The epitome of 'Running Bad'

What do I have to do to catch a break?

I played 256 hands on Full Tilt's Rush Poker and ran into a brick wall with every decent hand, either I couldn't get paid when I had the nuts, or I got out-drawn and lost my shirt.

Here are the highlights - virtually all the hands I actually saw through to the river:

Hand 1: My A-J flops 2-pair, fills up on the turn, but the Jack on the river killed the action and I got virtually nothing out of the pot.


Hand 2: My A-Q flops top pair with a decent kicker - shame I had to run into pocket 10's


Hand 3: Next pocket pair I pick up flops and open ended straight draw - but I managed to run into a bigger pair (Queens).


Hand 4: I eventually win a hand when a short-stack pushes pre-flop and I make the call with Pocket-Queens. Still sweating come the river, fully expecting to see a Jack. Just about the only half-decent pot I won all evening.


Hand 5: Picked up Pocket-Two's, flopped a set and got my opponent all-in with 7's. 3-4-2 board runs out A, 5, and we are both playing the straight on the board - chop. Sick!


Hand 6: My A-Q of spades turns into a flush on the flop. No takers, no action, no pot.


Hand 7: My Jd-9d is open-ended straight on the flop, flush come the turn and straight-flush on the river. No takers, no action , no pot.


Hand 8: The crowning glory of the evening's play. On the 256th hand of the session I pick up the bullets. There's a min-raise from middle-position and I min-re-raise. He comes back over the top, I shove and he calls - turning up the Cowboys. Just the action I have been waiting for all night. The 6-3-6 flop is harmless enough, and I have the As as a back-door out. The killer comes on the turn, Ks. I still have the spade re-draw, but honestly that was never going to happen. Aces busted again, as well as my entire stack.


It's enough to make you wonder why you keep coming back again and again and again and again, for this sort of punishment. I now realise why I quit playing on Full Tilt several years ago, you can't win. It was exactly beats (and sessions) like this that made my move to other card-rooms in the first place.

But I am now addicted to Rush Poker, and you can't play it anywhere else. Any other form of cash game is incredibly boring by comparison. I guess I'll have to just learn to live with it (and, maybe just once, fold the Aces pre-flop........unthinkable, eh).