Sunday, December 17, 2006

It's not THAT I lost

It's HOW I lost.

Some background. I played two $2 SNGs the other night. In the first, I made a tremendous donk move where, in the first hand, I reraised a bet of 160 chips while holding 10-10. He pushes, I call, and I'm staring A-A in the face. Horrific mistake when you don't know your players.

Next tourney, I get off to a gangbusters start. A-A twice early on, plus flopped straights, sets, top two, etc. I have about 5k in chips when it's down to four players.

I bleed off a little of that, and note that one guy keeps pushing over and over, not getting called. Finally I get AK and he pushes again. I call him as does the guy to my left. We check it down all the way through the river. I never pair up, but all the cards are rags. Mr. Push reveals A-5 and the 5 came on the river. From there, I tried to play conservatively, but just lost everything and finally bought it when my flopped top pair (Ks) ran into flopped top two pair.

So I go over to a micro limit cash game and figure I can bleed some of it back. This one clown just keeps taking it to me, sucking out (holding his QQ like it was the nectar of the gods and hitting trips on the river vs. my Aces), and stealing my chips. Finally I'm just about crippled and I get dealt J-5 in the big blind. It's checked to the flop which comes K-T-5, two hearts. At this point, I'm making my move so I push my mere $0.50 and the same luckbox calls me with Ac-Qh.

Now I'm in trouble for sure. He's got three Js for outs, three As, and three Qs. So he's about 38% to win the hand, and you just know he's going to. But what burns my ass is HOW he won it:
*** RIVER *** [Kh Td 5h 7h] [3h]

Even when he's got tons of outs, he stoops to the cheapest possible suckout.

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