We're down to 4-handed (bubble) from a 9-handed table, and there's two massive stacks, and I have about equal chips with the 4th player. The blinds are starting to increase, so I have to make some moves, and I do so with pocket 6's, pocket 10's, Ad-Jd and A-K - on each occasion the other three players folded, so all I did was recycle the blinds.
Then, the other player with about the same chips as me doubles through the chip leader after hitting a flush on the river. Now, he was never all-in pre-flop, he played through the streets and only put it all on the line with the nuts, on the river.
So, now I am seriously in danger and have to move with anything bigger than the average hand. The next hand I pick up is As-6d, and from UTG I push. Fold, fold, call - the call is from the big blind with the biggest stack at the table. He turns over Ah-4h - so I've got him dominated, but as usual I am expecting the worst. I'm gearing myself up for the flush, when the flop comes down 3h-5s-2d, not the flush, but the next best thing, he's flopped the wheel.
It would have been bad if he'd just out-drawn me with the 4, the flush would have been just as bad, but to flop a straight when I got my money in good again is just sick.
There was a possibility of a re-draw, if a 4 had hit the turn or river. But, honestly, that was never in danger of happening. It was the only time in the whole game that I had been called when all-in, and I lost - with the better hand.
I don't know how many times I can keep saying the same thing. There are always lots of speculation about online poker being fixed. Day by day I am becoming more and more sure that it is. This kind of thing happens too often to be a coincidence.
I could live with the fact that he may have called with a better hand, and good luck to him. But to consistently get called by a worse hand and always lose, it starting to get a bit wearing.
1 comment:
Hello Cris, I'm from Brazil and I was searching for something about short-stack all-in against chip leaders on Internet and found your topic. I totally agree with your point and I´m not talking about only my hands. I can always predict the results when a short stacked guy pushes all-in. I'm not going to give some examples, but I've seen some ridiculous situations. Runner Runner Straights and runner runner flushes are on the top! Looks like the math really doesn't count. Someone may say that I play low buy-ins...I really don't consider low for $10 and $20 sit and go's and I play all day long, everyday...even though, my ROI is still positive, that's why I keep playing online. Thanks for reading!
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