Man, I hate it when I watch a guy get lucky on a bad bluff once and then sniff it out a second time and get a totally unexpected caller behind me. “Narana” made the exact same play with two suited cards earlier against another player and I had him down for exactly the same hand again. DAMN… what a waste of a beautiful read, although I guess you could say that “Diamonds444″ made the exact same read with a better hand. Ugh.

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PokerStars Game #6120979861: Tournament #31020349, $5.00+$0.50 Hold’em No Limit – Level VI (100/200) – 2006/08/31 – 16:55:24 (ET)
Table ‘31020349 5′ 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: johnnymac96 (1160 in chips)
Seat 3: Phishin2007 (5595 in chips)
Seat 4: diamonds444 (2185 in chips)
Seat 5: Beckstage (3915 in chips)
Seat 6: DwgnVgs (2030 in chips)
Seat 7: crushcrew (1300 in chips)
Seat 9: yarana (13505 in chips)
johnnymac96: posts small blind 100
Phishin2007: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to johnnymac96 [Jd Js]
diamonds444 said, “you’ve been awlful lucky”
Phishin2007 said, “nh”
diamonds444: calls 200
Beckstage: folds
DwgnVgs: folds
yarana said, “lol”
crushcrew: calls 200
yarana: calls 200
johnnymac96: calls 100
Phishin2007: checks
*** FLOP *** [Kd Ac 3c]
johnnymac96: checks
Phishin2007: checks
diamonds444: checks
crushcrew: checks
yarana: bets 2400
johnnymac96: calls 960 and is all-in
Phishin2007: folds
diamonds444: calls 1985 and is all-in
crushcrew: folds
*** TURN *** [Kd Ac 3c] [2s]
*** RIVER *** [Kd Ac 3c 2s] [2d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
diamonds444: shows [Ad 8d] (two pair, Aces and Deuces)
yarana: shows [6c 7c] (a pair of Deuces)
diamonds444 collected 2050 from side pot
johnnymac96: shows [Jd Js] (two pair, Jacks and Deuces)
diamonds444 collected 3880 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5930 Main pot 3880. Side pot 2050. | Rake 0
Board [Kd Ac 3c 2s 2d]
Seat 1: johnnymac96 (small blind) showed [Jd Js] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Deuces
Seat 3: Phishin2007 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: diamonds444 showed [Ad 8d] and won (5930) with two pair, Aces and Deuces
Seat 5: Beckstage folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 6: DwgnVgs folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: crushcrew folded on the Flop
Seat 9: yarana (button) showed [6c 7c] and lost with a pair of Deuces

To truly understand the humor in this picture, you have to have seen the original picture from the Vanderbilt Thetas.

Richard Lee who finished 6th place in the Main Event in the WSOP is getting busted. Thus far he has not been arrested, but things are looking very bad for him.

Link

Annie Duke was just interviewed on Fox News and gave this gem:

“I think the difference between a good player and a great player is heart. You just have to want it more.”

Ummmm, right. Now I know why she’s so popular. Not only is she an ugly whiny bitch, she’s also a genius.

Funny. (And more than a little bit upsetting)

Four completely unrelated stories:

#1 The Matador

Hickey and I were playing in the cash game at Harrah’s. I raised a pot. I got a caller. Hickey re-raised. The other guy said, “nice sandwich.” I said, “What was that?” He said, “like I don’t know you two are working together.”

Huh? Maybe I am naive, but I don’t think there are many cheaters plying their trade at the $1-$2 game at Harrah’s. I mean if you were skilled (and unethical) enough to cheat, wouldn’t it make more sense to rip off a higher limit game? Problem number 2 with his accusation: why would Hickey and I be talking to each other non-stop for 4 hours if we intended to collude? Wouldn’t it make more sense to pretend we had never met? And finally, if he was so convinced we were cheating, why did he stay at our table? Why not leave? What a dufus.

#2 Folding Kings pre-flop

During my marathon session at the MGM, one of my cards was exposed. It was a King. It was shown to the table and replaced. I got a replacement card – another King. I peaked at my other hole card – yet another King.

UTG raised the pot to $20, and I was next to act. I panicked. You know, if you play a lot of poker, you have seen most situations in poker many times. For example, you don’t have to count the outs of hitting a 6-outer of 2 streets when a guy overbets the pot – you know you should fold without the math. So here I was in a situation that I had never been in before – holding KK, knowing that the burn card would be a King. I didn’t know what to do.

I didn’t have much time to think, so my thought process went like this: the value in KK is two-fold: 1) as with all pocket pairs, you can flop a set and win a monster pot and 2) you may miss the flop completely, but still have the best hand unimproved. Obviously, the missing King chopped the value of #1 in half, but it had no impact on #2.

I was completely confused: raise, call or fold? I showed my hand to a bystander and folded. I went to the john and found Hickey and told him the story. He said that I probably made the wrong decision. I got back to the table and talked about it with two other players, both of whom said I made the wrong decision. I eventually agreed. Crap.

Well, not all was lost, I made a big bluff into a pot about 45 minutes later. I am almost certain that the reason I got a fold was that the player was one of the guys that I talked to about folding Kings. I think he folded because he pegged me as a ridiculously tight player (laugh!)

#3 Pokerati and Omaha

There is a discussion of a situation in Omaha on pokerati that I weighed in on. It is a situation that I have been meaning to blog about here, but Dan beat me to it. The discussion is excellent. This comment made me pee in my pants:

However, it’s also safe to assume in the regular PLO game that I play in that the two-plus other players are holding no more than the nine of spoons and a cut card.

#4 Damn SBCYahoo

Last night in a $11 SNG on Part Poker, I ran 2,000 up to 7,000 in no time flat. We then completely lost our internet connection. Not even the phone worked. I was livid. I called “Mr. Invincible” (aka “Dave”) and asked him to logon to Party Poker and finish my tournament for me. He did, and I (he) won 2nd place for $30. Thanks, Dave. Anyway, the point of this post is to make a public service announcement: If you ever lose your connection in a tournament, you can call a friend and give them your password, and they can finish the tournament for you.