. Especially his all-in on the turn is awesome, he must have supposed I hit that flop too. But I grabbed my courage back together and played another tournament, but the dealer slapped me in the face once again:
I respect this raise in early position so I just call to see what the flop brings, basically because my hand is suited. I flop top two and of course the money goes in. River is not nice. Those hands just show that to play online poker, is to accept the chance of being outdrawn.
I can’t dodge the ladies…
Published June 13, 2011…in poker that is. Another nice deepstack tournament on Pokerstars and contrary to the tournament last time, I had a very good start on this one and I was able to build a big stack early on in the tournament.
I was convinced of the fact that luck was definitely on my side this time when I received the pocket cowboys in the following hand:
I was of course very happy to see the raise in early position. It was a decent raise (four times the big blind), so I put him on a very good hand. This is perfect for me, unless he has AA. But he only calls my reraise, so I know he doesn’t have the rockets. BUT: the guy on the button also calls my strong reraise, so he must also have a good hand. So I definitely don’t like the Queen on the flop, as QQ is within range of both players now.
The button calls my continuation bet and maybe I must have figured QQ is prolly the only hand he can hold on this dry board (AQ would have been a loose call preflop). So maybe I make a mistake by throwing it all-in on the turn. Maybe the Queen just didn’t have to flop…
Let’s conclude with another great movie I saw this week: Beautiful People. This movie was released in 1999 and is all about one of the most cruel wars we have witnessed in the past 50 years: the Balkan wars. Brilliant thing of this movie that it actually doesn’t show much of the war itself, but the story is brought from the point of view of all kind of different people living in Great-Britain. Go watch it!
Lucky *******
Published May 4, 2011Played a tournament on Pokerstars yesterday, had a pretty good time. Till the cruelty smashed me in the face. I was playing a very solid game but was a little unlucky on catching my draws. But no problem, still had some 20 big blinds to play with.
But somebody was annoying me at the table for quite a long time already. He was raising my big blind all the time from the cut-off and I didn’t really find a hand to make a stand with. So when I got the AJ on the big blind, I was waiting for my friend to raise:
I got him exactly where I wanted him to be: as a 27% dog with all my chips in the middle. Then the guy hits the three outer and I don’t fill up to a flush. Some cruelty…
I saw another good historical movie btw the other day: Thirteen Days. The movie is all about the Cuban missile crisis and although it’s featuring Kevin Costner, probably the worst actor I ever saw, it draws a very good image of what cruel things could have happened to our planet without some reasonable guys like Robert McNamara. If you’re interested in the Cold War era, this is definitely a movie for you. Especially the issue with the two letters Chroestjev sent to Kennedy is very well portraited in this movie.
Cold as Ice deck
Published March 8, 2011I’ve been talking a lot about cold decks over here. But yesterday I saw a movie on the internet which possibly shows the sickest cold deck in poker history (if we’re talking about the poker that has been broadcasted of course, I’m not talking about the days where players had their gun next to them while playing the game). Watch what happened on Speed Poker:
So it’s the Dutch player Noah Boeken from Amsterdam who wakes up with pocket cowboys, Marek Kolk from Estonia ALSO has pocket Kings and then… Jethro (LOVE that name btw) Horowitz from Australia got the pocket Aces. Now that’s exactly why it’s called a ‘cold deck’: somebody almost HAD to set this up to happen. Now, like the commentator already indicates, Jethro makes one little mistake here by immediately calling the reraise with his Aces. If there’s a really good player behind him, that player must be able to lay his Kings down there. However, still very cruel for Noah and Marek…
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Leave a commentSad beat…
Published November 11, 2010A totally different scenario this time. A cold deck is hard but relativley easy to take: you can’t blame the other player, you can only blame the dealer. This time: lower blind levels, shorter stack, early position. Same result: my chips go in, there’s no other escape possible. However: a completely other experience.
Look:
Some guy makes a very standard three times the big blind raise in late position. I exactly put him on a hand like this: pretty good, but mainly trying to rob this pot with a continuation bet on the flop. So I shove and actually hope he calls with the hand he has. That happens but the flop is killing me, luckily I have a redraw with my flush. It doesn’t turn or river. However, my opponent is just trying to cumulate chips when he calls my all-in, thinking he has two lives against my Ace something. Bad beat? Sad beat.
Playing an whole evening for this to happen…
Published September 4, 2010We were talkin’ about cold decks last time right? Well, I experienced such a situation again yesterday when playing a multi-table sit ‘n go on Pokerstars. Imagine this: you are playing for a few hours now with the blinds already gone up to 150/300. You’re sitting there on the button and you receive two beautiful Ladies and you have about 3000 chips left. You’re sure of one thing: your chips are going in, right there on that very moment.
Look what happened:
So there’s already a raise in front of me. Well, what I’m gonna do? I’m never gonna fold this hand, I’m sure of it. I push my chips in the middle and I get reraised for a lot more. I know what’s happening from that moment on: I’m against AA or KK and I played the complete evening to end up like this. That’s exactly what happens, my opponent even makes a set and on the turn I have three outs left for a split pot. That was it…
Posted in Poker | cold decks, knock-out, multi table si 'n go, shove all-in, ten big blinds left | Leave a commentCold deck, not bad beat
Published June 29, 2010As I pointed out before, there’s a huge difference between these two phenoms in poker. I switched from the sit and go’s to the microstakes cashgames the other day, and what I experienced over there is exactly what you can call a cold deck. Let’s have a look:
You see, I flop a flush but my opponent flops a higher flush. This is called ‘flush over flush’. We can’t do much about it: the stakes are not high enough and the stacks not deep enough to get away from such a hand. Other situations that are known as cold decks occur when it’s dealt KK vs AA preflop or when two players flop a ‘set over set’.
Posted in Poker | bad beat, cold deck, flush over flush, KK vs AA, microstakes cashgames, set over set | Leave a commentFrom 68 to 86 to 0…
Published February 14, 2010You wonder what’s all this about? It’s exactly the process of getting a bad beat. You go in as a 68% favorite, you improve to 86% on the flop and on the river you are BAMBOOZLED!
I started playing some 9 handed sit and go’s on Full Tilt and I’m running pretty good at the moment, I’m $95 up after 5 days now, playing the $5 tournaments. And then you’re suddenly reminded of the fact that a bad beat is always just one card away. Look at it:
Threehanded, less than ten big blinds, pocket jacks. What you’re gonna do? Flop a set, build a party. Drawing dead on the turn, unbe-fuckin’-lievable. That’s poker. Some REAL cruelty next time.