It was a bit of a different story tonight, I was hitting hands and they were holding up every time (unlike last night where I had plenty of good starting hands and kept attracting callers who caught me up on the flop, turn or river).
I only lost two races the whole game, and both times I went in behind; unluckily for me the second one was the last hand of the game and I finished 2nd.
Earlier I was in the cut-off and it was folded around. I flat-called for $150, as the button was very short-stacked and I knew he was likely to push with any decent hand. I wouldn't normally play such a rag-ace, but felt justified as I could have been up against K-Q or K-J.
The Button only called, the SB folded and the BB checked. The flop came A-Q-J. The BB checks, as do I, and (of course) the Button sticks in his last $100. It's a relatively easy call, given the size of my stack, but I am sure that I am ahead, as if he was holding any Ace he would have pushed pre-flop.
Indeed, he's got K-2 and only a gut-shot Broadway draw. The turn and river were miraculous runner-runner Aces and I ended up with top Quads. Why can't that happen when it really matters?
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