Painful home game beat.

*Last edited by Fortune 500 on Mon, 13 Dec 2004, 1:24pm; edited 1 time in total*

My Home Game. Worst beat I ever took. We're down to three handed.... 24,000 in chips total at the table... I have about 12,000, second has about 10,000 and short stack is down to about 2000.

I'm on the button, second player who's a fairly Aggressive player, but who won't lay anything down preflop is to my left in the small blind. Short stack is on the big blind, 200.

I look at my cards and see the AK of hearts. I raise the bet to 600. SBcalls (no surprise there) and the short stack decides to go all in blind. I call him for about 1400 more. SB calls (again no surprise.)

Flop catches me almost perfectly 5-7-J, all hearts. I decide to check and give the SB enough rope to hang himself. He does so accordingly. and shoves all in. I figure him for a staight draw. I of course, have to call here.

He flips over the 5-7 of diamonds, two pair. The short stacked big blind flips over a 6-9 offsuit for the gutshot draw, which even if he hits, I've got him covered.

Turn is a Kc.

What's the river. That's right. A 5 of spades. His 5s full of sevens crippled me.

Sometimes, I sincerely hate this game.

More specifically, I hate luck. (unless it falls my way.)

I can honestly say that I owned that table last night, and played the absolute best poker I could play. I don't regret for a second my call, or my preflop play. I can say that it wouldn't have mattered how much I raised, he wouldn't have folded a suited hand. He caught some cards and bullied the other players to stay close to me when I folded my subpar hands, but I played him well all night, looking for a kill shot. I had him, and had it in my sights.

This was a ten dollar buy in, rebuy game. Started with 6000 in chips on the table (six players at 1000) and I sent people to the ATM across the street on at least 5 occasions. Pot was up to $240 bucks (a huge pot, considering the buy in and player count, and it was winner take all.)

I was in the zone, making good calls and raises... and boom. One bad beat simply crippled me. It was about 22,000-2,000 and I took a stand with pocket 7s when he caught his overcard. Game over. All that play for nothing.

Very aggrivating feeling.

Thanks for letting me vent.

That's brutal. My stomach hurts just visualizing that one.

The same thing happened to me in a homegame, similar structure. I flopped top set and my kamikaze friend went all in. I called with a near equal stack, and he had 3 cards to a flush. He runner-runnered me, and we were equal in stacks, chip leaders. Once he won that pot, the rest made a deal for the last places because he had ninety percent of chips in play.

I feel your pain. The worst part is, these home games are once a week. It's harder to separate the luck from the skill, because one bad beat sends you packing.

Home games tend to get fewer hands in also, so excpect a high luck component. Just be okay with the way you played, and don't regret it. And learn something, like try to figure out why he went all-in with the 2 pair. Use it against him next time.

Well even though I feel your pain because ive been in situations similar to this one in my home games (were only 1st pays), that wasnt THAT bad of a beat. honestly he had 4 outs, people will nail 4 outers online all day long, if you play 3-5 hours you may experience them 3 times or more, you just have to get used to them and learn to move on, its poker anything can happend, you just have to be ready for it.

you said you had these guys dominated so next week just own their assess and take down the pot, you seem to have n advantage over these players so you can do it, good luck

-anto

I have to agree, tough beat. However, not a BAD BEAT. This kind of thing happens every day to me, I can't exactly hold much sympathy for such a routine loss.

I wrote that while still fuming from the loss. You're right, he did have 4 outs, so I guess it's no worse than someone pulling the gutshot out of their hindquarters on the last card, and I've seen that more times than I can count.

In reflection, I'm very happy with my play, and I guess I should be happy that I got through the entire night with my original ten dollar buy-in, while making the others all hop in somewhere between 2-4 times apeice.

I played well. Nothing I can do about luck. I've replayed the hand in my head, and there's nothing I could have done better. On the river, I'm a 38:4 favorite. I can' t ask for much more than that.

Alright, well since you're level headed now. Sucks to be you.

Play was fine, let the cards fall how they may.

-'rilla

*Last edited by Aceofone on Wed, 15 Dec 2004, 2:31pm; edited 1 time in total*

Agree w/ rilla, even though I dont like agreeing with primates lower on the food chain than I.

-edit- I should have stated: from a lower family/genus.

wouldn't that mean you would be eating gorillas?

Simply because something is lower does not mean I eat it.

For example: Plankton

touche

WAIT

nothing eats gorillas, so they are not below anything in the food chain, right?

Let's just put it this way:

Where does a 500 pound gorilla (insert action)?
Where ever I damn well please.

I eat the food chain.

-'rilla

If Gorillas are so tough?

How come their endangered? Razz

*stares at gorilla slippers while using ivory backscratcher*

We love to live on the edge.

You haven't lived until you've been endangered.

-'rilla

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