The Last Hand (2/20/2011)
Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 5:39AM I’ve been grinding 2-5 NL for a little over 8 hours now. It’s been the usual card dead, and I’ve been unable to get much going during the past two hours. I’m still up around $250 with a $500 stack. If I leave now I’m up about +$1300 for the weekend, which is great. The next hand I would be big blind, so this is it. I expect to quickly muck something like 3-9 off-suit and get the hell out of here.
Perhaps I can expand my range a little and attack with this last hand. I mean ok sure if the hand is feasible. But I won’t do anything stupid.
I look down and find AQs spades. Ok this is very feasible. Hell I’d even pop with this normally. I raise to $15 and get 5 callers. The pot is around $100.
FLOP:
3s, 4s, 6s
WOW, am I seeing this right? Ok I flopped the nuts with the exception of 5s 7s, or 2s 5s.
I check second to act. The next guy pops it around $65, two players call! Action is on me and I raise $125 on top. 1 fold, 1 call, 1 fold. At some point during the flop I check my cards, as if to say “hmm do I have 1 spade?” Also perhaps I still couldn’t believe what I was actually holding.
It’s now heads up. The pot is about $600. I will be first to act on the turn. The guy obviously has a set and he’s not going to lay it down. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see 5s7s with my luck. But really I know there is no way he’s playing that hand with a raise pre-flop. This is a pretty tight at least semi-regular.
So blank the fucking turn PLEASE? If it pairs the board I know I’m toast and it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary to even check-fold the turn.
TURN:
Kd
An absolutely beautiful card. Couldn’t have hand-picked a better card to show up on the turn. I still basically have the nuts and he’s crushed right now. I stall about 15 seconds before pushing my final $250 all in. It seems like an eternity, but really it was a small stall. The guy looks incredibly impatient. I push all in.
SNAP CALL. Pot is now about $1100
River: 6h
“I have the full house” as he turns over his pocket 4’s. He says it almost as if he expected his miracle boat-up on the river.
“Nice hand” as I turn over my raped ace high flush.
I instantly got up and walked out of the casino; that was my last hand anyways.
And 77% of the time I guess I’m the happiest guy in the world. 77% of the time I’m up $1900 fucking dollars this weekend live. Man could I have used that big win, that amazing confidence boast. But nope it doesn’t work like that for me, never has, never does, never will.
This week wraps up live with a disappointing net profit of +$790.
Fuck my life.
-bag
Reader Comments (5)
Hopefully, every weekend can be this disappointing! Tough luck on the last hand but glad to hear things went better this weekend.
extremely harsh, was that the biggets pot you have lost so far? if it is at least you can take comfort that you lost a huge one but still ended up!
That was the biggest pot I've lost so far live. But I've only been playing 2-5 a few weeks. Yeah it's interesting I ended the week up a reasonable amount, but still felt like I got run over by a fire truck.
-bag
Harsh. That hand is an absolute killer. Still, better up than down i suppose!
That sucks. The hand plays itself on both sides of the table because he can't fold the turn since you have so little behind ...
Tough beat, man.