Trials and tribulations

Quads are like buses; you hang around for ages and then three come along at once. These three al happened in the space of 24 hours (over 2 sessions) and I managed to scoop an entire $0.66c on the three combined. It's just impossible to build any kind of pot when you have quads!




I'm still playing at the 2c/5c Rush poker tables, on Full Tilt, and my first week of success (took my initial $3 bankroll up to $32 has taken a bit of a hit in the last couple of days (down about $13 over 3 sessions).

The hands I have clashed with have been incredible, to say the least. KK over QQ, all the money in pre-flop and the queen lands on the river - KK v AK, same story, Ace on the river. I could go on and on about the bad beats, but it's not only that. Picking up QQ and finding an opponent with KK - another time with AK on an A-K-Q board, and the opponent turns up J-T (suited, of course, so definitely worth calling a 5xBB pre-flop raise with).

The final straw came today, when I min-raised from middle position with pocket 6's and got 2 callers. The flop comes down 6c-9c-Qs and I immediately put one of them on the flush draw ('cos that's how this game works).

I overbet the pot, trying to discourage any flush draw from calling and the guy behind pushes all-in for about $3. Player 3 folds and I make the call - he turns up Qc-9s for 2-pair.
The turn is the 7c and he now has more outs than I would have liked. I fully expected another club to hit the river, so when it didn't I had to look twice as to why the money was not being shipped my way.....9h, completing his full-house.

Looking back, he did have 13 outs on the river (9-clubs, 2-nines and 2-queens), but it was still a real choker to see the 9. It was symptomatic of how every time I get into a decent pot when ahead, I always get caught (well, recently, anyway).

Perhaps I was a bit on tilt, but I threw all my money into a pot later on, knowing I was behind, but the fact there were two other players, both with shorter stacks (so I couldn't go completely bust) and I had flopped the nut-flush draw. I had called a pre-flop raise and call with Kd-Qd and there were 2-diamonds on the flop, including the Ace.

It didn't take long for the other two to get all their chips in the middle and I was getting decent pot-odds so it wasn't a hard decision to make the call. Luckily the diamond hit the river, as I was up against a set and 2-pair (a real cooler of a hand).


Oh well, I'll just have to try and earn the deficit back again, over the next few nights. Lets hope my luck changes.