Sometimes when you’re grinding it out at the cash tables it can seem like an eternity between playable hands, especially with the speed of hands played. It’s as if with the higher hands per hour you feel like you should get an even higher rate of playable hands. Or maybe that’s just me.
Either way, I’m not sure there is anything more disheartening than finally getting a nice pocket pair, getting a good spot to get your chips in and finding not one, but two higher pairs. And the only way it can get worse for the two lower pairs is to see the highest pair hit quads on the flop. Three big pairs quickly become two big losers.
Action was at a 25c/50c table toritto looked down at pocket jacks and made it $1 to go, Mase77 sneakily smooth called with his pocket rockets – then things got messy. In the big blind was badboyrobbie, living up to his name he made an all in move with his pocket queens. Being short stacked it was only for $7, but that push inspired Mase77 who sensed that this was the time his rockets would pay off, and he pushed all in for $40. That left toritto, and with everyone covered he made the call and we had 3 players to the flop.
With the cards flipped Mase77 was in the lead with the aces, but in these hands anything can happen, and I’m sure everyone felt like they had a chance to win the pot. That was of course until the flop; two aces saw that little 100% come up real quick and no more cards were needed. It almost seems cruel to get all your money in with such a good starting hand, and be dead after the flop.
If you’re badboyrobbie or toritto and that was your first decent starting hand in a session, I’m preaching to the converted. Grinding ain’t easy.
Lets face it though – we gamble to win, and speaking of winners here are the recent Floptober winners:
Deadwood7 $25
minpins2007 $25
phillbad $50
gosubet $25
theProfesssor $25
Tomcsie $4
tyJohnMatrix $25
timhugg $50
Synopsis99 $200
Mase77 $50
shadowbane $25
Jaqueiro $10
nadeltexas $400
Italiyano $10
am1972 $10
Shane @ Carbon Poker
