Bad Runs happen. It happens to everyone in the poker world, whether you are sit on the couch half naked with a coke Johnny from Idaho or seasoned Pro Phil Ivey. They suck when they happen, and well we can also learn a lot from it.
Well the week had started off well on both the real felt and the virtual felt. I won a qualifier on PartyPoker and a couple sit-n-go's on PokerStars early in the week, and also finished 5th on Wednesday at my Red Hot Poker Tour game at Molly Blooms. Then Thursday happened. I should of known that since I got great news that morning (found a new apartment and I got it), that something was bound to happen. Just my luck it happened at my next RHPT game at Rum Runner Pub.
So lets go over the hand.
We are still in the first blind level. 25/50. I have about 3250 of my 4000 starting stack.
In the cutoff I have 57o with 3 limpers already in the pot. Button limps, as does SB and BB.
Flop: 643 rainbow
GREAT flop for me! I have hit the nuts.
SB, BB, UTG and UTG+2 all check. I bet 200 at the pot. Button re-raises me to 500. Everyone else folds. I push for my remaining stack. He hums and ha's about calling, then looks at me and goes "oh are you all-in?" Of course I answer yes, he replies "well then I call" He turns over AA.
I am now in a great mood. He had aces, LIMPED in position pre-flop, and now he is gonna get hosed. One thing I have learned in my years of poker is "YOU NEVER LIMP WITH ACES" You gotta raise that. So on to the rest of the hand now that he is in shock that his AA are CRUSHED. and he starts to grab his coat. This is where I should of thought to myself to shut my mouth.
Turn: 3s
Ok, now he has 2 pair......woopty doo. I am still WAY ahead, but he still has 5outs.
Now i decided to be stupid and make a joke to him. "Why are you leaving? You could hit an A or a 3 for a boat" He replied "i'm not that lucky" Well I should of shut my mouth.
River: 3d
Yep, he hit is boat on the river........and I am busted. So I think to myself, next time. SHUT MY MOUTH. Nothing I can do about it. I move on and go home.
So that was bad run #1. Lets move on to bad run #2.
Last night some friends and I gather in Guelph for a leisurely cash game. Due to my having to move in over a week, I decide to only buy-in for $25, everyone else buys-in for $40. No skin off my back. I get down to about $23 have KK, flop a set, and end up getting called on my push by QQ and have a nice double up. So i am sitting over $40 at this point now have a pretty even stack with the rest of the table. Couple hours go by and up and down and up my stack goes. But we are having a blast, well I was until this hand
Blind levels for this cash game are small 25cent/50cent, at this point i have $32 in my stack.
I get 57d in the BB. UTG, UTG+2, cutoff and SB all call no raises. I check.
Flop: 864 rainbow!
Guess who has flopped a straight for the second day in a row? Thats right.......ME!!!
With 5 limpers and my check there is only $3 in the pot. SB instantly goes All-in for $16 on that flop. Now I have to think. I have hit the straight yes, but why would he push, he could be on a bigger straight draw, he could of flopped a set, but I think thats unlikely. He probably would have raised pre-flop with a pocket pair in the SB pre-flop. It's a rainbow board, so there is no flush draw out there. But I also have 3 people behind me left to act. So I make the only move I can. I push all-in for $32. After A LOT of thinking from UTG, like I mean I probably could of gone for a bath room break for how long it took him to fold. UTG+2 and CO both fold. We turn the cards over. He has A8 suited. He hit top pair, which top kicker. I am in great shape!
Turn: 6h.
Doesn't bother me that much, completes the rainbow meaning he definitely can't go runner runner flush. But all of a sudden I am thinking in my head, wait a minute he now has 2 pair. This can't happen to me 2 nights in a row where I flop the straight and my opponent goes runner runner boat, can it?
River: 8d
He went RUNNER RUNNER boat.........thats right.....just my luck. At least i kept my mouth this time. So I was left with just $16, and within the next hour I had busted again, when I mis-played KJ and could of doubled up. Instead I let him hit his straight.
So ya, not a good couple of days. Which I am hoping changes. I have a big Bounty Tournament tomorrow afternoon for the Regional Championship for the KW region of the Red Hot Poker Tour. Here is hoping I run good tomorrow. Winner gets his pick of a new iPod Touch or a seat at the Season 20 Tournament Of Champions in April. Since I have an iPod, I'll take the seat if I win.
I plan on taking notes of all the hands I am in tomorrow and will be writing an extensive blog of my tournament results. So keep a look out for that Monday or Tuesday.
I leave you with a quote from poker legend Mike Sexton of PartyPoker fame: "May your cards be live & your pots be monsters"
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