The goddamn cooler and a most unlucky night...
Spencer & I headed down to the Grand to play some NL; after 4 hours he was up a buck and a half, I was down four. There were 2 NL HE tables going when we got there, the "main game" and another one, which we started on. $2 on the button plus $2 and $3 small and big blinds. Buy in for $100. See some flops, lose some chips, get a pair of 6s in the hole and push what little is remaining of my stack into the middle, only to run into Aces. Next $100, wake up with Kings in the SB, after an UTG raise to $10 and 2 callers, I move over the top, but she calls so quickly I know she's got 'em, yup, Rockets again. Another $100. Make it $10 to go in the back w/KQs and get raised another $20 from one of the blinds, the same lady/dealer who kicked me in the nuts earlier when I had Cowboys. I call, in position, with that hand still fresh in my mind. Kxx, all hearts (both clubs in my hand), she checks, I opt to check as well. Turn and river both bring blanks, and she flips, you guessed it, AA. Again. Jesus H. Christ. Glad I didn't add any more to the pot and she was actually kind enough to check it down. Pick up a few nice pots with trips on the river on an until-then uncontested pot as well as a set of Queens on the flop and a nut flush from some donkey who watched too much WPT on the telly and I'm back to almost even. Limp w/KJ early, 5 players to the flop. Flop K42, checked to me so I shoot $15. Late player re-raises another $40 and makes it a heads-up pot. I put him on a flush draw (suited 2, 4) combined with a positional play since I can't put him on AK or KQ as I figure he would have raised pre-flop, especially in position, and can't see the re-raise w/a worse King, ruling out any 2 pair as well, and excusing a set from his hand also, and decide to move over the top for almost another $150. Because I just can't put this guy on a better hand right now. Boy, am I dead wrong. He thinks for some time before calling and showing 24. My hand doesn't improve and now I'm stuck for $300. One last $100 begins getting whittled away as I get moved over to the "main game." Feeling short and frustrated, and not finding any hands, I move in over the top for double the opening raise of the UTG player, getting 1 caller behind until the UTG player re-raises all-in for another few hundred dollars and the caller folds QQ face-up (Q on the turn but it was the proper laydown at that point). All-in flips, of course, AA, and I'm fucked for the 4th time with my AT. Hey, before I forget, I did get a pair of Aces in the hole once early in the evening-and no action. Shit, it's time for me to go home. (Note: When I logged onto FCP when I got home and entered the Plus 500-run into yet a 5th AA w/an AJ to bring me down to nothing then my AQ loses to a 45 to send me out for good?!? And then in 2 separate $10 SNGs, first my AA loses to QQ when the river brings a fucking Q! Then I run into a pair of Kings w/Big Slick. I did find some consolation in reading DN's blog re-counting his loss of $600K because what I lost was potato chips compared to him-he really took some horrific beats!) On the brighter side of things, wasn't the weather simply fantastic today? I mean, after 50 days of freakin' rain...
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