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sure i'm a known blufftard but come on, learn to read a board, peoples

2010-02-05 - 12:42 p.m.

My eye looks better today. I hope that my upcoming eye surgery will tighten the skin around my eyes and prevent such excitements from happening too often in the future, but who knows. In the meantime, here's a humor hand that I forgot to write up last night.

1/2 NL. Table full of poseurs and hustlers, with the occasional suspicious old dude trying to supplement their miserable social security check. There's a capped buy-in of $300 max at this game, and it plays a little too small for me, unless I toss in some "pot sweeteners" from time to time. Broke-ass poseurs, hustlers, and old dudes are becoming visibly annoyed with the sweeteners and with me.

I'm in late position with offsuit KT, a truly shitty hand multi-way in limit hold 'em but playable here. Several people limp, and it gets to me, and I make it $10 to go. Five people go along with the gag, and there's $60 in the pot.

Flop is A of doesn't matter, Q ♣, J ♣

I has flopped the nuts, and you don't. However, I'm not liking the looks of that club draw out there. Some old dude donk bets at the pot, maybe somebody in between calls, and with my slightly less than $200 starting stack, I go all-in. I don't mind taking down a decent-sized pot right now.

Bitter old dude calls. Other guy folds.

Turn is a red A. River is the 9 ♣

I feel sick. Every logical hand that calls my flop push has gotten there. His set is now full. His top two pair is now full. His club draw is now officially a flush. I mean, what hand calls my all-in push that I'm beating?

As I'm shaking my head in amazement at my bad fortune, he turns over the A ♦ 7 ♦.

That's right. He called my all-in push on that flop with top pair, zero kick. I take the pot. Nice work if you can get it.

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