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2 hours of great poker: 10 seconds of bad luck |
2 hours of great poker: 10 seconds of bad luck
Poker: a game that someone say is 20% skill and 80% luck. And poker can also play with the emotions of a human being. The heart pounding excitement of a river card to win a tournament or depression of another bad beat to eliminate you so close to being in the money.
Well in this article i am going to tell a story where i recently experienced both emotions. Recent results in tournaments have been poor, usually with me being eliminated in the first hour. Wednesday night i entered a $10 + $1 $2000 tournament expecting the usual outcome, I didnt feel the need to play hands in the first 10-20 minutes because i expect the field to be down 25% in the first 30 minutes so i stayed patient.
I started to get on a "rush" where i saw every hand AA, QQ, AK, AJ, TT in the space of some 20 hands. Unfortunately i couldnt really make the rest of the players pay out as much as i wanted so with a chip stack of around 8,000 after the first hour i was reasonably happy with that.
I had a little setback when i tried to bluff a guy out of a big pot when it was checked down to the river, i raised around 3,000 with a J high and he immediately went all-in for some 14,000. I know that bluffing is extremely difficult online but there is a way to do it, and i think i did 2 rounds too late. Then late into the 2nd hour with some 190 players left from a field of 500+, the hand which turned my emotions from elation to dejection.
At the time i had roughly 12,000 and was picking up rags (bad cards) for a while. I picked up Queens under the gun and immediately raised $6,000, that way if someone re-raised me then I was pot committed no matter what. What i didnt expect however was to have 3 callers so whoever won the pot would be in the top-10 in chips. The flop read 6 J 6, once again its me under the gun so i made the decision to go all-in. The guy next immediately called and another player called. Turn card was a 3, check check, river card was a Q. Imagine my delight to see me have basically the nuts and be in a good position to win the whole tournament. The guy next to me put his opponent still in the pot and he folds. So who would win the big pot?
Unfortunately it wasnt me. I couldnt believe my eyes when the guy shows 6 6 for four of a kind. My heart dropped down to my feet i couldnt believe my luck, but as i would be usually punching walls and cursing the world, this time i did nothing. I had to say "nice hand" and leave because i know if i play this game for the rest of my life it will rarely happen again. Yes i was disappointed and yes i was dejected but after telling a friend about my bad beat i got it off my chest and began looking for the next game.
Poker can rip your heart out at times and make you wonder whether it is worth playing the beautiful game. But look at it this way when you go to bed at night thinking about that bad-beat wake up the next morning and say "Here i am, a little bit smarter, a little more wiser and ready to play" It is useless getting frustrated with poker because everyone goes through good runs and bad runs. Just make sure that when you do go through the good runs, reap the rewards and write a story about it. People are fed up hearing bad beat stories anyways.
Until next time.
David Holden (Dav82)
2 hours of great poker: 10 seconds of bad luck written by: Dav82
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