A chip and a chair

I've just been involved in the most insane game of Heads-Up Pot-Limit-Omaha, where my opponent literally came back from a chip and a chair with an insane run of winning hands.

After about 3 hands, I was 120 chips behind my opponent (we both started with 1500), when all the chips went in on after I had turned a straight.


I'm now massively ahead, and my opponent is down to $120. The sequence of hands that followed can only be described as miraculous.

It was quite obviously all going to go in next hand, after I flopped two pair. Of course, he hits the J he needs for a straight and has doubled up to $240


The very next hand I get dealt pocket Jacks and hit a J on the flop for a set, so in it all goes again.

Of course, he has an up and down draw and spikes the A on the turn and doubles up again, to $480.


I'm starting to get a bit annoyed that I haven't finished this guy off and fold a couple of rag hands to his pot bets.

Three hands later, he's up to $860, against my $2,140, and we both limp in. I spike 2-pair on the flop, and there's no made straight yet, so I pop it to the max and he raises. It all goes in again, and he catches the miracle 9 on the river to make a straight.


He's now doubled through and is chip leader, with $1,720, and I'm down to $1,280. I am totally flabbergasted.

The last hand (the very next hand) was the absolute cooler of a lifetime. I'm dealt pocket A's and raise pre-flop, he re-raises and I just call. I spike and Ace on the flop and, all the money ends up in the middle. He turns over pocket K' and had hit a K on the flop (alongside a harmless 4h).

I'm smiling from ear-to-ear as I've finally got him down to a one outer, the case King (or so I thought).

I hadn't even noticed his other two cards, and the board ran out 5s, 3s. No flush worries, and I was expecting all the chips to be shipped my way.

They all went in his direction and the game was over. The table closed and I was left staring at the poker lobby wondering what the hell had happened.

I had to go to the hand history to see how I'd lost. Amazingly, his other cards were 6c, 7h and he had hit a runner-runner straight.


The entire heads-up match lasted only 10 hands, of which I won 1 - the one I doubled through with the straight (hand 3). I had proceeded to lose 7 hands in a row, after all the money went into the middle on 5 of them, and on all 5 occasions I was ahead when the money went in and was insanely sucked out on.

I can't even begin to calculate the odds of that run of bad luck.