This one didn’t happen last night at the Goose, but rather in the World Record tournament I played on PokerStars the Sunday after Christmas. It was about midway through and I had a medium-sized stack.
In early position, I was dealt AA. Happy to see the best starting hand in no-limit hold’em, I put in a standard raise of a few times the big blind.
Player two seats to my left went all-in. Player two seats to that player’s left called the all-in. I happily called with my pocket rockets.
We flipped over our cards. Player to my left had AJ. Player to his left had A8. I smiled, seeing that my opponents were way behind in the hand. I was likely about to triple my stack.
Flop was interesting – 999. I liked that flop a lot, because it improved my hand to a full house. It would be virtually impossible for my opponents to come from behind to win.
Then the turn came and I wanted to throw my netbook across the room. Turn was another 9. Since hold’em takes the best five cards of seven, my opponents had now tied me – all three of us now had four of a kind, Nines, with an Ace kicker. The river card, which was meaningless, was a deuce.
I still finished in the money, but I would’ve got much deeper into the tournament if that hand had gone my way. Can’t win ’em all I guess.
Time to shut down the laptop and head to trivia. I need to learn how to use the Voice Recorder app on my iPhone so I can make sure I don’t miss any pearls of wisdom that come out of Brick’s mouth.