Monday, January 19, 2009

Poker Donkeys

I went to the Horseshoe Casino in Southern Indiana this weekend to play some 1-2 Pot Limit Omaha. After buying into the game for 300 dollars and quickly running into 700 in the first hour, i was feeling pretty good about my night. Big mistake!!!! Later in the evening, two of the worst card players ive played with sat down at the table. Now normally this would be a good thing, and it was, for the rest of the table. The first of two of my worst beats came like this: ive got A A Q 8 double suited and make it 80 preflop. Six callers to a flop of J 6 J rainbow. Being on the button i was last to act to a checked around flop. I move all in for 350, everyone folds except for the Fish. After having a very confused look on his face, he mumbles "i call" in his country voice. 8 on the turn, 9 on the river. He looks at me and says "you must have better than QQ" and rolls over QQK10 for the runner-runner straight. I just sit there, stunned as he rakes my 1200 dollar pot. As i burn a hole through his blue sunglasses he tries to tell me about the bad beats he has taken. I quickly raise my hand and tell him to shut the hell up and take my money. After another buy-in for 400, i win a few nice pots and have it up to between 500-600 and look down at 4 6 7 of clubs Q of clubs. The pot was raised to 5 pre-flop with 6 callers. Flop comes off 4 5 blank with two clubs. Im first to act and check, and someone makes it 60 to go and gets two callers and i call. 3 on the turn gives me the nut straight and i check. Same better makes it 100 and gets the button to call. Now, this button caller had shown on several occasions the ability to make bad calls with weak flush draws all night, so i wasnt really worried about his club draw, especially since i was holding two clubs, Q high. I check raise at this point to 350 more and all of my chips. Original raiser thinks for a while and calls, button thinks for awhile and..........CALLS! Bam! 6 o freaking clubs on the river. Original raiser show a set of 5s and button shows a K high flush. Needless to say, i was through the roof. In the first instance i was a 90% favorite to win vs the QQ and in the other hand the guy was 14% with one card to come to win. Not to mention, i missed a flush draw earlier in the night for close to a grand to make my night even better.....

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