PEACHFRONT SPEAKS

the seven dooey game, sorry, i don't know how to spell dewey

2009-01-12 - 2:42 p.m.

Have you ever heard of the game where, if you win a pot with 72, then everybody at the table has to pay you $100? It would have been nice if I'd been playing in that game yesterday.

Here is a humor hand from the 30/60 game yesterday. I had just returned from the ladies room and had to post the missed blinds ($30 live, $20 dead) behind the button. All fold to the player on my right, who either actually has a hand or can't resist a chance to attempt to steal my post. So he raises. I have position and my 72 is suited, so I call against this unknown player who might have a wide range of hands. Button folds, small blind folds, big blind calls. I have position. Whee. And away we go.

The flop is A8x with the A and 8 being in my suit, clubs. Bet, bet, I raise in what I now realize to be a silly try for the free card raise, because someone (probably both of them, as it turns out) has an A. So big blind 3 bets and all call.

The turn is another blank, so big blind bets, next guy raises, I call, big blind 3 bets, next guy calls, I call.

The river is the K of clubs. Considering the threeway action, and considering that both the A and K are on the board, then I'm confident that my 7 high flush is best. And, in fact, they check to me, I bet, one of them pays me off.

Ship it! OK, OK, the hand was probably badly played on every street, but even a blind squirrel acorn nut you know the rest.

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