Last Friday I'm at Foxwoods playing in a minumum $200 buy in Hold 'Em ring game (not a tourny). Blinds are $5/$5. I buy in for the only $300 I have and after about 3-4 hours I have $1500 in front of me. Several hours later I'm hovering between 1k and 1500. 10pm is my absolute quitting time to go drinking with my friends.
9:45pm: I've been at the table for nearly 10 hours and I have $1000 in front of me when I look down to see KK so I raise to $75. The guy to my left in MP calls. Fold to the button who RAISES it to $175(tight player). I laugh to myself, lean over the table and say "OK. I call but I think I know what you have." I'm putting him on aces with a big raise then a call, both from MP. The flop comes up A,K,9. I don't believe it. I just flopped a set of kings and I'm don't even think they're good enough! I check. The Kid goes all in for $100 and the button goes all in for his last $200. I can't believe I have a raise and re-raise in front me. I call, saying "I don't think these are gonna even hold up," flipping up my kings. Kid flips up pocket nines for a set and, you guessed it, aces on the button. Turn & River were nothing nothing so he took it down. Question: could any of you see folding here? I don't think so since I was getting 2:1 on my money but I'd like another point of view.
9:50pm. OK. No big deal. I still have double my money ($600 now) with only 10 minutes left till I quit. What's the worst that could happen?
9:55pm: THREE hands later I look down and see ANOTHER pair of kings. I roll my eyes to myself and think that I don't wanna get burned by these damn cowboys again. Woman in EP raises to $40, I'm in LP so I raise to $175 hoping to just buy everyone out at this point and be happy with the 50/60 bucks that's in the pot. Still strong enough raise so I should only have 1 caller if I have to see a flop. The Old Man two seats the right of my says, "OK. I call." Everyone else folds including the woman who made the original raise. Me and the old man are facing off...
Flop comes up K, 10, 2 rainbow. A set of kings again. But this time, no ace to worry about. RETRIBUTION!!!
I check hoping to trap him, knowing he is a VERY loose player.
It worked PERFECTLY. He says, "I bet $400" tossing 2 good stacks of green in front of him. I can't count up my chips and get them in there fast enough. I count $415 in chips and say "Fine. I raise you 15 bucks cause I'm all in." He looked surprised that I called.
He throws his 3 reds in and I flip over my cowboys and watch his head almost hit the felt. "Yeah, you got me beat bad, kid" he says and shows his pocket aces. I reply "No, not yet." At this point I KNOW I am a 90% favorite but, ya know, it ain't over till the dealer is pushing it my way.
Turn is a 3s
River....is....an....ACE !!!!!
I flipped. I jumped from my chair not believing my eyes. I just got outdrawn on the river when he only had 2 outs and one card to go with almost $1100 at stake.
Walking away, I checked my watch. Yep: 9:58pm and there's my buddy waiting for me at the Tournament Deck on schedule.
11:00pm: Drunk as a skunk.
Regards...
I know the feeling quite well. Your in very good shape, you tell yourself you have another hour or so to kill. You tell urself just take it slow. things are great, you just hit a nice fat lick, and you can really have a great time hanging out tonite!
It's always KK, or QQ that can really take your money. Im sorry to hear, those are very hard to take. First one, not really a bad beat persay. as you were never in the lead. the second hand , was indeed a bad beat.
I wonder if you had a set a stop-winning in place. would that of saved you from this? in all actuality there is nothing that could of saved you, these are actually the hands we pray and wait for. just lightening struck you twice that nite. hang in there, it will get better, and then it will get bad again
