Tuesday, April 18, 2006

T B Q B !

As I start on the last of the pizza from this weekend’s poker game, I simply must pass on my good-win story of the night. In the poker world, one hears many more bad-beat stories and like most poker players, I’ve become a bit bored with them. I’m even bored of my own bad-beat stories, so I’m changing it up.

I was playing my typical micro-limit NL Hold’em on Full Tilt, grinding out at two tables. Neither table is going very well, but I tell myself to stay patient, over and over and over. I’m getting good cards that don’t hit and lots and lots of bad cards. Well, I go from my starting $10 all the way down to about $4.50.

So, I’m under the gun and I get 44. I like the fact that [shift]-44 is $$ on the American keyboard, but I digress. I limp in and get 3 callers. I tell myself that if I hit a set, I’m going to get all in. The flop comes 4d 9d Qc. I’m first to act, so I want as much in the pot as possible for my last $3.00 or so. I bet .50. The first caller goes over the top for 1.50, the next caller folds and the button goes over the top again for 7.50. I call and the other caller calls his last $5 to put us all all-in.

Both of the other players turn over diamonds. Forth street brings the Kd to sink my hopes of a winning session pretty much. I could still pair the board on fifth street, but that never happens to me. $15 pot is all but gone. Then it happens, fifth street pairs the board…. with a 4. “Them’s be QUADs, bitches”.

It wasn’t exactly a one outer since any 4, 9, Q or K would have saved me, it was particularly exciting to get the quads and triple up.

Those were actually my second set of quads (can you have a set of quads?) in a week. I got 9999A in my live game this weekend to win almost nothing.

Time for me to get back to work. Play on.

12 comments:

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Spawn said...

Personally, I don't give a shit if you go to my blog or not, but I just wanted to say that 2 sets of 4 in year sounds impossbile, let alone one week. Good for you! The last tme I played Hold'Em, my pocket cards were a 7 of Spades and a coupon to Dairy Queen.

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love dem quads...mmmm mmmm good...

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fritz said...

how can you play that garbage game? It's a real violation of common sense to call it "poker" when there is absolutely no skill involved except whether you can bluff better than the next guy.

Check out why there are card parlors in California. It's because the courts were subjected to a lawsuit that proved to the court's satisfaction that SEVEN CARD STUD and DRAW POKER are games of skill, NOT chance. That's more than you can say for Texas Hold 'Em and Omaha!

It's disgusting to listen to the announcers at a "non-poker" game on TV try to make something out of the junk games that are nothing but luck with people betting thousands of dollars on the turn of a card when they don't have a clue as to what it might be.

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