Cold deck from the beginning

I hadn't played for a couple of nights, so I sat down today for a few hands of Rush Poker.

I played 12 hands and then had to stop to:

a) Catch my breath
b) Write about the extraordinary hands

After folding rubbish for the first few hands, on hand 8 I pick up the Cowboys in mid-position. I raise to $0.20c (4xBB) - the guy behind me tanks and raises it to $0.50. Everyone else gets out of the way and it's back to me. I pop it to $1.50 and he insta-shoves for enough to put my stack at risk. I have to call, he turns up the Bullets.

Needless to say I don't catch up and I've don my starting stack in one hand.


However, these things happen - so I reload to my original starting stack of $4.00 and dive in again. 4 hands later, this happened.

I pick up the weapons of mass destruction, in the SB. There's a raise to $0.15 from early position, and I re-pop it to $0.50 - he calls. The flop comes down Tc-4h-Kh, so I bet $1.00 and he insta-shoves. I've got a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach and actually say out loud (to myself), "He's got Kings!". Secretly I was praying for A-K, but sadly those prayers went unanswered as he flipped up pocket 10's, for a flopped set.

I was rather annoyed, as you can imagine, after running into Aces when holding Kings, to run into another pocket pair who flopped a set, when I'm holding Aces, 4 hands later, is just cruel.
I was facing down the barrel of losing another full stack in one hand. It was going to have to be an Ace, or runner-runner for a straight.
The 8c on the turn left me with 2 outs and, yes, miracles do happen, the Ad lands on the river to give me the pot. It was, in my mind, the least I deserved.


I'm going to take a short break to collect my thoughts then sit back down to play some more, stay tuned.