Sep 17 2008
Oh Dear!
Hit a barrier last night for some reason. Played quite a few $20 SNGs. Really wasn’t getting anywhere with them and losing a little ground. Became frustrated at the end of the session and down a little $$$$. But I really didn’t want to stop playing. Concerned about the bleeding. Solution – Drop down to the $10 SNGs for my last two tables of the night.
Holy freakin crap. I was in shock. I kept thinking this can’t be happening. It was like a freakin free roll or a play money game. Everyone was betting like they had the nuts. 3rd hand, some lady first in from EP raises 5X. LP goes all in. We all know what that means. She apparently did not. She called his AA with K 7 off. He flopped trip rockets and she got pooft. I thought, Okay she may have been on tilt or misclicked. No No No. First ten hands, there were probably seven all- ins. Sometimes three and four way. All with mostly crap hands. To tell the truth, I sat in the corner cowaring and folding like a little girl ( no offense ladies). My other table was a little better but not by much.
I folded ALL my crap and picked a few spots to stay in it. About 20 hands in, we burst the bubble. 20 HANDS and the BB is still 30. I was short stacked and started the shoving routine. It worked for a very short time and I crapped out third. Came in first on the second table. It was actually kinda fun. I knew what to do. I might try a few more now and then. Sure got the blood pumping.
At one point, I typed in the chat, “This entire SNG has been very disturbing” and ” I think I will need therapy after this” To which I got a few LOL and agrees.
I had fun. And that’s good.
Done Rambling, GL at the tables.
and came into the hand with a pre-flop bet, probably double the BB. One opponent calls my bet to stay in the hand with 
. The flop comes up 
. A nice straight draw for me, and my opponent paired their A to feel compelled to stay in the hand. I don’t remember exactly how my betting went (it’s been two weeks since this game!), but rest assured I was betting or raising from the flop through each round.
and now I’m really starting to like this hand. Not only does my straight draw improve with more outs, but also I’m now looking at a flush possibility. To make it even better, my opponent paired their 9, so now with two pair AA 99 they are feeling pretty good. They should be…they still have me beat. They had to think I’d be on a straight draw but also knew I couldn’t have it yet. The pot was pretty big by now, and I pushed all in before the river and they called me. Mind you, I don’t have anything at this point in time, but with a flush draw and multiple straight draws (and my good luck up to this point in the game) I decided to play the odds and go for it.
and it took me a few seconds to realize that yeah, I hit my flush, but also hit the straight, too! Straight flush…woohoo!