I know, hard to believe, isn't it!
I qualified for a Freeroll Pot Limit Hold'em MTT on Full Tilt (qualified via my WSOP Fantasy Team), and inside the first level must have hit about a dozen pocket pairs. Most of them low, and most didn't net me any chips. I had already had Aces once, but everyone folded to my pre-flop raise.
In the hand before this, two players went to war with KK v QQ, and a Q hit the flop. The player who double up was my opponent in the next hand. I was in early position and pot-raised. It was folded round to the SB, who pot-raised again. I instantly pot-raised again, and he tanked - eventually raising enough to put me all-in; of course, I instantly called.
He turned over pocket Jacks (he must have thought it was Christmas, hitting Jacks immediately after Queens), and had just sucked out against an overpair in the previous hand, so I was not counting my chickens. In fact, I was expecting either a J on the flop, or some sort of sick draw, like 8-9-T. But the board ran out relatively uneventfully and, amazingly, I had doubled up.
Doesn't happen very often, so I am thankful.
Update: Busted!
Managed to make it through the bubble, and a couple of hands later picked up pocket K's. I pot raised to $1,050 and amazingly picked up 3 callers.
Flop came down Qh-Th-2h. I was first to act and had no option but to push, as my remaining stack was about the size of the pot. The player to my left insta-calls and the other two fold; he turns up Kh-9s, for a gut-shot straight draw and a flush draw.
You guessed it, Jc on the turn made his straight (isn't that incredible?!?). I had the Ace redraw (or a 9 for a chop), and was half expecting the Ah (or even the 9h) on the river, just to rub it in, but it was an innocuous 2c.
I've said it before, and I'll continue to say it. Poker rooms are rigged so that shorter stacked players, when they get all their chips in against a larger stacked player, will always lose - ALWAYS!! It's just a fact. The cards find a way of delivering exactly what the other player needs to bust even your biggest hands.
I mean, what was the guy doing calling such a big raise with K9-off? And how come the flop was so good to him. And even when he calls, still behind, and only on a draw, does he hit the miracle card he needs? I mean, he snap called, without even a second's hesitation, most likely in the full knowledge that his hand was destined to connect.
I honestly can't remember the last time I got into a situation like this and my hand held up. In the hand above I should be a 90% favourite pre-flop, and should win this hand 9/10 times. So why is it that I ALWAYS lose - I don't even win 1/10 times, I lose every time. Statistically that is an anomaly that can only be explained by card rooms being rigged.
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