Don’t ya hate it when you play a hand masterfully and then have the poker gods muck it up for you?
Well welcome to hold em. Some suckers just can’t fold but then again do we want them to fold when we hit a monster hand and they’re drawing two outs?
This happened to me last night at my live game. We’re still in the first level of blinds (25/50).
I have 109 hearts on the BB. EP raises it to 200. I call just to see what happens on the flop…heck I have suited connectors, why the hell not?
The flop gives me trips. Villain bets out. Now I think I have him because he’s not the type to make a strong c-bet so this means he has something. I re-raise him and he pushes. I call. He’s got AA. Bingo, time to double up….or so I thought.
The turn is nothing. I’m still ahead. Then comes the river. Needless to say I’m the 2nd player out in the tourney. Sucks big time when you catch and the villain is unable to fold a big hand and he catches his miracle 2 outer.
I was a little ticked off at first but then I say to myself, it’s ok. I say to myself it was just bad luck, variance, or bad timing. Whatever it was I’ll take these types of calls anytime….if I can only fade two outs.
